Chapter 552 Mate1S
I have to say that Arnault’s party is quite special. Although there are not many well-known supermodels among the girls attending, there are some who are famous and have their own looks. Models can also 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 second wife in the future, who is a model.
The girl Barron brought back to the villa is named Camille Rome. She is not yet 21 years old and is a model who has 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 this girl would become a supermodel and actress in the future. All he needed was the help of this girl. Just killing time by myself at night...
"Your Highness the Duke, this is the revised development plan of Honor Electronics transferred from the Caesar Fund..."
Wait until you leave the villa, and the person named Camille’s girl, after 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. Just say it 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 Mate1C 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..."
< br>If you think about it this way, it is not unreasonable...
Barron frowned slightly, then gradually relaxed, and said:
"Is there more?"
"Honor Electronics believes that the most important thing now is to launch Android phones that support 3G networks, so they hope to launch Mate1S in the second half of this year, including 8GB and 16GB versions, to increase support for 3G networks..."
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"Okay, let's do this..."
More than 500,000 Mate1 units have been sold so far. At the current rate, there is no problem that Mate1 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 is the first country to realize 3G commercialization. Since then, 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 in the world has exceeded 500 million, so it is 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 Mate1S 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. This will allow more users to use the 3G network, which will allow them to recover their investment in the 3G network earlier and even make a profit.
Therefore, Mate1S's contract phone 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 can make Mate1S cheaper. It is sold to users at a certain price - it is even possible for users to get contract machines for free when they choose certain packages with a certain period.
At present, Honor Electronics has established two R&D centers outside China. One is located in Lijiapo, which is a mobile phone chip R&D center they established in cooperation with Avago; the other is the Honor Electronics European Branch in London. company, where they are cooperating with Huawei and ARM to start research and development of the 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. The main market for their mobile phone products is in China, and China will not launch its 4G network until April next year. Therefore, Huawei mobile phones that support Android will not be launched until next year.
...After Barron returned to London, he saw a piece of news in the newspaper...
Prince William and Cather are back together again.
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 gathering with his wife Bonnie and son George, the family came to Earl Bute's home.
Well, Chrissy, the Countess of Bute, is more than nine months pregnant... nine months and two weeks to be exact.
So this 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 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.
But Barron and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Bute, 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 Butt put the newspaper on the coffee table, took off his glasses, and said to Barron.
"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 of the merger or the synergy of the two businesses, Choosing Thomson Group is better than 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 am afraid it will not be that easy..."
Earl Bute nodded and agreed with Barron:
“If they merge with the Thomson Group, they will become the largest market owner among financial information providers, which is absolutely intolerable to Bloomberg. , As for the British side..."
The other party glanced at Barron and said with a smile:
"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.
(End of this chapter)