As soon as the price was announced, the "two major parts" of the mobile phone were added: the battery and the chip were both produced by a subsidiary of Stardust Technology, with quality assurance, and other configurations, even if they were inferior, did not affect normal use.
The most important thing is that the Meizu Note does not look cheap. From the packaging to the actual machine, it is difficult for people to think that it is a 100-yuan machine. The four color combinations are also very youthful and beautiful. Combined with its extremely cost-effective price...
It's really a good entry-level small steel cannon.
What? No after-sales service?
Wherever you buy it, you can get after-sales service. From the chip to the screen to the body material, Meizu Note is built to be durable and not easy to break. Even if it breaks, it will be caused by improper operation.
For example, water has entered~
Another example is someone who doesn't know how to use a smartphone and thinks it's broken... Chen Zifan has seen in reports from the Stardust after-sales center that the phone's brightness is too low because the outside light is too bright, and the result is that the phone crashes.
He also threatened to ask Stardust Technology to compensate for the losses, but when he entered the Stardust after-sales center, he discovered that it was his own problem, the automatic brightness was not turned on... But having said that, the automatic brightness of the Stardust mobile phone is very easy to use.
The built-in light sensor level is also very high. Take Stardust 3+ as an example. Its automatic brightness adjustment can achieve a comfortable feeling of "sensorless switching".
And even among some of the top Android flagship phones in Chen Zifan's mind, very few can do this. The pile of materials may attract many consumers, but if you want to retain users, you have to rely on the user experience.
Of course, this belongs to the category of flagship phones and has nothing to do with Meizu Note. Even if Meizu Note has various imperfections, we have to admit that it is the strongest among the 100-yuan phones.
Regarding the issue of after-sales service, Boss Huang immediately started building after-sales outlets after the Meizu Note conference. In fact, he had wanted to do this for a long time because Meizu was not big enough.
It is definitely different now that there is support. Regarding the after-sales outlet strategy, Meizu originally wanted to solve it through mobile phone dealers, but this plan was directly rejected by Chen Zifan, who wanted a more complete after-sales system.
It is necessary to build a guaranteed after-sales outlet similar to the Stardust After-sales Center. It may not be large, it may be remote, and it may not be so anxious to expand, but it must be guaranteed and must be truly operated.
Hundred-yuan machine?
What happened to the 100-yuan machine?
Doesn’t a 100-yuan machine come with after-sales service?
Promoting low-priced mobile phones is inherently an unprofitable business, so why do you want to find ways to make money from it? Isn’t the purpose of Meizu Note’s existence to popularize smartphones? Just don’t lose money.
And from a long-term perspective, the development of smartphones will promote economic development. Some people who do not leave their villages or counties all year round can also learn about the outside world through smartphones.
Some agricultural and sideline products may also be able to find suitable markets through various channels, instead of just rotting in the ground when no markets can be found.
It is worth noting that the after-sales outlet that Meizu plans to build is not just for Meizu. It is more like a comprehensive after-sales center that will not only provide after-sales service for Meizu, but also attract other mobile phone brands to join.
In official words: "This is a people's livelihood project." It really has nothing to do with whether it makes money or not. As soon as Meizu Note was released, there were a dozen advertisements in various channels, and sales immediately increased within a week.
The shipping capabilities of the three major operators are terrifying. It only costs a few hundred yuan to bring a smartphone home. If you choose the contract model, it only costs 199 yuan at least, and you will get free data every month.
Of course, no matter how much data you use, it won’t be able to withstand use. Fi is still reliable, and you can just launch another Fi package, or you can combine the three and launch a big gift package of mobile phone + package card + Fi + router.
The full package, including one year of WiFi, only costs 1,699 yuan, which is quite cost-effective.
But this is only from Chen Zifan's perspective, because he has not really experienced the lowest level of life. He only remembers that a college roommate saw his copycat "Xing"
When he was talking about mobile phones, he once said:
"I have never touched such a good mobile phone..."
He was really shocked at the time, a little incomprehensible, a little want to laugh, and a little sympathetic. In short, his feelings were very complicated. Later, he met many people, and Xiaomi was already famous by that time.
One time he arrived in a small county town, and there were several young people who looked young gathered in front of a small mobile phone store. A boss held up a Redmi 1 and said that Redmi is a big brand and very expensive.
However, that Redmi phone has been eliminated. At the price at that time, you could buy a stock machine for about 400 yuan. But at this price, the people around him could only look at it, but they still couldn't afford it.
But when it reaches that level, it's not a problem with the product. Even if Stardust Technology produces its own low-priced mobile phones and compresses costs to the extreme, it's impossible to buy them for only three to four hundred yuan, and it won't do that.
This model is very good now. Just keep it and continue to develop. When Redmi enters the market, the price range will be raised to 699 at most, and it cannot be lower.
As soon as the officially launched Meizu Note appeared, it was almost a death sentence for copycat smartphones. Some feature phone brands that had once been all-powerful and brilliant in China could not withstand the pressure, and some even left their hometowns.
For example, waveguide mobile phones...
Gionee, Tianyu, and Coolpad are also having a rough time, but with the user base they have accumulated in the past, they can still survive and spare their energy to prepare for transformation. Bird is not going to be able to survive. It rises quickly and declines quickly.
As for whether Bird will go back to Africa to set up Transsion to manufacture mobile phones, that’s unclear~
It is impossible for Chen Zifan to let Stardust Technology or its subsidiaries go to Africa to sell mobile phones. It would be better to let the locals there resell second-hand Stardust mobile phones than to sell new phones there. He will not care about these things.
Foreign markets are left to their own devices. Stardust Technology can just manage the domestic market well first.
As soon as the Meizu Note was released, December became very lively, and Xiaomi finally started to get anxious. When planning the Redmi 1, the fledgling Rebus still lacked a little experience.
It is also possible that Xiaomi 1 is too laborious, so they have been unable to get away. Anyway, Chen Zifan will not ask more about the specific reason. The opportunity is here. If you can't seize it, you can switch to other mobile phone brands.
The Spring Festival of 2009 is on January 26, and December is also the peak sales season for cars and mobile phones. As soon as Meizu Note appeared and was promoted, it cooperated with the three major operators to sweep the entire low-priced mobile phone market in China.
As a result, the supply exceeded the demand and the stock was out of stock. You must know that Meizu has prepared 3 million units of Meizu Note! This can be out of stock, no one expected it.
Selling 3 million units a month, it is almost catching up with the peak sales of Stardust 2. Of course, the sales volume ratio of products at different price points is unreasonable, and products with lower prices cannot sell as well as products with higher prices... This only shows that the gap is still large.
Meizu Note is not at its peak period either. The real sales peak will only come in more than half a month after New Year's Day. That is the real sales peak period. It has just begun now and is the warm-up for the "replacement" craze.
Consumers who buy Meizu Note have a simple idea: to buy a cheap and guaranteed smartphone:
"Hey, I don't think I have to use the Stardust phone...it's good to buy a cheap one first!"
"This time it's a smartphone launched by a serious brand, and it also comes with an WiFi package. It's a good deal!"
"Charming Blue Note? It's quite exquisite! Oh~ the screen is not that good! But it's okay for viewing. For a few hundred yuan, you can also connect an IFI at home..."
"Package card? RMB 58 a month? What about robbery? Get me the cheapest one! A package for 12 yuan! Yes! That's it! Mobile phone? I'll buy a 4GB mobile phone, the 799 one! 4GB is enough!"
"Add 100 to double the memory..."
"How big are 4GB and 8GB? Forget it, just buy a 4GB one and save on it."
"right…"
The rest is the student group, such as middle school students in boarding schools, those who have just entered college, and those who are at home.
For college students with average family conditions and still using feature phones, Meizu Note is the first choice due to limited family conditions.
At the same time~
In the Stardust community, a video about online car-hailing is very popular, and has been reposted by the official accounts of Polestar Motors and Takumi Travel. It has no gimmicks, it just introduces the purpose of online car-hailing.
The video titled "First Experience of Online Car-hailing" is divided into five parts: What is online car-hailing → How to book an online car-hailing → First-time ride experience → Pay and get off → Service evaluation (you can ignore this step) .
In the video, Lu Dongchang introduced it in great detail, and because he used Stardust 3+ with optical image stabilization, the video he shot looked very stable.
As a loyal fan of Stardust Technology, his praise for Takumi Travel accounted for almost 98% of the video. The shortcomings were only briefly mentioned, and whether it is objective or not is another matter, but the introduction is definitely in place:
"What is online car-hailing? As the name suggests, we can use smartphones to call a car through a specific online car-hailing platform, and a car will take you to your destination. Finally, you pay online. This is online car-hailing."
"The second step is how to book an online ride-hailing service. Currently, there is only one online ride-hailing platform, Tuohai Travel. There may be many online ride-hailing platforms in the future, but I think Tuohai Travel will always have the advantage...
That's a long way off, we only need to open the Kaihai Travel APP, fill in the personal information according to the above requirements, and then through a simple face recognition, you can enter the start and end points to take a taxi.
Note that the number of people here must be lost, because there are so many Xinghanni who run online car-hailing services. It is fine if you are alone, but if there are many people taking the car, three or four, Xinghanni will feel very crowded!
Then Takumi Travel will display the distance and price based on the map. For example, if I want to go to the Wetland Park now, the price is 13.72 yuan. Then after we get on the bus and arrive at the station, we only need to pay 13.72 yuan and that’s it!
remember! Don’t pay a penny more! If a driver asks you for too much money...report it directly to the platform + call the police. After verifying the situation, the platform will revoke the driver's qualification to operate an online ride-hailing service. Do you understand?
Okay, our current order has been successfully sent, and a driver has already taken the order. It is indeed Xinghanni! It's wheat yellow, with the license plate number Hai AXXXXXX, 300 meters away from us... I saw it, it's that car! "
Lu Dongchang said hello, and the owner of the Xinghanni car who took the order stopped on the side of the road with double flashes. Regardless of whether this operation complied with traffic regulations, at least it allowed people to tell at a glance which car they should take.
"Hello, may I ask..."
"Yes, it's me!"
"The destination is the north gate of the Wetland Park. You must fasten your seat belt. It is illegal to take photos on the newly built road. It is also for safety. The road has not been easy to walk recently."
"Okay~"
After a simple demonstration, netizens who watched the video immediately understood how to do it. The first-person view of riding in a car was okay, and the video was very clear, but just two old men riding in a car was a bit too boring.
Lu Dongchang originally imagined that a beautiful car owner would come to pick him up, because there are so many female car owners in Kai Xing Hanni, but as soon as he entered the door, he realized that he was still a rough man, and he was at least 40+ years old, so he was a proper big brother.
Lu Dongchang is also a ruthless person. He took the initiative to find a taxi... No, it was an online taxi driver who struck up a conversation:
"Master, how many orders can we take in a day?"
When I came up, I inquired about the market situation and asked the driver. However, the older brother was also experienced and answered without thinking: "I don't have many orders. I just like driving and I can earn a few packs of cigarettes by taking orders."
"Oh~ How will the money we earn be distributed? Will it be distributed next month or every other month? Do I need to pay a deposit or something like that? Is the platform's commission high? My order is more than 13 yuan, can you How much?"
driver:……
"Stop, there are too many questions. This is just a hobby. I will definitely take a commission. It depends on whether you can accept it. As for the salary...you can read the next Takumi Travel Driver Edition, which has detailed introductions."
"Okay~"
Knowing that he talked too much, Lu Dongchang didn't
I had the nerve to keep asking, but fortunately the journey was not far. After editing out part of the journey, the video was very smooth. When I arrived at the station, I entered the payment process:
"To pay, after the driver confirms the itinerary, the APP will jump to the payment page. You can pay directly through the bound bank card that has opened online banking, and it will deduct the money from the card.
did you see it? It will deduct how much it costs. This is also one of the benefits of taking an online car-hailing service. The starting price of a taxi is 6 yuan, and if the distance is short, the online car-hailing service will cost less than 6 yuan.
Let me show you...
did you see it? It only costs a little over 4 yuan for a distance of nearly two kilometers, and it can directly see the price, so you don’t have to worry about using the meter to detour or charge more... The price given by the platform will be the price in the end.
After the payment is completed, there will be a payment success page. Below is some information about the online ride-hailing driver, which can be scored. If you are not satisfied with anything, you can also complain, and the platform will verify it.
Because the whole process will be recorded from the moment you get on the bus. If you want to save trouble, you can omit this step. It’s up to you. Personally, I don’t care if I sit a few times and pay and get off.
Okay, the above is a brief introduction about taking online ride-hailing and traveling in Takumi. Currently, only Haicheng has online ride-hailing business, but I believe it won’t be long before online ride-hailing will spread all over the country..."
What follows is a matter of personal opinion. There are advantages and disadvantages to online ride-hailing. Taxi drivers in some cities are so united that they don’t even use the meter. But it’s outrageous that online ride-hailing drivers who can force them can’t do it.
It’s understandable that you want to make money and live, but the methods used are unreasonable. However, at this stage, online car-hailing is still mainly concentrated in Haicheng, and other places are still in their infancy and will take some time to develop.
