"No wonder Director Chen doesn't need to show off..."
Users who have bought Stardust smart watches are wailing in the Stardust community. It’s not that Chen Zifan doesn’t pay attention to the smart watch category, but that he has no need for it at all. Why should he wear it if he doesn’t use it?
Look at the time?
Measuring heart rate and blood pressure?
Or do some exercise?
Even the most core function of the Stardust smart watch: sleep monitoring is not used, because Chen Zifan doesn't like to wear jewelry while sleeping, not even at ordinary times, let alone while sleeping.
But he cannot deny that a considerable number of consumers do have this demand. According to his observations, the ratio of people who wear jewelry to those who do not wear jewelry is basically 50-50, and almost everyone in the female group wears jewelry.
Of course, this is just his one-sided observation, because from his perspective, he cannot observe the lower-level female groups, such as housewives.
Another example is far away in the countryside...
Products like smart watches purely depend on personal preferences and choices, and Stardust smart watches are currently Stardust Technology’s products with the highest seven-day no-reason return rate, because they get tired of using them very quickly.
Many consumers return the product after exploring the functions three days after purchase. However, there are also some smart watch enthusiasts who are thinking about how to add new things to their smart watches every day, such as watching movies and playing games on their smart watches.
Or buy N watch straps and change them every day.
The Stardust smart watch belongs to the "icing on the cake" category in Chen Zifan's product planning, but its product life may be longer than tablets and laptops. Who can say for sure?
As for the screen display on smartphones, this is not a difficult technology, but there may be a risk of screen burn-in after being turned on for a long time, and the power consumption is relatively large, but screen burn-in is only a risk...
From Stardust 1 → Stardust 3+, plus Stardust-Chenji, Stardust after-sales feedback data has not processed more than 1,000 screen-burning mobile phones, and the total sales of Stardust mobile phones has exceeded 100 million units. The product yield rate is extremely exaggerated in the entire mobile phone era.
Unless extreme operations are used in extreme environments, or there is a problem with the screen quality itself, it is unlikely that the screen will burn even if the phone is scrapped.
Instead of worrying about screen burn-in, it’s better to worry about the color cast and yellowing of the screen after being used for a long time.
But most people can’t see it~
After many people in the Stardust community discussed it, they focused on the most important thing:
Mobile payment.
The popularity of mobile payment is very fast at present, but for people in many areas, using mobile phones to make payments makes them very insecure, without the tangible and tangible sense of using banknotes.
This requires banks and other institutions to take the lead. Stardust Technology only provides products and some publicity channels. The real driving force behind it depends on the official.
Therefore, whether in the Stardust community or other social software, netizens from all over the world express fear, excitement, or indifference towards mobile payments, but they cannot stop the subsequent wave of the times.
It's just that Chen Zifan's outing this time made many people mistakenly think that Stardust Technology is the driving force behind it. In fact, Stardust Technology can only be regarded as a support at best.
Anyway, Chen Zifan doesn't care too much about what others discuss, as long as there are dedicated people to deal with it.
He is more concerned about the product issues of Stardust Technology. If Stardust 4 → Stardust 5 is updated every two years, it will be okay, and there will be more buffer time. But if it is only one year...you have to prepare early.
Although according to the current situation, the Stardust 4 series will be launched in June 2010, and the Stardust 5 series will most likely be launched in June 2012, this is not necessarily a good choice. Choose to update every two years. , then the intensity of the update must be great.
The price of electronic products is falling very fast. Even players like Stardust Technology, which has almost no premium, can’t handle it for two years. It’s okay if the update is strong, but if the update is not strong... everyone will buy the old model after the price reduction. Who wants to buy a new phone if the model is already there?
And in the intervening year there was still
Special models and other products have to be relied on to support sales, so the current pace of Stardust Technology's product development must be accelerated. Two generations of products will be developed in advance, and the final launch time will be determined according to the market situation.
In short, it’s all about continuous research and development~
AR glasses are considered a key product. After adding iris recognition and infrared scanning, as well as original NFC and other functions, it can do more things.
But it is still incomplete after all. After the first batch of samples are released, Chen Zifan will have to consider how to "control" it. With the current technical level, the only two methods that can be used are touch and voice.
The incomplete voice assistant may have to be launched in advance, which will be a pain for consumers who cannot speak ordinary languages... But if you are not in a hurry, you can also wait for the first batch of dialects for the voice assistant to be collected.
It is definitely not realistic to collect all the dialects, but it is enough to include all mainstream dialects in the voice assistant. Logically speaking, it does not matter whether the dialects are included or not, and it will "waste" a lot of manpower and material costs.
But from Chen Zifan's point of view, Stardust Technology is a domestic brand after all, and it is also a technology company with a "facade" nature. If they don't do it, then other companies will not do it.
In addition to AR glasses, the most important thing at the moment is definitely the Stardust notebook. The progress of the nine-core CPU Shengong 1, known as the "Magic Generation", is much faster than Chen Zifan imagined, and the progress in the graphics card is even faster.
The person in charge of Changhe Chip Engineering was so obsessed with independent GPUs that Chen Zifan almost produced the first batch of experimental products in just one month in the last job he assigned, but unfortunately something went wrong later.
Otherwise, Chen Zifan may have to witness a miracle. Nvidia and AMD are still tormenting each other, but then Stardust Technology steals their home? And the graphics card they developed for the first time was more than a year ahead of them?
Who can bear this?
Fortunately, the Stardust Notebook will be launched first, so it is not that shocking. Originally, Chen Zifan wanted to continue to see the progress of the Stardust Notebook, such as molds, etc., but Zhao Wushang sent a new message:
"Apple 4 is released!"
Chen Zifan:? ? ?
What the hell! ?
iPhone 4?
There were only two generations of iPhones released before Steve Jobs died. How come it’s so fast forward to Apple 4?
Chen Zifan took the document and took a look——
Only then did I realize that this iPhone 4 is not that Apple 4. This generation of Apple 4 created by Cook, Jonathan and others... If you just watch the promotional video, it even has the flavor of Apple X, with a 5.8-inch notch screen.
"Is this really Apple X?"
wrong! It’s the Apple XR!
After all, there is only one camera on the back, and the Apple X has dual cameras, so it doesn’t look that awkward.
But it’s still wrong?
How could a perfectionist like Steve Jobs accept a big notch? Didn't he say that this mobile phone was designed before he died? How could it be like this? And look at that big black border...
It’s really thick and dark!
Doesn’t it affect the perception a lot?
Stardust Technology has already made the black border 1.5
The low-priced models of Meilan and Redmi are also ready to be updated. They are still within a thousand yuan. They can only be said to be usable, but there is still a big gap between being easy to use..."
Many other new brands mainly sell online, with relatively few offline physical stores and even fewer after-sales points. Buying their mobile phones can only rely on metaphysical quality control, otherwise returns and exchanges will be too time-consuming.
What surprised Chen Zifan was that Haier's mobile phone sales increased very quickly in the past month, up 23% year-on-year. After a brief check of several of their models, it turned out that they were all exported.
There are none for domestic sales.
It’s interesting to say that Haier has really had a lot of involvement in the field of electronic products. In Chen Zifan’s memory, he has made everything from pseudo-smartphones to smart phones and even laptops. The Thor computer relied on Haier.
But their products…
In terms of mobile phones and computers
It's really a bit average, especially for Thor computers. The price is directly comparable to the first-line brands, but the logo and appearance design are always suspected of imitating aliens. The pattern looks very cool, so it's no wonder that the sales volume is relatively average.
After paying a brief attention to it, Chen Zifan put the document behind him, but before Zhao Wushang left, he still said, "Collect the recently popular or distinctive models, I'll have some use for them."
"no problem."
Studying the models of rival manufacturers is also a moderate pleasure. By the way, you can also learn some experience from them and see what the current level of the rival merchants is like.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Zifan continued to work on the Stardust notebook. The outside world still does not know that Stardust Technology is preparing to enter the PC market, and they are still speculating on the configuration of the Stardust 4 series.
And whether air charging works or not.
Chen Zifan can responsibly say that air charging is definitely better than any wired or wireless charging method in his memory. However, it is not yet popular, so he can only start with "exploration models".
It would be better if the outside world didn't think of it.
The Stardust Notebook may not have anything else, but its appearance is definitely a must. Chen Zifan made a phone call, and 10 minutes later, two versions of the Stardust Notebook model were delivered to his office.
They are 14 and 16 inches respectively.
The same white body, the same lightweight glass side A, the same magnesium aluminum alloy sides B, C, and D... except that there are not many metal places on the B side because the screen-to-body ratio is too high. The difference between the two versions is that the 14-inch version does not have a numeric keypad.
A 16-inch version is available.
There's nothing you can do about it. The 14-inch body is already very small, and adding a numeric keypad would be very cramped.
It's a pity that there is only a model machine now, and the inside of the fuselage is filled with fillers. There is no way to light up the screen to see the specific screen-to-body ratio, keyboard effect, etc.
In terms of final price, the 16-inch version will be 200 to 500 yuan more expensive than the 14-inch version. The 16-inch screen is larger, and the 14-inch version is lighter and more convenient.
Just choose according to actual needs.
After briefly playing with the model machine, Chen Zifan set his sights on the PC version of Stardust OS.
The PC page layout of Stardust OS is very similar to in10, and the operation logic is a bit similar to indos, a bit like the proxulral version of existing indos. Since he wants to open the PC market, Chen Zifan cannot come up with a new set of logic.
Consumers are lazy and they don’t want to learn…
You won’t learn unless you have no other choice.
It would be better to just block the road of indos, and the underlying logic, system optimization, and security of Stardust OS itself are far superior to the indos that are full of viruses at this stage. As for the problem of software adaptation-who said that two systems can't Compatible?
What indos can do, Stardust OS can also do, but what Stardust OS can do, indos may not necessarily do. To be on the safe side, Chen Zifan also used [Analysis of Copycats] + [Synthetic Creation] from [Stardust Technology] 】Refined the PC version of Stardust OS.
Ensure that the Stardust notebook can become famous and increase sales as soon as it is launched.
