311: Chapter 311 Discussion on Image Routes

"Ladies, I'm at Xidan Joy City right now. It's the second day of the guangyun sale. Look at this line..."

She turned her phone around and filmed the bustling store.

"I came last night and stayed at a nearby hotel for the night, just to be the first to buy the guangyun. Shouldn't you guys hit the like, subscribe, and favorite buttons for this?"

The line inside the store moved quickly. Within a few minutes, a staff member handed her a guangyun Pro demo unit.

The gradient body shimmered under the lights, looking even better than it did on the posters.

Her first thought was that the photographer for the promotional video should be fired.

She picked it up and weighed it in her hand, exclaiming, "It's got some weight to it."

"156 grams," the staff member said with a smile, catching the implication in her words. "Compared to our competitors' products, we do have about twenty or thirty grams more. But our battery capacity is double theirs on average."

Xiaolu nodded; she had already researched all of this.

In terms of hardware specs, 156 grams is definitely a miracle.

However, her fans were looking forward to the imaging system, so she quickly opened the camera and took a shot of the lights in the store.

The brightness of the lights in the photo wasn't overexposed; instead, it presented a beautiful halo effect.

There was no false advertising; on the contrary, it gave a pleasant little surprise.

Immediately after, she opened Portrait Mode and had her cameraman stand in front of the backdrop to snap a shot.

The details on the photographer's face in the photo were clear, the background blur was very natural, and the edges of the hair were handled even better than many professional cameras.

"Ladies, this camera is absolutely amazing," she said to the lens. "I believe you've all seen my previous reviews of the iphone 5 and Samsung S3, but neither of them had this effect. Everyone, look at this portrait effect..."

She opened the album on the demo unit and carefully showed the details of the photo to the lens.

"This Portrait Mode makes photos look like they've been professionally retouched in a studio."

She also took out another phone to show photos from a couple of days ago. By comparison... let's just say Xiaolu needs to tell the photo studio to change their Photoshop editor.

"Regarding the 156 grams advertised by Transsion, don't worry, it's not as heavy as we imagined; it really feels very light in the hand. Plus, with a 5500mAh battery, it lasts two days without charging. That feeling, ladies, is just amazing."

She also tested the video stabilization in the store, walking while filming, and the footage was as steady as if she were using a gimbal.

"Ladies, if you like taking photos and videos like I do, and don't want to carry a power bank around all day, this phone is tailor-made for you. 3999, 4999—it's cheaper than Apple, and the photos are better than theirs. Anyway, I bought it, you can take it as a reference."

At the end of the video, Xiaolu Tech followed the sales guide to the checkout counter, then held up two receipts to the lens to show them.

Half an hour after the video was posted, the view count exceeded 200,000.

"I was still worried, but now that Xiaolu's video is out, I have to buy it."

"This gradient color is too beautiful! I'm buying one for my wife! I just don't know if this gradient color will continue or if it can be trickled down to the S series! Even as a guy, I like it!"

"To the person above, look at Huawei. The K3V1 went from 2500 to a few hundred in less than a year. This gradient process should also be trickled down very quickly."

"156 grams. The Samsung in my hand is already over 130 grams. Theirs is 5500mAh and only 156 grams. Zhang Yuanji, you need to learn from this!"

It wasn't just Xiaolu Tech and Xiaobai Unboxing; most tech bloggers across the country were posting review videos of the "guangyun," after all, the traffic was too high.

Meanwhile, media in the United States also took notice; the influence of Transsion was expanding further.

Consequently, a tech columnist from The Wall Street Journal wrote a special review: "Transsion guangyun: Chinese Smartphones Are Defining the Future of Technology."

"The release of Transsion's new phone marks the shift of Chinese mobile phone brands from followers to leaders. 2K screens, dual cameras, ultra-large batteries, and extreme thinness and lightness—these features will soon become industry standards. And Apple and Samsung are being left behind by Transsion."

Cook saw this article at Apple headquarters and immediately opened the replay of the guangyun launch event.

When Shen Fei was on stage introducing the dual-camera system, the cheers of the audience below could be felt even through the screen.

He turned off the video, picked up the iphone 5, and examined it over and over for a long time.

The iphone 5, which served as a dual flagship for a year, was, to be accurate, a firefighter.

A 4-inch 720p screen, 1400mAh battery, single camera—no matter which configuration, it couldn't compare to Transsion.

The gap wasn't just a little bit; it was a generational gap.

For the first time, he felt something even harder to deal with than in the Steve Jobs era. After all, in the Steve Jobs era, he only needed to cope with those outdated products, but now he had to face a giant crocodile and its allies.

"The speed of the A7 chip needs to be accelerated." He wrote a line in his memo, and then added a huge "14nm" in the back.

No matter how the United States sanctions, Apple cannot fall behind.

He sent another email to the purchasing director: "Contact Transsion Panels to see if we can customize a batch of flagship screens."

Looking down, he once again saw The New York Times; they were right, but it wasn't that late yet.

Everyone says that 5 years ago, Apple redefined the mobile phone with the iPhone, but from the moment Steve Jobs passed away, Apple was already a crumbling edifice, and Transsion accelerated this moment.

Apple must make a change!

But the step forward to change could be a bright road, or it could be a man-eating abyss.

...

What he didn't know was that at the Transsion headquarters in Guangzhou, Chen Fei was looking at the first-sale report with Li Qing.

Currently, the cumulative sales volume has exceeded 800,000 units, and the number of customers picking up goods offline has also exceeded 600,000.

"By the way, Boss, is the Samsung S4 launching today?"

Shen Fei certainly knew; this was a good day he had carefully selected.

It is now the morning of March 14th in New York time, and the launch event is currently underway.

"Just pay attention and understand how they introduce their products, that's all."

Li Qing nodded, then picked up a pen and recorded this request on the document.

"By the way, Boss, if competitors follow up with dual cameras, should we release triple, quad, or penta-camera setups?"

Facing this question from Li Qing, Shen Fei suddenly remembered that in his previous life, a competitor's boss specifically said during a promotion that more lenses aren't necessarily better, and higher megapixels aren't necessarily better.

Then, when the product was released, they immediately came out with 5 cameras and a 100-megapixel main sensor.

This statement actually makes sense; after all, no matter how high the pixels are, if the sensor size is small, it doesn't really help with improving image quality.