285: The big move that the world expects

As for whether a mobile phone this expensive would sell well, Huawei Technology's three mid-range mobile phones achieved sales of 400,000 units on their first day!

This was quite impressive for a new mobile phone manufacturer, after all, they were selling mid-range mobile phones!

In this situation, countless mobile phone manufacturers exclaimed that a fierce dragon had risen again in Daxia!

Even more terrifying was their sales performance in the following days; although Huawei Technology's sales were not as strong as the first day due to production capacity issues, in the following days, they still maintained sales of 60,000 units per day.

When these daily sales of 60,000 units were reported by Global media, it directly silenced those around the Global who had been pessimistic about Daxia's mobile phones.

Maintaining 60,000 units per day means 1.8 million units in a month, and 21.6 million units in a year!

These sales were quite impressive, only slightly inferior to Shuguang Technology!

For a time, news of Huawei Technology leaping into the top 10 mobile phone manufacturers in the world spread wildly both domestically and foreign, and Ren Zhengfei of Huawei Technology seemed overjoyed.

However, while Huawei Technology was immersed in a sea of joy and Global media were astonished by the achievements of Huawei Mobile Phone, people did not know that Shuguang Technology had also secretly gained considerable profits.

Although Shuguang Technology and Huawei Technology had mutually authorized technology patents, this mutual authorization of technology patents was not a buyout.

Currently, Shuguang Technology only uses Huawei Technology's GSM communication patent for mobile phone chips; other patents such as wireless GSM communication equipment patents and wired fiber optic communication equipment patents are naturally not used.

In this situation, after the mutual offset of patent fees, Huawei Technology ended up owing patent fees to Shuguang Technology.

Furthermore, Huawei Technology's use of the Shuguang Operating System was not free; it required payment, just like other mobile phone manufacturers using the Symbian mobile phone system.

Although this fee was much cheaper than the Symbian system, only 30 yuan, which was quite affordable compared to Symbian system's charges, the fact that a fee was required was an undeniable reality.

Therefore, the more Huawei Technology Mobile Phones sold, the more patent fees and Shuguang Mobile System authorization fees Shuguang Technology received from Huawei Mobile Phone.

After the two-way offset of patent fees and Shuguang Mobile System authorization fees, Shuguang Technology could earn a total profit of approximately 90 yuan for every mobile phone Huawei Technology sold!

In response, Lin Chen said that this truly was a case of 'planting a willow tree with no intention of shading, but it grows into a lush tree'.

With the additional patent fees and Shuguang Mobile System usage authorization fees contributed by Huawei Technology, this undoubtedly indirectly alleviated the financial difficulties after the research and development of lithography machines and etching machines.

According to Huawei Technology's current estimate of selling 21.6 million mid-range mobile phones per year, Shuguang Technology will receive 1.94 billion Xia Yuan in revenue from Huawei Technology in the future!

1.94 billion Xia Yuan!

This is a huge sum, and Shuguang Technology only needs a little more to support the research and development funds for lithography machines.

Of course, Shuguang Technology may not need to add a little more, because the current estimate of Huawei Technology selling only 21.6 million is due to their current production capacity limitations.

In the coming year, they will certainly find other mobile phone contract manufacturers to increase production capacity or build their own mobile phone production factories to achieve higher mobile phone sales.

Of course, they may also release new mid-range or high-end mobile phones, or they may launch a major promotion to make total mobile phone sales exceed 21.6 million units.

In this situation, selling 21.6 million units in the next year is only an approximate figure.

Their sales in the next year may significantly exceed this number, or they may be significantly less than this number.

But no matter what the final result, Shuguang Technology can indeed lie back and earn at least several billion, and potentially up to twenty billion, in revenue by collecting patent fees and mobile phone system usage authorization fees!

As for whether the strong sales of Huawei Mobile Phone would affect Shuguang Technology's sales?

In the first few days after Huawei's three mobile phones were just released, when Global media were frantically reporting news related to Huawei Mobile Phone, those days did slightly affect Shuguang Technology's sales.

Afterward, Shuguang F2 and Shuguang A2 and other mid-range mobile phones still defeated Huawei Mobile Phone with their many advantages, successfully restoring sales to their original levels and selling out the accumulated inventory from those days again.

After all, according to past history, a total of 670 million mobile phones were sold globally in 2004!

In this situation, although Huawei Mobile Phone's sales accounted for 21.6 million units out of 670 million units, these 21.6 million sales were actually insignificant compared to 670 million sales.

Therefore, although Huawei Mobile Phone's sales were very high, they did not affect Shuguang Technology's sales; Shuguang Technology remained in a state of full production and sales.

It also received an additional substantial income, which greatly eased the financial pressure of the lithography machine and etching machine.

And so, time slowly passed, and even the most bustling news would eventually have a calm day.

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Time thus slowly flowed, and in a blink of an eye, it was May 2004. May was the month when Shuguang Technology had said at the beginning of the year that it would release a new high-end mobile phone.

So when May arrived, netizens and Shuguang Technology fans both domestically and foreign became restless.

Since May 1st, the website traffic of Shuguang Technology and Xiaomi Mobile has been increasing day by day, and by the end of the month, it had increased by more than ten times.

This was because as May arrived, those who were looking forward to Shuguang Technology's high-end mobile phone would almost subconsciously check Shuguang Technology's official website every one or two days, wanting to know if Shuguang Technology had released a high-end mobile phone.

However, it was a pity that although Shuguang Technology's official website occasionally had big news, for example, on May 12th.

Shuguang Technology officially announced that two newly constructed mobile phone factories in Tianjin, with an annual production capacity of 30 million units, had officially commenced production, giving Shuguang Technology an annual production capacity of 120 million mobile phones.

Or, Shuguang Technology's subsidiary, Xiaomi Mobile, announced on May 17th that Xiaomi Mobile's sales had stabilized at 145,000 units for three consecutive days, and that Xiaomi Mobile was expected to reach 53 million units in sales in the future!

There was a lot of big news on the official websites of Shuguang Technology and Xiaomi Mobile, but the most crucial high-end mobile phone news was missing.

It was as if Lin Chen's declaration at the beginning of the year that he would solve the problem of mid-to-high-end mobile phone components and then release high-end mobile phones by the end of May was false.

In response, as time passed day by day, and as May gradually drew to a close.

Many fans around the Global who were looking forward to Shuguang Technology solving the problem of mid-to-high-end mobile phone components and then releasing new high-end mobile phones naturally became anxious.

Could Shuguang Technology truly deliver as promised, or would it ultimately disappoint everyone?

Under such circumstances, as the date gradually approached May 22nd, skeptical remarks began to appear in both domestic and foreign internet media and newspapers.