67: Liu Zirong's decision

Because he knew that to achieve what he said, the comprehensive cost of this new phone would certainly not be small; various costs combined might exceed 900 yuan!

“The total cost of the entire phone would be at least 850 or even over 1000 yuan.”

Xia Peng also gave his answer in a vague tone, as he didn't actually know the exact cost.

After all, this was just a preliminary concept plan, and no one had been sent to calculate the costs, so he could only provide a rough minimum cost range.

However, when the people present heard Xia Peng’s reply, they all gasped and then started discussing loudly.

“This new phone is that expensive?!”

“Oh my goodness? The cost alone is 850 or even over 1000 yuan. Is this new phone really that expensive?”

“Yes, the cheapest cost is 850 yuan, and it might even be 1000 yuan. Is this cost too high?”

“Exactly, just now it was said ‘above’ and not 850-1000 yuan. It might even need 1100 or even 1200 yuan at that time.

The exact amount hasn't been clarified. Is this cost too high?!”

As the middle and high-level executives present discussed, dissenting opinions had unconsciously arisen.

Because the cost of this new phone was too high, they weren't sure if they could even break even if they actually produced such a phone.

After all, there was already a dawn a1 phone in the market, so their phone's price certainly couldn't exceed the dawn a1 too much.

At that time, a maximum of 1800 to 1900 yuan was already close to the limit. With such a high cost for this new phone, could they truly recover the massive investment if they made it?

However, at this moment, Xia Peng did not pay attention to the discussions but focused his gaze on Liu Zirong.

Only Liu Zirong could decide whether or not to develop the new phone. After all, the establishment of KingKee Mobile was due to him, and his prestige was the highest here.

In response, Liu Zirong frowned slightly, then, as expected, asked him:

“How soon can this new phone be launched?”

“The fastest might be two months; the latest should not exceed half a year!”

Xia Peng stated his rough estimated time frame.

Although this phone would use the tcs2500 Chipset and Symbian System, theoretically, 40% of the work for the new phone was already completed.

However, the remaining 60% was not simple, even very complicated. The final step was to make red and white machine games in Java format perfectly compatible with the new phone.

This also required a lengthy game adaptation process, and every game needed to be adapted, which was very cumbersome!

After all, when those games were developed, they were for home console platforms like the red and white machine; the games certainly wouldn't actively adapt to you.

So, if you want your phone to support red and white machine games, you can only actively modify the game data to make the games compatible with your phone.

If a game suddenly crashes inexplicably during a trial run, you need to send someone to find the cause, because if a game suddenly crashes while playing, data loss can make players spit blood.

Therefore, manufacturing such a new phone that can play red and white machine games is not an easy task; in fact, it can be said to be quite cumbersome, consuming a lot of energy, manpower, material resources, and financial resources.

At this moment, facing the gazes and pointing fingers from the middle and high-level executives and shareholders, Liu Zirong gently tapped the table, lost in thought, and then said with determination:

“Xia Peng, this matter is entrusted to you. I want to see this new phone at the latest in half a year.”

This Liu Zirong was different from him over ten years later. Now, he had not yet become the resident gambling king of Saiban Island.

Although he also liked to gamble now, due to the immense survival pressure on KingKee Mobile, he currently had no leisure to gamble on Saiban Island.

So, at this time, he was at his peak, the one who led KingKee Mobile from Pengcheng, defeating numerous mobile phone counterparts along the way, and finally ascending to the position of king.

In later generations, although KingKee Mobile's sales were not as high as Tianyu Mobile, it could even be said to be only half of Tianyu Mobile's sales.

But in the hearts of many people, KingKee Mobile's brand image was indeed more high-end than Tianyu Mobile, more similar to the high-end luxury positioning of later Apple.

And although Tianyu Mobile had higher sales, it was because it mainly focused on cheap phones for rural and township areas.

So high sales did not mean high total profit; on the contrary, although KingKee Mobile's sales were not as high as Tianyu Mobile, the higher phone prices also meant higher profits.

Therefore, in the feature phone era, whether the king of the mobile phone industry was KingKee Mobile or Tianyu Mobile had never been definitively settled, leading to endless debates among experts on Zhihu in later generations.

“Yes, I understand.”

At this moment, Xia Peng nodded slightly in agreement.

Seeing this, Liu Zirong also nodded gently, then turned to Lu Weibing beside him and instructed:

“Next, Lu Weibing is responsible for smearing Shuguang Technology in public opinion, making their phones unsellable, thereby alleviating our current unfavorable situation.

And Xia Peng is responsible for developing the new phone, completely reversing our gradual decline and further defeating Boda Mobile to become the leader of domestic mobile phones.

Now, I have entrusted the future of KingKee Mobile to your hands. As long as you complete this task, I, and even the major shareholders, will certainly give you a great gift!”

“Yes!”

“Yes, I guarantee the completion of the task!”

Two enthusiastic voices filled with fighting spirit rang out at the scene.

What the so-called great gift was, both Xia Peng and Lu Weibing knew at this moment that it must be a portion of the company's shares.

At this time, Liu Zirong actually offered shares as a reward; this truly showed extreme importance.

Facing this situation, and with Liu Zirong's strong support, both of them were full of confidence in their tasks.

Thus, with KingKee Mobile making its decision, KingKee Mobile quickly entered a period of high-speed work.

Meanwhile, Lin Chen was unaware that KingKee Mobile had already launched a conspiracy against him.

A few days later, on September 12, 2002, Nokia filed a lawsuit regarding plagiarism, infringement, and refurbished phones in DL City, Pengcheng, which spread throughout Great Xia in less than a day, attracting the attention of millions.

This lawsuit involved two well-known companies: one was Nokia, and the other was Dawn, which had gained some fame recently.

Of course, this alone was not enough to cause such a huge sensation and make the lawsuit spread throughout the tech industry in less than a day.

The reason it attracted the attention of millions was that there were forces behind the scenes pushing the media to report on this matter.

These forces mainly came from two sides: one was Nokia, and the other was KingKee Mobile.

KingKee Mobile's purpose goes without saying, and the reason Nokia actively made this matter such a hot news topic was because Nokia was extremely angry at Dawn's shameless act of plagiarizing and refurbishing their phones.