At the end of the press conference, the 128 directly operated stores of the Cote d'Azur in China began to queue up to buy on the second day, and such a grand occasion has not appeared for almost three years.

Azure-4 has become a new benchmark in the industry since it was announced, and industry insiders and consumers are now talking about this flagship phone, and the heat is still high.

However, the discussion is still hot, and the outside world's comments on Azure-4 are polarized.

On the one hand, it is strongly supported, these people mainly include the "basic disk" of Azure smartphones, that is, hardcore fans, Luo Sheng's fans, the rhythm of the explosion, all kinds of Azure-4 redefine the benchmark of smartphones, followed by the technology bloggers who are just fans, and the money received from advertisers is naturally the rhythm of the explosion, and Azure-4 is also worthy of the name, so far there is no friend that can be compared.

On the other hand, it is criticized by industry insiders and the media, and the point of criticism is that Azure-4 is too expensive, it is simply expensive.

The flagship products of domestic friends are also selling two or three thousand yuan stalls, and the products of international friends only dare to sell three or four thousand yuan stalls, and they dare not mention it, such as Samsung or Apple are cautiously testing to the high-end area.

The Côte d'Azur is good, come up and greet you with a 7888 Few friends can stand it.

A lot of the media is singing about the fact that Azure-4 sales may end up being dismal, and while the product is good, the price is too high.

A friend in the industry posted a message on Weibo on the evening after the Azure-4 press conference:

[A friend's less than 5-inch screen with a 2K screen is meaningless, it is completely in the wool of consumers, and the retail price of a mobile phone dares to sell 7888 is a bit too much]

At the same time, two pictures are attached, one is the front screen of the Azure-4 mobile phone, and the other is the front screen of the latest product of the competitor. It doesn't seem to be much different, but the former costs 7,888 yuan, while the latter costs only 1,999 yuan.

The subtext is that consumers who choose the former are cut leeks and charged IQ tax, don't be fooled, come and buy 1999, as long as 1999, you can't buy a loss, you can't be fooled......

When this news was released, netizens who ate melons and saw that it was not a big deal to see the excitement and immediately began to forward a large number of them, and @Luo Sheng's Weibo, fans on both sides began to quarrel with each other.

Luo Sheng, who was @, also glanced at the quarrel on Weibo, but he ignored it after paying attention to it for a while, and it was unlikely that it would come out to bubble.

The executives of the Cote d'Azur will not jump out to interact with friends online or anything, and they were warned by the boss a while ago.

Luo Sheng really didn't care, and even had a little fun, because the two sides were noisy on Weibo, and in the end it was Bluestar Technology that made money, Weibo is an Internet social product of Bluestar Technology, and the quarrel between the two sides brought traffic and heat.

Then, Bluestar Technology is Luosheng Enterprise again.

In this closed-loop Internet ecosystem, you can't lose.

Although there is occasional "interaction" between the Cote d'Azur and its peers, of course, the Cote d'Azur is colder, and it is generally the friends who take the initiative to "interact".

However, this kind of "interaction" is not so fierce now, because the entire smartphone industry is currently in the era of volume, not stock.

To put it simply, although the competition in the smartphone industry has a trend towards the red ocean, all major brand manufacturers are eating at present, because the market is not completely saturated, and global shipments are always growing.

If it is the stock era, the overcapacity may not be as harmonious as it is today, it is really the rhythm of life and death, and the shopping mall is the battlefield.

But then again, the Cote d'Azur company took 80% of the overall profits of the industry is a lot of friends and businessmen, after all, the profits have been taken away by your family, and everyone is fighting for soup, so if you can give the Cote d'Azur some eye drops or something, friends and businessmen are still very enthusiastic.

The Azure-4 press conference did not receive unanimous praise, but the wind reviews were polarized, and the critics attacked the high price, intending to instill in consumers that the Azure-4 mobile phone is a high-quality and inexpensive product.

In fact, I also want to instill in consumers that things are not beautiful, but the problem is that Azure is really beautiful, and this is really not black.

It's also fun to see someone working on the Cote d'Azur, and it's okay to do it together by the way.

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Côte d'Azur Laboratory.

The Azure-4 flagship will not be able to meet consumers for a few days, and the outside world is tearing up and making noise, but Luo Sheng and the engineering team and corporate executives of the Cote d'Azur have begun to silently lay out the next generation of flagship products.

That is, Azure-5, in fact, as early as the first half of the Azur-4 finalization, Azure-5 has begun iterative development, and now Azure-4 is about to be released, and a large number of R&D engineer teams have begun to transfer to the research and development of the next generation of products.

“…… The under-screen camera is not impossible, but there will be a series of new problems, and if the front camera is placed under the screen, it will affect the 'screen effect' of the photo picture, which makes it very difficult to implement the under-screen solution. ”

At this moment, in a conference room in the Cte d'Azur laboratory, the technical experts of each module of the Azure-5 project team gathered together to discuss technical issues with Luo Sheng.

Another engineer said: "Azure-4 has solved the problem of the original desktop returning physical keys, and the under-display fingerprint technology will definitely become popular, so the under-display camera is the focus of the next generation of development, and the industrial design has been carried out since the beginning of 2012, and now it has been basically completed, and the drawings have reached the stage of finalization." ”

Everyone couldn't help but look at Luo Sheng, who basically didn't speak much, and the audience maintained a sitting posture with one hand on the waist, one hand on the conference table, and leaning forward.

At this time, Luo Sheng said: "To put it bluntly, it is a breakthrough problem of new materials, if the graphene flexible screen is overcome, the 'screen effect' of the under-screen camera will be solved, so as to achieve a 100% full screen in the true sense." ”

To tell the truth, Luo Sheng is about to force his obsessive-compulsive disorder to death for the front camera above the screen of his Azure-4 mobile phone, whether it is the pole screen scheme, the water drop screen scheme or the notch screen scheme, there is a feeling of black bumps on the screen that I can't bear it all over my body.

If you use a graphene flexible screen solution, you can achieve more than 95% light transmittance of the screen, and it can also support the advantages of bending and drop resistance, such a solution can completely put the front camera under the screen, due to the strong light transmittance, the "screen window effect" will not appear.

Luo Sheng added: "Since five years ago, the Côte d'Azur laboratory has begun to conduct demonstration research on graphene preparation technology, starting with a $1 billion R&D budget in the first year, and then adding $1 billion every year, and smashing in $15 billion in five years, excluding exchange rate changes and inflation rates of a full 100 billion yuan, what is the situation now?" ”

After speaking, Luo Sheng turned his head to look at the technical director who was in charge of graphene technology research.

The latter replied: "Progress is harvested every year or even every month, but how long is it before the specific commercial time, Mr. Luo ...... You know the job of technology research and development best, it's hard to say, it may be done next year, and it may not be ten years later. ”

There is no time to quantify the results of scientific and technological research, not how long it will take to get them, which Luo Sheng, who was also a scientist in the previous life, is of course very clear.

But now Luo Sheng is different, the so-called ass decides the head, knowing the reason, but also having to put pressure on the team, I saw him say: "Azure-5 must be released in 2015, and it must be 100% full-screen mobile phone in the true sense, hide the front camera under the screen for me, and the graphene screen technology must be made for me." ”

The technical director of the graphene technology development department complained bitterly when he heard this, and when he was about to speak, Luo Sheng took the first step and said to him:

"Don't complain to me, I know you have difficulties, who doesn't have difficulties in innovation? There is no difficulty in making any innovation, next year I will allocate 100 billion yuan of R&D budget to your department alone, 100 billion yuan is not enough, then 200 billion yuan, your department development team can give priority to any resources you want, go hand in hand, at any cost, at any cost to me to overcome the problem of new materials. ”

The other technology development teams participating in the meeting couldn't help but smack their lips, the boss is simply crazy rhythm, this is really at any cost, at any cost.

You must know that the overall R&D investment cost of Azure-4 mobile phones is only 1.88 billion US dollars, of course, this is because the Cote d'Azur company has enjoyed the dividends of technology precipitation for so many years.

The company is no longer without any heritage in 2004, and today the Côte d'Azur is accumulating its own technical heritage.

However, everyone is not envious that the graphene technology development department can get such a large amount of resource tilt, because this is really not an easy job, and there is as much pressure as the funds are obtained.

Such a large tilt of resources and such a terrifying financial investment, but as long as graphene technology is made a breakthrough, the future benefits will be really great, which will bring tenfold, dozens or even hundreds of times the benefits, and will trigger a revolution in the field of new materials, and then bring unprecedented technological subversion in application scenarios.

At this time, the director of the graphene technology development department looked at Luo Sheng and gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! But Mr. Luo, I want to borrow a scientific research team from you! ”

Luo Sheng: "If you have any requirements, just say it, give everything you can give, and I will try my best to help you get it if you can't give it." ”

The other party immediately said: "I want to borrow your Liu Jianwei team under Star Arrow International, and I can't hide that I have been eyeing Professor Liu more than half a year ago." ”

Luo Sheng couldn't help laughing and said: "Haha, you are really good at picking treasures, then okay, I will invite you over." ”

Liu Jianwei's team is the key to Star Arrow International's realization of the space ladder, but such a century-level super project is too far away, and it can lag for a few years, and Luo Sheng is also confident that he can persuade Liu Jianwei to come over and participate in the research of graphene material technology.

It is not difficult to convince Liu Jianwei, after all, he is an ambition of the space ladder, but he needs the investment of a huge amount of funds, and he has to make money first, so he came to the Cote d'Azur to lay the foundation for Star Arrow International to build a space ladder in the future.

A simple scientist like Liu Jianwei can't stand the flickering of the story king Luo Sheng, so he can't obediently pack up and take the team to the Cote d'Azur Laboratory to engage in graphene technology?

As time passed, the release date of the Azure-4 mobile phone in China officially came.

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