22: Chapter 22 Snapdragon 835 and Future Plans

After seeing off Peng Rizhao,

Bai Jingqing checked his system once again.

He now had a total of 287,882 profit points.

A little over 280,000;

he would soon have enough profit points to buy the xiaomi 5.

However, whether or not he should unlock the full version of the xiaomi 5,

Bai Jingqing was now somewhat hesitant.

Although upgrading from the xiaomi 4 to the xiaomi 5 only involved a processor upgrade,

it did indeed seem a bit lacking in sincerity.

But when he searched for the xiaomi 6,

it actually required 3 million profit points.

He didn't know how long it would take to save up that much.

He had two models now;

should he just keep selling them like this,

and wait until he saved 3 million to unlock the full version of the xiaomi 6?

After all, the xiaomi 6 was much stronger than the xiaomi 5;

it had become a timeless classic in the future,

sought after by many phone enthusiasts.

Thinking about the massive point gap needed to unlock the xiaomi 6,

Bai Jingqing felt a headache coming on.

This won't do, it really won't do!

From what he had seen today,

the profitability of such a small mobile phone shop was truly limited.

However, he had no way to truly establish a technology company yet;

after all, his debts hadn't been paid off.

One good thing about this mobile phone profiteer system

was that although unlocking new models deducted profit points,

it did not deduct actual money.

So, he had been saving this money up,

and now had about 380,000 in total.

It had only been one day,

and he had earned 380,000.

While this rate of earning was already very fast,

it would still take a long period of accumulation to clear tens of millions in debt.

He decided to first save enough profit points for the xiaomi 6,

then launch the full version of the xiaomi 6 in one go,

relying on the xiaomi 6 to fully repay the debt.

The xiaomi 6 could be called a legendary device of its generation;

there was a jingle in his past life,

which went: 'Buy the new, not the old, unless it's a xiaomi 6.'

In his past life, the xiaomi 6 was released in 2017,

and it was still sought after by many enthusiasts seven or eight years later.

A very important reason for this was that its chip performance was sufficient.

The xiaomi 6 was also equipped with a Snapdragon chip,

the snapdragon 835.

Compared to the snapdragon 820,

the improvement would be even greater.

He searched the mall for the snapdragon 835 chip again;

the system mall price was 200,000 profit points.

He suddenly felt tempted again.

Although he had decided not to unlock the full xiaomi 5,

he felt that unlocking a snapdragon 835 chip first was very viable.

It was for the same reason as before:

the snapdragon 820 was indeed quite far ahead of the li xiang 6 series chips,

but who knew if Ideal still had technical reserves?

Perhaps Ideal also had chips stronger than the snapdragon 820

that just hadn't been released yet.

If he unlocked this snapdragon 835 processor,

it would be two generations ahead of the current li xiang 6 series chips on the market.

With this mass-producible snapdragon 835,

Bai Jingqing could say he was completely at ease.

If he really couldn't save enough profit points for the xiaomi 6 later,

couldn't he just sell the chips separately to other manufacturers just the same?

Thinking of this,

he no longer hesitated

and purchased the snapdragon 835 chip.

After obtaining this chip,

Bai Jingqing didn't stay idle;

he quickly disassembled another xiaomi 4,

installed the snapdragon 835,

and successfully powered it on once again.

This chip was indeed very powerful;

the previous stuttering feeling was greatly reduced,

playing heroic battle records was a breeze,

and browsing the web was very fast.

He actually wanted to play some more performance-heavy games

to see where the limit of this snapdragon 835 truly was,

but what particularly performance-heavy games were there in this era?

Even manufacturers didn't dare to develop those particularly large-scale games,

so if he wanted to play those types of games,

he would probably have to wait a few more years,

until mobile processors had fully developed.

And his appearance undoubtedly accelerated this process.

But suddenly, he thought of something he could use for testing:

the classic benchmarking tool from his past life, AnTuTu.

So he quickly downloaded AnTuTu and started a benchmark run.

However, he didn't know if it was because there was no specialized optimization,

or because this chip wasn't in AnTuTu's database,

but the benchmarking process was constantly stuttering.

In the end, several categories of the results were completely missing,

and no valid score was produced in the end.

Bai Jingqing could only give up.

From now on, this xiaomi 4 equipped with the snapdragon 835 would be his daily driver.

He would use it for now;

after all, it was likely the smoothest phone in the world currently.

In the future, he wanted to establish his own technology company

and then build several factories.

When the time came, he would rely on assembling various parts sourced from the system.

This would further reduce costs

while also allowing the fact that he had a system to be better hidden.

Currently, his shipment volume was small,

and his range of influence was limited.

Wait until later when he sold more and more goods;

if he couldn't explain how the phones and chips were designed and produced,

it would certainly bring about countless troubles.

Building a technology company and a batch of factories was clearly the best solution.

But this, in turn, gave rise to another problem.

Current processors were still relatively low-end

and were still compatible across various phones.

Processors would become more and more high-end in the future,

and there might even be cases of encryption.

By then, he might not be able to assemble phones at will.

How should this problem be solved?

Bai Jingqing thus asked the system.

The system replied: "The system can help with assembly,

and the tuning and adaptation will all be handled well,

ensuring that no matter what kind of processor is used

or what kind of parts it is paired with,

adaptation can be achieved.

However, the system will charge a portion of processing fees.

You can also choose different parts

to ensure they can be assembled into a complete phone,

then fix the configuration list and store it in the system.

The system can then perform the assembly itself at extremely high speed.

No matter the quantity, it can ship instantly;

even if you need 100 million units in stock, the system can complete the assembly in one second."

Bai Jingqing took a deep breath.

Was this system really so user-friendly?

Moreover, the assembly speed was truly terrifying;

no factory could compare to this!

But a factory still had to be built,

otherwise, he wouldn't be able to explain where so many goods came from.

He fixed the current configuration list,

which was the xiaomi 4 body plus the snapdragon 835 processor.

It indeed shipped in a second,

and it looked even better than the one he had modified himself.

The one assembled by the system had absolutely no traces of being opened;

it was like a brand-new machine,

with every part fitting perfectly.

The system-assembled one also yielded an extra item,

which was the Snapdragon 810 processor originally equipped in the xiaomi 4.

Bai Jingqing set it aside for storage for now;

anyway, he would also be doing mobile phone after-sales repairs in the future,

so there was no harm in storing it first.

...

The next day, business opened as usual,

and he was still only selling the xiaomi 4.

As for the xiaomi 5,

he planned to wait until honor of kings was officially released before launching it,

to fully capitalize on the hype.

And the xiaomi 6, or rather the snapdragon 835 chip,

would have to wait a bit longer.

If he sold the phone with the snapdragon 835 now

and completely crushed the Li Xiang Phone,

they certainly wouldn't just wait to die.

As a major manufacturer,

they did have technical foundations after all.

Perhaps they really would manage to research a stronger processor by then

that could also smoothly run honor of kings,

and then he wouldn't be able to fully exploit the honor of kings hype.

But this didn't mean unlocking the snapdragon 835 was useless;

it was the final straw that would allow his phone shop to survive.

Wait until later when Li Xiang Phone exerted all its strength

and brought out all its technical foundations to fight him,

then he would use the xiaomi 6 to counterattack

and catch them off guard.

The second day, the third day, the fourth day,

Bai Jingqing continued as before,

continuing to sell phones.

But compared to the explosive popularity of the first day,

he sold fewer in the following days.

Meanwhile, Pang Xietang was staring at this side every day,

and the more he looked, the more numb he felt.

He had already gone to the Li Xiang Phone headquarters over these past two days to stock up,

and it was indeed at the cost price Chairman Xue had mentioned.

So now everything was ready, and only the 'east wind' was missing;

he was just waiting for Bai Jingqing to change the price back.

But he didn't expect this kid to keep selling day after day.

Seeing the bustling crowd in front of that shop every day,

while his own shop front was deserted,

he felt a pang of heartache.

He didn't know exactly how much money this kid had lost,

but why was he still selling?

Could it be that he hadn't lost it all yet?