"Okay, I guarantee to complete the task!" Liu Chen nodded vigorously. This was a test given to him by his new boss. No matter what, he had to complete this task.
"Do you have a Leddy mobile phone?" Zhou Chen suddenly asked everyone. All present except Qi Hang took out a small and exquisite clamshell phone. Its appearance was somewhat similar to this year's newly launched Motorola V3. Li Qiushui handed her phone to Zhou Chen and said with some pride, "This is Leddy V3. It only took three months from design to market launch!" After Zhou Chen tried it for a while, he said with a faint smile, "A knockoff version of Motorola. How's the sales volume? How much profit is there?" Li Qiushui's pretty face flushed slightly. When it came to sales volume, she instantly lost confidence. "In two months since its launch, only... only more than 6,000 units have been sold... The profit of each mobile phone is about one thousand yuan!"
"There are 1,600 people on the production line. The production capacity in two months should be considerable. Where did those mobile phones go?" Zhou Chen asked in confusion .
"Because the sales competition is too fierce and the sales volume is too dismal. Wang He was urgently pressed by creditors. Last week, he mortgaged the inventory phones at a low price to usurers to fill the capital gap." Li Qiushui sighed slightly.
"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. It's almost time to get off work. You can leave work first. Liu Chen, Li Qiushui, and Qi Hang stay behind!" Zhou Chen wants to talk to Li Qiushui about product research and development. But his product is too avant-garde. To avoid causing too much sensation, he sends the others away. After everyone leaves one after another, Zhou Chen gets up and closes the conference room door. Li Qiushui and the others are staring intently at Zhou Chen, not knowing what this seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man is thinking.
"Let's talk about mobile phone R & D!"
"I'm planning to make a full - screen mobile phone without buttons!" Zhou Chen stared at Li Qiushui and said in a deep voice.
Li Qiushui was a bit confused. "No buttons?"
Liu Chen also smiled and said, "How can you use it without buttons?"
Qi Hang was now too tired to question Zhou Chen. Once upon a time, others said he was a madman. Now it seemed that Zhou Chen was the real madman.
Zhou Chen picked up a pen and a piece of paper on the table and drew a rectangular outline with rounded corners.
The three of them stood up and leaned over to look at the drawing.
"Is... is this a mobile phone?" Li Qiushui's eyes widened.
How could a mobile phone look like this? People who didn't know might think it was a brick!
"This is a resistive touch - screen. We're going to start mobile phone software by touching this screen." Zhou Chen gave a brief explanation.
Capacitive touch - screens hadn't been developed yet, but resistive touch - screens had come out. However, few mobile phone manufacturers had applied them to mobile phones.
As Zhou Chen was explaining, a full - screen mobile phone without buttons naturally came to his mind. The software could be started by touching the software icons on the phone.
As soon as this picture emerged, Li Qiushui's eyes nearly popped out.
A mobile phone like this could only appear in science - fiction movies, right?
If such a mobile phone could really be made, others couldn't even imagine it!
Qi Hang and Liu Chen also more or less understood what Zhou Chen meant, and their eyes were also full of disbelief.
They couldn't imagine how amazing a mobile phone Zhou Chen was going to make.
Li Qiushui had come to her senses at this time and asked with a dry mouth, "Then how do you type and chat?"
Although the mobile phone is a communication tool, young people nowadays use mobile phones to surf the Internet. If there are no buttons, how should you type?
"We can develop an input method. This input method can be freely switched to nine-square grid input method, stroke input method, twenty-six-key input method, and handwriting board input method!" Zhou Chen drew the approximate outlines of all input methods on the draft paper respectively. Qi Hang and Li Qiushui widened their eyes again... "If this input method can be launched, it will surely become popular all over the world!" Qi Hang's breathing was a bit rapid. Such an input method is too intelligent and can almost meet the needs of all types of typing groups. "Next, let's talk about the operating system of this mobile phone... What I want is an intelligent operating system developed based on the Linux kernel..." Zhou Chen took the Android system as the prototype and explained the smart phone operating system at length. Li Qiushui and Qi Hang took out paper and pens to take notes... Liu Chen was a layman, so Zhou Chen asked him to leave work first. In the conference room, Zhou Chen had a long talk with Li Qiushui and Qi Hang. Unknowingly, the time came to twelve o'clock at night. In front of Li Qiushui and Qi Hang, there was already a thick stack of draft paper. Each piece of paper was the most core business secret. Around two o'clock in the morning. Zhou Chen finally finished explaining the intelligent operating system... Li Qiushui took a deep breath and looked at Zhou Chen with admiration in her eyes and asked, "President Zhou, how on earth did you come up with such an operating system?"
Zhou Chen said with a smile, "I had a dream. In the dream, I used such a mobile phone, so I want to make it..." Li Qiushui looked at the draft paper in front of her, and her eyes were a bit dim: "With our company's research and development team, it is probably very difficult to make such a mobile phone system!"
Leddy Company is just a counterfeit mobile phone company. Most of the R & D personnel are not professionals either. The operating system of Leddy mobile phone is also modified from the button mobile phone operating system that is common in the market. To make herself develop such an advanced and magical system, she really has no confidence.
Zhou Chen leaned back on the office chair, tapped the desktop gently with his fingers, and looked at Qi Hang who was smoking with his deep eyes and asked, "Lao Qi, are you sure?"
"My technology is not up to this level either!" Qi Hang shook his head while puffing smoke. There was no longer the usual arrogance on his face. This is not a plug-in or a webpage, but a very macroscopic smart phone operating system. Zhou Chen is no longer the boss of a game studio, but a big boss with 1,600 employees. At this moment, Qi Hang feels extremely insignificant in front of Zhou Chen. So much so that he dare not speak too full now...
The three of them sat on the office chairs in silence! The full of enthusiasm seemed to be extinguished by cold water. Li Qiushui suddenly said, "I have an uncle who is a high-level technology R & D executive at Apple Company. Perhaps... we can consult him!" As soon as the words fell, Qi Hang took a hard puff of cigarette, and then said in a deep voice, "Leave this project to me. What others can make, we can also make!" Li Qiushui frowned and glanced at Qi Hang. She felt that Qi Hang didn't respect her uncle, so she asked faintly, "Which company did you work for before?"
"Ordinary people without jobs!"
"Then where do you get the confidence to make this mobile phone system? Do you understand the mobile phone industry? Do you understand mobile phones?" Li Qiushui stared at Qi Hang aggressively and interrogated.
"Did our country understand atomic weapons back then? Later, didn't we figure it out by ourselves? Technology has to be continuously explored and developed. Having it from parents is not as good as having it oneself. Only by making our own technology can we not be choked by foreign countries!" Qi Hang retorted unwillingly.
"You can do it if you think you can!"
"Didn't I say I'll do it?"
Qi Hang and Li Qiushui were in opposition. One is the company's R & D director, and the other claims to be a genius programmer. At this time, neither of them is convinced by the other.
At this time, Zhou Chen made a decision by slapping the table and said, "That's it. Qi Hang, you are responsible for the system UI. Li Qiushui, you are responsible for Internet software applications!"