"Are you guys calling me an idiot in your heads?" To their surprise, as soon as the reporters had this thought, Boss Huang voiced it, making things incredibly awkward.
"Actually, making the battery smaller is a very important improvement and advantage for the Tianzhou Terminal, because this way, we can... swap batteries!" Boss Huang finished, holding up his Tianzhou Terminal with one hand and pulling another battery out of his pocket with the other!
Then, Boss Huang was seen pressing a button on the middle frame below the terminal with one hand, and with a slight push, a battery popped out from the bottom of the terminal. Boss Huang then gently pulled, and the lithium battery originally installed inside the terminal was directly removed by him.
He then replaced it with the new battery he took from his pocket, slid it in, and pressed it down again. The battery snapped firmly into place inside the terminal, and the Tianzhou Terminal regained power.
The audience at the scene didn't show much change in their expressions. They were even wondering why Boss Huang was making such a fuss about this, calling it the greatest core selling point.
Isn't it a matter of course that a phone, or rather, a terminal, can have its battery replaced?
These people living in 2007 certainly couldn't understand the feelings of future mobile phone users.
If mobile phone users from 2022 saw this scene, they would definitely exclaim with excitement, shouting that this was the greatest mobile phone upgrade of the 2020s.
After all, countless people worldwide suffered from battery anxiety, leading to the invention of power banks and the even more ridiculous shared charging services.
But many might not know that before the 2010s, mobile phone users didn't have to worry about insufficient battery life or their phones dying when they went out.
This was because they would typically carry an extra phone battery with them. When the power ran low, they could simply replace it. It was fast and convenient, an experience that current power banks couldn't match.
In terms of batteries, mobile phones had taken a step backward, even worse than feature phones.
The origin of all this was Apple. Apple set this bad precedent with its first-generation smartphone, the iPhone, by introducing the anti-human design of a completely fixed battery that users couldn't replace.
This design was then adopted by almost all smartphone manufacturers in the future, becoming the biggest example of anti-human design in the entire smartphone industry.
Of course, Apple didn't make this design to be anti-human. It wasn't that, as some articles claimed, Jobs viewed users as fools and his design as flawless, not wanting users to tamper with it, so he simply designed the entire iPhone as a single unit, impossible to open.
In reality, Apple's decision to design it this way was a necessity in the early days of smartphones.
Firstly, to create a clear distinction in appearance and performance between smartphones and traditional feature phones, Apple equipped the iPhone with many features, requiring numerous components.
The number of internal components in the iPhone was about double that of a traditional feature phone, placing extremely high demands on the internal component layout, requiring the maximization of every millimeter of space.
Jobs also demanded that the iPhone be as compact as possible, at least half the size and weight of a traditional feature phone, which further compressed the internal space.
This presented a huge challenge for the iPhone designers: they couldn't find a place to freely install the battery.
Traditional feature phones simply had a battery compartment in the phone, and the battery was placed inside it. This inevitably took up a lot of internal space.
Furthermore, feature phone lithium batteries were inherently thick, typically over 5 millimeters, with some domestic counterfeit phones having batteries over 10 millimeters thick.
Including a battery compartment, the thickness could increase to around 8 to 15 millimeters.
This was due to the inadequate energy storage technology of lithium batteries at the time and their extremely low energy density, which forced them to increase battery volume to improve capacity.
However, this was an unacceptable thickness for the iPhone, which had a design thickness of only 11 millimeters. Apple engineers' solution was to completely eliminate the battery compartment and shrink the battery's size to its absolute minimum, making it an internal component within the phone to achieve the iPhone's reduced thickness.
Besides the significant space constraints, there were two other very important factors: the overall sealing of the phone and caching issues.
Sealing is easy to understand. If a freely opening and closing battery compartment were added, it would inevitably create numerous passages inside the phone, allowing external air and moisture to enter, thereby degrading the phone's performance.
As for caching, it's because many internal components of a smartphone require continuous power supply, such as memory or hard drives. They actually need a continuous current to maintain data storage.
However, if the battery were to be removed from the phone for an extended period, some data would be lost. Therefore, by designing the battery to be non-removable, the phone's battery power could continuously maintain the phone's various data caches.
Under the influence of these numerous factors, the iPhone ultimately opted for non-replaceable batteries, forcing users to charge while using their phones.
As for later Android phones, they faced similar design challenges. With the iPhone leading the way, they naturally followed suit without hesitation, mimicking the iPhone's design by eliminating replaceable batteries, ultimately leading to all future smartphones becoming unable to have their batteries replaced.
As a result, many users became accustomed to this anti-human design and even defended it, claiming it was high-end, minimalist, and full of technological flair, a great technological design.
This was no longer an elephant spitting dog teeth from its mouth; it was entirely like pulling rainbow excrement from its mouth.
Boss Huang, suffering from battery drain, naturally demanded that his designers at Tianzhou Terminal completely avoid this situation, even investing hundreds of millions of yuan to research alternative solutions.
Thus, a rechargeable lithium battery with an energy density 1/3 higher than the world's best lithium batteries, significantly reducing its size, was added to Jiangnan Group's product list.
Not only that, but Jiangnan Group's designers also ingeniously designed a spring-loaded latch structure, allowing the battery to pop out with a simple press of a button.
When users pushed the battery back into the phone, it could also be linked to reseal the battery port, achieving water and dust resistance.
Although this resulted in the Tianzhou phone's thickness reaching 12 millimeters, about a millimeter thicker than the iPhone, it was unlikely that any user would truly care about this single millimeter.
Boss Huang believed this to be the most powerful and outstanding invention in the future smartphone industry. Unfortunately, the reporters present couldn't grasp the advancement of this replaceable battery technology and were instead planning how to continue mocking Boss Huang in their articles.
Later, one reporter wrote in his article: "Unless God commands that all future terminal devices cannot have replaceable batteries, I cannot imagine what is so brilliant about this technology."
"Sigh," Boss Huang had no better solution in this situation. After all, he couldn't take these reporters back to their original world. He could only comfort himself by saying that he knew this design was great.
Next, Boss Huang introduced other hardware innovations in the Tianzhou Terminal, such as advancements in cameras and photography technology. It not only had a rear camera but also a front-facing camera, which was very rare at the time and an feature neither Google nor Apple had.
The resolution of these two cameras was also astonishing, with the rear camera boasting 5 megapixels and the front-facing camera having 2 megapixels.
Apple's rear camera, on the other hand, only had 2 megapixels. Simultaneously, Huang He also demonstrated the phone's automatic beautification feature, stating that the phone's camera could automatically help beautify photos, making the skin appear more delicate.
It also had a filter switching function to meet more shooting needs.
In response, many reporters felt that this was the truly significant hardware introduction, much better than the replaceable batteries.
However, some reporters dismissed it, believing that there was no conceivable purpose for a front-facing camera. Its resolution was not as clear as the rear camera, and the shooting experience was terrible. Apart from selfies, it was useless.
But would anyone in the world be willing to take selfies in front of a camera all day? How bored and narcissistic would someone have to be to do such a thing!
This reporter immediately wrote his thoughts in his article, accompanying it with a photo of himself and Boss Huang, taken as a selfie with him holding the phone in one hand and leaning close to Boss Huang with the other.
Boss Huang then introduced many other major hardware breakthroughs, which will not be detailed here. These hardware upgrades forced the reporters present to admit that, apart from the replaceable battery, this somewhat incomprehensible highlight feature, the Tianzhou Terminal had completely surpassed Google and Apple in terms of hardware, or rather, the two sides were not even in the same league.
"Alright, the hardware introduction is finished. Now we will announce..." Boss Huang said enthusiastically, when suddenly a figure descended like an immortal, landing slowly beside Huang He. He then said in a rather disdainful tone, "Brother-in-law, is there another important piece of hardware you haven't introduced?"
"No, I've introduced everything that needed to be introduced! Chip, battery, camera, gyroscope, screen..." Boss Huang said dismissively.
"What about the most important hardware for a terminal? The hardware that connects every terminal together?" Leng Zhiwen rolled her eyes.
"Oh no, I actually forgot!" Boss Huang slapped his head.