Chapter 226: The kitten is mighty

In addition to the huge sunflower pattern on the carton, there are only two lines of words "Bee Sunflower, Science and Technology Beautify Life", and there is no specific product name information.

"Well, this size, it shouldn't be a netbook, right? Bee technology is so fast? It's only been a few months to make a netbook?" Meng Bin whispered to himself, "That's right, after all, they have experience in producing bee tablets, although the tablet uses ARM's CPU, and the netbook uses Atom released by Intel in late spring, but there should still be a lot of functions that can be generalized." ”

While shaking his head and sighing, Meng Bin held a utility knife in his right hand and carefully cut the blister packaging on the outside of the big box.

Tearing off the outer plastic film and removing the envelope printed with the sunflower pattern, Meng Bin saw the real packaging box. It is also a large flower pattern on a white background, but the sunflower pattern is significantly smaller, and a rectangular brown object appears in the empty area.

"Hmm, dried tofu, bees cared for my stomach and mailed me a box of hardcover dried tofu?" Meng Bin raised his eyebrows in surprise, but soon he realized that he seemed to be mistaken.

Seeing the two lines of text that appeared in the corresponding envelope text on the box: "Sunflower mobile phone, luxury hardcover version", he realized that this huge box actually contained a mobile phone. If you look closely, the lines of the phone on the screen are rounded, the colors are dull, and the official rendering is full of malice and maliciously uses the bare back of a beautiful woman with brown hair and bronze skin, which can really be seen as a whole piece of brown dried tofu if you are not careful.

While muttering in his heart, "When did the bee make the phone silently?" He tore open the lid seal, lifted the lid, saw the contents inside, and couldn't help but gasp, "Hey, no wonder you have to use such a big box to fit it, otherwise it will definitely not fit." ”

This box is much larger than the one Atletico got before, and the contents are the same, the box is larger because of the use of pallets made of folding cardboard, which is worse than the plastic trays or pulp trays formed by the paddle at one time. However, the plastic tray is not environmentally friendly, and the surface of the pulp tray is too rough and does not look high-end, so it is better to continue to take it to load eggs.

The official version of the sunflower mobile phone is divided into a lite version, a standard version, and a luxury version of three style series, each of which has six colors: black, white, orange, red, blue, and green, and the difference is only in the number of configurations of other accessories. In front of Meng Bin, this is in addition to the deluxe version.

Meng Bin glanced down at the contents of the box, the accessories of the deluxe version are quite rich, in addition to the mobile phone body, there are USB power adapters, data cables, portable light cats, two power cats, indoor light cats, wire control headsets, Bluetooth headsets, these four cats have three bundles of wires, of course, there are essential certificates in the box, warranty cards, and manuals. He also found a 4G capacity with a bee logo from the inside of the boxU disk,The label on the independent small package indicates that it is a drive disk,Inside is stored the bee mobile phone assistant and the light cat electric cat brush machine tool and other supporting tool software。

"Hey! It's worthy of the deluxe version is generous, I think the disc is not high-grade and goes directly to the U disk!" As he spoke, he picked up the digital camera he had prepared a long time ago and continued to take unboxing photos.

This is also one of the reasons why Meng Bin still insists on staying in this magazine, this position can give him the opportunity to try the latest electronic products for free, and he can also watch a product develop and improve all the way from an engineering prototype to a star product that can be seen everywhere with millions of sales, which gives him a pleasant feeling of witnessing history and star development.

It's a pity that this little happiness and small benefits have slowly become scarce.

After all, it is naturally much slower for paper media to collect user feedback than websites, and now manufacturers like to send new products to IT websites for evaluation and collect user opinions by the way, such as today, this kind of good thing is becoming less and less.

In addition, what made Meng Bin a little depressed was that there had been no news about Bee's sunflower mobile phone before, and this time it was the official version that was directly taken out, rather than an imperfect engineering prototype, which made his evaluation work a lot more difficult out of thin air.

Evaluation, measure and check the appearance and performance indicators, and then find a few comparison products to make some comparison charts, and finally summarize the advantages and disadvantages. Usually the engineering machine will have obvious advantages and disadvantages, it is very convenient for him to write evaluation articles, and even copy according to the manual, after all, the product has not been officially listed, others have not seen the manual.

However, the sunflower that the bee suddenly took out made his plan bankrupt, and Meng Bin could only try to exert his professionalism, observe carefully, and analyze it carefully.

Speaking of which, it is not surprising to Meng Bin that Bee Technology will make mobile phones, after all, Bee is not an air-conditioning company insulated from the mobile phone industry, and people are actually in the industry.

On the one hand, they have long launched the anti-heaven artifact bee mobile phone assistant, and on this basis, they launched the bee's own H-wave S series mobile phone system and software store, and now it is still a strong party, and it is understandable to enter the mobile phone industry.

On the other hand, the bee tablet launched by Bee last year was also installed with a private M card slot when it was first launched, which can use headsets and phone software to make calls, which is also a mobile phone in a sense, or a portable phone.

However, because of the low speed of GPRS and 3G is always hopeless, as well as the cost problem, the new version of the bee tablet launched at the beginning of this year has removed the private M card module. At the same time, they also split the two screens that were originally connected together and turned them into two products, LC and Li.

In this, L stands for Light lightweight, C stands for Color color, and I stands for Ink ink, so LC is a lightweight color screen version, and Li is a lightweight ink screen version.

At that time, reporters, including Meng Bin, praised LI, believing that it was no less than an e-book reader of Amazon Kindle, and compared with the Kindle that uses the QWERTY physical keyboard, the two bee tablets still use resistive touch screens, support gesture page turning and full-screen handwriting, which is more user-friendly to the interface and lower learning costs.

In addition, after the split, the new LC and LI are not simply separated, but some new molds are used, which makes the appearance change significantly. The most noticeable change is that the left side of the front is designed to resemble a book, with a slightly bendable spine. The bendable side spine allows the tablet to stand easily upright on the table, and when holding it, the center of gravity is closer to the "spine", which makes the torque smaller and less tiring hands. In this way, the feeling of reading newspaper articles, books and comics on LI and LC is very close to real books and magazines.

In particular, the LI that uses the ink screen, which relies entirely on the natural reflection of the display, is not only healthy for the eyes, but also saves electricity, so that this device can have more than a week of continuous use. And the new generation of speech synthesis engine carried by Bee on the two tablets is also very powerful,It seems to be an upgraded version of the private voice package widely used on honey chat,The sound is more natural and comfortable,It also adds the voice authorization of many male and female stars and well-known hosts,The end is powerful,The setting is intimate。

However, everything is afraid, and after a few months, the sales of the Li model, which has been praised by the media, are not too good. Although the sales volume of Bee tablet Li is also continuing to grow, the growth rate has always lagged behind LC, according to the total sales data released on the official website of Bee for half a year, Li sales barely exceeded 50,000, but LC has exceeded 800,000, and is moving towards the million sales mark.

From the point of view of hindsight, it is actually natural that LI does not sell as well as LC.

First of all, the problem lies in the price, and the production technology of Eink e-ink screen is only in the hands of a limited number of manufacturers. There are no LCD giants such as Samsung Sharp, nor domestic small and medium-sized manufacturers, and there is a lack of rich international factories and small domestic factories that are good at cutting corners and reducing costs.

The price difference of the core components makes the LI more than 50% more expensive than the LC after the split, which is also criticized by consumers. After all, people will always find that color movies are more advanced than black and white movies, color photos are more advanced than black and white photos, color printing is more advanced than monochrome two-color printing, color TVs are more advanced than black and white TVs, and large-resolution displays are more advanced than low-resolution displays.

Although Amazon's e-reader Kindle launched in November last year was several months late to the Bee Tablet, and even more than a year later if you count the early products produced on a small scale, the Kindle quickly caught up and led the sales lead. This is because Amazon itself is the world's largest online book seller and e-commerce giant, and the kindle they launched is backed by a big tree to enjoy the shade, which can be easily sold to every corner of the world, and can also easily obtain the electronic version of a large number of books.

And the bee li tablet obviously does not have this advantage, they can only choose the way of third-party cooperation, want to hold a large number of digital rights of the company open interface, ask them to install their own clients on their own hardware products, and have also achieved some good results. The built-in digital library client software such as Chaoxing, APA and CNKI has attracted a large number of highly educated users above the university level.

But that's all, for most users, the advantages and disadvantages of black and white screens are too obvious, and for domestic consumers who are accustomed to all kinds of multi-functional, almighty kings, too few functions are really unbearable. Anyway, these clients are also on the LC.,It's better to buy a cheaper LC directly.,You can still play games and watch movies when you're fine.。

Compared with the same brothers, you can only read novels, newspapers, comics, can't watch videos and movies, and there are not a few games, and the attraction of li, which has few functions and high prices, is really not outstanding.

Even users who really like e-ink screens can buy a parallel kindle, which can still be used to view common text formats after cracking. Because it can make money by selling e-books and advertising business, Kindle hardware can enjoy Amazon's price subsidy, making the sales price quite affordable, so that the parallel Kindle is one-fifth cheaper than the Bee Li. This naturally makes many people tend to choose Kindle over Bee Li, even if the latter's keyboardless full touch layout is better looking and the system is better to use, it can't change the impact of cost performance on many consumers.

Maybe when the honey (the nickname of the bee's fans, fans, followers) community grows, and there are enough people who don't ask for anything to see the new products with the bee brand on it, enough people to buy and buy to change the situation.

Meng Bin is such a hardcore honey, whether others take the initiative to ask questions to find his opinions and answers, or are seen by him by chance, he will actively Amway (sell) the bee tablet.

In Meng Bin's view, Bee Technology really has no grievances about the word "technology" in its name, and Bee is definitely the first-class technical strength in the company he has seen. Although Bee still can't produce its own CPU, memory, battery, flash memory, communication chips, and even core components such as cameras, the drivers carried in Bee OS can achieve powerful performance beyond the public driver, and the stability is also excellent. It is precisely because of the unusually strong and unbelievable strength of the bee in terms of hardware drivers that they can continue to launch various new versions of the Bee OS, and now the operating system of the Bee series has become the second largest smartphone operating system after the Symbian system.

In addition to ZTE, Huawei, which specializes in communication equipment, and Lenovo, which has acquired the IBMPC business, it seems that other domestic mobile phone manufacturers are essentially no different from the bed board factories that build VCD and DVD.

Of course, this is just the wild words of some users on the Internet who have turned from pink to black, in fact, the quality of products produced by professional factories, skilled workers, high-end equipment, and scientific assembly lines is still much better than the products of bed board factories. In Internet terms, the quality of the products produced by the bed board factory is too test of character, whether it is good or not depends entirely on the consumer's appearance, and the same thing that others can use if you can't use it, that is, there is a problem with your appearance.

Under the strict quality inspection and quality control of large manufacturers, there will be basically no problematic products sold to the market, even if they are sold, they must be sold like CPU manufacturers, shielding problematic circuits as low-end products.

It seems that he realizes that he does not have much competitiveness and difference in the core functions of the mobile phone, and the dried tofu created by the bee plays the route of saving the country with curves and creating stories and gimmicks. After trying out the matching power cat and light cat, Meng Bin left this sentence on the draft word that was being typed on the desktop.

The power cat is okay, the network signal is transmitted with wires within the same meter, the network speed and stability are very good, and the use of power cats can avoid the phenomenon of full network cables when the home is deployed. But this function is not very practical in Meng Bin, in his opinion, the best solution for home networks is wifi or wapi, the investment cost of using power modem is too high, each networking device needs to be equipped with at least one power modem, to achieve the function of reading network signals from wires.

Compared with the power cat that can still be used but is not very practical, the performance of the bee "world's first practical light Internet device" bee light cat can be said to be terrible. The first is that the communication distance is too short, only less than three meters, and the second is that you must always pay attention to the light receiver on the back of the mobile phone under the illumination of the light of the lamp modem, turning around or finger mistake may lead to signal loss. And this indoor light cat is very "indoor", it is best to close the curtains when using, to ensure that there will be no direct sunlight or other strong light sources on the light of the light cat and the light receiver of the mobile phone, otherwise it will be disconnected from the network.

Of course, after giving a failing comment to the indoor light cat, Meng Bin praised the little brother in the light cat, the portable light cat, in his opinion, the bee should take away the flashy indoor light cat, and only provide the portable light cat.

In fact, the portable light cat also has the same short communication distance as the big brother, and it is not resistant to interference, but its special use scenario avoids these problems well. First of all, there is only one retractable standard USB interface, which needs to be plugged into the U port of a PC or laptop to work. It can use its own unique drive to virtualize a network card and routing and forwarding function on the computer, so that the mobile phone can not only borrow the computer's network to achieve wireless Internet access, but also can easily transfer files to each other with the computer in the local area network, which is more convenient than USB data cable.

Of course, the real reason why portable light cats can be so good is because of the drivers that have always played the advantages of bee technology. Generally, this virtual routing function is very picky network card, and if you are not careful, you will find that you have a "hateful face and bad character", but Meng Bin tried more than a dozen configurations of computers that can be found in the office one by one, and found that this kitten's appetite is really good, up to the beta version of win7, down to the USB-driven win98, as well as the unique taste of iMac and ubuntu system, this kitten can be easily handled.

"In fact, remove the somewhat flashy VLC visible light communication module and replace it with a WiFi/WAPI module, or a Bluetooth module, or even an infrared module, and the function of wireless connection to the mobile phone should not be affected. A colleague next to him commented.

"Hmm. WiFi is disabled, WAPI is out of stock, Bluetooth is too slow, infrared and VLC principle are the same, so bees can't do this. Meng Bin said, and then he knocked on the blue USB flash drive on the table, and said: "I said why Bee also specially prepared a large-capacity USB flash drive with a capacity of 4 GB, it turned out that they knew that we were going to evaluate more support levels on the system, and they made preparations in advance." The disc is easy to spend when it is used too much, and it comes with a large-capacity USB flash drive just right!" mobile phone users please visit http://m.piaotian.net