Chapter 97 Sold all over the world

Chapter 97 Sold all over the world

Chapter 97 Sold all over the world
Throughout April, the smartphone market remained hot both at home and abroad, and Apple phones were selling like hot cakes!

Zhiyun Technology's C1 mobile phone is no exception and has also been well received by the market.

Its unique interactive design, virtual keyboard assembly, two-point touch mode, and Android open ecosystem combine to provide users with an excellent user experience.

In modern times, in terms of smartphone experience, apart from fruit phones, it is basically the turn of Zhiyun phones.

The others are still far behind...

It is hard to say about the foreign market, but in the domestic market, people have become accustomed to comparing Zhiyun phones with smuggled imported fruit phones, and then analyzing which one is better and which one is worse.

However, there are very few smuggled fruit phones entering the country today, so most people can only see some reviews from some technology media, but they don’t actually have a clear understanding of what the fruit phones are like and whether they are easy to use.

But Zhiyun mobile phones can be seen around us. Even if you cannot afford it or get one for the time being, there will be people around you who can afford it or buy it.

However, many people are amazed after experiencing it...

This was their first time using a real smartphone... the smooth sliding operation mode, the full touch virtual button operation, and the capacitive buttons.

Finally, there is the APP store, which has a large number of various APPs, all kinds of tools, a lot of games, and recharge is convenient!

All of these have shocked a large number of people who have never been exposed to smartphones...

For the first time, they knew that mobile phones could be used in this way!
In the past, I saw various media talking about smart phones every day. Many of them have also used Symbian smart phones, but they felt just so-so. To be honest, there was no essential difference between them and the four or five hundred yuan copycat phones.

To exaggerate a little, the 95-yuan BlueS1 can do more than % of the things that people do with a -yuan N mask.

The remaining functions are also dispensable and useless...at least they are useless for ordinary users.

Why do we say that all the other messy Symbian and WM smartphones are fake smartphones? It’s because the actual experience of ordinary users has not brought any essential changes…

But the Zhiyun phone is different... This thing is a real smart phone. Not to mention anything else, the touch interaction mode brought by the two-point touch alone is enough to beat all kinds of pseudo-smart phones.

Let users feel amazed or even shocked!
Then they discovered all kinds of fun and interesting apps in the APP store, including countless tools and games.

Then they seemed to have opened up a new world: it turns out that mobile phones can be used in this way!
That’s right, in the era of smart phones, the biggest function of mobile phones is not to “use” them, but to “play with” them.

At the same time, the first group of people who came into contact with smartphones also had a preconceived notion that smartphones should have three buttons, and the return button, home button, and menu button were taken for granted.

It is hard to say whether the later Apple phones can change the user's cognitive habits. Anyway, the Meizu M8, which also uses a single button, has been criticized by many people for its interactive mode, and they feel that this is very uncomfortable...

Many Meizu M8 users will try every means to flash the phone after purchasing it, flash the original system, and then replace it with YUN OS system.

There are always some god-level technical experts who can find a way to flash the phone...

So when you see someone holding a Meizu M8, but upon closer inspection, the interface inside is the YUN OS interface, don't be surprised... many people do this.

This is the important role of occupying the market first and then influencing user perception.

This will be of great benefit to the brand value of Zhiyun mobile phones!
This has also led to the continued hot sales of Zhiyun mobile phones. In contemporary China, whenever people want to buy a smartphone, they basically go straight for Zhiyun C1.

A small number of people buy the American M8.

Of course, some people choose to buy smuggled fruits.

There are also some people who do not have a clear understanding of smartphones and will continue to buy smartphones with Symbian S60 or Microsoft WM systems... But even these people have actually heard of Zhiyun phones and know that Zhiyun phones are high-end smartphones.

It’s just that some people think that Zhiyun phones are similar to Symbian or WM phones... You know what, this group of people is actually quite large.

Zhiyun Technology is not the only one that brags in advertisements. Other mobile phone manufacturers also brag every day in order to sell their half-baked phones with Symbian or WM systems, and then try to take advantage of Apple and Zhiyun!
That’s right... Zhiyun phones are now the target of a lot of domestic mobile phone manufacturers... There are always some mobile phone manufacturers who take half-baked phones with WM or S60 systems, and force various so-called comparative evaluations with Zhiyun phones, and finally find various angles to brag about themselves.

These days, the smartphone market is still in a relatively chaotic stage, with all kinds of people...

However, even so, the Zhiyun C1 mobile phone is very popular and has been in short supply for a long time.

As April passed and May began, Xu Shenxue also received a sales report from the marketing department.

Ji Chenghe said: "In the whole month of April, we produced and sold more than 750,000 mobile phones, 150,000 more than the estimated 600,000!"

"This is mainly because market demand continues to be strong. At the same time, BYD, the OEM, has entered a period of large-scale mass production and has completed various preparations, making it easier to increase production capacity."

"Therefore, we further coordinated with the foundry in late April to start production of the Unicom version ahead of schedule, instead of the production lines originally planned for the mobile and telecom versions!"

"The market enthusiasm is still very high now. We estimate that the sales volume of our C1 mobile phone will continue to rise, especially in May. With the launch of our mobile and telecommunications versions, sales will definitely be greatly stimulated!"

Ji Chenghe held up another document and said, "Even if we don't count our own channels and third-party channels, China Mobile alone has placed orders with us for more than three million C1 mobile versions!"

"Tsk tsk, this mobile is really rich and powerful!"

"Billions of dollars can be thrown away at any time!"

"The contract orders from China Telecom have reached one million!" "The orders for these two new C1 mobile phone contracts alone have reached four million!"

"Then China Unicom is also continuing to maintain cooperation. Last month, we received a total of 400,000 orders, and in May, we received 800,000 new orders. Currently, the remaining undelivered orders from China Unicom have accumulated to 1.8 million units!"

"Looking at this situation, the three major operators are probably going to start a war this summer. Each of them has prepared a large amount of money to subsidize and grab 3G customers!"

After listening to this, Xu Shenxue was also a little surprised... These operators are too powerful, and they are really rich!

Although these operators purchase mobile phones and then sell them, they actually provide various subsidies during the selling process. A typical example is: if you recharge a certain amount of phone bills and pay a certain monthly rent, you will be given a mobile phone for free.

This means that they actually have to pay a lot of subsidies for every contract phone they sell.

Subsidies for millions of units...you can't afford it unless you are very wealthy.

However, these are all good things for Zhiyun Technology... because no matter how domestic operators compete, the subsidized models they use are Zhiyun C1!

The more intense the subsidy war is, the hotter the market becomes, and the more Zhiyun C1 they will sell!
Ji Chenghe continued, "Given that we will have more sales in the future and a huge number of orders, the production capacity in May may have to increase significantly more than expected. The production capacity of the three versions combined may have to be 1.5 million units to be sufficient!"

(Monthly sales and orders are two different concepts. Monthly sales refer to how many mobile phones were sold in that month, while orders do not mean how many mobile phones were sold in that month, but it may take several months to deliver them.)
At this time, Gu Zhiming, the vice president in charge of supply chain business, said: "The production capacity of 1.5 million units is not a big problem. We started to cooperate with BYD in February. They have been working on it for several months. The corresponding technology and personnel are fully prepared. As long as we have demand, they can expand production on a large scale at any time!"

"In addition, we have also reached a contract manufacturing agreement with Luxshare Precision, and they will manufacture some of the C1 phones!"

"With two OEM factories and our own Weiku Industrial Factory, it won't be a problem for us to assemble 1.5 million mobile phones a month. There will also be no problem with the production capacity of each supplier for spare parts supply!"

"As time goes by, by June, if there is demand, we will be able to increase production capacity to two million units!"

The production capacity of mobile phones is a climbing process. It not only requires OEM factories, but also the supply of various parts manufacturers... If the supply of any one of the parts is insufficient, the entire production will stagnate.

And ensure the normal assembly and supply of spare parts without generating a lot of inventory costs... and lower the purchase price of spare parts... These are the core tasks of Gu Zhiming, the highly paid vice president: controlling the supply chain!
Zhiyun Mobile was able to rapidly increase its production capacity in a short period of time, which is inseparable from Gu Zhiming's recent efforts... He is much busier than Xu Shenxue, and also much busier than another vice president, Ji Chenghe, who is in charge of marketing.

I fly everywhere almost every other day, and I fly all over the world... There is no other way. Zhiyun mobile phone's supply chain is a multinational supply chain. In addition to domestic suppliers, there are suppliers from the United States to Europe, and then to Japan and South Korea. I have to fly all over the world!
It is actually very difficult to coordinate and manage such a huge supply chain network.

This is also the reason why Gu Zhiming gets a high salary and options...

When it comes to supply chain, his ability is unquestionable.

Due to the smooth flow of the supply chain and the completion of the assembly plant's production lines, the output of C1 mobile phones has entered a period of rapid growth and is supplied to the market on a large scale!

We not only supply the domestic market, but also the foreign market!

After the French operator purchased a batch of contract phones to sell, and tasted the sweetness in April, the operator made a large investment and directly purchased an additional 200,000 contract phones.

At the same time, operators from other European countries also came to place orders after hearing the news.

In April, Zhiyun Technology received at least 1.2 million contract phone orders in Europe alone, covering major European countries.

Then even the operators in North America contacted Zhiyun Technology and purchased a batch of Zhiyun phones for sale as contract phones.

To be honest, Xu Shenxue was surprised by this… Influenced by his previous life’s cognition, information and other factors, he underestimated the potential and demand of the overseas market.

Or he always has a subconscious thought: domestic and foreign countries are in opposition, and under the trade blockade, people in overseas countries will not buy domestic mobile phones!
But the actual situation is a little different... Warwick's U8220 was first launched overseas, and its Zhiyun mobile phone also sold well overseas.

In fact, in the original time and space, a large number of domestic mobile phone manufacturers also sold very well abroad... If we have to say that there is a market that cannot be entered, it is only the American market.

If they cannot enter these overseas markets, domestic mobile phone manufacturers will not be able to dominate the global mobile phone sales list...Except for Apple and Snapdragon 855, the rest are domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

So recently Xu Shenxue has been brainwashing himself whenever he wants: capital has no borders, and consumers' money has no borders either...

We still need to pay full attention to overseas markets.

The overseas market is booming right now, and customers are actively coming to us to place large orders. What else can we say? Just collect the money and ship the goods!

In addition to these mainstream European and American markets, operators or some ordinary dealers in other countries have also come to us for purchase. For example, operators or dealers in Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, South America and other regions want to take them back for trial...

It can be said that Zhiyun phones are currently sold all over the world!

Because Zhiyun Phone is, to some extent, the second real smart phone after the Fruit Phone...

Overseas consumers are not stupid. They have a basic understanding of smartphones. They don’t just eat whatever the capital feeds them. They just let other mobile phone manufacturers hype up some messy pseudo-smartphones. In the end, when they vote with their wallets, they either buy fruit or Zhiyun...

By the way, for most countries in the world (except Japan, South Korea, Sweden, the United States and China), whether it is fruit, Zhiyun, or other miscellaneous mobile phones, they are all imported products... It doesn't matter who you buy!

In this case, without Zhiyun Technology building any special overseas channels, it somehow managed to sell its mobile phones all over the world!
Xu Shenxue himself felt puzzled and even surprised, and a number of international mobile phone manufacturers became alert and paid close attention to and were on guard against Zhiyun phones.

As for those domestic mobile phone manufacturers... they are all very envious and jealous.

(End of this chapter)