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The press conference was over, and the 128 directly-operated stores of Cote d'Azur in China began to queue up and snap up the next day. Such a grand event has not appeared for nearly three years.

As soon as the Azure-4 was announced, it became a new benchmark for the industry. Industry insiders and consumers are now discussing this flagship machine, and the popularity is still high.

However, despite the high level of discussion, the outside world's comments on Azure-4 are polarized.

One side is supportive. These people mainly include the "basic disk" of Azure smartphones, that is, die-hard fans and Luo Sheng's fans. They are blowing the rhythm. Various Azure-4 redefine the benchmark of smartphones. Fan's technology bloggers are naturally explosive when they receive money from advertisers, and Azure-4 is also worthy of its name. So far, no friend business can match it.

On the other hand, those who criticize badly are mainly people in the industry and the media. The point of criticism is that Azure-4 is too expensive to sell, it is simply too expensive.

The flagship products of domestic friends and businessmen are also selling in the 2,000-3,000 yuan range, and the international friends and merchants only dare to sell their products in the 3,000-4,000 yuan range, and they dare not mention it. Samsung or Apple are both. Carefully test to the high-end area.

The Côte d'Azur is better, I will greet you when I come up, 7888 Few friends and businessmen can stand it.

A lot of media are saying that Azure-4 sales may end up being bleak. Although the product is good, the price is too high.

A friend in the industry posted a message on Weibo the night after the Azure-4 conference ended:

[A friend company uses a 2k screen for a screen of less than 5 inches.

At the same time, two pictures are attached, one is the front bright screen of the Azure-4 mobile phone, and the other is the front bright screen of the latest product of the friend. It seems that the difference is not big, and the former sells for 7888 yuan, while the latter only costs 1999 yuan.

The subtext is that consumers who choose the former will be slashed with leeks and receive IQ tax. Don’t be fooled, come and buy 1999. As long as 1999 is long, you can’t afford to buy, you can’t be fooled…

When this news was released, good melon eaters watched the fun and started reposting it a lot, and also @罗盛's Weibo, fans on both sides began to quarrel with each other.

Luo Sheng, who was @@, also looked at the quarrel on Weibo, but he paid attention to it for a while and ignored it, and it was even less likely that he would bubble up.

The executives of the Côte d'Azur will not jump out and interact with friends online or anything. They were warned by the boss a while ago.

Luo Sheng really didn't care, and even secretly had fun, because the two parties were arguing on Weibo, and in the end, Bluestar Technology made money. Weibo is an Internet social product under Bluestar Technology. The quarrel between the two sides brought traffic and popularity. .

Then, Bluestar Technology is Luosheng Enterprise again.

In this closed-loop Internet ecosystem, no matter how you come, you can't lose.

Although there are occasional "interactions" between Côte d'Azur and fellow businessmen, of course Côte d'Azur appears to be a bit colder, and generally friends and businessmen take the initiative to "interact".

However, this kind of "interaction" is not so intense today, because the entire smartphone industry is currently in the era of heavy volume, not the era of stock.

To put it simply, although the competition in the smartphone industry has a tendency to move towards the Red Sea, the major brand manufacturers have it all at the moment, because the market is not fully saturated, and the global shipments are always increasing.

If it is the era of stock, the overcapacity may not be as harmonious as it is today. It is really the rhythm of life and death, and the shopping mall is the battlefield.

But then again,

Cote d’Azur company took 80% of the overall profits of the industry, which made many friends and businessmen jealous. After all, the profits were taken away by your family, and everyone’s battle was broken. Therefore, if you can Give some eye drops to the Côte d'Azur, friends and businessmen are still very enthusiastic.

The launch of Azure-4 did not receive unanimous praise, but the opinions were polarized. The critics were attacking the high price point, intending to instill in consumers that the Azure-4 mobile phone is a high-quality and inexpensive product .

In fact, I also want to instill in the consumers that things are not beautiful, but the problem is that Azure is really beautiful, and this is really black.

It's nice to see someone working on the Côte d'Azur, and it's okay to do it together by the way.

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Cote d'Azur Lab.

It will take a few days for the Azure-4 flagship machine to meet consumers, and the outside world is arguing and making noise, but Luo Sheng, the engineer team and corporate executives of the blue coast have already started to quietly lay out the next-generation flagship machine products.

That is, Azure-5. In fact, as early as the first half year of Azur-4's finalization, Azure-5 has already started iterative development. Now that Azure-4 is about to be released, a large number of R\u0026D engineer teams have begun to transfer to the next-generation product R\u0026D work. .

"...The under-screen camera is not impossible to achieve, but there will be a series of new problems, and if the front camera is placed under the screen, it will affect the 'screen window effect' of the camera screen. These shortcomings make the under-screen solution very difficult to implement. difficulty."

At this moment, in a conference room in the Azure Coast laboratory, technical experts from various modules of the Azure-5 project team gathered together and Luo Sheng was discussing technical issues.

Another engineer said: "Azure-4 has solved the problem of the original desktop returning to the physical key, and the under-screen fingerprint technology will definitely become popular, then the under-screen camera is the focus of the next-generation development, and the industrial design has been in progress since the beginning of 2012. Now, it has basically been done, and the drawings have reached the stage of finalization."

Everyone couldn't help but look at Luo Sheng, who was present at the meeting. The latter basically didn't speak much. The audience kept one hand on his hips and the other on the conference table, leaning forward.

At this time, Luo Sheng said: "To put it bluntly, it is a breakthrough problem of new materials. If the graphene flexible screen is overcome, the 'screen effect' of the camera under the screen will be solved, so as to achieve a 100% full screen in the true sense."

To be honest, Luo Sheng's obsessive-compulsive disorder about the front camera on the top of the screen of his Azure-4 mobile phone is almost killing him. Whether it's the extreme screen plan, the water drop screen plan or the Liu Haiping plan, there is a black pimple on the screen. The feeling is simply unbearable.

If the graphene flexible screen solution is used, the light transmittance of the screen can be increased to more than 95%, and it can also support the advantages of bending and falling resistance. Such a solution can completely place the front camera under the screen. light transmittance, the "screen window effect" will not appear.

Luo Sheng added: "Since five years ago, the Côte d'Azur laboratory has begun to conduct demonstration research on graphene preparation technology, with a research and development budget of 1 billion US dollars in the first year, and 1 billion US dollars every year thereafter. In addition, 15 billion US dollars have been invested in five years, and a full 100 billion yuan has gone down excluding exchange rate changes and inflation rates, how is the situation now?"

After speaking, Luo Sheng turned to look at the technical director who was in charge of graphene technology research.

The latter replied: "The progress has been rewarded every year or even every month, but how long will it be before the specific commercial time, Mr. Luo... You are the most aware of the job of technology research and development, it's hard to say, maybe next year. It’s done, maybe not even ten years from now.”

There is no time to quantify the results of scientific and technological research, not to say how long it will take to produce them. Of course, Luo Sheng, who was also a scientist in his previous life, is very clear about this.

But now Luo Sheng is different. The so-called butt decides the head. He knows the reason but also has to put pressure on the team. I saw him say: "Azure-5 must be released in 2015, and it must be 100% true. On the full-screen mobile phone, hide the front camera for me under the screen, and the graphene screen technology must be developed for me."

The technical director of the graphene technology development department complained in his heart. When he was about to speak, Luo Sheng said to him first:

"Don't complain to me, I know you have difficulties. Who is innovating? It's not difficult to innovate. Next year, I will allocate a R\u0026D budget of RMB 100 billion to your department alone. If 100 billion is not enough, then With 200 billion yuan, your departmental development team can give priority to whatever resources they want, and go ahead with each other, no matter the cost or cost, to overcome the problem of new materials for me.”

The other technical development teams at the meeting couldn't help but smack their mouths. The BOSS is just a crazy rhythm.

You must know that the overall R\u0026D investment cost of the Azure-4 mobile phone is only 1.88 billion US dollars. Of course, this is because the Cote d'Azur has enjoyed the dividends of technological precipitation for so many years.

The company is no longer without any background at that time in 2004, and today's Cote d'Azur is also accumulating its own technical background.

However, everyone does not envy the Graphene Technology Development Department's ability to obtain such a strong resource inclination, because this is really not an easy job, and the pressure to get the funds will be as big as it is.

Such a huge resource inclination and such a terrifying financial investment, but as long as the graphene technology makes a breakthrough, the future income will be really incredible, it will bring ten times, dozens of times or even a hundred times the income, and it will lead to the field of new materials science. revolution, and then bring unprecedented technological subversion in application scenarios.

At this time, the director of the Graphene Technology Development Department looked at Luo Sheng and said, "Okay! But Mr. Luo, but I want to borrow a research team from you!"

Luo Sheng: "Just tell me if you have any requirements. I will give what I can give, and if I can't give it, I will try my best to get it for you."

The other party immediately said: "I want to borrow your Liu Jianwei team from Star Arrow International. To be honest, I have been eyeing Professor Liu more than half a year ago."

Luo Sheng couldn't help laughing and said, "Haha, you really know how to pick a baby, okay, I'll invite you here."

Liu Jianwei's team is the key to Star Arrow International's realization of the space ladder, but such a century-level super project is too far away, and it can be delayed for a few years. Luo Sheng is also confident that he can persuade Liu Jianwei to come and participate in the research of graphene material technology. Playing with carbon atoms.

It is not difficult to convince Liu Jianwei. After all, he is a visionary of the space ladder, but he needs a huge amount of capital investment, and he has to make money first. Therefore, he came to Cote d'Azur to lay the foundation for Star Arrow International to build a space ladder in the future.

A simple scientist like Liu Jianwei can't stand the flicker of the story king Luo Sheng at all. Then he has to pack up and bring his team to the Azure Coast Laboratory to develop graphene technology?

With the passage of time, the release date of the national version of the Azure-4 mobile phone has officially arrived.

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