Chapter 1550 Game Router? (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets!)

Old Song was a little confused.

Internal structure and external details... weren't they essentially the same thing?

A phone was a highly precise piece of technology. Space was at a premium inside. Any well-developed design had an internal structure that had been rigorously planned. It was the optimal solution achieved after comprehensive consideration and trade-offs between various elements.

For example, if you wanted a wireless charging coil, you had to compromise on battery capacity. If you wanted both, you had to increase the thickness and weight of the body.

That was just the limit of current technology. It was impossible to be perfect in every aspect and create a product that completely surpassed its time.

All you could do was meticulously refine and try to satisfy most people's requirements.

Once the internal structure was finalized, the external details could be determined.

And the external details weren't easy to change either. It all boiled down to the shell, didn't it?

There were only a few materials for phone shells, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Most phone manufacturers currently used glass, plastic, or ceramic, with a few using metal. But each material had its own advantages and problems.

Other phone companies weren't stupid. They all chose a material after careful deliberation.

President Pei was a commercial genius, that was undeniable. But he wasn't a materials scientist, so he couldn't just conjure up a new material that other phone companies hadn't discovered, could he?

That would be too fantastical.

Besides the material, what else could they do but change the color? Do a collaboration? Release a customized shell and theme?

Well, that seemed to be the only option.

Old Song asked, "President Pei, are we going to release a game-themed model? And then add a little more to the original price?"

Pei Qian nodded slightly, "Yes... and no."

"The shell and system definitely need to have some unique features, but that doesn't seem to be enough."

"Let me think... hmm, we'll also have to release another phone case, bundled for sale!"

"Also, we should try to continue some of the advantages of the e1 and g1 phones."

Pei Qian's idea was simple. This phone's design was quite mature and not easy to change. It wouldn't be able to fool Old Song if he used a terrible design that was obviously bad when there was a good one available.

So, Pei Qian's idea was to nitpick as much as possible on some unimportant details.

This would give him a legitimate reason to sell the phone at a higher price.

For consumers, Outu Technology's foldable screen phone and Shenhua's foldable screen phone were essentially the same thing, with only minor differences! So, why buy a more expensive Outu phone when you could buy a Shenhua phone?

After all, Shenhua phones were clearly superior to Outu phones in terms of system ecosystem and brand value, that was undeniable.

Outu phones mainly targeted Tenda's fans. As long as the phone could be prevented from breaking out of that circle and spreading to other groups, the situation would be relatively optimistic.

Just doing a collaboration model wasn't enough.

Because selling a collaboration model at a higher price wasn't enough to create a gap between it and Shenhua's foldable screen phone, and wasn't enough to dissuade enough customers.

So, Pei Qian's solution was to create another phone case and bundle it for sale!

In fact, almost all phones came with a phone case when they were released, but the workmanship of these cases was relatively average. In order to control costs, manufacturers generally wouldn't make them particularly perfect, just good enough.

If customers wanted a nicer phone case, they could buy one themselves.

If the free phone case was too expensive, it would inevitably cause the phone to lose its price advantage.

But Pei Qian figured that as long as he made another very expensive custom phone case and forced a bundled sale, added the phone itself being a collaboration model, and factored in Tenda's benefits…

The price of the phone would have to be raised by at least four or five thousand on top of the original price.

That price wouldn't be very appealing.

As for how to continue the advantages of the e1 and g1 phones, Pei Qian was just saying it casually. He hadn't even thought about the specific details.

He would just leave it to Old Song to figure out himself.

Old Song scratched his head slightly, "President Pei, we're already giving away a phone case, or are you saying we should redesign one?"

Pei Qian nodded, "Of course! How can we give away such an ordinary case with such a high-end phone?"

Old Song argued, "President Pei, this case isn't ordinary! It's made of leather, much better than the cases that other phones give away."

Pei Qian was very dissatisfied with this, "Just that? Obviously not enough!"

"It can't meet the diverse requirements of customers at all! Not expensive enough!"

Old Song thought for a while, "Then... how about making a leather business protective case? The kind that covers the whole phone? The price can reach three or five hundred, that should be high-end enough."

Pei Qian shook his head again, "That won't work. Shenhua definitely has similar products. Besides, this kind of business style doesn't fit our target customer group at all, I refuse!"

"How about this, I'll give you an idea, you can consider it. Combine the phone case, screen protector, and stand into one! And redesign its appearance based on the theme of the collaboration model."

"If we're going to do it, we'll make a custom-made, unique protective case!"

"I think this case should sell for at least five hundred. Your task is to make this case worthy of its price."

Pei Qian was thinking that the phone itself was already a collaboration model, and if the phone case was also a similar collaboration model, wouldn't that be great?

The phone and the phone case were on the same theme. If you took off the outer layer and looked inside, it would still be the same!

Crazy!

Just thinking about it, he felt that the customers' expressions would be very interesting then.

Old Song's expression was a little ugly, "President Pei, can you reveal a little more detail..."

Pei Qian shook his head, "That's enough, you can figure it out yourself."

He had said everything he needed to say.

Pei Qian's guiding ideology was very simple, which was to add some useless or even negative things to Shenhua's phone, and then sell it for more than Shenhua. In this way, who would come to buy Outu Technology's phone?

This idea shouldn't be a big problem, it just depended on whether Old Song could execute it well.

Old Song obviously still had a lot of questions in his stomach, but after a long time, he still didn't ask any more.

As Tenda's person in charge, he had to have this kind of awareness.

He wrote down all of President Pei's words, preparing to go back and ponder them slowly, and then said, "President Pei, here's the plan for the new smart products, please take a look."

Pei Qian nodded and picked up the second plan.

This plan contained the prototypes of several products, including wearable devices such as watches and bracelets, as well as other common smart products such as new smart speakers, headphones, and even televisions and microwave ovens.

They hadn't started making them yet, but if they wanted to, they could just come up with a design and find an OEM.

Pei Qian flipped through it briefly, then frowned.

They all looked... so reliable!

Other manufacturers were already making these smart devices, which showed that there was a market for them.

Tenda had at least two major advantages in making these things: first, the linkage advantages of the Fully-Automatic Smart Argument Machine, Outu phones, and Aeeis; second, the brand reputation advantage.

Aeeis, as a smart assistant terminal, had become relatively complete after being improved by the Numa Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The Fully-Automatic Smart Argument Machine and Outu phones were all equipped with this thing. If Tenda really released smart devices, then there should be quite a few people who would decide to buy them.

This was obviously a very dangerous thing.

Therefore, Pei Qian was not satisfied with any of the options here!

"I think... they're all too ordinary."

"They don't have the eye-catching feeling of previous smart new products."

Pei Qian handed back the materials, indicating that these plans wouldn't work.

Old Song looked embarrassed, "President Pei, so many companies are making smart products. It's already a fiercely competitive red sea. Everyone is trying their best to unleash big moves and find gimmicks. Eye-catching solutions rely heavily on luck. How can we just come up with one?"

"I think the most important thing right now is to first secure a place, cooperate with OEMs, and establish our own ecosystem."

Pei Qian shook his head, "I don't think so."

"Anyone can make things from OEMs. Does adding Aeeis suddenly set us apart from other manufacturers?"

"Outu Technology has always been highly regarded because it always launches eye-catching new products. We can't lose this tradition."

Old Song's expression was a little tangled.

What President Pei said was easy, but it was too difficult to do!

With a normal product manager's thinking, he really couldn't imagine how to develop a new product that President Pei called "eye-catching."

After all, President Pei's "eye-catching" was equivalent to "different from all the products on the market," which could be said to be the highest requirement.

Suddenly, Old Song realized something and asked, "President Pei, do you already have an idea?"

Pei Qian was silent for a moment, "Well... I have a little bit of an idea."

Old Song was overjoyed, "President Pei, please tell me, I'm all ears!"

Pei Qian paused slightly, and then said, "This is also something I just suddenly thought of. Have you ever heard of something called..."

"Game console?"

Old Song's eyes lit up, as if he had opened the door to a new world, "That's right, make a game console! It's the same as giving it away for other companies to do this, but Tenda will definitely have no problem doing it! And it fits the characteristics of smart products very well!"

Pei Qian motioned for him to stop, "Listen to me finish. It's a game console, but... it's not entirely a game console."

"Have you ever heard of... a game console having another name, called a router?"

Old Song: "Huh?"

He felt that his common sense had been subverted.

Game console and router... how could that be another name? These are completely two unrelated products!

Pei Qian smiled slightly, "If you combine the two... doesn't it feel like a breakthrough?"