Old Mou returned in a hurry, repeatedly telling Xing Baohua that he had not been hospitable enough.
Xing Baohua didn't care about these things. Old Mou knew how to dress, and you could tell from his office furniture that he had a grand style.
If you're doing investment and speculation, you'll look like you lack capability if you don't appear impressive.
Actually, Xing Baohua didn't know that Lao Mou only understood the true grandeur of a wealthy person after seeing Xing Baohua's office, even though Xing Baohua's office furniture was a combination of Chinese and Western styles.
But its large size gives it a spacious and generous feel.
Rosewood furniture isn't cheap; it's all going towards prestige.
"This is the best Anxi Tieguanyin tea from before the Qingming Festival this year. It's been kept frozen in the freezer. Why don't you try it?"
To be honest, Xing Baohua doesn't really like drinking Tieguanyin tea, mainly due to personal taste reasons.
He now only drinks Longjing and Biluochun tea. Occasionally, he'll try Rizhao Qing tea to cleanse his palate.
Since Lao Mou was so hospitable, Xing Baohua went along with it. After drinking tea for a while, Lao Mou showed Xing Baohua around his company.
The main business of Nande Group is to attract funds and engage in investment and construction; it has virtually no real core industrial projects.
Now there is one, a mobile phone processing plant supported by Xing Baohua.
In Xing Baohua's eyes, Nande Company was just a super-large shell company. Without the support of real industries, it would eventually go out of business due to a broken capital chain.
Afterwards, I met with some senior executives from Nande and hosted a reception, where I talked to Xing Baohua about some of the projects I was currently in charge of, their future prospects, and the potential returns.
What guarantees his rapid profits is international trade from the Far East.
Xing Baohua's visit this time was meant to give Lao Mou a shot in the arm, encouraging him to stick with the mobile phone industry, which is just as profitable as his trading business, and it's a real-economy industry.
We took out three prototype phones made in the lab and showed them the phones that their mobile phone factory would be producing next.
All of them were black engineering prototypes, and their appearance was quite ugly. However, Xing Baohua also brought over the exterior design drawings.
"This is an engineering prototype, made in a laboratory. They don't care about the appearance, as long as the functions meet the standards."
Xing Baohua then took out sample images to show everyone, saying, "This is the appearance designed by the design department. This is what the phone will look like after it's launched."
As they spoke, they first passed the message to Lao Mou, and then passed it down one by one.
When Lao Mou saw the sample image on the phone, his eyes lit up. After looking at the engineering prototype, he wanted to get his hands on it and test it out.
"Oh, this is a mobile phone brand," Xing Baohua said, taking out a picture and pointing to the hammer on it.
Old Mou's eyes widened in surprise, and he was already wondering to himself, "What the hell did they do?"
That's how the Smartisan phone came about.
"These three types of mobile phones are divided into economy phones, which are the cheapest. As for the listing price, we will calculate it based on various costs and then set the listing price."
The second phone is an Elite phone, which is slightly better in quality, but it only has a few functions. The key is that it's much cheaper than a regular phone, so our main focus is affordability.
The third model is slightly more expensive. Don't let its size and bulk fool you; it's a multimedia phone. See how much larger the screen is compared to the other two models? That LCD screen alone is very valuable.
As Xing Baohua explained, he began to fiddle with the multimedia phone, pulling up the bamboo antenna from the back of the phone.
Turn on the device and wait. Switch to TV mode and start searching for channels.
The crowd listened to the crackling electromagnetic waves, and soon heard a sound. Xing Baohua showed everyone the screen that was flickering slightly and had some static.
Good heavens, everyone gaped in surprise.
"What is a multimedia phone? It can not only watch TV, but also receive radio channels. In other words, our Smartisan phone is the world's first phone that can watch TV and listen to the radio."
As soon as Xing Baohua finished speaking, everyone applauded happily. It was the world's first! They would definitely leave a mark on the history of electronic development.
Xing Baohua was also helpless; these days, anything with a bit of hype can make a lot of money.
Real mobile phone manufacturers don't do these fancy things. They value their brand. Look at those branded mobile phones, how many of them have ever made televisions?
The only Nokia phone I know of is the 6600 called "Little Fatty," which seems to be able to watch digital TV, but it requires data.
Our mobile TV uses an antenna and analog signals, so watching TV is free.
Branded mobile phones don't make analog signal phones, mainly because they focus their energy on improving performance. They feel that these things are niche products. Do you ever see a boss take out a half-brick and expect it to be able to watch TV?
Xing Baohua makes counterfeit phones, and he knows there is a large market demand for these kinds of phones.
One is a factory worker, and the other is a migrant worker. After get off work, they basically have no entertainment. They either go out for a walk or drink and chat in their dormitory.
If mobile phones had a TV function, how much fun would that relieve!
Unfortunately, the government later shut down the analog signal, and the rooftop antenna was never seen again.
But this is the 1990s! It was the era when home appliances were at their peak. If TVs and mobile phones were expensive, you can imagine how crazy they would have been to sell them!
The two bosses walked together, one carrying a lightweight mobile phone, the other a bulky one. The one with the lightweight phone said, "What era are we living in? Still using those big mobile phones."
"It's okay, you'll get used to the weight. Mine can watch TV, the battery is thickened, it can watch TV all day, and I don't need to charge it for a week. Can yours do that? Most importantly, it's cheaper than yours."
The Smartisan phone removed email and paging functions, leaving only call and SMS functions, plus two multimedia functions, that's about all the features it has, and it doesn't even have a game.
Not adding it is the right thing to do. In the future, adding one feature every year might allow us to survive until the semi-intelligent era. If we persist without upgrading for a few years, we might even survive for a while in the intelligent era.
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