While Alfonso was immersed in studying how to shoot "Gravity" in the United States, Jimmy had already taken a plane to Aurous Hill.
When Jimmy arrived in Jinling, there was only one day before the BenQ mobile phone launch conference. He went directly to his office without taking a break. Li Kunyao was waiting for him in his office.
After meeting Li Kunyao, Jimmy laughed when he saw Li Kunyao's serious expression, "Is it possible that you are a little nervous because of tomorrow's new product launch conference?"
Li Kunyao admitted generously, "To be honest, I am really a little nervous. I have participated in many press conferences, but tomorrow is the first time for me to participate in such a scale. After all, it is a live broadcast. I am also worried that something will go wrong.
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This time BenQ Mobile's new product launch conference is indeed very large in scale. Except for its smaller impact, other live broadcast specifications are the same as those of the Deep Space Annual Conference.
Jimmy smiled and said, "It's a good thing to be nervous. It's because people are nervous that they can concentrate and get things done. In fact, you don't need to have any high-profile performance tomorrow. This is not a speech contest. The audience
They won’t care whether your presentation is good or not, most of their attention will be on the products you show.”
Li Kunyao nodded, "I know this. The boss told me the same thing. I still think that this kind of new product launch should be left to you, especially the boss. The audience loves to see him. As long as he goes to the stage
Just one stop can attract the audience’s attention.”
Jimmy smiled and said, "He is just one person. He can't participate in all activities. BenQ Communications still relies on you. The press conference is just a process. The most important thing is the follow-up. Solve the problem of the mobile phone screen as soon as possible and strive for next year.
The second mobile phone has a color screen.”
The first mobile phone that BenQ is about to release does not have a color screen, but still uses a black and white screen. This is also a big regret, so Jimmy hopes that the second mobile phone will use a color screen when it comes out next year.
"We are already working on it. There should be no problems. There are also slide rails. The newly developed slide rail mode should also be smoother. I believe that when the next generation comes out, the sliding cover will perform better."
Jimmy nodded, the slide rail was also a question he had asked before.
In order to increase the battery life and the sound quality of the player, the BenQ S1 mobile phone adopts a sliding cover design.
Slider phones, like clamshell phones, can be "folded" and are small when not in use, but can be stretched when in use, and the battery and screen can be enlarged.
Compared with flip phones, slider phones have fewer cables and smaller curvatures, so the failure rate is lower.
However, in comparison, the cost of slider mobile phones is higher, and they are basically not waterproof.
The high cost is unavoidable and can only be recovered from the selling price. As for the waterproof issue, BenQ Mobile did not think about this issue at all when designing this phone.
This phone mainly focuses on the concept of "music phone", so the appearance, battery life and playback sound quality of the phone are very important.
Also, the sliding cover design is a bit gimmicky.
This is not to say that the sliding cover design was created by BenQ Mobile. In fact, the year before last, at the beginning of 1999, Germany's Siemens launched a SL1088 mobile phone. This mobile phone opened and closed up and down, the screen and buttons were separated, and the sliding cover
The pattern is formed.
SL1088 is not only unique in appearance, but also a three-color screen mobile phone with fingerprint, which is of great cross-generational significance. However, the design of this mobile phone is too avant-garde, and the price is too high, so the sales volume is very poor and it did not last long.
It was taken off the shelves.
After Siemens' SL1088 mobile phone was removed from the shelves, there has not been a second slider mobile phone on the market in the past two years.
When discussing whether to adopt the sliding mode, Li Kunyao was actually a little worried. Although this design is very beautiful and does have its uses, after all, Siemens has learned from the past.
However, Yu Dong cast a vote for the sliding cover mobile phone. This vote was very crucial and made Li Kunyao determined to adopt the sliding cover design.
The principle of a sliding mobile phone is that two positioning posts are fixed on the surface of the body that contacts the sliding cover, two positioning posts are fixed on the back of the sliding cover, and one positioning post is installed on each of the two adjacent sets of positioning posts on the body and the sliding cover.
elastic element.
When the phone is sliding, as long as it is pushed to a certain position, the remaining part will automatically unfold under the action of spring elasticity. On the contrary, when you want to retract it, it will automatically retract under the action of spring elasticity after sliding for a certain distance.
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There is no technical difficulty in positioning the positioning column and the elastic element and they are very easy to make, but the slide rail is not easy.
When the BenQ s1 prototype was produced before, Jimmy used it, but he made comments on the flexibility of the slide rails.
The slide rails of the BenQ S1 are actually quite smooth, and there will be no sense of obstruction. However, Jimmy believes that smoothness alone is useless, and it also needs to have a refreshing feeling.
Jimmy used the term "putting the knife in its sheath" to describe the feeling he wanted. He hoped that the slide rails of BenQ mobile phones would allow users to take out their phones and slide them around when they have nothing to do.
Since Jimmy raised his opinion, Li Kunyao must have attached great importance to it and asked the R&D department to focus on improving the slide rails. This period of time has achieved some results.
Jimmy rubbed his eyes, feeling a little tired. While on the plane, his assistant kept reminding him to sleep, but he didn't listen. Instead, he kept working and only slept for less than two hours the whole time.
Even if I drank a cup of strong tea, I couldn't get rid of my sleepiness at all.
Seeing that he was a little sleepy, Li Kunyao asked with concern, "Mr. Ji, why don't you go and have a rest first? We can talk again after you have rested?"
Jimmy shook his head, "No, I happen to be jet-lagged, so I can't waste time. Is your retail store ready?"
"Well, the first one has been completed, and now we are preparing to build the second one."
"The second one is in Yanjing, right?" Jimmy asked.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Kunyao nodded, "Well, I was originally torn between Shanghai and Yanjing, but in the end because the policies there were better, I chose Yanjing, but I have to wait for Yanjing
After the retail store in Beijing is completed, the third one will be in Shanghai."
The retail stores they call are actually directly-operated stores. Compared with ordinary retail stores or authorized stores on the street, BenQ retail stores have larger scales and better services. The purpose of opening such retail stores is not to increase the number of stores.
sales, more importantly, to provide users with a better experience.
The first store was chosen to be located in Jinling, partly because BenQ Dentsu is located here, and partly because there is a single-family building in Jinling that they can use directly.
In the business district not far from the Shen Kong Apartment, there is a small independent building with two floors above ground and one underground floor. This building was originally planned by the government to be used as a bookstore, but Eslite Bookstore has moved to Hexi.
And I built a building myself, so this small building was put on hold.
Before BenQ Mobile arrived, the government was planning to allocate this building to Jin Moufu Jewelry Store, because in addition to the bookstore, this small building was particularly suitable for selling jewelry. However, BenQ Mobile took action and blocked it.
Jimmy and Yu Dong have also seen that small building, and they are very satisfied with that building. Of course, that small building also has shortcomings, that is, the rent is too expensive. Even though the owner has given them a discount, it is still very expensive.
Gao, if it is purely to make money from the store, BenQ Mobile may not really rent it.
The idea of ​​their retail stores is the same as that of Apple's retail stores, but Apple's first retail store is still under construction, while BenQ Mobile's first retail store has already been completed.
Jimmy nodded and said, "Now that the store is ready, let's find a reliable media to conduct an interview before the store officially opens. In the interview, you can introduce your retail store to the public."
Li Kunyao said with a smile, "Well, I have contacted Firebird TV. The interview video will be filmed the day after tomorrow. However, I will not leave the country. I will let Jielun leave the country when the time comes."
Jimmy twitched his lips and said with a smile, "Xiao Zhou is really at a loss for accepting this endorsement from you. He should have asked you for more money at that time."
Li Kunyao chuckled, "It's all my own business, whether there's more or less, isn't it all in the pot?"
Originally Li Kunyao was just joking, but Jimmy said seriously, "Don't have such thoughts. You still have to deal with business affairs with each other. You have to give what you should give and take what you should take. It's not just Xiao Zhou who speaks for you.
As for the music licensing issue, you also need to discuss it with Mr. Zhou and the others so that no problems arise. You can just give them the money they should pay according to the market price. It’s not a shortfall, of course.
, they want more, and you don’t want to give it.”
Li Kunyao nodded, "Well, I know that. We have reached an agreement on music licensing, so there will be no problem."
"It's no problem."
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The two chatted for more than an hour, and the matter was almost finished. Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said, "I'm going to go find Yu Dong. Do you want to come with me?"
"I won't go. I just looked for him in the morning, and now he will bother me if I go again." Li Kunyao said with a smile.
Li Kunyao was not joking, Yu Dong was really annoyed with him.
In fact, we can't blame Yu Dong, because Li Kunyao did go to Yu Dong's office too frequently.
BenQ Mobile is located in Jinling, and in addition to the retail store and press conference, Li Kunyao has been in Jinling most of the time this year, and whenever he is in Jinling, he will go to the Deep Space Park. Whenever he hears that Yu Dong is in the park, he will go
Go over and have a chat with Yu Dong.
It was okay once or twice, and Yu Dong welcomed him, but Yu Dong couldn't bear it more often. Later, Yu Dong himself reduced the frequency of coming to the deep space park.
When Li Kunyao goes to see Yu Dong, it's not just a casual chat. Every time, he has a lot of questions to ask, such as the design of mobile phones, the business model of retail stores, the focus of publicity, etc...
In fact, Li Kunyao also knew that Yu Dong was annoyed by him, but he didn't care about it in order to develop BenQ Mobile.
He didn't choose to go with him today, not because he was afraid that Yu Dong would annoy him, but because he considered that Jimmy and Yu Dong, the two bosses, might talk about something that was not convenient for him to listen to, so he took the initiative not to go.
Jimmy got up and walked out of his office, passed through the rest area, then walked to the opposite side and knocked on the door of Yu Dong's office.
Yu Dong came to the park in the morning, returned to Luoyuan at noon, and rushed over again in the afternoon. He had just arrived and was clearing the table.
Looking up at Jimmy, Yu Dong said, "Just arrived?"
"It's been a while since I arrived. I just finished chatting with Li Kunyao."
Hearing Li Kunyao's name, Yu Dong's mouth twitched, "This guy hasn't left yet?"
"He's not gone. He should still be in my office now. Do you want me to call him over?"
Yu Dong was so frightened that he waved his hands quickly, "No, my head hurts when I see this guy. It's a physiological headache."
Jimmy walked to the sofa and sat down, jokingly saying, "Isn't it a good thing that your subordinates often come over to report to you? Why do you look so reluctant? You see, some leaders want their employees to report to them every day.
"
Yu Dong shook his head and sighed, "I have to teach students at school every day, and when I get to the park, I have to teach him. You don't know, this guy has too many problems. And he clearly has many problems in his mind.
There is an answer, but you just have to ask me again."
"This also proves that he wants to do things well, but you are still not happy."
"If you like, let him look for you in the future."
"Then if he doesn't look for me, can you blame me?" Jimmy spread his hands, twisted on the sofa, and then said with a smile, "Your sofa is too soft, I'm really afraid that I will fall asleep after lying down for a while."
"Just sleep when you fall asleep. If you sleep until tomorrow morning, won't the jet lag be reversed?"
Jimmy looked at his watch: "It's not even four o'clock now. I'm afraid I'll wake up at twelve o'clock in the evening and stay up until tomorrow morning. I'd better endure it... Pour me another cup of tea."
There are a lot of tea leaves, it is best to have tea leaves but no water."
"Then I'll just give you some tea. You can just put it in your mouth and chew it. What else can you do to brew it?"
"That's fine." Jimmy smiled, and then said, "The production team for Chen Tao's variety show is already in place, and David Traynor, who previously produced "That '70s Show," is having trouble with Warner Bros.
Termination of contract."
"It's also possible that this was a deliberate stunt on the part of David Traynor who wanted to improve his salary."
"I've done some research, and it turns out that things are really not going well between the two parties. It's not just about the treatment. I've already asked someone to contact him. If nothing else, there will be news in the next few days."
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Just let these young people explore this kind of thing by themselves. Don't worry too much about it. It's just a program and it's not worth taking up too much of your energy."
Jimmy waved his hand: "That's not to say, I am still very optimistic about this show. Our company has not been involved in the production of variety shows until now. Chen Tao and the others want to start this show this time, which can be regarded as a start for us. If the show
Chapter completed!