Chapter 353 The happiness that only lasted for two days
Ever since Huawei Mobile released the Huawei mobile phone system EUI, which was also developed based on the Android system, life for the rice company has become increasingly difficult day by day.
The original success of DaMi Company was based on the launch of the MIUI system, which made it famous among mobile phone enthusiasts.
However, with the emergence of EUI, MIUI of Rice Company suddenly fell from being the best homemade system in the country to the second best.
Among MIUI enthusiasts, a considerable number of them have been poached by Huawei Mobile Phones and have become fans of Huawei Mobile Phones.
This made the rice company suddenly become very vigilant.
Because their original plan was to first rely on MIUI to attract a group of mobile phone users, and then release their own mobile phones, and then use the operating system to attract mobile phone users to suddenly open up the situation.
But the emergence of Huawei mobile phones affected their plans.
The most direct result is that in commercial surveys, a considerable number of users who originally planned to buy rice phones are planning to buy future new products of Huawei mobile phones instead.
For this reason, Lei Jun, who is considered a great man of his generation, had to change his mind. On the one hand, he put down his dignity and let MIUI begin to imitate the features of EUI and make improvements to win back those users. On the other hand, DaMi Company also introduced more investment.
Among them, the capital injection from the Wu family made the research and development of rice phones a lot smoother.
But at this time, the rice company was plotted again. Because of Qualcomm's change of heart, the rice phone that had been finalized was forced to choose other chip companies to cooperate because the most important chip was out of stock. The release date of the new phone was also
It was delayed again and again, and finally it was even delayed until 2011.
After finally getting everything done, Huawei Mobile became popular in China before it was sold due to a variety show, causing a wave of craze.
Regarding this, everyone in the rice company was holding back their anger, hoping to make a comeback at the press conference.
Even Lei Jun, who used to have a good temper, began to allow Lu Weibing to talk nonsense on Weibo for the sake of competition, just to increase Rice's popularity.
Finally, hoping for the stars and hoping for the moon, the rice company’s press conference finally began.
In order to make a splash, Wu Hui also sponsored a lot of money for the rice company's press conference. He even used his connections to rent the famous Mercedes Art Center in Donghai, which made the entire press conference a lot better.
, coupled with Lu Weibing’s suggestions, the effect of the press conference was even better than that of Huawei Mobile Phone in Las Vegas.
Drawing on the successful experience of Huawei mobile phones, the rice mobile phone launch conference also invited many celebrities. These celebrities were invited by Wu Hui using his own connections. They were present on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places. The stars gathered together, just like a fashion conference
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The huge art center was also filled with audiences and media from all walks of life that day. According to subsequent statistics, there were at least 300 media on-site alone. In addition to technology media, many entertainment media came, and there were even more on-site audiences.
Thousands of people!
How many of them are here specifically for the rice phone? The rice company can't control that much at this time. They just need the rice phone launch conference to become more popular and make an appointment.
Because they are confident that when their products are officially released, Chinese mobile phone users will definitely go crazy for their phones.
Sure enough, when the press conference officially started and the rice company announced the various configurations and final price of their rice 1 mobile phone, the Internet was immediately abuzz.
"Damn it, this damn configuration is so good, but the price is only 1,999? Oh my God, this is too cheap, right?"
"The Jazz 1 configuration of Huawei Mobile Phone is better than that of the Rice 1, but it is said that the price is more than 4,000. If I can't afford it, I'd better buy the Rice 1!"
"That's right, I can buy an Apple for more than 4,000, but what kind of Android phone should I buy? This rice phone is better!"
The low price and excellent configuration have made the entire market, especially many young people, crazy about rice.
Rice's innovative online marketing model has also triggered a heated discussion. Many people doubt whether the online sales model of rice phones can be successful?
However, two hours after the press conference, the online pre-sales of rice phones hit all the doubters in the face with 500,000 units sold on the first day.
Rice mobile phones adopt an online limited sales model. The official sales will be a week later. Now they are only available for pre-sale on the rice company's website. Consumers have to pay a certain deposit to make a reservation.
This kind of sales model was originally considered to be a fantasy by the outside world. Selling mobile phones on the Internet, selling 100,000 yuan a month is already a miracle.
Unexpectedly, rice's results far exceeded everyone's expectations.
Such results instantly shocked the Chinese mobile phone industry and caused Rice Company's valuation to double overnight, from the original US$200 million to US$400 million!
“The king of Android phones in 1999! The ultimate price/performance ratio!”
"66666! Five hundred thousand units on the first day!"
“The rice is awesome!”
Seeing a lot of praise from the outside world about Rice Company and the Mi 1 mobile phone, Wu Hui, as an investor in Rice Company, finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt that he had saved some face this time.
However, the long-awaited joy between the rice company and Wu Hui only lasted two days.
When Huawei Mobile Phone's China launch conference was held, everything changed instantly.
Just two days after the rice phone launch conference, the Huawei mobile phone East China Sea conference also opened on time.
The Mi mobile phone launch conference was preceded by pearls, and the Huawei mobile phone conference also attracted a lot of attention.
Because of this press conference, Huawei Mobile invited the entire men's running team as guests.
As the most popular variety show in China today, the appearance of the running boy group has naturally attracted countless attention.
As the global spokesperson of Huawei Mobile Phones, Taylor's arrival made the scene even more exciting. Even the men's team became somewhat overshadowed by Taylor's side.
There is no way, who is an international superstar? The boy band is popular, but it is only popular in China, but Taylor is famous all over the world, and the level is different!
However, compared to the star lineup, the most shocking thing in the entire press conference was the retail price of the new mobile phone announced by Huawei Mobile in China.
According to the procedure, Yu Chendong introduced Huawei's two mobile phones Jazz and Honor series one by one on the stage just like in Las Vegas. When announcing the retail price of the mobile phones, he deliberately paused.
"I believe that everyone is very clear about the parameters of our two new Huawei mobile phones. Next, I would like to ask you, can anyone guess the approximate price of our two mobile phones in the Chinese market?