Leader Ou said with some excitement: "When Nokia staff were visiting Huaqiangbei, they saw many young people queuing up to buy MP3 players. They also took a look and went over to take a look."
"I found that these young people were buying Lingyue Youth Edition MP3, and there was a promotional slogan on the MP3 display counter saying that it can last for a whole week on a single charge."
Following Leader Ou's description, Chen Xiao finally understood the cause and effect of the matter.
The Nokia staff who came to Xia Guo were originally looking for low-cost, high-performance lithium batteries.
I saw the slogan of Lingyue Youth Edition MP3 which mentioned long battery life, so of course I was very interested in Lingyue Youth Edition MP3.
Nokia staff immediately purchased Ling MP3 and took it back for study.
It would be okay if I didn’t study this, but I was shocked when I did.
The lithium battery used in Lingyue MP3 has a much higher energy density than those previously purchased by Nokia from Panasonic and Sony.
Moreover, Nokia staff evaluated the price of Lingyue MP3 and found that such a low price could not possibly use such expensive lithium batteries.
Using Lingyue MP3 as a clue, Nokia found the supplier of lithium batteries, and finally found Jiangzhou.
The Xia Kingdom in 2002 was not completely open, so after Nokia came to Jiangzhou, it did not find Changtian Technology to negotiate with Changtian Technology immediately, but found it after investigating the performance of Changtian Technology's lithium batteries.
Jiangzhou Government.
It is hoped that the Jiangzhou government can serve as an introducer and help Nokia obtain this batch of lithium batteries.
This is the case in this era. It is much more convenient to find connections with acquaintances than to talk directly on your own.
After learning about the prices related to the Changtian Technology lithium battery factory, Nokia asked for 100,000 lithium batteries, with a total value of about 4 million.
Lithium batteries in this era are still very expensive.
This is still the first batch of goods. If Changtian Technology is able to take orders, then Nokia will have second, third and even more orders in the future.
Although Jiangzhou is a provincial capital city and a second-tier city, it is not easy to get orders worth millions.
The relevant departments in Jiangzhou did not even consider the production capacity of Changtian Technology, and directly agreed to the matter, and then asked the relevant departments to connect with the lithium battery factory of Changtian Technology. I hope that Changtian Technology can find a way.
Try our best to meet Nokia's orders.
At the end of the phone call, Leader Ou said: "Chen Xiao, I know you are very capable and your company is also in a leading position in the industry." "As a world-renowned communications company, if Nokia can accept this order
, this will also greatly improve Jiangzhou’s status. I hope you will give Jiangzhou more support!”
Chen Xiao still doesn't know what the factory's production capacity is, so he can only agree first.
But there was one thing that made Chen Xiao a little confused.
The most important battery in the mobile phone market now is nickel-chromium battery.
Nickel-cadmium batteries are relatively stable and relatively cheap. The only drawback is that their battery life is not very sufficient.
Isn’t it nice for Nokia to use cheaper nickel-chromium batteries? Why does it have to use lithium batteries?
Chen Xiao went to the lithium electronics factory first, and then asked Wang Xiang to check the development of Nokia in recent years and its sales in the global market.
Although Chen Xiao was reborn, he could not remember such details clearly.
He knows that Nokia became a machine god after the release of Symbian system, and he also knows that Nokia fell from the altar with the popularity of Android and Apple smartphones.
But Chen Xiao definitely doesn’t remember the specific time point and many details.
So it is necessary for him to understand clearly the development situation of Nokia now.
Soon, Wang Xiang sent relevant information to Chen Xiao's mailbox.
According to the data display.
The sales of Nokia's mobile phones in Xia Guo are pretty good, but there is still a certain gap compared to those of Motorola, Samsung and Sony.
After all, most of the mobile phones sold on the market in 2002 were feature phones. All mobile phones had similar functions, mainly making calls and sending text messages.
When people buy mobile phones, they mainly rely on word of mouth and brand.
At this time, Nokia did not have the reputation of being the brick phone of later generations. The mobile phone brands that most consumers heard the most were Motorola and Samsung.
The price of Motorola is slightly more moderate, while the price of Samsung is higher.
Motorola has accumulated a good reputation because it has been deeply involved in the Xiaguo market for many years, so it has fixed users and groups.
However, the appearance of his mobile phone is relatively average, and most of the users are middle-aged people with successful careers.
Samsung, on the other hand, has taken the fashion and business route at the same time. As the Korean Wave gradually enters Xia Kingdom, more and more urban men and women in Xia Kingdom admire and envy the Samsung mobile phones used by the male and female protagonists in Korean dramas.
The effect of celebrities and TV series, plus Samsung's more fashionable appearance, so even if its price is relatively high, it can be welcomed by young people in first- and second-tier cities.
Nokia is in the most awkward position. It can't move up or down, and it can only be considered average now.
Among the information sent by Wang Xiang, Chen Xiao found a very crucial description on the last page of the information.
Nokia has widely popularized Symbian mobile phones in Europe and the United States.
Affected by the Symbian system, Nokia's sales in Europe and the United States have increased significantly in recent years.
Okay, the answer is out.
Symbian systems have begun to spread in Western markets.
As the main mobile phone manufacturer of the Symbian system, Nokia has made a lot of money in the European and American markets.
However, at this time, neither the motorcycle nor the Samsung brand had reacted.
Because Xia Guochang's per capita consumption power is relatively low, Nokia did not release his most advanced Symbian system mobile phone.
Why is Nokia looking for cheap lithium batteries globally?
The most fundamental reason is that after the mobile phone is equipped with the Symbian system, the power consumption increases sharply.
The Symbian system has just become popular on a large scale, and many consumers have not yet switched their thinking from feature phones to smartphones, let alone charging them every day.
Therefore, most consumers still have certain requirements for the battery life of their mobile phones.
If Nokia wants to increase the battery life of its Symbian phone, there are two ways.
The first solution is to use large-volume nickel-cadmium batteries.
If you continue to use that battery, the size of the battery will be very large, which will also greatly increase the weight of the battery and the phone.
Today, when mobile phones have gradually become a consensus, sacrificing the size and weight of mobile phones to increase battery life will not be accepted by most consumers.
The second solution is to use lithium batteries with higher energy density.
However, there are currently only a few manufacturers in the world that can produce high-quality bottom batteries, such as Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, etc.
Although lithium batteries have high energy density, they are expensive to produce.
In order to maintain its sales in the European and American markets, Nokia has to search for lithium batteries with relatively moderate prices and high quality around the world.
Only then did we find the head of Changtian Technology.
Chen Xiao's breathing was a little heavy.
The era of the first generation of mobile phones has arrived, and so has the era of Symbian.
Do you want to take a share of the pie in this era?