Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 461 The Prototype of the Glorious Mobile Phone

The mobile phone has become an inseparable object for everyone every day, but how it came about and what the manufacturing process is like is so far away from us.

The process of a mobile phone from "nothing" to "yes" is far more complicated than imagined.An important product cannot be produced immediately by a genius. Even a reborn person like Jiang Hui cannot do it. What Jiang Hui can do is to point out the direction for research and development and shorten a certain period time, then give the phone a classic look.

Under normal circumstances, the cycle of a mobile phone lasts for one and a half to two years from project approval to final manufacturing, and after countless revisions in the middle, the product that is finally presented to users is not an exaggeration to describe it as "hardened and honed".Of course, as the pace of product launches by various companies accelerates, this cycle will gradually be shortened to less than one year.

Guanghui mobile phone has Jiang Hui as the golden finger, which greatly reduces the time for the process of industrial design and structural design.And the clear interface layout and functional requirements put forward also saved a lot of time for the research and development of Guanghui mobile phones.

Since the launch of the Brilliance mobile phone project, the most time spent is how to use the existing mobile phone industry supply chain to produce a Brilliant smartphone that meets Jiang Hui's requirements.After all, many core components of the mobile phone industry are controlled by the upstream supply chain. For example, there are only a handful of core processors.

Only by choosing which processor is easy to use can the corresponding motherboard circuit be designed accordingly, and the "core configuration" of the mobile phone comes from this.In many cases, choosing between Qualcomm or NVIDIA, Samsung or LG for the screen is not just a matter of parameters, but also requires Guanghui Mobile to predict its own products and establish a close cooperative relationship with the upstream supply chain.

Upstream components will not be placed there like a supermarket, and manufacturers will come and get them if they need them, and they will be placed uniformly if they don’t.For many domestic mobile phone manufacturers, the so-called core competitiveness of the supply chain is the ability to control the supply chain and establish a strategic partnership with the upstream.But this is where Brilliance Mobile hopes to break through. Although the process will be very difficult, if we don’t do it, Brilliance Mobile will definitely disappear in the end.

When all aspects of industrial design, structural design, software design, page layout, and parts matching are ready, the mobile phone will enter the trial production process.All common industrial products on the market, whether it is automobiles, airplanes, or household appliances, have a small-batch trial production process.Through small batch production, the maturity of software and hardware, production process and production testing links can be inspected.

Nowadays, millions or even tens of millions of mobile phones are produced at every turn. This kind of industrialized mass production is completely different from a few test prototypes in the laboratory. Any defect in a component or production process may lead to a mobile phone failure. Delayed release, it won't even appear on the market.In particular, Guanghui Mobile produced mobile phones in its own factory in the early stage. The production experience is not so rich, so it needs to be paid attention to.

"Mr. Jiang, look? This is our prototype, it is so beautiful." Wang Mengyu gave Jiang Hui several prototypes.

"Wow, it looks like a luxury item," Liao Yun exclaimed beside him.

"Mr. Jiang, although our mobile phone is a prototype, it is infinitely close to the state of mass production. Our Guanghui mobile phone can be regarded as creating a new mobile phone research and development speed. Next, we will mainly work part-time on the operating system and various software The compatibility of the home and the inspection of the production process have been verified," Zhu Zhengfeng also said aside.

Zhu Zhengfeng was one of the first employees to follow Jiang Hui. Before that, Jiang Hui appointed him as the deputy general manager of Meituan.com. This time, he was transferred from Meituan.com to Guanghui Mobile as the actual person in charge of the Guanghui mobile project. .

Jiang Hui looked at the Guanghui mobile phone that Wang Mengyu handed over. The shell of the mobile phone is composed of three basic parts: two pieces of smooth high-strength glass, and a stainless steel belt around the periphery.It is clear but not simple. The volume key has two independent prototype buttons, marked +/-, which Jiang Hui specially instructed. The notch on this metal band plays an important role in improving the wireless signal.

Not long after the Apple 4 was launched in the previous life, the "signal gate" incident broke out. Jiang Hui didn't want his mobile phone to follow the same path as the Apple 4.

"What do you think we will arrange the pre-production of such a product according to the sales volume?" Jiang Hui looked at the mobile phone in his hand. This is definitely an epoch-making product, and it has no rivals.

If it had to find an opponent for it, it would be itself.

"Mr. Jiang, I think to set the production volume of this mobile phone, we must first determine its selling price. If our selling price is very low, I think as long as we can produce it, no matter how many units it is, it can be sold. Go," Zhu Zhengfeng said.

The current mainstream price of mobile phones is 1000~3000 yuan, of course, there are also ones below [-] yuan, but the configuration is very common, and no matter what price it is, they are all ordinary function phones.

Brilliant Mobile will definitely not place itself among these competitors, and considering the stability of product quality in the early stage, the output will not be set very high, so the price will definitely not be low.

"How about the hardware cost of our mobile phone?" Jiang Hui asked.

"Based on the monthly production scale of 100 million units and the price negotiated by various component companies, the pure hardware cost is only about 2000 yuan, but with the addition of assembly costs and software development costs, the low configuration of this phone The cost of the version is about 256 yuan. This is also because the memory and storage we choose are relatively high-end. If we are willing to launch a version with 8M memory and 300G storage, the cost can be reduced by [-] yuan." It's been two months, but obviously I have done a lot of homework on the company's situation.

In 2006, the global mobile phone sales volume was close to 10 billion, of which Nokia sold nearly 4 million mobile phones.China's mobile phone sales have also entered a period of rapid growth, with annual sales exceeding 1 million units.According to Jiang Hui's plan, the Brilliance mobile phone will be officially launched by the end of this year. At that time, the global market will be about 100 million units per month.Compared with the entire market, the monthly production capacity of [-] million units of Guanghui mobile phones is very small, but it is not small in the field of high-end mobile phones.

"If we want to do it, we must do the best. Since we are taking the high-end route, we must first surpass our competitors in terms of hardware. As for production capacity, when we start production this year, we will respond to 100 million units per month, but next year's output will be higher. At least turn it over," Jiang Hui said.

(End of this chapter)