Chapter 552 Mate 1S

I have to say that Arnault's party was quite special. Although there were not many well-known supermodels among the girls who attended, the slightly famous and attractive models could still dazzle people.

After all, Paris is the capital of fashion, and the Lagardère Group already owns well-known fashion magazines like "ELLE", so there is no shortage of resources.

It's like Arnault's future second wife, a model.

The girl Barron brought back to the villa was named Camille Rome. She was not yet 21 years old and was a model who had just debuted.

According to Camille, she was born in France, but later grew up in New York and California. She had just graduated. Because she had a good figure and appearance, she was discovered by an agency and tried to become a model first.

In fact, Barron was not that interested in the story of Camille Romé, and he did not recognize that the girl would become a supermodel and actress in the future. All he needed was for the girl to help him pass the time at night. That's all...

"Your Highness the Duke, this is the revised development plan of Honor Electronics transferred from the Caesar Fund..."

After leaving the villa and the girl named Camille, and getting into the Bentley Mulsanne bound for the airport, Wang Wanting took out a document from her bag and said to Barron.

"Let's not read it for now. Please tell me briefly, dear Laura."

"Honor Electronics hopes to adjust its development plan for the second half of the year. They believe that rushing to launch the Mate 1C model is not conducive to establishing a high-end image of the Mate series of mobile phones. Therefore, it is recommended that mid- to low-priced Android phones be launched under the Dopod brand..."

If you think about it this way, it's not unreasonable...

Barron frowned slightly, then gradually relaxed, and said:

"Any more?"

"Honor Electronics believes that the most important thing at the moment is to launch an Android phone that supports 3G networks, so they hope to launch Mate 1S in the second half of this year, including 8GB and 16GB versions, to increase support for 3G networks..."

"Okay, let's do this..."

Currently, more than 500,000 Mate 1 units have been sold. At the current rate, there is no problem that Mate 1 sales will exceed 1.5 million units this year.

However, as Honor Electronics said, the inability to support 3G was one of the reasons why iPhone sales were not high in Barron’s previous life.

Although China will not officially launch 3G network until April next year, many countries around the world have entered the 3G era - Japan was the first country to commercialize 3G. After that, South Korea and Most countries in Europe and the United States have also launched 3G networks.

According to statistics, so far, the number of 3G users worldwide has exceeded 500 million, so it is still very necessary to launch mobile phone models that support 3G.

The 3G network can also enrich the applications of the Android system, thus attracting more users.

And another point is that after supporting 3G network, the price of Mate 1S mobile phone can be greatly reduced. This is easy to understand. After mobile operators have built 3G networks, they naturally hope to promote their 3G packages to attract more customers. Users use 3G networks, which can enable them to recover their investment in 3G networks earlier and even make a profit.

Therefore, the contract phone of Mate 1S must have a limited package time, usually a package of at least two years. In this way, mobile operators will subsidize the contract phone for this, which will allow Mate 1S to be sold at a lower price. It is possible for users - even when users choose certain packages with a certain period of time, they can get a contract machine for free.

At present, Honor Electronics has established two R\u0026D centers outside China. One is located in Lijiapo, which is a mobile phone chip R\u0026D center they established in cooperation with Avago; the other is the Honor Electronics European Branch in London, where they cooperate with Huawei Cooperate with ARM to start research and development of next-generation 4G chips.

Speaking of Huawei, they had already entered the mobile phone industry in 2003. After the launch of the Android system, Huawei also joined the Android Alliance, which is the Open Mobile Phone Alliance, but the main market for their mobile phone products In China, China will have to wait until April next year to launch its 4G network, so Huawei mobile phones that support Android will not be launched until next year.

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After Barron returned to London, he saw a piece of news in the newspaper...

Prince William and Catherine are back together.

He was not surprised by this, because since the two broke up before, Barron knew that they would get back together soon.

Of course, Barron also played a role in this. Well, in addition to trying his best to "appease" Cather's emotions, he also made several attempts to persuade William in front of him.

So the prince and the future princess reconciled, and everyone was happy.

After returning home and getting together with his wife Bonnie and son George, the family came to Earl Bute's home.

Well, Chrissy, aka Countess of Bute, is over nine months pregnant... nine months and two weeks to be exact.

Therefore, it means that the baby boy in her belly - yes, it has been confirmed before, this time the countess is pregnant with a boy - will be born in the near future.

Speaking of which, this is already the second time the countess has "personally" given birth to a child. In terms of experience, she naturally has more experience and will not be as nervous as when she gave birth to their daughter Ethel.

The three children of the Boot family, all two or three years old, including Ethel, a boy and two girls, surrounded little George and teased him curiously.

Barron and the Boots were sitting on the sofa on the other side of the room, chatting casually.

“It seems that SEM Group’s acquisition of Reuters is not going smoothly?”

Earl Bute put the newspaper on the coffee table, took off his glasses, and said to Barron.

"We are still in a stalemate, although Reuters Group is more inclined to be acquired by Thomson Group than SEM Group - you know, whether it is the scale after the merger or the synergy of the two businesses, it is better to choose Thomson Group. to SEM Group, but this acquisition was blocked by antitrust reviews in Britain and the United States. Although they tried their best to get it passed, I'm afraid it won't be that easy..."

Earl Bute nodded and agreed with Barron:

"If they merge with Thomson Group, they will become the largest market owner among financial information providers. This is absolutely intolerable to Bloomberg. As for the British side..."

The other party glanced at Barron, smiled and said:

"Even your Highness the Duke will not agree to this deal."

"So now we are in a stalemate... unless Reuters Group compromises with SEM Group."

Barron shrugged and smiled.