13: Everything is ready except for the final touch.

As the online hype for the upcoming Red Star 1 grew higher and higher, Lei Jun also felt that something was not quite right.

This Red Star was simply leeching off his own popularity!

His own mi 1 was promoted as the world's fastest Mi Phone.

Red Star directly followed up with "faster than fast."

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He promoted the world's fastest dual-core Qualcomm processor.

This Red Star also followed suit by promoting the fastest processor—Lingxiao.

Bah!

Shameless!

It has always been me, Lei Jun, seizing other people's hype for marketing. How did a piece of dog-skin plaster come along to leech off my hype for promotion?!

However, seeing Red Star's pixel-level imitation, Lei Jun also felt excited.

It proved that his Mi Phone was an absolute success.

Otherwise, a decade-old mobile phone factory wouldn't take his mi 1 so seriously.

He just didn't know how much foundation Red Star actually had.

Meanwhile, after Chen Chen mobilized enough Engineers for the UI department, the first version of Starlight OS finally arrived after two months.

With over a dozen mid-level Engineers and hundreds of junior Engineers fully dedicated to tackling the new operating system's UI, it was able to go online in just two months.

This was Red Star's foundation.

Immediately, Chen Chen and Lu Weibing went to the company's system UI department together.

When they arrived at the department's office area, Zhang Weichao immediately came forward to greet them.

That's right, now that the titles of department head and the two managers above him had been removed, he was the primary person in charge of this department, reporting directly to Chen Chen.

"President Chen, CEO Lu!"

Zhang Weichao then led the two of them to a dedicated testing area.

Several Engineers were already there testing the full version of Starlight OS.

Furthermore, there were several prototype models; not only from Red Star, but also from Xiaomi, Huawei, HTC, and other manufacturers.

"President Chen, I had to pay double the price to get this Xiaomi engineering prototype."

"Reimburse it, I'll have it reimbursed for you in a moment."

In the few months Chen Chen had been at the company, he had become very familiar with Zhang Weichao. They weren't far apart in age, so Zhang Weichao was no longer formal around him and could occasionally crack a joke or two.

All the experimental phones were running systems developed based on the Android System.

Xiaomi's MIUI, as well as some native android versions.

The main goal was to compare and test smoothness, as well as background software retention.

Of course, the most important thing was smoothness.

This is what consumers value most when buying a phone.

"President Chen, according to your instructions, we didn't add many extra features to the UI interface. That would make the system bloated and affect smoothness."

Hearing Zhang Weichao's words, Chen Chen picked up a prototype and began to operate it.

"Correct, smoothness is the most important thing. This also relates to our Red Star's reputation and survival."

Then, Zhang Weichao looked at Chen Chen with hesitation, "President Chen, I..."

"If you have something to say, just say it. Why hesitate? You've known my personality after these few months, speak up!"

Zhang Weichao seemed to make a decision and said:

"It's like this, President Chen. While we were doing low-level optimization, we had an idea."

"What idea?"

"android needs to recompile within the android Virtual Machine when software starts, which is a major reason for phone lag. We were wondering if it's possible for us to recompile? Or rather, skip the compilation? That way, both software operation and system smoothness would be greatly improved."

"We could also address the common problem of the Android System—fragmentation. It's just that this idea might require us to invest more Engineers."

After hearing Zhang Weichao's words, Chen Chen almost dropped the phone in his hand. Was he about to develop a self-researched operating system?

Although in Little Zhang's eyes, this was just an optimization plan, Chen Chen knew it was no different from rewriting an operating system.

Putting down the prototype, he patted Zhang Weichao on the shoulder and said:

"That's an idea! And there's a great possibility, but right now your primary task is to perfect the current operation UI. I will specifically set aside time to discuss this idea with you in detail."

"Don't worry, your idea will definitely be implemented. It's just that the company has only just gotten on the right track; starting this project now would be too risky, do you understand what I mean?"

Zhang Weichao immediately nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

As long as Chen Chen didn't reject the idea, it was fine.

Because in his view, this path was definitely correct. Only by rewriting the underlying code ourselves and changing how the android virtual machine runs could we find the ultimate solution to android's lag.

Immediately after, Chen Chen began to play with the test phones one by one. Although their own mobile operating system interface was still a bit simple, it was quite good in terms of smoothness, background management, and heat control.

Most importantly, the new interface completely abandoned the previous gloomy and old style.

It made the whole phone feel youthful.

This was what Chen Chen was most satisfied with.

With such results from the first version of the system, what could Chen Chen be dissatisfied about!

In Zhang Weichao's view, although the Starlight OS he led the development of couldn't beat MIUI in terms of features and playability, or iOS in smoothness, compared to other manufacturers, his product was still very excellent.

Then, Zhang Weichao took out a report on their own mobile system's operation interface and handed it to Chen Chen, smiling as he said:

"President Chen, looking at it now, our Starlight OS is considered quite excellent."

Chen Chen took the test data from his hand and began reading it seriously.

After looking through the data, Chen Chen realized he didn't quite understand it, but Zhang Weichao had very carefully printed out a comparison below.

Indeed, it was pretty good. At the very least, in terms of smoothness, it was second only to Fruit's iOS system.

It was even a bit smoother than Xiaomi's MIUI.

"Good job, Little Zhang. Everyone in your department gets a bonus this month!"

As Chen Chen shouted loudly toward the office area about the bonus, someone in the office area immediately cheered.

"Thank you, President Chen!"

"No need to be polite, this is what you deserve. Engineers are our company's most important asset. Without you, everything would be a castle in the air."

"Little Zhang, continue testing as quickly as possible and resolve any bugs. Starlight OS is a very important part of the Red Star 1 we are about to release."

Leaving the system UI department, Lu Weibing couldn't help but marvel that as soon as Chen Chen returned, the whole company felt different.

Then the two of them went to the R&D department. The high-voltage charging solution he had given to Dr. Zhou should have started mass production of 18W chargers by now.

"Dr. Zhou, is our 18W charging solution completed?"

Chen Chen asked as soon as he entered the door.

"It's already completed. Your solution happened to coincide with the solution of Little Li from our lab, and it even solved the problem that had been troubling him for a long time. Now he is developing the next generation of chargers based on this solution."

Chen Chen thought to himself, 'Of course, produced by the system, it must be a masterpiece!'

Now everything was ready, all they needed was the East Wind.