Shockingly, a counterfeit factory has produced a 3-nanometer chip.

Chapter 103 Lei Jun: Who Stole My Words?

The large screen switched to a poster of the Mate 1, with a line of large text below: "Number One Domestic Brand in the 2500~3500 Price Range".

After a brief demonstration, Yu Dazui noticed the guest seats below the stage and looked at Ren Zhengfei with a boastful expression, saying, "Actually, this adjective is incorrect."

In the domestic mobile phone market, this sales figure is number one without any definition.

Since its launch in mid-September, it has sold more than 4 million units in two months, averaging more than 2 million units per month, making it the undisputed number one.

Perhaps our PR team members are a bit low-key, so they added a qualifier... Don't do that next time; you should promote what needs to be promoted!

At this point, he glanced at Ren Zhengfei again before quickly getting to the point.

"This is an excellent result."

So outstanding that when we established the Honor project team, some team members asked me, "Mr. Yu, the Mate 1 was already a success, why do we need to create Honor?"

He took a step forward, then changed his tone: "Because I saw a user's comment in the Weibo comment section."

The large screen switched to a screenshot of a comment. The ID was hidden, only the text was displayed:

"The phone is great, but it's too expensive. It took me three months of working to save enough money."

The large screen also displayed the national minimum wage table: 600-700 yuan, and the factory wage table: 1200-2000 yuan...

As for the salaries of other units, they were not listed on the PPT; only the average salary was shown.

The scene fell silent for a moment as the heavy background music played.

"This sentence instantly made me reflect. A smartphone costing 2500 is indeed very cheap, but there are still many people who cannot afford it."

That night, I called President Ren. Yu Dazui's voice twitched slightly, and his speech was much slower than usual.

"I said, Mr. Ren, could we make a mobile phone that recent college graduates, young people working in the city, and recent graduates from county towns could afford?"

He paused for a moment, letting his emotions ferment.

After hearing my suggestion, Mr. Ren was silent for a long time before asking, "Can the cost be controlled?"

"We're not like before. We have to be responsible to Huaxin Investment now. They're spending so much money; they're not expecting us to do charity."

A new batch of comments began scrolling on the big screen; these were all real messages scraped from various comment sections.

"2000+ is still a bit expensive, could you offer one under 1500?"

"The smart era is just around the corner, and I want to buy one for my parents, but they think it's too expensive and don't want it."

"Students have limited budgets, it's too expensive, we can't afford it."

Yu Dazui didn't look back at the screen. After the presentation, the PPT changed again, showing the three giants meeting.

The above also revealed relevant introductions: Huang Tianya (head of Huaxin Investment), Ren Zhengfei (founder of Huawei), and Yu Dazui...

Yu Dazui also recounted the story of this meeting once again: "During this meeting, I told them that the costs were out of control."

If we were to cram all the features of the Mate into a 2000 RMB casing, we would lose 200 RMB per unit.

However, this price will make smartphones more affordable for more people, allowing them to experience the joys of technology.

"Upon hearing this, Mr. Huang only asked me one question: If we lower the price to below 2000, how much would we lose?"

"My answer at the time was: if we sell 100,000 units, we'll lose 20 million; if we sell 1 million units, we'll lose 200 million."

"Mr. Ren said: What about 1000 million units?"

Yu Dazui's voice suddenly softened: "I say, Mr. Ren, we've never sold 1000 million mobile phones before."

Don't set such a big goal; I dare not calculate it.

On the big screen, the previously quiet image suddenly turned into a video:

Huang Tianya slammed the report on the table: "It's just a few billion, right? Huaxin Investment, Mr. Ren, are you in?"

"Since General Manager Huang is so generous, why should we at Huawei be so pretentious?"

Chengdong, hurry up and start mass production as soon as possible, and launch the product within two months.

"Let technology no longer be out of reach, but become a product that everyone can afford."

After the video ended, the three people disappeared from the screen, leaving only one line of text: Honor Play1, the first smartphone made for young people.

Lei Jun sat in the audience, his smile still lingering, before he froze on the spot.

His relaxed gaze suddenly sharpened, his pupils dilated slightly, and the corners of his mouth twitched down involuntarily. He looked as if he had been stabbed in the back, and even his breathing slowed down for a long time.

He said it sounded so familiar, and thought he had met a kindred spirit, but it turned out these were all his own words!

He stared blankly at the familiar words on the stage: "Technology is no longer something high above, but something to serve the people."

Moreover, the entire press conference, the rhythm of the speech, the logic of the rhetoric, and even the tactics were highly consistent with the original Mi series that he had polished countless times in his mind.

In that instant, his face was filled with disbelief, astonishment, bewilderment at being betrayed so precisely, and a dazed feeling of not having reacted yet...

Who betrayed him?

wrong!

He had never discussed these plans with anyone; even Lin Bin only knew about 1999...

So who leaked it?

The Huawei team thought, "Impossible, it's impossible for the world to be so coincidental."

Just as Lei Jun's eyes widened, his brows furrowed slightly, and he stood there in a daze, the audience burst into loud applause...

Some viewers who were watching the live stream were immediately moved by the story and started inviting their friends to watch together.

In a dormitory at Kyoto University, an Apple fanboy who uses an iPhone hesitated slightly upon seeing this message, but still called his friend over to take a look: "Hey, Lao Liu, haven't you always wanted to buy a smartphone? Look at this..."

"Smartphones cost at least several thousand yuan, how can I afford one..."

"This price doesn't seem too expensive... Of course, the experience might not be as good as our fruit, but the price is quite attractive."

As many people started inviting their friends to watch the live stream, the press conference moved directly into the introduction of Play1.

First, let's look at the technical parameters that Yu Dazui is most familiar with.

He didn't say much; he simply displayed the parameters on the big screen and let the audience watch.

Screen: 5-inch HVGA, full-view IPS, 16 million colors.

Processor: MediaTek MTK6573.

Battery: 2500mAh

Fast charging chip: Taishan PM100 (the world's first mobile phone to support fast charging)

Upon seeing these parameters, many people in the audience immediately widened their eyes, and some even took out their own Mate 1 to compare the parameters with those shown above.

Same screen. Backstab, uncomfortable.

Same chip. Backstab, uncomfortable.

The battery is a bit small. No back punctures, comfortable.

Plastic frame, plastic back cover. No back punctures, comfortable fit.

Fast charging, a feature absent in the Mate series, is a first for Honor. It's like the Play series is taking advantage of the Mate series...

A murmur of discussion immediately arose from some of the audience seats: "This is outrageous! The Mate has become a guinea pig, while the Honor Play gets to enjoy the new features first."

"Your backstab, brother! Your swordsmanship is utterly terrible!"

"Could it be that the Honor Play1 is positioned higher than the Mate...?"

"It was clearly our product that was downgraded."