The low-end phones popular these days cost around sixty or seventy yuan apiece at the cheapest. Though they were not smartphones, they still had basic functions.
Such as audio recording, video recording, photography, lighting, and internet access.
But following Han Yang's instructions, Sun Gui found the owner of that low-end phone OEM factory in Bridge Hole District. The phones he ordered were even more stripped-down and lower-end.
Why would they need a camera function? They did not. They did not even need to install cameras.
Flashlights? Not needed.
Internet access? Unnecessary.
After stripping everything away, all that remained was the most basic function: making calls.
Han Yang had given some thought to choosing the lowest-tier phones as gifts for the grand opening promotion.
The poor at the bottom of society could not even afford phones that cost sixty or seventy yuan. Did they really need functions like taking photos, shooting videos, and browsing the internet?
It was better to cut everything out and drive the price as low as possible.
Long-distance calling was what poor people cared about most. With a phone, they could contact more people and find more job opportunities.
More importantly, they would not have to pay extra for this phone. They only needed to shop as usual and spend one hundred yuan to receive one for free.
They had to buy those things anyway. They might as well buy them together that day, reach one hundred yuan, and get a phone for nothing.
At that moment, at Ping An Electronics Factory in Bridge Hole District, owner Wang Wanping lowered his head slightly and silently did the calculations in his mind.
Orders had been scarce lately, and the factory's assembly lines were underutilized. But he could not possibly lay off the workers; he still had to