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The press conference was over, and the 128 direct-operated stores of the Côte d'Azur in China began to queue up for purchase the next day. Such a grand occasion has not appeared for almost three years.

Azure-4 has become a new benchmark in the industry as soon as it was announced. Industry insiders and consumers are now discussing this flagship machine, and the popularity remains high.

However, with the high degree of discussion, the outside world's reviews of Azure-4 are polarized.

One side is strong. These people mainly include the "basic disk" of Azure smartphones, that is, die-hard fans and Luo Sheng fans. The rhythm is simply blowing up. All kinds of Azure-4 redefine the benchmark of smartphones. Fan’s technology bloggers, receiving money from advertisers, are naturally an explosive rhythm, and Azure-4 is also worthy of the name, so far no friend can match it.

On the other hand, it is bad-mouthing criticism, mainly in the industry and the media. The point of criticism is that Azure-4 is too expensive to sell, it is simply expensive.

The flagship products of domestic friends and peers are also sold in the two to three thousand yuan gear, and the products of international friends only dare to sell three to four thousand yuan, and they dare not to mention it, like Samsung or Apple. Carefully explore the high-end area.

The Côte d’Azur is better. I’ll greet you with 7888 when I come up. Few friends and merchants can survive.

Many media are screaming that Azure-4’s sales may eventually be bleak. Although the product is very good, the price is too high.

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

[It’s meaningless to use a 2k screen for a screen of less than 5 inches from a certain friend. It’s just absorbing the wool of consumers. It’s a bit too much for a mobile phone to sell for 7888 at retail price]

Two pictures are also 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 partner.It seems that there is little difference, while the former costs 7888 yuan, while the latter costs only 1999 yuan.

The subtext is that consumers who choose the former are cut leeks and charge IQ taxes. Don’t be fooled. Come and buy 1999. As long as 1999, you can’t buy it at a loss, you can’t buy it...

When this news was released, the good-for-nothing netizens immediately started to repost it in large quantities after watching the excitement, and the fans on both sides began to quarrel with each other on the Weibo of @.

Luo Sheng by @ also took a look at the quarrel on Weibo, but he paid attention to it for a while and then ignored it, let alone bubbling.

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

Luo Sheng really doesn’t care, and even a little bit of fun, because the two parties are noisy on Weibo, and the final profit is Bluestar Technology. Weibo is an Internet social product under Bluestar Technology. The noise between the two parties has brought traffic and popularity. .

Then, Bluestar Technology is Luosheng Enterprise again.

In this closed-loop Internet ecosystem, no one can lose.

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

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

To put it simply, although the competition in the smartphone industry has a trend towards the Red Sea, it is currently available to all major brand manufacturers because the market has not yet been fully saturated and global shipments are always growing.

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

But this is the case again. One company on the Blue Coast took away 80% of the overall profits of the industry. It made many friends and businessmen jealous. After all, the profits were taken away by your family, and everyone was fighting for a bit of soup. His head was broken, so anyone who can give eye drops to the blue coast, friends and business colleagues are still very enthusiastic.

The Azure-4 conference did not receive unanimous praise, but the wind reviews were polarized. The critics were attacking the high price point, and intended to instill in consumers that the Azure-4 mobile phone is an inexpensive product. .

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

I am also very happy to see someone working on the Côte d’Azur, and it’s okay to join in.

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Côte d'Azur laboratory.

The Azure-4 flagship machine will have to wait a few days to meet with consumers. The outside world is making noise. However, Luo Sheng and the team of engineers and business executives of the Blue Coast have begun to quietly lay out the next generation of flagship machine products.

That is Azure-5. In fact, as early as the first half of the Azure-4 finalization, Azure-5 has already started iterative development. Now Azure-4 is on sale soon, a large number of R&D engineers have begun to transfer into the R&D of next-generation products. Up.

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

At this moment, in a conference room in the Riviera Lab, various module technical experts from 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. The under-screen fingerprint technology will definitely become popular. Then the under-screen camera is the focus of the next generation of development. Industrial design has been carried out since early 2012. Now it’s basically done, and the drawings have reached the finalized stage."

Everyone couldn't help but look at Luo Sheng who was present at the meeting. The latter basically did not speak much. The audience kept one hand on hips and one on the conference table, sitting 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 window 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 with the front camera above the screen of his Azure-4 mobile phone is almost killing him, whether it is the extreme screen solution, the water drop screen solution or the Liu Haiping solution, there is a black bump on the screen. The feeling is almost unbearable.

If the graphene flexible screen solution is used, the light transmittance of the screen can be 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. The 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. The R&D budget for the first year started at 1 billion U.S. dollars. In addition, 15 billion U.S. dollars has been invested in five years, and 100 billion yuan has been kept excluding exchange rate changes and inflation. 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 is harvested every year or even every month, but how long will it be before the specific commercial time? Mr. Luo...you know the most about the work of technology research and development. It's hard to say, maybe next year. If it’s done, it may not be necessary after ten years."

There is no time to quantify the results of scientific and technological research. It does not mean that it will take long. Luo Sheng, who was also a scientist in the previous life, certainly knows this.

But now Luo Sheng is different. The so-called butt determines the head. He knows the reason, but he 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. The full-screen mobile phone on the Internet, hide the front camera for me under the screen, and the graphene screen technology must be developed for me."

When the technical director of the graphene technology development department heard a grievance, when he was about to speak, Luo Sheng said to him first:

"Don't complain to me, I know you have difficulties. Who is in no trouble to innovate? There is no problem in innovation. Next year, I will allocate a R&D budget of 100 billion yuan to your department. If 100 billion is not enough, then 200 billion, your department's development team can give priority to whatever resources it wants, and go ahead with it, and solve the problem of new materials for me at any cost."

The other technical development groups participating in the meeting couldn't help but slap their lips. BOSS is simply crazy rhythm. This is really at all costs and at all costs.

You know that the overall R&D investment cost of Azure-4 mobile phone is only 1.88 billion US dollars. Of course, this is because the Blue Coast company has enjoyed the dividends of technology precipitation over so many years.

The company is no longer without any background at that time in 2004. Today, the Côte d’Azur has accumulated its own technical background.

However, everyone does not envy the graphene technology development department to be able to obtain such a strong resource tilt, because this is really not an easy job, and the amount of funding will be under pressure.

Such a large resource tilt and such a terrifying financial investment, but as long as the graphene technology is broken, the future benefits will be incredible. It will bring ten times, dozens, or even hundreds of times, and it will also trigger the field of new materials science. The revolution, which in turn brings unprecedented technological subversion in application scenarios.

At this time, the director of the graphene technology development department looked at Luo Sheng and gritted his teeth and said: "Okay! But President Luo, but I want to borrow a scientific research team from you!"

Luo Sheng: "Let's talk about what you want. I will give everything I can, and 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. It is true that I have been eyeing Professor Liu more than half a year ago."

Luo Sheng couldn't help but laughed and said: "Haha, you really know how to pick a baby, let's go, I will invite you over."

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

It is not difficult to persuade Liu Jianwei. After all, he is an aspirant for the space ladder, but he needs a huge amount of capital investment and must make money first, so he came to the Blue Coast to lay the foundation for the future Star Arrow International to build a space ladder.

A simple scientist like Liu Jianwei can't withstand the flick of the story king Luo Sheng, so why not obediently pack and bring the team to the Blue Coast Lab to engage in graphene technology?

With the passage of time, the Azure-4 mobile phone national bank version of the sale day has officially arrived.

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