Reborn: Billionaire in College

2012年移动世界大会(MWC2012)于2月27日至3月1日在西班牙巴塞罗那如期举行。

In order to cope with this MWC, Orange Technology has made sufficient preparations and even chartered two planes.

In addition, Orange Technology’s customer relations department appeared in the public eye for the first time.

Chen Pingjiang arrived in Barcelona on a special plane on the evening of the 25th. Under Lin Bin's arrangement, he met with the heads and dealers of several European telecommunications companies. He also took the time to go to Madrid to attend the opening ceremony of the local Orange Direct Store.

Non-professionals at this MWC may not be very clear about it.

But it is still very popular in the communications circle.

Domestic companies such as Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad, Lenovo, China Mobile, and Lenovo all came to participate.

On the morning of the 26th, the heads of the three major domestic operators met with Chen Pingjiang and Lin Bin to discuss the cooperation plan for Orange S3, and the parties exchanged their ideas in the 4G field.

It is an old tradition for these companies to cooperate with Chen Pingjiang.

Orange phones are very popular in China, so there is no reason why the cooperation should not continue.

That afternoon, Yu Chengdong invited Chen Pingjiang, Lin Bin and Zhou Guangping to have dinner together.

Chen Pingjiang is playing with the Ascend D in his hand. This is Huawei's flagship phone that was developed at a very fast pace. It is also the first flagship phone developed by Yu Chengdong after he took over Huawei's terminal business.

Yu Chengdong introduced: "Ascend D is equipped with the first quad-core processor K3V2 released by HiSilicon. This processor is the smallest high-performance quad-core processor in the industry and the second quad-core A3 architecture processor after NVIDIA Tegra9."

Chen Pingjiang checked the system's smoothness, opened a few apps, and then passed the phone to Lin Bin and Zhou Guangping.

He turned around and gave Yu Chengdong a thumbs up: "In terms of chips, HiSilicon is still far ahead of our Daqin. They have even developed a quad-core processor."

Yu Chengdong quickly said politely: "That's different. Our HiSilicon has been around for almost ten years, while your Daqin has only been around for a few years, and you are developing very fast."

Chen Pingjiang thought about it and said tactfully, "However, are you, Mr. Ren, and Mr. He so confident? K3V2 has never been used commercially. Isn't it a bit risky to use it on your flagship model now? If it were me, I would probably use it on Honor."

Yu Chengdong smiled bitterly, "You know Mr. Ren's temper. Mr. Chen, I told you this, I didn't tell anyone else. Mr. Ren said internally that it doesn't matter if it doesn't sell well, it's just to build confidence. I personally think the experience is not very good, mainly because of the lack of experience in polishing the public version of ARM architecture, and the relatively backward IP and GPU used. The external baseband plus the backward process technology lead to poor power consumption and severe heat generation."

Chen Pingjiang laughed and pointed at Yu Chengdong.

"You, Old Yu, you've said nothing good about HiSilicon's products. Aren't you afraid that Mr. He Tingbo will chop you with a knife?"

Yu Chengdong chuckled: "We know it internally, and it always needs polishing. Besides, you guys are all veterans, so it's no use for me to fool you, but I won't admit it to the outside world. If this gets exposed and becomes a hot topic, Mr. Ren will probably fire me. The president of Huawei Terminal is not optimistic about his own products. Haha!"

"Qualcomm is also a thief. Knowing that HiSilicon has developed a quad-core processor, they came directly to us for cooperation and promised to give Huawei priority supply or preferential prices, but Mr. Ren refused. I am jealous of their baseband technology."

Chen Pingjiang nodded: "Qualcomm was a bit hasty this time and took a wrong path. Huang took the lead in developing the first quad-core processor and took up countless orders from him."

Although Yu Chengdong himself was criticizing his own products, Chen Pingjiang still saw a look of pride on his face.

The world's second quad-core processor made by the Chinese.

Although its performance is average in some areas due to limitations in craftsmanship and experience, it is also a quad-core processor.

Chen Pingjiang was very envious and planned to go back and put some pressure on his own Daqin chip.

Chen Pingjiang envied HiSilicon's chips, but he didn't know that when Yu Chengdong got the Orange S3, his eyes lit up and he was full of envy.

"Although the hardware used by Orange S3 is similar to that of other manufacturers, its appearance is much better than theirs. Your system is well tuned, and the UI is smoother. Is it the Qinglong architecture that is widely rumored?"

Lin Bin nodded and said, "With the support of the Qinglong architecture, the body's anti-extrusion ability has increased five times compared to the previous generation."

"Tsk tsk, normally, if the body strength increases by one or two times, it is already a very good performance, and this also depends on the upgrade and iteration of the glass material. A direct increase of 5 times is obviously not as simple as improving the glass strength." Yu Chengdong gave a thumbs up: "I feel that your phone will sell well."

"Thanks for your good words. Come, have a drink."

"No, I have a press conference tonight and can't drink." Yu Chengdong waved his hands quickly and almost hid the wine glass.

At 7pm Barcelona time, Huawei held a new product launch conference, mainly introducing these two Ascend D mobile phones.

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Domestic technology media, such as Sina Technology, Zhongguancun Online, and Chinanews.com, have sent reporters to cover the MWC in full and have launched related special topics online.

——Orange Technology releases Orange Super 3 consumer preview/illustration
——Microsoft releases Window8 consumer preview
——A roundup of popular mobile phones at MWC, and a guide to changing to new powerful phones at MWC
——Nokia releases 4100-megapixel phone 808
——Special topic: HTC releases three new models in the One series
——LG Optimus 4X real machine shooting
—— Samsung I8530 projection phone released, Galaxy Note 10.1 released
At this WMC, all major manufacturers are gearing up and showing off their best skills.

Mobile phone manufacturers released new products, telecommunications companies from various countries discussed technology cooperation, and in addition, technologies or products such as waterproof casings, AR management applications, mobile payments, and remote positioning of passengers were unveiled, making the scene very lively.

At 27 o'clock in the morning on the 6th, Chen Pingjiang had already finished washing up and returned to the living room of the suite. Guan Yifeng and Xu Rui were already waiting there.

Xu Rui is still in the learning stage, and Guan Yifeng doesn't dare to let him do such a big thing alone, so he has to be by his side to give him instructions.

When Chen Pingjiang sat down to eat breakfast, Xu Rui quickly took out his notebook and reported: "Mr. Chen, the schedule for today's meeting is as follows."

Chen Pingjiang waved his hand: "I'll report later, let's have breakfast together first."

Xu Rui: I have eaten it.

Guan Yifeng: Me too.

"Okay then." Chen Pingjiang nodded without any reluctance, lowered his head and started eating.

"At 8am, Sony will hold a new product launch, at 9am, HTC will hold a new product launch, at 10am, Nokia will hold a new product launch, at 11am, ZTE will hold a new product launch, at 6pm, we will hold a new product launch by Orange Technology, and then there will be new product launches by LG/Samsung and other manufacturers. At 8pm, there will be an exclusive interview with Sina Technology, at pm, there will be an exclusive interview with CCTV, at pm, there will be a business reception hosted by the organizer, and at pm, you will have dinner with Hottgis, the head of Deutsche Telekom."

After Chen Pingjiang sipped a mouthful of millet porridge, he felt his stomach warm. He smacked his lower lip and said, "Cancel the Sony and Nokia press conferences."

“But the other party made the invitation.”

"Just say I'm busy and arrange for General Manager Lin or General Manager Zhou to go over. Oh, and let them go to the Zhongxing event as well."

Chen Pingjiang is slightly interested in HTC, but he doesn't even need to look at the other companies.

New products from Apple and Samsung have already been launched, and they didn’t bring any other good things this time.

It is worth mentioning that iPhone 4s was launched in mainland China on January 1.

Just as Chen Pingjiang and other senior executives had expected, the newly launched iPhone 4s was indeed very popular. In the past month, 1 million units were sold in the mainland market, which really put a lot of pressure on Orange and continued its rapid growth since its launch.

After all, iPhone 4s sold more than 10 million units in just three days after its release on October 14 last year.

Everyone at Orange Technology is holding their breath, planning to make a comeback.

Fortunately, we have Orange phones in this era, so it is not outsold by iPhone 4s like it was back then.

Many Orange fans are also waiting for the Orange S3 to be launched, and are also waiting for the Orange new product launch this afternoon regardless of the time difference.

In order to cater to domestic audiences, Chen Pingjiang brought over a dozen people from Renren's technical team in China to be responsible for setting up the live broadcast signal.

At 7:20, Chen Pingjiang went downstairs on time.

A group of executives from Orange Technology are already waiting here.

This time the convoy includes more than a dozen vehicles, including bulletproof sedans, MPVs, and off-road vehicles.

The key is that there is an escort convoy consisting of two Mercedes-Benz G-Class vehicles.

Sitting inside were not only Chen Pingjiang's other two personal bodyguards, but also the security team specially hired by Orange Technology for this MWC.

Although Europe is slightly safer than the United States, it is still abroad after all, and Chen Pingjiang's personal safety is still Orange Technology's first concern.

Who made Chen Pingjiang offend a large group of short sellers in the US stock market last year?

Chen Pingjiang walked down the steps and headed towards his private car, and Li Fu quickly opened the door.

After Chen Pingjiang got in the car, seven or eight other executives got in their own cars.

The huge convoy rushed towards the MWC venue.

In the car, Chen Pingjiang smiled and said to Lin Bin: "You will be on stage to speak the second half this afternoon. Are you nervous?"

Lin Bin laughed and nodded: "I'm a little nervous, but it's okay. I'm an old man and I've seen all kinds of storms."

At this new product launch conference, Chen Pingjiang was responsible for introducing the Orange S3, while Lin Bin was responsible for introducing the Orange PAD S3, FreeBuds S3 and the first generation of Orange smartwatch Watch S1.

The convoy arrived at the MWC venue at exactly 7:40.

As soon as he entered the venue, Chen Pingjiang saw crowds of people and crowded exhibition halls.

The appearance of Orange Technology executives also attracted many Chinese and foreign media, who kept following Chen Pingjiang and taking pictures. From time to time, company leaders came forward and hoped to communicate further with Chen Pingjiang.

In their eyes, they are quite interested in this mysterious richest man in China. (End of this chapter)