The little lightning bolt icons indicating charging lit up in the top-right corners of both phones' screens!
"Success!" Sun Zhongyong and Zhao Wanyu cried out excitedly at the same time.
Looking at the indicators on the phones, Chen Mengchuan smiled and handed the Apple phone to Zhao Wanyu and the Google Android phone to Sun Zhongyong.
"Keep walking forward," Chen Mengchuan said with a smile.
Zhao Wanyu picked up the phone, took a deep breath, and cautiously walked forward. Eleven meters, twelve meters, thirteen meters... seventeen meters. Standing at roughly seventeen meters, Zhao Wanyu nodded at the others. "It's still charging!"
"Further forward!" Toni said, pushing up her glasses.
Zhao Wanyu took another two steps forward and waved her hand. "It's not charging anymore!"
"Looks like the range of Dawn 1.0 really is only 17.3 meters!" Toni said.
"Brother Sun, you walk forward too," Chen Mengchuan said.
After testing it, the two phones had the same maximum charging distance. Or rather, the two Dawn 1.0 units had the same maximum charging distance.
After walking back, Sun Zhongyong looked at Chen Mengchuan and the others with obvious excitement in his eyes.
"Brother Xu, what's the production capacity of the two production lines now?" Chen Mengchuan asked.
"Let's talk somewhere else," Xu Shuwei gestured.
Chen Mengchuan nodded. The six of them entered Xu Shuwei's office, closed the door, and took their seats.
Xu Shuwei answered Chen Mengchuan's earlier question. "Based on the calculations, with the two production lines operating at full capacity, each can produce 34,000 sets of Dawn 1.0 per day, for a monthly capacity of one million sets. But that's only a theoretical figure. Accounting for wear and tear, equipment failures, and so on, reaching 700,000 sets a month would already be very good."
"What about the production lines still being modified? How are they progressing?" Chen Mengchuan asked.
"They'll be completed one after another. There will be twelve production lines in total by then."
"Too slow." Toni pushed up her glasses and looked at Chen Mengchuan.
Chen Mengchuan nodded with a grave expression. "It is. Far too slow."
"Cough, cough. One production line makes 700,000 sets a month, so twelve lines make 8.4 million sets a month. And you still think that's too slow?" Sun Zhongyong felt dizzy. Seeing the expressions on Chen Mengchuan, Xu Shuwei, and Toni's faces, he was speechless.
"Brother, how many phones do you think there are in all of Huaxia?" Gu Xiaoxiao asked, disappointed by his lack of ambition.
"Uh, I don't know. There should be several hundred million..." Sun Zhongyong said.
"There are at least 800 million phones in Huaxia. At a monthly capacity of 8.4 million, it'll take us over eight years to produce 800 million Dawn 1.0 units. Do you understand now?" Gu Xiaoxiao said.
Sun Zhongyong slowly said, "Will everyone buy one? Even if they do, wouldn't that already be pretty good?"
"Forget it. Toni, you explain..." Gu Xiaoxiao said helplessly.
Toni pushed up her glasses. "Too slow. Expand, Mengchuan. We need to increase to at least two hundred production lines before we can barely support our upcoming plans."
Chen Mengchuan nodded, agreeing with Toni.
He turned to Xu Shuwei and asked, "What's the split between the twelve production lines now?"
"You mean the split between iOS and Android? Five to seven. There will be five iOS production lines and seven Android production lines," Xu Shuwei answered.
"And the price? What price would be most appropriate?" Chen Mengchuan looked at everyone.
"The iOS charger has one more headphone port than the Android version. Price the iOS version at 299 Huaxia Yuan and the Android version at 199 Huaxia Yuan. What do you think?" Xu Shuwei said slowly.
Sun Zhongyong's heart skipped a beat. "Isn't that too expensive? Two hundred yuan for a charger... The expensive wireless chargers on the market now only cost a little over a hundred, and most cost less than a hundred."
Gu Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at her brother. "Can they even be compared? Brother, I don't even know what to say to you. You're seriously underestimating Dawn 1.0. This is genuine, era-defying black technology! Let me tell you, Dawn 1.0 will be priceless!"
"Take the high-end route. The Huaxia edition of Dawn 1.0: 499 for iOS and 399 for Android! The overseas edition: 199 US Dollars for iOS and 159 US Dollars for Android!" Toni said seriously, pushing up her glasses.
The fat on Xu Shuwei's face trembled. "Toni, you're even more ruthless than I am. Do you know how much it costs to make a Dawn 1.0?"
"The material cost is under ten Huaxia Yuan. The technology is priceless!" The calmness in Toni's eyes could not conceal her fervor.
Gu Xiaoxiao nodded. "I also support Toni's suggestion."
"I also think Toni makes sense. This price isn't expensive," Zhao Wanyu said, nodding in support of Toni's pricing.
Sun Zhongyong only felt his mouth go dry. He twisted open a bottle of water and gulped down more than half of it...
After thinking for a moment, Chen Mengchuan nodded. "Then we'll price it as Toni suggested! Now that we've settled production volume and pricing, the last thing is Dawn 1.0's marketing plan. Achen can help a lot, but I know nothing about the advertising industry. What do you think? Any suggestions?" Chen Mengchuan asked politely.
Everyone fell into thought.
Zhao Wanyu picked up the Dawn 1.0 in her hand and said with a smile, "I do have a few ideas."
"We can make some short videos and have Achen push them heavily onto Huaxia's short-video apps. At the same time, we can launch real-time online sales, listing the Dawn 1.0 units produced each day—or even each hour—online with visible inventory numbers. What do you think?"
"Hunger marketing? That's a good idea!" Sun Zhongyong's eyes lit up!
"Low cost, fast, feasible!" Toni said, pushing up her glasses.
The others nodded as well, indicating their agreement.
Chen Mengchuan nodded too and addressed a display screen beside them. "Achen, your Mother Zhao needs a website to sell Dawn 1.0 online in real time. Can you help her make one?"
"Of course. I'm happy to help Mother Zhao. The website is already built. Mother Zhao, see which one you like." Four websites appeared on the screen, all of them clean and easy to understand.
Zhao Wanyu froze. So fast! But she immediately praised her. "Achenzi, you're amazing! Open the one in the top right."
"Okay." The website in the top-right corner was enlarged. Its colors and layout were extremely simple, with detailed introductions to Dawn 1.0's uses, functional specifications, and clearly displayed prices.
"Nicely done, Achen." Zhao Wanyu could not help praising her!
"Thank you for the praise, Mother Zhao. These things aren't difficult for me," Achen said.
"What do you all think of this website?" Zhao Wanyu asked the others.
Everyone nodded and unanimously approved it!
"Brother Sun, Brother Xu, next comes arranging production. Order as many raw materials as the factory needs as possible and strive to maximize production. Also, arrange logistics companies to handle deliveries. Find the best ones and negotiate the prices down. Very soon, we'll have a lot of orders..." Chen Mengchuan said slowly.
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