Chapter 3487

However, the problem was that after watching the Hanhai mobile phone launch event, these shop assistants, who had originally felt that their own brand's flagship models were quite good, now felt that these phones were all trash.

These phones were priced ridiculously high, far higher than the Hanhai phone, yet their performance was nowhere near as good as the Hanhai phone; even with discounts, they held absolutely no appeal for these shop assistants.

These shop assistants were mostly around twenty years old, just at the age to love trends and keep up with fashion; naturally, they hoped to use the most advanced mobile phones—that was the only way to be cool. Regardless of their values, the fact remained that the appeal of the Hanhai phone was too strong.

Therefore, when there were no customers in the shop, they naturally walked out of their storefronts, enviously watching the people queuing at the entrance of the Hanhai specialty store.

At this moment, the manager of a specialty store for a mobile phone brand from a neighboring northeastern country came out and shouted at these assistants: "What are you looking at? What's there to look at? Hurry up and get back into the shop. If we don't meet this month's sales targets, let alone bonuses, we won't even have wages to pay."

This manager was anxious. He had opened this specialty store here last year. Originally, this brand's mobile phone sales ranked among the top few in the world, and after he opened the shop, sales had always been decent. But ever since Hanhai held its product launch event, sales in his shop had been sliding every month.

In particular, those flagship models priced over six thousand had not sold a single unit in three months. The best-selling items in his shop were a few cheap phones priced at a few hundred yuan, but even their sales had not increased; they were just maintaining.

But with those flagship models not selling, his shop basically had no profit to speak of, because those few-hundred-yuan models were simply not profitable. His profit relied mainly on the flagship models; now that they weren't selling, his profits couldn't even cover the rent and labor costs.

The rent for this storefront in the center of the new district was extremely expensive.

Helpless, he could only set tasks for the shop assistants, stipulating how many flagship phones each person had to sell per month. If they couldn't sell them, he would deduct their bonuses and performance-based wages; in short, the conditions were very harsh.

However, under the current circumstances, how could these shop assistants sell flagship phones? No one was a fool; why spend more money to buy a phone that was so far behind the Hanhai phone? Wouldn't that be getting ripped off?

Therefore, the income of these shop assistants was getting lower and lower, which was also the reason they had no motivation.

Now, hearing the manager say this, the shop assistants could only file in one by one, entering the shop with envy for the Hanhai phone.

At this time, the manager shoved a shop assistant who was walking the slowest and said: "Walk faster, what are you looking at?"

The manager's action caused that shop assistant to explode: "What are you shoving for? I'm not doing this anymore! Who do you think cares about this crappy shop of yours?"

The shop assistant took off the uniform he was wearing, threw it angrily on the ground, walked toward the entrance of the Hanhai specialty store, and stood at the end of the long line, waiting for the Hanhai specialty store to open; he also intended to buy a Hanhai phone.

That shop assistant left, and several other shop assistants exchanged glances, then also took off their uniforms and left the specialty store. These specialty stores were clearly on the verge of bankruptcy, and the manager wasn't good to them either, so what need was there for them to stay here?

Perhaps the Hanhai specialty store would be hiring; after all, they were all experienced hands in the mobile phone industry and understood this line of work very well. Maybe they could get hired by the Hanhai specialty store; why hang themselves on this one tree?

The manager watched, dumbfounded. He hadn't expected that most of his shop assistants would leave all at once; how could his shop continue to operate like this? He was an expatriate from that neighboring country in Baozhou, and that country wasn't too far from Baozhou, so he had thought of coming to Baozhou to strike it rich. But who would have known he would encounter such a powerful Hanhai No. 1, which had directly squeezed his shop, in which he had invested several million RMB, into such a state.

This money was his life savings, plus loans from relatives and friends that he had scraped together. But now he couldn't see any hope of a turnaround. He looked toward the Hanhai specialty store, and suddenly, he felt dizzy and collapsed to the ground.

The only two remaining shop assistants shouted "The boss has fainted," dragged the manager into the shop, splashed him with cold water, and pinched his philtrum with their fingernails, which finally made the manager slowly regain consciousness.

Su Xinghui also saw this scene, but his heart remained completely calm. He had no good feelings for this mobile phone brand from the northeastern neighboring country. This brand had no integrity to speak of and could even be called despicable. They treated Chinese consumers and foreign consumers differently, showed no respect to Chinese consumers, and when their products had quality issues, they shirked responsibility and even tried their best to cover it up, putting on one farce after another.

For such a brand, Su Xinghui wished that Hanhai Technology could squeeze them out of business.

Of course, Hanhai Technology's current strength was not enough to achieve this, but Su Xinghui believed that as long as Hanhai Technology continued to develop like this, there would be such a day sooner or later. At the very least, Hanhai Technology had to stand among the world's well-known enterprises and become an enterprise of great importance worldwide.

The glass door of the Hanhai specialty store finally opened, and the long line outside immediately surged forward. Fortunately, there were police and Hanhai specialty store staff maintaining order, so the long line was able to file in an orderly manner.

After the long line entered the shop, it immediately split into several queues. The Hanhai specialty store had a large floor area, and several counters had shop assistants receiving guests, which immediately sped up the reception process significantly.

However, the speed at which the long line moved still couldn't be very fast, because the vast majority of people didn't understand how to use a smartphone at all and needed the shop assistants to help them operate it—for example, helping them put the SIM card into the phone, teaching them how to turn it on, how to make calls, and how to open applications; all of this took time.

Although the shop assistants at the Hanhai specialty store had undergone rigorous training before today's launch on how to deal with a large number of customers, when they actually saw so many customers, they were still a bit flustered and made some mistakes during operation. But fortunately, after a while, they calmed down.

Once the shop assistants started to calm down, the speed at which they received customers also sped up. Some young customers, after watching the shop assistants' demonstrations on the side, learned how to operate the phones themselves. After getting their phones, they quickly left in high spirits, so more and more customers received their phones.

Outside and inside the shop, media reporters were also holding video cameras and cameras, capturing this grand occasion. Some reporters would even interview the shop assistants and the customers who had bought the Hanhai Generation I, asking them how they felt.

The shop assistants all said they had never thought there would be so many people queuing up to buy the Hanhai Generation I phone, while the customers all said that queuing up to buy the Hanhai phone was worth it. One customer said he had been queuing at the entrance of the specialty store since last night, just to purchase such a phone that changed the era.

It was the same scene all over the country; every Hanhai specialty store entrance was filled with long lines, and there were media reporters interviewing people. Many of these media outlets were even foreign media. Some foreigners were also queuing to buy the Hanhai Generation I, especially people sent by authoritative foreign mobile phone testing institutions; they also wanted to buy the Hanhai Generation I to conduct tests.

This was because the Hanhai Generation I phone was only launched in China, and the overseas release would still be a few days away, so these mobile phone testing institutions were also impatient to send people to China to buy the phones.

Soon, their test results were published on their websites. Without exception, the Hanhai Generation I phone was described by all mobile phone testing institutions using words like "epoch-making" and "great." However, the Hanhai Generation I phone was worthy of these comments; it was indeed epoch-making and indeed great.

In terms of hardware, the Hanhai Generation I phone surpassed all current mobile phones; its performance could even rival a computer, and its functions were also similar to a computer. No other mobile phone could be mentioned in the same breath as the Hanhai Generation I; one could even say they weren't even fit to tie its shoelaces.

The Hanhai Generation I phone could be said to have profoundly changed people's habits of using mobile phones. From now on, a mobile phone would no longer just be a communication tool; it could be used for work, for entertainment, for socializing—all kinds of things you could think of could be accomplished on the Hanhai Generation I phone.

This was all based on the openness and powerful functions of the Xiaoyao operating system. In addition to the pre-installed applications, applications developed based on the Xiaoyao operating system from all over the world could be freely installed on the Hanhai Generation I phone. Therefore, with the installation of these applications, the functions of the Hanhai Generation I phone would become more and more powerful.

It could be said that as long as you could think of a function, it could be accomplished based on these applications.

In addition to the Hanhai Generation I phone, the Hanhai Generation I tablet computer was also released on the same day. Its price was around six thousand yuan, with fluctuations depending on the configuration. This tablet computer was also crazily sought after by consumers.

For a time, owning a Hanhai Generation I phone or a Hanhai tablet computer became a trend, and some people even took it as a symbol of status.

Such values were of course not good, but this was also a phenomenon. Because the Hanhai Generation I phone possessed unique characteristics compared to other mobile phones, it was very normal for such a phenomenon to be created.

On this day, Hanhai Technology staff also delivered two Hanhai Generation I phones to Su Xinghui's home. Su Xinghui handed over ten thousand yuan on the spot, and the staff member handed the invoice for the ten thousand yuan to Su Xinghui. No matter what Su Xinghui bought, he always kept the invoice.