Chapter 934 STAR Project Team
In the talks with Huawei's senior management, Yuwenfei formally proposed to let Huawei and Star Electronics Group form a strategic partnership.
The two sides can communicate on communications, networks and other technologies.
Huawei has strong technical reserves in the fields of switches, GSM equipment, and optical fiber transmission trunks.
At present, their main business is for operators, governments and public utilities.
Star Electronics Group is mainly engaged in consumer electronic products.
The two are considered to be interconnected, but there is no direct competition.
Of course, if Huawei's mobile phone business unit is also included, it cannot be said that there is no competition at all.
It's just that Huawei's consumer-level product department is obviously completely incomparable with Star Electronics Group.
Just a legendary mobile phone company, the current market value can beat the entire Huawei company......
In the face of Yu Wenfei's active invitation, Mr. Ren was obviously very excited.
Of course, we are very happy to cooperate with Star Electronics Group, but we are afraid that our company will not be able to help much, and there are so many big companies in Star Electronics Group......
He said with some unconfidence.
It is also true that Star Electronics Group now has four major divisions: Lenovo Division, THINK Division, Legend Mobile Phone Division, and Alien Division.
Among them, Huawei can compare it, maybe it is the Alien Division.
Yu Wenfei smiled and said gently: "Mr. Ren is modest, like the legendary mobile phone company, Lenovo company, THINK business department, including aliens, are all engaged in mobile phone or computer business, these things, in terms of communication or network technology, Huawei is the real technology leader." ”
Among the domestic companies, one that Yuwenfei admires the most is Huawei.
This company is really rare, a company that bends down and does practical things.
Unlike other domestic companies, the boss doesn't think about how to do a good job of the product, let alone invest heavily in research and development of any technology.
It is to rely on PPT to make products, "cross talk" to engage in publicity, sell people's designs, and play monkey circle fans......
Now he proposes to join forces with Huawei, not only because of Huawei's R&D capabilities and technical reserves, but also because he wants to pull Huawei.
At present, Huawei's economic situation is not very good, and it is still in the development stage.
Star Electronics is different, with deep pockets!
Therefore, when the two join forces, they will inevitably be strengthened.
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After the trip to Pengcheng, Yu Wenfei returned directly to the magic capital.
On March 16, a project team was quietly established at the Magic City Design Center of THINK in the Science and Technology Park, codenamed "STAR".
This project team gathers the best designers and engineers selected from the United States and Japan's THINK design centers.
And, of course, a few elite people selected from Lenovo's side.
There are quite a few people, hundreds of people.
On the first day of the establishment of the STAR project team, Yu Wenfei personally presided over the first working meeting of the project team, and in fact, he personally served as the person in charge of the project team.
It can be seen that the specifications are very high!
"Welcome to Modu, before coming, everyone should have been notified that we THINK company is going to design a new product. But I didn't tell you what kind of product it is, and then I'm going to explain to you what a great job you're going to be involved in!"
Yu Wenfei stood at the end of the large conference table and looked at these elites from all over the world in the conference room with high spirits.
The time is ripe, and the mobile phone in his mind can officially start the project preparation!
On the chip department's side, the progress is quite rapid, and the first tape-out has begun.
Facebook's operating system project team has also come up with relatively good products, of course, Yuwenfei is not satisfied, and then let them continue to optimize.
According to the schedule, the design of the mobile phone can be prepared.
A mobile phone needs to go through many steps from design to production, and the general process can be summarized into the following seven steps, including the well-known industrial design, structural design, hardware design, software design, project management and resource development, and quality supervision.
The main job of the STAR project team is to design a mobile phone that satisfies Yu Wenfei according to his specific requirements.
This includes industrial design, structural design, and hardware design!
After that, there is the production process, and Lenovo and Legend are enough to bear that aspect.
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In the early stage, Yuwenfei valued the most and demanded industrial design.
Because he knows that a mobile phone wants to produce a shocking enough effect.
It's not enough to be powerful, it's just the foundation.
Industrial design, that is, the design of the mobile phone, such as appearance, material, feel, color matching, the realization of the main interface and the design of color.
This is the first factor that determines whether users like their phones or not!
Many users, especially female users, don't pay much attention to the performance of their phones.
But whether a mobile phone is good or not, beautiful or not, is the key to deciding whether they want to buy it or not.
Mobile phones with good looks usually sell well.
Of course, what Yuwenfei wants to create is an epoch-making mobile phone, from the inside to the outside, from performance to appearance, it must be all perfect!
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What exactly is the design of this mobile phone, Yuwenfei has already had a definite plan.
But at the moment he will not publicly tell anyone in the project team, he will communicate privately with the person in charge of industrial design.
In order to maintain confidentiality, the entire project team has signed a confidentiality agreement, and it will be locked up for one year of "confinement".
During this period, they are not allowed to return home or have contact with the outside world without permission.
Of course, the company also pays enough to satisfy its employees!
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Regarding this mobile phone, Yu Wenfei spent a sketch with his own hands.
When Zhou Mengyi first saw this picture, she was stunned for a long time.
After a while, he said, "This is the epoch-making mobile phone you have been talking about?"
Yu Wenfei nodded proudly and said, "Yes, isn't it amazing!"
As a result, Zhou Mengyi replied without hesitation: "This looks ordinary! What is the difference between it and Dopod...... What's so nice about being square. ”
Yu Wenfei was dumbfounded, not knowing how to respond to this.
Indeed, in fact, before the era of smart phones, there were really many eye-catching mobile phones.
Especially the Motorola V70, which is really, really beautiful, anyone who sees it will feel amazing.
The mobile phone pattern on Yu Wenfei's sketch does look too ordinary.
It's just a rectangular phone, and the whole phone is square and angular......