Bill Gates was very excited. He didn't expect there would be an opportunity to invest in Matrix. Anyone with a discerning eye can see the potential of Matrix.
It is only the first day after the launch of Mphone2, but just by experiencing Mphone2, Bill Gates knows that it will definitely be a great success in the American consumer market.
Even after the Nasdaq bubble burst in 2000 years and the Twin Towers were attacked in 2001, America is still the country with the strongest spending power on Blue Star. The price of US$749 is indeed comparable to other mobile phones. Too high.
It’s almost 1.5 times the price of a Nokia smartphone, but what if you don’t regard it as a mobile phone? Mphone2 and Nokia are completely different tracks.
Bill Gates believes that as long as consumers go to Matrix offline stores to experience Mphone2, most of them will think that the price of US$749 is worth the money.
It's not that the price is expensive and the price-performance ratio is not good. The expensive configuration generally means that the price-performance ratio is not good.
For example, the Pixel 4XL launched by Google in later generations was the era when the iPhone 13 Pro was launched. Google's Pixel 4XL has dual cameras and a large forehead. The camera sensor still uses Sony's IMX363. Some people may have no idea about IMX363, which is used by Xiaomi Mi 6. The camera sensor is so lagging behind that I don’t know where it is.
It is such a product. In the full-screen era, it still has a big notch. The starting price can be as high as 899 US dollars. The top version only has 6+128G and is priced at 999 US dollars.
With this kind of pricing and this kind of cost-effectiveness, it’s no wonder that Google’s Pixel series isn’t cool.
Judging from the pricing, configuration, and era of Mphone2, the price/performance ratio is simply overwhelming. All of them are the most advanced technology at the moment.
After hearing Zhou Xin's answer, Bill Gates hesitated for a moment and said: "No problem, I know who are the really influential people in Washington, and I will help you think of a complete solution.
If you really want the greatest degree of security, then you have to distinguish between the bright and the dark. On the bright side, you are making political donations to these people on the stage. You can be like me and not offend both sides. Just like you did before, Give them obvious benefits.
The other line is deeply tied to a few families. I know the potential of Matrix very well, but for others, they may not be so clear. It is best to put Matrix operations on the market and let them intuitively see the paper in the process. The expansion of wealth. "
Zhou Xin understands what Bill Gates means very well: "Yes, the outside world may think that Matrix can become the Nokia and Motorola of the new era, but in fact, in my mind, it will be the new era of Microsoft, IBM, and Yahoo." Union.”
Bill Gates asked: “Is the potential of smartphones really that great?”
Zhou Xin nodded: "Smartphones will compete with personal computers to seize consumers' time. I don't know if you have observed Mphone1 users in daily life. After the birth of Mphone1, the time consumers spend on mobile phones has increased significantly. Rising, according to MOS's backend statistics, the average consumer spends up to two hours on Mphone every day.
This number will increase significantly after the launch of Mphone2.
Smartphones will become increasingly important, becoming or even surpassing the PC market. "
After hearing this, Bill Gates felt a sense of urgency because he realized that if Zhou Xin's logic was followed, there would still be big loopholes in the operating system building built by Microsoft.
If the winner of the smart phone counterattacks the desktop operating system by winning the smart phone operating system, Microsoft may really lose some of its market share.
This is the crisis of the future, and the biggest opportunity at hand is that Matrix wants to introduce investors and share the pie.
While Bill Gates was looking for investors for Matrix, the tsunami caused in the market after the launch of Mphone2 began to slowly sweep across the United States.
Because Mphone2 uses a lot of advanced technology, it was difficult to keep the cost down at the beginning, and Matrix stock was limited.
In the first month after the launch of Mphone2, almost everyone from Amerikan to Maple Leaf Country to Neon was crazy about this product. All Matrix offline stores only had prototypes, and stores in California were even frequently robbed. The phenomenon.
The success of the first-generation Mphone has made companies upstream and downstream of the Matrix supply chain willing to bet with Matrix that the shipment volume of the second-generation Mphone will be the same, or even more. Therefore, even if the number of Mphones in stock is small, Matrix can reduce the cost. Get as low as possible.
Lei Jun has been working as vice president of Matrix for some time. His main job now is supply chain management. To be honest, Lei Jun did not have much experience in supply chain management before becoming a senior executive at Matrix.
Only the process of establishing Joyo.com can barely touch on supply chain management, but there is still a big difference between book suppliers and electronic component suppliers.
Lei Jun entered the role very quickly. Matrix's suppliers are located in different countries on all continents around the world. Lei Jun is very talented in supply chain management and can ultimately achieve what he wants to achieve. This makes Zhou Xin lament that even if the talent has changed An environment is also a talent.
It is precisely because of Lei Jun's supply chain management that the price of Mphone2 can be reduced to US$749, otherwise it would have to increase by at least US$100.
"As we all know, every time a company owned by Newman launches a new product, whether it is software or hardware, it will be a big event in Silicon Valley. With overwhelming rumors, eye-catching press conferences, and a growing fan base, everything comes together. So vast. Quora is like this, NewPay is like this, Mphone is also like this.
However, this time Mphone2 is even more sensational. Compared with the first generation Mphone, Mphone2 started to be warmed up as early as half a year ago at the Mphone Developer Conference, and all kinds of rumors filled the entire Amerikan Internet.
Mphone2 may become Newman's most successful launch. On the first day of online booking, we saw that the servers of Matrix and AT&T were squeezed to the point of downtime, and delivery times were frequently delayed due to excessive demand.
Queuing parties from all over the country began to set up camp in front of Matrix stores.
We have a lot of expectations for the second-generation Mphone, and it is doing its best to realize them: equipped with a better-performing and more power-saving A2 chip, a new multimedia decoding chip, the latest Bluetooth technology, a reborn industrial design, and a 3G network …
But what surprises us the most is not the above content, but the screen, a whole multi-touch screen. The most significant change on Mphone2 is the screen, from a screen plus a keyboard to a screen plus a home button.
The huge changes in industrial design have allowed Mphone to completely reshape the feel of mobile phones. Such changes are eye-catching enough. Newman defined the design of Mphone2 as a future product at the Mphone2 conference. When the editors of Wired magazine got their hands on Mphone2, we thought Newman's definition was a bit conservative.
Mphone2 is not a product of the future, it is a product of the future. It is hard for us to imagine saying goodbye to the mobile phone form of the past two decades in the third year after entering the 21st century. After using Mphone2, it is really hard for me to accept going back to using other brands of mobile phones.
With bloated keyboards, sluggish operations, boring mobile applications, and laggy 2G networks, mobile phones from other brands, even if they were top-notch flagship phones before, looked so weak and vulnerable in front of the Mphone2.
I know everyone's question now is: Is Mphone2 really as invincible as what online forums say? Is there any water in what Newman said at the press conference? Are mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson really vulnerable to Matrix? We will give answers to these questions one by one, so read this detailed review slowly!
Compared with the curvature, plastic feel and silver edge of Mphone1, Matrix has made the body and surface of the new Mphone more detailed and complex. From design aesthetics to manufacturing technology, Newman and the Matrix design team have subverted our understanding of a mobile phone.
The shell of Mphone2 consists of three basic parts: two smooth pieces of high-strength glass and a stainless steel band surrounding the perimeter. It is very clear but not simple, and Mphone2 also adds some small details, such as the changed volume button, which is divided into two independent buttons from the original integration, marked +/-. The notch on the metal band plays a role in improving the wireless signal. plays an important role.
Mphone2 is obviously thinner than Mphone1, reduced from 12.5mm to 9.8mm, but the weight is still the original 137g, making the entire phone more compact both visually and in hand.
We can't express enough how high-end the Mphone2's design is. In comparison, even the Mphone 1 feels cheap and bloated, and the recently launched Samsung S1 mobile phone looks like a product from the last century.
As mentioned before, Mphone2 has three main parts. The front is made of extremely solid glass. The Matrix official website claims that it is comparable to sapphire in strength and 30 times harder than plastic.
There is a narrow slit in the glass above the screen for placing the earpiece and front camera, and the Home button below has a similar design.
On the left side of the phone are new volume buttons, a newly designed mute switch, and a slit near the bottom. On the right side is the phone card slot, which also has a slit near the bottom.
On the top are the power and sleep button switches and the headphone jack, and the other slit is the new noise-canceling microphone.
In my opinion, the headphone jack of Mphone2 may be a failure. Because it is equipped with the most advanced Bluetooth technology also from Newman, Mphone does not need an extra headphone jack. The role of the headphone jack can be perfectly replaced by Bluetooth headsets.
At the bottom are the speakers, main microphone and charging port. The back of the phone is made of the same high-strength glass, and the only notches are the new HD camera, LED flash and Matrix rectangular logo.
In general, Mphone2 surpasses all mobile phones on the market in terms of industrial design.
Compared to very expensive products like the Vertu, it has a better design.
And Mphone2 not only looks great, the materials used also feel extraordinary. In the first few days of testing, we were very worried about it being dropped or lost. This is more or less because Mphone2 looks so beautiful when held and used.
Especially its entire screen. By now you should have known that Mphone2 uses a brand new screen. Due to its high resolution and pixel density, Matrix named this 3.5-inch ultra-fine screen near-retina display.
At the same size, the new screen achieves ultra-high pixel density and a contrast ratio of 800:1. Newman talked a lot about the adaptability of the screen itself to touch at the press conference, but did not talk much about the resolution and clarity of the screen. In fact, we can see from the official website that this screen claims to be close to the recognition ability of the human eye. .
Let's just say this: We've never seen a more detailed, clear, and pleasing screen on any phone.
Not only are the colors saturated and the black levels so deep, you can't even see the pixels on the screen. Well, you can see it through a microscope, but with normal use, you won't see any form of aliasing, except maybe in apps that don't update the image.
Text rendering is incredibly clear. On other phones, users would see rows and rows of pixels. On the Mphone2, the content is completely readable, but only through a microscope.
The screen is fascinating, and it’s even more fascinating when you look at photos or videos, and the details of the dynamic images are particularly shocking.”
Editors can be seen in major technology magazines praising the Mphone2. This is an extremely rare phenomenon. The very few magazines that criticize the Mphone2 also focus on the price:
"Newman's pricing is a wrong choice. I don't doubt that Newman's pricing will be supported and purchased by a large number of fans of Newman and even Mphone itself. I don't doubt that Newman can be a great commercial success. I have doubted Newman's business judgment in the past. No matter how stubborn the colleagues who made the mistake are, they will no longer have similar ideas after the 21st century.
The mistake I am referring to is pricing. Newman’s pricing left low-income people behind. People who survived on relief funds and free food lost the opportunity to experience cutting-edge technology. Even in the era of personal computers, there were corresponding companies to satisfy them. their needs.
But after entering the smartphone era, other mobile phone manufacturers will quickly follow the decision made by Newman. Newman priced it at US$599, so we priced it at US$499. No company would consider lowering the price to less than US$200, and no company would want to occupy the market. The low-end market.
The word smartphone seems to have been associated with high-end and expensiveness since its birth. Newman once again deepened this impression in the pricing of the second-generation Mphone. This is not good news for low-income people and will affect Newman’s Social evaluation."
Even if there is criticism, this criticism is focused on this aspect. For the consumer groups in Silicon Valley, which are mainly programmers, scientific researchers, and engineers, they can't wait to worship Zhou Xin after seeing Mphone2.
"It's hard to imagine that this is Mphone 2. If it were Nokia, it would have to be Mphone 10 at least."
"With other consumer electronics manufacturers for comparison, I love Newman so much. He makes me realize how rare it is to have a consumer electronics manufacturer that doesn't squeeze out toothpaste."
"I have got the Mphone2, and I no longer want to talk to non-Mphone2 users."
"I've been waiting in line at Matrix's offline store at 7 a.m. every Friday for two consecutive weeks, but why hasn't it been my turn yet!"
There is even a smuggling service specifically for California. They snap up Mphone2s from offline stores in less developed areas of America, then bring them to California and resell them to consumers in California. The resale price can increase by $500.
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