According to reports, this story begins at an entirely unscientific moment: Zhou Ziye, a designer who rose from creating counterfeit mobile phones, suddenly time-traveled back to the year 1984.
...The third-generation mobile phone should be able to sell well until 2000, but the development needs to be adjusted appropriately ten years later.
The hardware team was assigned tasks, while the software team also needed to port some libraries to the Smartisan 2/3 phones.
Mobile phones come with games, such as solitaire, Minesweeper, Pac-Man, and other mindless games.
They also want to add an online game, but this isn't a traditional online game. It's another scam.
The kind that uses phone bills.
You'll get ten minutes to play first, then it will automatically generate a text message to activate the service. It costs ten yuan a day or thirty yuan a month, and it will be deducted from your phone bill. If you don't call to stop it, it will be treated as a default monthly subscription.
In other words, when you discover abnormal phone charges, you need to call your mobile operator to inquire about the cause of the charges. For example, were you charged for a game? Generally, you would cancel the service first. Who can stand continuing to subscribe to a monthly plan without realizing it?
And I wouldn't play this kind of crappy game every day.
Xing Baohua is a professional at digging pits; those hidden charging methods won't be used by DaMi, but Hammer Technology will have to test them out.
There will be many more such pitfalls in the future, not just a problem for mobile phone manufacturers, but rather a problem in the dealings between operators and service providers.
However, if the phone comes with some hidden paid features, it means they're in cahoots and making money together.
Xing Baohua didn't know about other phones, but he did know about one phone manufacturer that collaborated with operators and service providers: the Samsung SGH-T609. It was semi-circular, looked a little chubby, and was a flip phone.
There's a game section, but there aren't many games, maybe only three or four.
One of them is called the X-fighter.
It's actually similar to air combat games like 1942, but much simpler. You can choose which aircraft to play. Only one is free; you need to subscribe to a service to unlock other aircraft.
After playing for ten minutes, you'll receive a text message notification. If you want to continue playing, click YES. If you don't want to play anymore, click NO.
There will be a brief explanation of the game's charges, but it will only flash by. Usually, if you want to continue playing, it's just out of initial curiosity. You'll click "yes" to keep playing, and at this point, the service will be activated. You'll receive a text message while you're playing the game.
When you're playing a game, how can you have time to check your text messages?
Even if you check while playing the game, it's already too late; the fees for activation have already been deducted.
Back then, postpaid mobile phones were rare; most people topped up their accounts and planned their usage carefully.
As a result, they deducted thirty yuan from your paycheck. Doesn't that hurt?
The service might be suspended due to unpaid fees after the charges are deducted.
After Hammer has been selling for a few years and has gained a certain market share, Xing Baohua will support another low-end product company to compete with Hammer for the low-end market.
Just like OPPO and VIVO, wherever there's OPPO, there's VIVO. The two companies are very close to each other, giving the impression that they're bitter rivals, but in reality, both have a powerful boss.
This big boss is also a capable person. He was the one who built up Subor, which is a childhood memory for a generation.
OPPO, vivo, and even Xiaotiancai are nothing compared to the best performer, Xiaotuzi, who created Pinduoduo.
The four disciples are all incredibly talented and incredibly adept at causing trouble.