#197 - Rice Note Series

The price announced for the Huawei P8 is considered the standard for basic flagships.

3+32GB, 3299 yuan.

3+64GB, 3599 yuan.

3+128GB, 3999 yuan.

Basically, these three configurations of the Huawei P8 phone cover the price range from 3,000 to 4,000 yuan.

Compared to the previous generation of Huawei flagship phones, the price has increased by almost 500 yuan, which is gradually approaching high-end flagship phones.

This Huawei product launch not only introduced mobile phones but also headphones and other mobile phone accessories, but these are not the focus of Lu Haifeng's attention.

After all, he has basically finished watching the Huawei product launch, and he also needs to pay attention to the Xiaomi Note series phones released by Xiaomi.

Since Xiaomi and Huawei are holding product launches on the same day.

Lei Jun's decision to challenge Huawei at this time means that his products must have his most core competitiveness.

Lu Haifeng also wanted to understand how Xiaomi would impact the high-end flagship mobile phone market.

After watching the Xiaomi launch event, Lu Haifeng finally understood the most important meaning of Lei Jun's launch.

Although the protagonist of this launch was the Xiaomi Note phone, the most core position did not belong to the phone.

The Xiaomi Note phone can be said to be a very comprehensive 'bucket machine,' but from this launch, you can see a lot of things, Xiaomi's extremely strong ability to integrate suppliers.

Looking at the Xiaomi Note phone configuration, the Xiaomi Note phone is equipped with Qualcomm's most powerful Snapdragon 815 processor chip.

The screen is equipped with a 6.1-inch 2K screen from China Star Optoelectronics, Samsung's previous generation optical sensor, and the phone's camera is a 12-megapixel front camera and a 24-megapixel rear camera.

A 3200 mAh battery, all of which can illustrate Xiaomi's strong supplier integration capabilities.

Now Xiaomi has used all the best configurations it can get on this phone.

Xiaomi has spared no expense in terms of screen photography performance and battery life.

However, in Lu Haifeng's opinion, the Xiaomi Note phone still has some shortcomings in other aspects. The first is the unchanged back cover design, which looks like the appearance designed by a straight man in the company.

In addition, Xiaomi did not use full-screen technology like China Star Technology and Huawei, which is also a failure of the Xiaomi Note phone.

However, due to the excessive configuration upgrade of the Xiaomi Note phone, the configuration cost required by the Xiaomi Note phone is too high.

Naturally, in terms of pricing, it can no longer return to the nostalgic 1999 yuan.

The storage configuration of the Xiaomi Note phone is basically the same as that of the Huawei P8 phone. The prices of the three different storage configurations are:

3+32GB, 2799 yuan

3+64GB, 3199 yuan

3+128GB, 3399 yuan

Compared to the Huawei P8 phone, the price of the Xiaomi Note phone is not too high.

After all, with so many powerful configuration parameters there, it can still reflect the cost performance of Xiaomi phones.

Now, the focus of Lu Haifeng's attention is not on the Xiaomi Note phone released by Xiaomi.

But on the two products that Xiaomi also released at this product launch, the Xiaomi Mi Band 1 and Xiaomi's first network TV.

Xiaomi has always produced not only mobile phones but also TV boxes, but this time Xiaomi did not launch a TV box, but instead launched a network TV.

The quality of this TV is still very high. It is equipped with a 32-inch LCD screen, and the price of Xiaomi's TV is also very cheap, only 1499 yuan.

This price can be said to be very cheap in this era. After all, the price of TVs in this era is generally more expensive, and LCD TVs cost two to three thousand yuan.

Now, the network TV released by Xiaomi is not only cheap but also can be connected to the Internet, thus saving the money to buy a Xiaomi box, which is also a very cost-effective thing.

As for the other released bracelet, although the functions it has are relatively simple, it is also a very bright electronic product in this era.

Other mobile phone friends are concerned about Xiaomi mobile phones, while Lu Haifeng is concerned about Xiaomi's other two products.

Xiaomi is now starting to make bracelets and TVs, which shows that Xiaomi is preparing to build a new product ecosystem and will lay out more industries in the future.

China Star Technology also has to start building its own company's product ecosystem chain. The current China Star Technology has not invested much in other industries.

Because Lu Haifeng does not have the connections like Lei Jun. Before the establishment of Xiaomi, Lei Jun was already a very famous angel investor in Da Xia Country. His connections cover a very wide range of industries.

After Xiaomi released the Xiaomi 1 and Xiaomi 2 phones, it not only obtained a lot of profits but also received investments from many other companies.

So Xiaomi became rich and powerful and invested in many companies one after another, and had already begun to lay out the Xiaomi brand's ecological industry chain.

Although China Star Technology started relatively late, the cash flow it has is unmatched by other companies.

It's just that the connections are still not comparable to Lei Jun and Xiaomi. Under this environment, it still takes a certain amount of time for the company to develop the ecological industry chain.

This is not the case. After Lu Haifeng just grabbed Samsung's high-end mobile phone market, he now has to come back to face the competition from several domestic companies.

It seems that it still takes a certain amount of time for China Star Technology to truly develop its own ecological chain.

The Xiaomi Note phone and the Huawei P8 phone were also launched at the same time.

Although the Huawei P8 is slightly unsatisfactory in terms of camera, it is still not inferior to the Xiaomi Note phone in other aspects.

Moreover, the Huawei P8 is obviously stronger than the Xiaomi Note phone in terms of appearance design and brand quality.

However, the comprehensive strength of the Xiaomi Note phone is not weak, after all, the price is much cheaper than the Huawei P8.

It can be said that the release of these two mobile phones also indicates that there will be a fierce battle in the mobile phone market in December.

It's just that the market is not as lively as Lu Haifeng imagined. Perhaps it has experienced the high-end flagship market battle between September and November.

So after the launch of these two 3,000 yuan-level mobile phones, the kind of crazy rush that was imagined did not appear in the market.

Due to the sluggish market, the sales of these two mobile phones were not as good as expected.

One week after the release of the Xiaomi Note phone, sales just barely exceeded one million units.

The online sales of Huawei P8 also only exceeded 700,000 units, and according to professional agency statistics, Huawei P8 offline also only sold about 1.2 million units.