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Chapter 421 Three Products
Manager Shi also talked about a lot of professional things, from motherboard materials to circuit design, the biggest highlight of this product is its cheap price.

The same quality as it is not as cheap as it, but it is better than it, and it is much more expensive!
The radio is also combined with the tape player. Now all companies are innovating. Under the existing conditions, all kinds of strange combinations are dazzling.

Lu Feng made some suggestions, including increasing the number of antennas to two, and they should be long, and the shape should be round and solid, giving people a feeling of porcelain. Don't use too prominent a color, you can use red appropriately.

The main users of the radio are older, and their requirements for the product are practical and cheap, and the bells and whistles will not catch their eyes too much!

Liu Cheng has already figured out Lu Feng's connections, and the changes he made are superfluous changes for professionals, but they have another meaning at the marketing level.

When he explained in the internal meeting, he called this design 'Lu's design'.

Next was the tape machine. A different manager walked up to it, and the person next to him was already changing the drawing according to Lu Feng's request.

"The next product is a tape drive. This type of electronic product is very mature, and the difference in quality is only the difference in the speaker and circuit materials. We analyzed and studied [-] tape drives on the market. After weighing the pros and cons, we decided I downloaded this one today."

"Most users of tape drives are students, so we made a bold design on the shape, used a lot of bright colors, mainly to highlight the young, and used push-type buttons on the buttons, and the springs are the best. Press it down It is very textured, and the speaker is a product of Feiyue Audio."

"The circuit design has been re-planned to ensure the stability of the current. Four batteries can be used for [-] hours. Some optimizations have also been made to problems such as tape jamming, rewinding, and churning."

"The biggest highlight of this product is automatic rewind, which has a driving wheel. I believe everyone has the same trouble. After listening to it, rewind with your fingers. Our product solves this pain point."

The people at the scene laughed when they heard this, because rewinding is really troublesome.

Lu Feng picked up the tape drive in front of him, held it heavily in his hand, and pressed the buttons a few times with his hands. It was indeed very textured. There was a disassembled one next to it, and there was actually a layer of iron inside it for counterweight.

It can be seen that this product manager should have studied Lu Feng!

Lu Feng put a tape in it and pressed the play button. The song "A Fire in Winter" was very hot. The stereo was not very good. Looking at the price on the purchase list, a pair of speakers was only [-] yuan. Money, but it is indeed much better than those tape drives on the market.

"Why not make a repeater? This way the children can still use it." Lu Feng wondered.

"Repeater?"

Liu Cheng was a little puzzled, and asked, "What is a repeater?"

"It means that a certain passage can be listened to continuously. For example, this sentence, I can go back and listen to it again, or automatically go back and forth." Lu Feng said.

The engineers present leaned on their chairs one after another, looked at each other and felt that this research and development direction is very novel!

"This technology can be realized, but the cassette is so serious that the machine can't respond." Liu Cheng said the technical pain point.

Lu Feng thought about it carefully. The repeater should have been invented in 99. It is not available now. The technology is very weak for the future. It is not a tape that is rewinding back and forth, but a certain section of content that needs to be repeated is digitized and stored in a Inside the microchip, playing back and forth.

"Digital storage technology can be used to digitize the things that need to be read in the tape and play them back and forth." Lu Feng looked at the tape player in front of him and asked, "Can this technology be realized now?"

"Digital storage?"

Liu Cheng pondered, thought for a while and said: "It can be realized, but the price will be expensive, and we need to obtain patent rights from companies such as Sony and Sharp, or cooperate."

"Is the technical barrier very hard?" Lu Feng knows that the market for repeaters is very large. For students, whoever learns English does not have many repeaters, just like the Xinhua dictionary.

"If the money is in place."

"Okay, okay!" Lu Feng looked at him and said: "Next year's research and development funds will be allocated to this project, and the repeater will be the key project of the small electronic category next year."

"Okay!" Liu Cheng agreed.

"This tape machine is well made, what is the cost price?" Lu Feng asked the product manager.

"Our current cost accounting is [-] yuan and [-] cents, which is basically the same as the price of other manufacturers. We have a brief chat with these suppliers. They have a purchase quantity requirement, and the annual data is no less than three One hundred thousand units, I think the annual sales volume of this product will not be lower than this number.”

The annual sales volume of [-] is not too much. Tape machines are still hard-core products for young people. Although there are many manufacturers and product levels are uneven, Lu Feng believes that this product is still very capable.

Even if it is a loss, it will not lose much.

"The next product is home theater." Another person in charge stood up.

"This product is made with Weipuda TV. You can directly plug the line into the jack on the back of the TV, and you can watch video tapes at home. In terms of tape data recovery, we have achieved a level similar to that of our peers. The buyers are basically the same, and the current technical level of video tapes has reached the bottleneck period.”

"Everyone's level is about the same, and we can't make too much change. Our picture quality is clearer, the rate of jamming is lower, and the probability of blurred screen is lower. Even if it does happen, there will be no stuck situation. And Just skip and play."

"This product does some processing for swallowing tapes, such as this." He picked up a video tape and stuffed it in, and then there was a swallowing situation.

"For some products on the market, there are only two solutions to this situation. One is to pull it out with chopsticks, and the other is to unscrew the screw and take it out. We have done entrainment, just press this button, the lower two iron pieces will be pushed up, the upper two iron pieces will be pressed down, and will be pushed out after being clamped.”

After he finished speaking, he pressed the button, and the videotape was spat out.

"Another advantage is the price advantage. The price of home theaters on the market is [-] to [-] yuan. Some foreign brands are very expensive. The domestic ones are basically [-] to [-] yuan. The cost price of our model has achieved Two thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars."

Lu Feng looked at the home theater in front of him. After today's meeting, he finally understood that the products are very ordinary, and Jiafeng Electronics has been beaten to death by products alone.

These people have a sentence written all over their faces: Mr. Lu, we can only do this, and the rest is up to you.

"I can tell that the common advantage of these three products is that they are cheap!"

Lu Feng leaned on his seat with a rather uneasy face. He wanted to be a company like Huawei. Good guy, how could it become Xiaomi after doing it?

Liu Cheng clearly sensed Lu Feng's unhappiness, and the atmosphere at the scene became extremely solemn in an instant, and no one present dared to speak!

"Mr. Lu, the company has just started this year. I also know that the technical content of these three products is not high. However, it took less than three months from the project approval to the design of these three products. Everyone worked overtime. , not only technology and patents, but also talents.”

"We are speeding up the recruitment of talents, but talents don't come in a day, nor can they play a role after they come. It takes time to accumulate in this regard."

"I've listened to what you said. This year will be like this first. After the funds are in place next year, I hope to find my own way in terms of technology and form product features. Do these products have names?" Lu Feng asked.

"Not yet, it's still the product code name, why don't you give it a name, and when the time comes, will it be sold under Weipuda, or will it be established as a brand?"

It's not very good to make a brand again, and once it's launched, it will have to spend a share of promotional money. Now Lu Feng has a headache when he hears about spending money.

"Just put it under Weipuda."

Everyone discussed for a long time, the radio was called 'Tianji No. [-]', the tape player was called 'Martian', and as for the home theater, Lu Feng simply named it 'Golden Leopard'.

Originally thinking that after the product meeting, we would continue to talk about the reorganization of the R&D company, but Lu Feng suddenly felt a little hungry and asked, "What time is it?"

"Four thirty in the afternoon!"

"Forgot to eat at noon?" Lu Feng woke up with a start.

Everyone present looked like, you are not hungry, we dare not say that you are hungry.

"Okay, okay, let's hold a reorganization meeting tomorrow!" Lu Feng stood up and said, "No one reminded me to eat at noon."

There is a restaurant in the office building, and the R&D company ordered the meals there. The cook looked at his watch and started to curse.

Lu Feng sat in the restaurant and had a meal. The people at the table were senior executives of the R&D company. Liu Cheng sat next to Lu Feng. The others wanted to take the opportunity to have a drink and get closer, but Lu Feng refused.

While eating, they chatted about the direction of the reorganization, and the R&D company's goal for next year will focus on talents, which is four words, global poaching.

Xiangjiang, Central Financial Building, there is a woman in her [-]s or [-]s sitting in the chairman's office. Although the woman is old, she is well maintained and looks like she is in her thirties.

"Mr. Chen! Just promise me, isn't it easy for you?"

"I said that you are not allowed to meddle in any affairs of the company, but you still don't listen." Mr. Chen threw his pen on the table and said coldly, "No!"

"You don't know what that bastard did to me, he...he knew me..."

A few minutes later, with a livid face, Mr. Chen picked up the phone on the table and said, "Tell Tianhong Investment that if they continue to contact the mainland company called Jiafeng Electronics, I will no longer guarantee their funds. .”

(End of this chapter)