187: Superior to Samsung Galaxy

"President Chen, the number of reservations on our official website has exceeded 700,000, and the number of participants in Social Media Platform topic discussions has also surpassed a million. You could say the entire Social Media Platform is dominated by our trending topics."

The next day, as soon as Chen Chen arrived at the office, Song Ziwei had compiled all the data from yesterday.

"Whether it's Qiandu Tieba, Zhihu, or other major forums, everyone is saying that we, Red Star, have pioneered a new era. It's nothing but praise and positive reviews."

Chen Chen nodded. This was expected. Unlike the Xiaomi Mix from his previous life, the completion level of this device surpassed the Mix. It featured Full-Screen Display gestures, extremely narrow chin control, and unlike the Mix, it didn't use a piezoelectric ceramic (bone conduction) earpiece, so there was no sound leakage.

Every aspect was basically balanced. Coupled with the super-flagship chip, Jueying, Chen Chen could already see the birth of the first generation of Red Star Mobile Phone 'nail-house' users.

"President Chen, General Manager Yang is asking if the F-code purchases should be included in the initial batch of 100,000 units, or if they should be extra..."

"Make them extra. There were only 100,000 units to begin with. If Kunpeng mobile phone users take 50,000 via F-codes, there will be too few left."

Since mass production began last month, the inventory of the Red Star X has exceeded 400,000 units. After a month of ramping up production and optimizing factory processes, they could now produce over 200,000 units per week.

Chen Chen's plan was to release 100,000 units every week in the early stages to maintain the hype. After all, he had emphasized at the launch event how difficult mass-producing this phone was.

Things easily obtained are often not cherished.

It had to be hyped; it had to stay hot!

"Um, President Chen, Samsung released their latest Galaxy Note 4 overnight. This phone features a 2560*1440 resolution 2k oled screen. The processor is Samsung's own Exynos 5433, using a 20nm process with an 8-core design." After speaking, Song Ziwei handed the tablet to Chen Chen, showing all the specs of the Galaxy Note 4.

Chen Chen took a look and set it aside. No matter how high the specs were, so what? In Chen Chen's view, besides the screen resolution, nothing about this Note 4 could compete with the Red Star X.

You have an 8-core Exynos 5433? Sorry, the Full-Screen Display + Jueying performance crushes you.

You have a 16-megapixel camera with 0.3s fast focus and 4k 30fps video recording? Sorry, the Full-Screen Display + the same lens crushes you.

You have a 3300mAh battery and 18W fast charging? Then I'm even more sorry; the Full-Screen Display + 30W wireless, 90W wired, and Yangtze River Battery 2.0 crushes you.

You support IP67 water resistance? My Full-Screen Display design + All-Ceramic Body crushes you.

You have dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1? My Full-Screen Display design + the same specs crushes you.

Crushing, nothing but crushing.

Even the price is a total crush!

If you set the operating system aside, this year's king of phones definitely belongs to the Red Star X; even the Apple phone to be released next month won't cut it.

Little did he know, Samsung's Park Yitien was looking dejected. He had never wished for the internet's speed to be slower than he did now.

Usually, Samsung releases phones in other countries first and waits a while before launching the Chinese version.

When his secretary brought him news of the Red Star X, he finally realized. The k series, the 'Dare to Leap'—it was all a ruse.

Red Star's real trump card was this Full-Screen Display phone!

Once this phone appeared, all phones from the old era would pale in comparison, including their own newly released Galaxy Note 4!

"Call an internal meeting," Park Yitien said helplessly to his secretary, losing the self-satisfied look he had yesterday. He told her to notify all departments of Samsung mobile to discuss how Samsung should respond next.

"President Park, Samsung China said they have a sample unit gifted by Red Star. Would you like to see it?" the secretary asked cautiously. Right now, Park Yitien was like a volcano that could erupt at any moment.

"Have them send it over immediately."

"We'll hold the meeting once the device arrives."

"In the smartphone world, Samsung is the absolute king!"

"The king! We will never allow a Chinese company to get ahead of us!"

"Never!"

Watching the roaring Park Yitien, the secretary left his office in fear.

Soon, Samsung China quickly sent the sample unit gifted by Red Star at the launch event to the headquarters in South Korea.

Actually, Chen Chen hadn't originally intended to give them away, but he couldn't resist the bigwigs from other manufacturers coming backstage to ask for one. With the mindset of 'if you're going to do it for one, do it for all,' Chen Chen gave a unit to every manufacturer's representative who attended the launch.

Naturally, this included Samsung.

After all, even if he didn't give them one, they would get their hands on it through other channels once sales started in a few days.

Furthermore, since these bigwigs had asked, it wouldn't be right for Chen Chen to refuse them directly.

In the massive Samsung conference room, a pure white Red Star X phone was passed around among the Samsung mobile executives.

The room was filled with various 'aishiba' and the sound of sharp intakes of breath.

"Everyone, share your thoughts. How should Samsung respond to Red Star's challenge?" Park Yitien sat in the head seat and scanned the crowd.

"aishiba! Was this phone really made by Red Star?"

"I think only us Koreans could make a phone like this. The Engineer who designed this for Red Star must be Korean!"

"Exactly, that must be it. This phone was definitely designed by our people."

"Stop talking about that useless nonsense. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the future development of Samsung mobile. If we let Red Star sell this phone worldwide, they will snatch a huge share of our high-end market!" Park Yitien shouted impatiently.

The conference room fell silent. A Samsung mobile executive said, "President Park, I think we should immediately start designing a Full-Screen Display phone like this. I just experienced it, and the Full-Screen Display design is truly amazing. I genuinely admire Red Star's..."

Before he could finish, Park Yitien glared at him, and he swallowed the rest of his words.

"President Park, I think Manager Cui is right. Since the trend of the times cannot be changed, we should hurry up and launch a Full-Screen Display phone that belongs to Samsung."

"Does the development department have confidence?"

"Hmm?"

After Park Yitien spoke, there was no response from the development department. He looked up and saw Manager Zheng of the development department holding the Red Star X, stroking it over and over as if he were admiring a piece of art, muttering, 'So creative,' and 'Chinese ceramics are truly beautiful.'

"Manager Zheng!"

"Ah?" Zheng Chishi snapped out of it and looked up to see Park Yitien staring at him with a serious expression.

"President Park."

"Is there any problem with us developing a phone like this?"