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Chapter 138 Orange Mobile Engineering Edition, Hardware Trouble (asking for monthly ticket)

The third day of summer vacation.

After Chen Yansen finished his morning meeting at the Entrepreneurship Park, he drove to Zhuxian Town Science and Technology Park.

The download volume of Aurora OS has exceeded 2000 million. In this way, even if only 10% of Orange users support it, it can still sell 200 million units.

It is generally believed in the digital circle that the two most anticipated new products in 2011 are Lei Yijun's Xiaomi mobile phone and Chen Yansen's Orange mobile phone.

After all, Xiaomi and Orange Technology were the first mobile phone manufacturers to launch customized operating systems, improving the user experience from the software level.

There are millions or even tens of millions of potential users alone.

Although Orange Technology has not announced the release date of the new phone, the establishment of the Orange mobile phone factory in Shenzhen is equivalent to telling the outside world that the Orange mobile phone is only one step away from being launched on the market.

There were not many cars on the road, and ten minutes later, the car drove into the Science and Technology Park.

As soon as Chen Yansen went up to the second floor, he saw Gao Weilin holding a computer, sitting on a rattan chair in the balcony rest area, drinking coffee slowly. It was obvious that he had adapted to the work and life in Xucheng.

"Old Gao, aren't you feeling hot?" Chen Yansen walked over with a smile and sat down opposite Gao Weilin.

The warm sun rises high in the east, and it is already a bit stuffy.

"Boss, can you try the new coffee beans I bought? They're new from Nariño this year, and they have a citrus aroma."

Gao Weilin was about to stand up and say hello when Chen Yansen pushed him back to his seat, so he raised his glass and recommended with a smile.

The morning sun felt warm on his body, and Gao Weilin seemed to enjoy it.

"No, I'm not used to it." Chen Yansen waved his hand and refused, then asked, "What did Lotte say?"

"There's a lot of interest, but Rakuten, like Ali, is short on funds. Given FoxTao's current development, whether using the price-to-sales ratio or the price-to-earnings ratio, the final valuation will not be less than US$25 billion."

Gao Weilin shrugged and said with a smile, "This is a big investment for Lotte, so I contacted Augusta Capital and planned to sell Fox Tao as a package, using a one-owner and one-slave deal."

This type of acquisition is not common in the mainland, but it is a routine operation in Hong Kong Island.

For many venture capital firms, controlling rights are not important, as long as they can make a profit.

After Lotte learned that Ali was also interested in FoxTao, it was planning to use its relationship with SoftBank to join forces with Augusta to acquire FoxTao and then merge it into Ali Baba.

This will realize the plan of indirectly acquiring shares in Ali!
Compared with the equity of FoxTao, the equity of Ali, the e-commerce giant, is obviously more attractive.

"I always trust you in what you do." Chen Yansen nodded without raising any questions.

Boss, we've only known each other for a month?

Gao Weilin opened his mouth, wanting to complain, but he held it back.

After resigning, he worked even harder during his time working in the mainland than he did at Mega Group.

He knew that once he completed the equity sale, he would become famous in the domestic Internet business circle.

"Boss, the Orange Mobile Phone Factory's financial accounting and fund management have been integrated into the financial shared center and ERP management system. Every account is transparent and traceable, making it difficult for people below to tamper with it."

Gao Weilin put away his distracting thoughts and continued.

"Okay, I get it. Go ahead and get busy. If you need help, ask HR to recruit for you."

Chen Yansen responded, stood up and walked upstairs.

He directly rejected the industrial design draft initially submitted by the R&D team. The width of the upper, lower, left and right borders was wide enough to park a row of RVs.

Compared with the borderless phones that came out more than a decade later, it's so ugly that it's unbearable to look at.

Engineers explained that this is due to the backwardness of the current COG screen packaging technology, which requires a wide border to accommodate electronic components such as driving circuits and cables, which is really helpless.

After some investigation, Chen Yansen was sure that the engineer had not deceived him.

But in 2011, it’s not that there was no solution, it just increased the cost of the packaging process, which is why it was abandoned by 99.9% of mobile phone brands on the market.

Chen Yansen pondered, if Orange phones are similar to Xiaomi, Meizu, and Samsung, and do not have their own unique advantages, why would users choose Orange?
Just because Aurora OS is smoother than the native Android system?

Then users can just flash the phone directly, why bother buying an Orange phone?
So Chen Yansen overturned the first version of the design and started over.

First, a huge amount of money was invested in purchasing COF packaging equipment. This more advanced packaging technology can package chips onto flexible circuit boards and then connect them to the screen, greatly reducing the width of the border.

There are basically no mobile phone factories in China that use COF packaging technology. After inquiring, Cao Dahua and Zuo Hongyu could only buy imported first-hand equipment, which cost 70 yuan each, which is more than 50 yuan more expensive than second-hand COG packaging equipment.

Secondly, add virtual buttons to reduce the chin space of the phone.

In this regard, Apple, which has always been bold, did not dare to directly cancel the Home button.

Xiaomi also retained the three major Android keys on its first generation mobile phone, namely the return key, home key and multitasking management key.

Chen Yansen took one step to eliminate all touch keys and adopt global gesture operation.

In terms of hardware, an ultra-high-sensitivity touch screen is used;
In terms of the system, the Aurora system has been deeply modified to optimize the touch delay issue.

In addition, the processor has been replaced with Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260, which has performance comparable to the A5 processor used in the Apple 4S, and is the same model as the first generation Xiaomi phone.

Finally, the plastic shell of the mobile phone was changed to high-strength aluminum alloy.

Although the cost has increased, the appearance strength of the phone has been improved, and the probability of screen breakage caused by the narrowing of the frame has been reduced.

After calculating the cost, the materials alone cost 1100 yuan!
Adding in the costs of R&D, manufacturing, promotion and sales, if a mobile phone is sold at 1999 yuan, the gross profit will not reach 10% even if the supply chain is strictly controlled.

However, what Chen Yansen cares about is not the few dozen yuan of gross profit, but how much humanitarian fuel the mobile phone industry can bring to him from research and development to sales terminals.

As soon as Chen Yansen went up to the third floor, two engineers came over with a 4.5-inch engineering version of Orange mobile phone in their hands and greeted him with a smile.

"Boss, this is the engineering version sample sent from Shenzhen. Zhou Ze and I have tested it, and the touch delay is basically within an acceptable range."

Zhang Cong is the head of the industrial design team, and Zhou Ze he mentioned is the head of the hardware design team.

One of them is from ZTE and the other is from Huawei's Honor mobile phone team.

"Oh, Lao Cao is pretty quick."

Chen Yansen took the phone and walked towards the testing group with the two of them.

The testing team consists of about ten engineers, each with an Orange phone, and they are conducting rigorous tests on performance, interfaces and sensors.

The smoothness of audio and video playback, whether the sound quality is distorted, and whether the audio and video are out of sync are also tested. In addition, there are many issues such as heat dissipation, battery life, and mobile phone compatibility. The testing phase alone takes a month.

Chen Yansen requested that the bugs be resolved as much as possible before the product goes on the market.

If users discover this after the product is put on the market, the losses will be incalculable regardless of recall or compensation.

Chen Yansen knew that it was better to be cautious.

For example, Aurora OS actually underwent two weeks of testing before it went online, but there were still many minor bugs after it went online.

Zhang Cong and Zhou Ze led Chen Yansen to spend the whole morning in the testing group, reporting all the problems they had found one by one.

System problems are directly reported to Wang Teng.

In terms of hardware, if it is a problem with the supplier, we will first issue a warning and then replace it directly if it is not corrected.

"Boss, is there any room for further improvement in the appearance?"

After Zhang Cong finished his report, he asked tentatively.

In 2011, everyone's aesthetic taste for smartphones was basically based on Apple, including Zhang Cong.

Therefore, the appearance of the Orange phone is 30% similar to the iPhone 4 and a bit similar to the Meizu M9, but with narrower bezels and thinner thickness.

For this reason, the material cost of each mobile phone is 200 yuan more than originally planned, but it feels really good to use, with a silky touch, and the aluminum alloy back cover is very textured, and looks more upscale than those plastic materials.

“The current design is pretty good.”

Chen Yansen nodded in agreement. The engineering machine had already come out, and it would be a very troublesome thing to adjust the appearance design. He was present when the sample was decided before, so there was no need to make trouble.

"Boss, there's a hardware problem. There are 100 engineering machines in this batch, but I've noticed that the battery sizes aren't uniform, with the largest discrepancy being 1.3mm."

Zhou Ze said seriously.

You should know that mobile phones are precision digital products, and there are clear requirements for the placement of each electronic component.

If the battery size does not meet the design standards, the assembled device will definitely not function properly.

"It's a bit outrageous."

Chen Yansen was slightly stunned. In his opinion, the supplier only needed to produce according to the contract requirements. How could such a big mistake occur?

Zhou Ze took out two batteries and placed them on the table.

When Chen Yansen saw it, he immediately burst out laughing. The size difference between the two batteries was obvious and could be distinguished with the naked eye.

In front of the two of them, he immediately took out his cell phone and called Zuo Hongyu.

"After the battery supplier changed, you and Lao Cao didn't inspect the products after the engineering machines were manufactured?"

Chen Yansen asked bluntly.

"Ah!? We checked it and found no problems." Zuo Hongyu did check it, but he only tested the phone's functions and did not disassemble it to check the hardware.

Electronic components such as processors, screens, cameras and speakers have corresponding incoming inspection processes and usually do not cause problems.

"There's a discrepancy between the battery size and the design requirements. If we don't replace this supplier, there's no telling what kind of problems might arise in the future."

Chen Yansen did not scold Zuo Hongyu again, but just gave him a serious reminder.

He sighed in his heart: These suppliers in Huaqiangbei are really not very reliable.

Little did people know that in the past few years when counterfeit mobile phones were prevalent, as long as the battery did not explode, it was considered a good product.

As for the mismatch in specifications, the error of 1-2 mm, at worst you can just force it in manually, it's not unusable anyway.

"Okay, boss." Zuo Hongyu's face turned pale and blue. He didn't expect that he would make such a big mistake in the supply chain.

After hanging up the phone, he immediately took his men into the material warehouse and took out the goods sent by Youpu.

"Vernier caliper!" Zuo Hongyu shouted to his assistant.

"Mr. Zuo, here it is." The assistant standing nearby hurriedly handed it over.

Zuo Hongyu picked up a battery and began to measure its length, width and height, but his expression became increasingly ugly.

The error is 0.3 mm!

The error is 0.5 mm!

The error is 0.9 mm!

"Damn it! You even dared to cheat me, Zuo Hongyu! Who inspected and accepted this batch of goods? Get out of here right now!"

Zuo Hongyu was furious and started cursing.

Then, he took out his phone and called the person in charge of Youpu Battery: "Mr. Wang, three out of ten batteries you sent me don't meet the requirements. Are you kidding me?"

"Boss Zuo, you're too kind! Don't worry, our factory's batteries are guaranteed not to explode. As long as they work, I'll make arrangements for them later on in Galaxy Human World..."

Wang Hongde on the other end of the phone laughed it off.

"I'll arrange for your mother! Take these broken things away from me immediately!" Zuo Hongyu cursed without any hesitation.

"Mr. Zuo, ask around. Which company can get the battery dimensions exactly right? If you can, sue them! Youpu has never taken back the goods it sold."

Wang Hongde is also a tough guy. He is not afraid at all and said with a chuckle.

"Fuck! Forget about the balance!" Zuo Hongyu threatened.

"Haha, I never thought about taking the balance. Mr. Zuo, tell that Northern Big Water Fish behind you to stop breaking the rules of Huaqiangbei."

Wang Hongde laughed, threw down this warning, and hung up the phone.

It was only then that Zuo Hongyu realized that the recruitment benefits offered by Orange Technology in Shenzhen seemed to have affected the interests of some people.

After a moment's thought, he reported the situation to Chen Yansen.

(End of this chapter)