184: The Era of Full-Screen Displays (End)

"2 company released the first phone supporting wireless charging at the Global Consumer Electronics Show."

"But until now, wireless charging technology has not entered our daily lives. Past wireless charging phones and other devices had issues like low power and high heat generation."

"Two years ago, Nokia released the Lumia 920, the world's first phone to support the Qi wireless charging standard, but its charging power was only 5 watts. In actual use, due to issues like heat, the wireless charging power was far less than 5 watts."

"In the field of wireless charging, we at Red Star invested in research and development very early on. Last year, when our Red Star Mobile Phone had already achieved 55 watts for wired charging, our wireless charging technology was still stuck at around 7 watts."

"It was still a long way from being practical."

"Some executives at Red Star told me, 'Our wireless charging technology has already reached 7.2 watts, why not announce it?'"

"I told him at the time that such low wireless charging power is not actually a great experience for users. After users use this kind of terrible wireless charging, it will be detrimental to promoting the popularization of wireless charging in the future."

"So I kept suppressing it, unwilling to announce this technology as just a gimmick. Until the first half of this year, Dr. Li from the Red Star fast charging R&D laboratory told me that our wireless charging technology had made a substantial breakthrough. After experiencing it for a period of time, I felt that this speed would no longer affect users' daily usage."

"So today, this Full-Screen Display concept phone of ours is equipped with the world's fastest wireless charging."

"30 watts!"

"This is the fastest wireless charging technology in the world that can be mass-produced!"

If cursing were allowed at the venue, Chen Yunlong would have been cursed at eight hundred times already.

"F***ing Red Star."

"D*** it!"

Damn it, our wired charging is only 22.5 watts, and Xiaomi and Oppo have only managed to reach 27 watts at best. What do you mean by Red Star pulling out a 30-watt wireless charger?

Are you crazy?

Do you want to keep playing with us or not?

"Wireless charging technology converts electricity into a magnetic field, and the phone receives this magnetic field and converts it back into electricity. Therefore, to achieve wireless charging, it must be used in conjunction with a wireless charger."

"Our Red Star Mall will list this 30-watt wireless charger today, with a limited-time promotional price of 399 rmb, including the wireless charging base and the charger's charging cable."

Wait, besides this concept phone, no other phone supports wireless charging. Could it be...

A sense of foreboding welled up in everyone's hearts.

Are they really going to mass-produce it?

"After talking about wireless charging, let's introduce our Red Star wired charging. Since we have already achieved 30 watts of power for wireless charging, everyone can guess what the power of our wired charging is?"

"There's a surprise if you guess correctly."

As the press conference proceeded to this point, the entire venue recovered from the previous shock. Chen Chen's slightly playful words made the audience at the scene shout out in a scramble.

"66 watts!"

"100 watts!"

"200 watts!"

"Boss Chen, it must be 500 watts!"

"2000 watts!"

"I heard a student shout 2000 watts; we really can't do that for the time being." Chen Chen smiled helplessly and indicated to the audience.

"Haha, can't do it for the time being? Does that mean you will do it in the future?"

"2000 watts? You really dare to think. If it really reached 2000 watts, wouldn't the dorm's power trip as soon as I plug in the charger?"

"Awesome, which big brother shouted 2000 watts? If it really reached 2000 watts, hey, I'd just plug it in, pull it out, and guess what? It's full!"

"You'd better be talking about charging. But if it really reached 2000 watts, Red Star's power strip would definitely need an update because their power strips only support a maximum of 2000 watts of power."

After everyone had shouted enough, Chen Chen slowly said, "I see everyone shouting all sorts of numbers. First, let me state that we really can't do 500 watts or 2000 watts for the time being. If we really made it, everyone probably wouldn't dare to use it."

"Last year, we launched the 55-watt Red Star rapid flash charge globally. Over the past year, we have conducted some deep exploration into fast charging, breaking the world record for the highest charging power previously held by our Red Star ROC Phone."

"This time, the wired charging for our red star x Full-Screen Display concept phone is 90 watts!"

"That's right, it's 90 watts, which can fully charge our phone in 30 minutes."

"13 minutes for 50%, 25 minutes for 80%, and the charging time from 0 to 100 is 31 minutes."

"The 90-watt wired charging power is another exploration of charging speed by Red Star. This is the highest recorded wired charging power for a mobile phone on this planet currently."

"In terms of batteries, the red star x Full-Screen Display concept phone is equipped with a 5000mAh Yangtze River Battery 2.0. Compared to last year's Yangtze River Battery 1.0, we have made new breakthroughs in weight and volume, with a 13% increase in energy density!"

To be honest, putting this battery in this phone is indeed a tiny bit small. It's not that we didn't want to put in a bigger battery, but mainly because the lifting structure and the processor occupied a large amount of space.

In order to fit more things in, we had to shrink the battery a little bit. However, with everyone else at around 3000mAh capacity, even if the Jueying consumes more power, combined with fast charging, it won't make users anxious about battery life.

Yangtze River Battery 2.0 is actually a further breakthrough based on the battery technology provided by the system. The Engineer upgraded the process again, achieving higher energy density on the latest production line.

It is also approaching the complete version of the Yangtze River Battery.

This value is still more than 20% away from the theoretical value. When it reaches the theoretical energy density, we can open up the battery cell restrictions to all manufacturers and fleece them again.

Chen Chen said so much, and whether it was the audience at the venue, the audience watching the live stream, or the media reporters, everyone was actually concerned about one question.

Is it really mass-produced?

Several manufacturer heads were also sweating in their hearts. As long as it wasn't mass-produced, Chen Chen could brag however he wanted; he could even say it was equipped with the 100.0 version of the Yangtze River Battery.

"Full-Screen Display design, all-ceramic body material, pop-up camera, conduit-style micro earpiece, ultrasonic proximity sensor, capacitive fingerprint recognition, dual cameras."

"Super flagship-level Jueying processor, 30-watt wireless charging, 90-watt wired charging; with such a pile of configurations added together, its cost is imaginable."

"It is really too difficult to mass-produce."

"Our Engineer has also tried their best, but still couldn't find a way."

"Just for the all-ceramic body, Red Star's investment is no less than 200 million rmb, not to mention these other configurations."

Chen Chen said it was too difficult twice, which made many people who didn't want this phone to be mass-produced breathe a sigh of relief.

As long as it wasn't mass-produced, it was fine.

If it were really mass-produced, even if it were only a few hundred thousand units, it would show that Red Star's strength had reached a terrifying level.

But many more people sighed after hearing Chen Chen describe the difficulty of mass production. What a cool future phone, but unfortunately, it couldn't be purchased.

"Even if mass production is difficult, we at Red Star still did it!"

"Bang!"

With a huge sound effect, the price and memory configuration of this phone appeared on the big screen.

6+128 6999

6+256 7499

8+256 8999 (White Limited Edition)

"Clap clap clap!"

"Clap clap clap!" The audience at the venue all clapped excitedly when they saw the memory configuration on the screen.

All the viewers watching the live stream couldn't help but clench their fists, involuntarily shouting, "Red Star is awesome!"

"Damn! It's really mass-produced!"

"Buy it, must buy it. Damn it, never mind 6000+, even if Boss Chen sold it for 60,000, I would still have to buy one!"

"It's actually only 6999!? Wow, this is too conscientious, isn't it!"

It was mass-produced, really mass-produced.

How did Red Star do it? It was actually mass-produced.

It was as if fate had already made a ruling. After Chen Chen announced that reservations would open after the press conference ended, all the manufacturers looked serious.

Now the last thought in their minds was that they hoped Red Star was only producing it on a small scale.

And Chen Chen's next words seemed to confirm their thoughts.

"Mass production is very difficult, but we still managed to do it."

"But there might not be many units. We are also rushing to optimize the process and increase production capacity."

"After the press conference ends today, reservations will open simultaneously on Red Star Mall and the Red Star official website. The first batch only has 100,000 units. It's really not many; I hope everyone can understand."

Listen, listen, is that human language?

The first batch is only 100,000 units, and that's called not many?

"To thank everyone for their support for our red star x Full-Screen Display concept phone, we have prepared a gift package for every user who purchases one."

"It contains a red star 30-watt wireless charger and a flip protective case."

"The White Limited Edition comes with an Italian imported calfskin flip protective case."

"Reservations open at 5 PM on August 25th, and it will officially go on sale at 10 AM on August 31st."

"I would also like to thank the students and media friends at the scene, as well as the students watching the live stream. At 8 PM tonight, participate in our Social Media Platform Full-Screen Display discussion and repost, and we will give away 10 F-codes to everyone."

"At the same time, we have prepared a gift for every audience member at the venue. Please queue up at the exit with your invitation letter and ticket to collect it. This press conference ends here."

"Thank you, everyone!"

The lights on the stage dimmed, but not many people at the scene stood up.

It seemed they were still expecting something.

And the scene of this press conference is still being mentioned repeatedly even in 2024.

In 2024, Feng Fu, the then manager of the Red Star smart wearable business department, said this during an interview with the media at the new product launch site:

"I was very fortunate to attend the launch of the red star x series of phones back then. I was still in college at the time, using a Hongmi phone from Dami Company. To be precise, I was a mi fans at that time.

From the moment I saw Boss Chen continuously showing us the pop-up camera of the Full-Screen Display phone, I swore that I must join Red Star in the future, because from that afternoon on, I felt that Red Star was the coolest company in the hearts of mi fans.

Many people at the press conference thought that the conference was over after the shining k10 was released, and I thought so too.

But Boss Chen had no intention of ending at all. Instead, he continued to talk on stage, saying he wanted to chat with everyone about the future, about exploration, and about ideals.

Boss Chen said they were exploring the design of a brand-new concept phone. I thought Boss Chen was just painting a big picture at the time, and even when he said this was the form of mobile phone development for the next ten years, I felt he was bragging.

But when he took this phone out from the stage screen, I was trembling all over. I had never imagined that a phone could be made in that form, and I never thought that Red Star had actually made it.

Really, that phone looked like it walked out of a science fiction movie. Coupled with those sound effects, I even thought I wasn't in 2014 at the time, but in the present, 2024. Looking at it now, Boss Chen was absolutely right; the red star x Full-Screen Display concept phone indeed led the future development direction of mobile phones."

"When Boss Chen talked about the future at the press conference, he mentioned a phone that could display a screen on the wrist and perform any operation. I thought that was so cool."

Feng Fu finished this sentence, raised his wrist to show the reporters the latest red star bracelet, "Until now, I have personally realized it."

"As a user of the first batch of that phone, when I lit up this Full-Screen Display phone for the first time, I had a feeling in my heart, a very strong feeling."

"Full-Screen Display, it's like holding the whole world."

"Then Mr. Feng, were there any other scenes at the time that left a deep impression on you?"

Feng Fu's thoughts seemed to return to that afternoon full of shock and passion ten years ago, "Yes, ten years ago, all mobile phone materials were either plastic or metal, oh, and glass. At the press conference, Boss Chen pointed to that phone and said that red star x used a brand-new material for the phone's body."

"At that time, the term microcrystalline ceramic was heard for the first time. It wasn't until I saw red star x that I knew that ceramics could also be used to make mobile phone shells."

"And now, after ten years of development, the ceramic technology used in our red star bracelet is the 3rd generation ceramic technology — stardust ceramic."