The next morning, Zhou Buqi took Ning Yaxian to Zhongguancun to buy mobile phones.

It's dazzling and dazzling.

The mobile phones of later generations basically followed the design ideas of the iPhone. Mobile phones all over the world have the same style. Steve Jobs admired Japanese aesthetics and liked simple and fresh designs. As a result, mobile phones all over the world followed this path.

The current mobile phone industry is completely different.

It can be said that a hundred schools of thought contend.

There are clamshell ones, push cover ones, slide cover ones, straight ones, wide screen ones, narrow screen ones, keyless ones, 5-key ones, 9-key ones, 26-key ones, and touch screen ones.

There are many kinds of... on the market.

It's amazing.

The diverse design attributes can really bring people a sense of surprise and sparks of inspiration.

If Zhou Buqi was just a consumer, he might not notice anything. But as a mobile phone "designer", he would be satisfied with a feast.

The most exaggerated thing is that there is a domestic mobile phone that is euphemistically called an exclusive mobile phone tailored for single and beautiful women!

The slogan sounded very loud.

But after seeing the prototype, Zhou Buqi almost laughed to tears.

This mobile phone has two external "antennas". When you encounter a bad guy, you can push the switch. The mobile phone will transform into an electric shock device. The two "antennas" will emit a terrifying current visible to the naked eye, which can kill a 120-pound person in one go.

A man is given electric anesthesia and can be knocked down in two strokes.

The sales lady was very happy.

These two consumers, the male is handsome and the female is charming, they look like rich people at first glance.

However, the two men kept talking and looked at almost all the mobile phones on the counter and asked about all the functions. Then, the man suddenly asked: "Which is the cheapest mobile phone here?"

"Ah?" The sales lady was stunned for a moment, then weakly pointed to a domestically produced TCL, "This one was produced last year and costs 788 yuan."

"It's too expensive, don't want it."

The sales lady almost died of anger.

A poor guy takes a woman out to go shopping, pretending to be a fool!

The two went around two more counters.

The lowest-end mobile phone produced by a domestic manufacturer can be sold for five to six hundred yuan.

It was seriously inconsistent with his requirements.

Ning Yaxian couldn't stand it any longer. She tugged on Zhou Buqi's clothes and whispered, "That's almost enough. I've offended everyone."

Only then did Zhou Buqi choose the last counter.

When I asked, I was a little surprised and saw a product from 3 years ago, Nokia 1100.

Mobile phones are updated very quickly. Unless it is a hot model that is particularly popular in the market, it is basically replaced once a year. Mobile phone manufacturers produce about ten new mobile phones every year to replace old models.

After asking around, I learned that this mobile phone has sold 200 million units worldwide, ranking first in history. The price three years ago was about 1,200 yuan, but now the phone only costs 500 yuan.

It is almost the lowest priced mobile phone here, and the merchant also comes with a battery.

"Well, this is good."

Zhou Buqi nodded with satisfaction.

Nokia's mobile phones are a guarantee of quality. They are waterproof, dustproof, and shockproof. They are much better than those made in domestic workshops. They have a strong reference value.

Then, Zhou Buqi picked a touch-screen mobile phone, the Motorola a1200 launched in February. The price at that time was close to 5,000 yuan, but now the price has dropped to 3,000 yuan.

Wrap it up together and go back to the company.

Motorola a1200 has a clamshell touch screen, which is a resistive screen. It requires a stylus and is not too sensitive. But the stylish appearance, gorgeous curves, and delicate and smooth feel give it a noble temperament.

"Yaxian, come here!"

"exist."

"Look at this, it's quite powerful."

Zhou Buqi demonstrated a function. This is a smartphone that can scan business cards through the camera and then store them in the phone's address book. It is especially suitable for business activities.

"Take this and use it."

"Ah? No."

Ning Yaxian's face turned red and she quickly postponed it. What does it mean to accept a gift from the boss for nothing?

Zhou Buqi said: "Take it and use it. You didn't look at the red one I specially picked. This phone suits your temperament very well and is very business-like. Just treat it as the one given to you by the company and take it away."

Then, he took out a screwdriver and started to disassemble the Nokia he bought at a low price of 475 yuan.

The retail price of this mobile phone is so low, and it involves tariffs. The ex-factory price may be less than 300 yuan, and the cost price will be between 230 yuan and 250 yuan.

If this standard can be achieved, the plan can basically be realized.

But the problem is that Nokia is the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, and it has a magic phone like the Nokia 1100. The order volume is in the tens of millions, and it can get the lowest supply chain quotation in the industry.

Zhou Buqi can't do it, and Lenovo can't do it either.

We can only think of solutions in terms of design.

Reduce allocation!

He must be an amateur, but few in the world understand mobile phones better than him. He can come up with the best solution.

Software aspect——

Voice dialing function, cancel;

Multi-language conversion, cancel, only keep Chinese characters;

Mobile phone encryption function, cancel;

There is only 50 address book capacity and 50 text message capacity, both of which need to be increased;

6 groups of scene modes, 6 groups of address books, built-in mini games, all canceled;

Internet function, cancel;

The functional design is simplified and the requirements for the chip are lowered.

You can use lower-end chips at lower prices.

Hardware-

The shell replaceable function is cancelled;

There is a light on the top of the fuselage, which acts as a flashlight and can be canceled;

The two lanyard slots on the back of the fuselage are simply ridiculous and should be cancelled;

The wavy shape designed for convenience has been directly eliminated and turned into a straight machine with a more simple design;

The LED screen can be replaced with a cheaper LCD screen. However, it is best to improve the black and white screen into a color screen;

The corresponding accessory module of the network is cancelled;

In order to be waterproof, the keyboard is wrapped with a piece of foam-like soft rubber. It feels very bad, ruins the aesthetics and increases the cost, so it is canceled directly.

The battery is the most important.

The 850mah removable lithium battery takes 3 hours to fully charge and has a standby time of up to 400 hours, which is equivalent to a week of use without charging. No need at all.

Zhou Buqi designed this mobile phone not for the elderly, but for college students. The battery capacity is reduced to 300mA. It will not cause any difficulty to charge it once every two days.

Moreover, it must be designed to be non-detachable.

If it is a removable battery, it requires a fixed battery slot, which is cumbersome in industry and complicated in design. Moreover, when the motherboard and other related parts are built in, the battery slot must be avoided, which will greatly waste the design space inside the mobile phone.

The mobile phone will not only be large, but also very thick, which will greatly affect the appearance.

The mobile phone battery is not removable, so there is no need to have a backup battery, which is equivalent to saving money.

During this period, He Yang came once.

It is said that the official release time of Micropoint Browser has been determined, and it will be January 1, 2007.

What is released at the same time as the browser is, of course, the supporting navigation website.

This will be a big project.

The first is promotion costs.

Navigation Network can provide traffic to various websites, which means that these websites have to pay a promotion fee to Navigation Network. Like hao123, each promotion link can earn tens of thousands of dollars in a single month.

The entire promotion link will bring in tens of millions of dollars in annual promotion fees alone.

Therefore, with the rise of hao123, there are more than a hundred navigation web pages on the market.

Most of them rely on gangster methods to play bondage.

For example, free software such as eMule, Fengxing, and Waga have their own navigation web pages. If a user downloads these software, his or her browser homepage will be automatically modified to the company's navigation site.

Another example is the currently popular system cracking forums, such as YuLinMuFeng, Deepin, etc. In order to make money, these cracked systems will cooperate with merchants to bundle them. When users install these systems, they will also bundle some software and bundle them.
To be continued...