Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 219 A press conference without media

July 7, 29pm.

If you zoom out far enough, you can see that there are two places in Beijing that have become the focus of everyone's attention online.

One is Peking University’s Centennial Lecture Hall, and the other is the conference center.

An hour later, the Bi'an press conference and the Tengxun press conference will be held simultaneously, in a head-on confrontation.

In the past two days, news about Tencent's press conference has formed a monopoly in public opinion, and various revelations, press conference previews, and other news have frequently appeared in the newspapers.

In contrast, information about the other side’s press conference was only available on the other party’s official website and Chen Mo’s personal Weibo on Sina Weibo, and people could only see it if they took the initiative to look for it.

All other media seem to have completely forgotten about the other side in the past few days.

It’s not that these media don’t want to report, they are also anxious for such a huge amount of traffic, but they have no choice but to give too much to Fujixun.

Tencent won the first round of the public opinion war.

Those who attended the Bi'an press conference came in groups of three or five, or alone, in scattered groups.

It was obvious that these people were attending Chen Mo's offline press conference for the first time. They did not feel any sense of urgency at all. Many old-timers had already arrived one to two hours in advance to reserve seats, because they knew that if they arrived later they would only be able to get standing tickets.

On the other side, the originally deserted venue changed around 7:, when a string of standard buses drove in from the entrance of the conference center, stretching as far as the eye could see.

The first two buses were filled with media reporters, all of whom appeared in the field of vision with cameras in hand, and there were nearly a hundred people in total.

The rest of the people getting on and off the buses were employees wearing work badges. They were Tencent employees from the Beijing branch. They entered the venue in an orderly manner under the guidance of relevant personnel.

Today they have only one goal, which is to act as the atmosphere group for tonight's press conference. This time they will receive extra subsidies as audience members, and they will also be able to meet the group's big boss, the legendary Pony Ma. All Tencent employees are very excited and are treating it as a large-scale team-building activity with overtime pay.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the press conferences of Bi'an and Tencent started simultaneously.

The Centennial Lecture Hall replicated the grand occasion of half a year ago. The hall was packed and the aisles were also full of people. The only difference was that there were no cameras or long guns in the front, no well-known media or reporters were present, and only one row of guest seats was reserved, which was not even full. The three rows at the back were occupied by the employees of the other side.

When the show was about to start, Lei Jun, who was sitting in the middle, asked those people in the aisle to sit in the empty seats on both sides to avoid wasting them.

This was a press conference without the media, and the audience, apart from a few guests, were all ordinary people.

The light suddenly dimmed, and the originally noisy sounds in the venue gradually quieted down, waiting for the protagonist to appear.

When the lights above the stage came on, a familiar figure appeared in the center of the stage.

He still wore white sneakers and blue jeans, but his upper body was no longer a slim casual suit. Instead, he wore a white short-sleeved T-shirt with the Bi'an logo printed on the chest.

Before he uttered a word, Chen Mo just waved to the audience, who burst into applause, mixed with cheers and whistles such as "God Mo" and "Male God", which shows how important he is in people's hearts.

After all, apart from some locals, most of the audience who could arrive at the scene were Chen Mo's fans from all over the world.

Chen Mo looked at the familiar faces in the first row under the stage. Lei Jun, Xu Dalai, Liu Qin, Tong Shihao, and Xiaomi's core executives were all there. He even saw Jin Fan next to him.
“I’ve waited my whole life for this day”

This familiar opening line was just right, and the whole audience burst into laughter.

But these words were Chen Mo's true feelings at the moment. He had never dreamed that one day he would be able to hold a press conference for his own company.

Things that I never dared to dream of before have come true now.

This time, with the experience of the previous Xiaomi press conference, Chen Mo did not drink before going on stage, and his performance in the center of the stage was as free and easy as strolling in the garden.

"I saw many old friends." Chen Mo looked at the first row of guest seats with gratitude in his eyes, and both sides nodded in greeting.

Then he saw a fat man in the aisle. Chen Mo was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Fatty Luo was there too.
"Friends in the back row, friends in the aisle, friends on the second floor, friends on the rooftop. Well, there is no rooftop."

Every time Chen Mo greets someone, it elicits a strong response from the corresponding area, as if this is not a press conference but a meeting with celebrity fans.

This shows how popular he is.

"In addition to old friends, I saw many new friends. But after today, everyone is old friends again."

After making a little joke, Chen Mo went straight to the point.

"Then, stop talking nonsense and look at things first!"

Such a clean and neat opening received applause from the audience. The screen went dark, and the screen above the stage showed the poster for the previous press conference.

There are three treasure chests on an island called the Other Shore. The treasures finally appear. When the first treasure chest is opened, the WeChat icon floating above it comes into view.

The Bi'an press conference will definitely release a new version of WeChat. This was within everyone's expectations and did not cause much response. They were more curious about what the two treasure chests at the back were.

There was a lot of discussion below the stage. Chen Mo on the stage let everyone discuss for a while, then raised his hand to signal,
"I know everyone is in a hurry, but please don't be impatient. Let's go one by one. Next, let's invite Zhang Xiaolong, Vice President of Bi'an and Product Director of WeChat Business Unit, to bring you a preview and demonstration of the content of WeChat V1.6. Welcome!"

Chen Mo simply warmed up the stage and then handed the stage to Zhang Xiaolong.

I saw that the stern-looking Brother Long was wearing exactly the same clothes as Chen Mo. After he came on stage, he looked around with great dignity, and had long forgotten Chen Mo's reminder during the rehearsal: "Smile, smile."

At this time, there was a man with glasses in the front of the audience, who was recording the press conference with a DV like other self-media people. When he saw Zhang Xiaolong come on stage, he pushed his glasses on his nose, squinted his eyes and looked at the close-up on the big screen. After confirming that it was not the same name, he put the camera on the tripod and continued recording.

He took out his cell phone, covered his mouth and made a call.
"Hello everyone, I am Zhang Xiaolong. It doesn't really matter who I am. What matters is whether you are satisfied with the new version of WeChat. Please look at the big screen."

Then the lights dimmed and a pre-recorded promotional video for the new version of WeChat played on the screen.

First, the screen was switched, and the screens on the left and right sides showed mother and daughter, each talking happily to the phone.

The camera then cut to the front of each phone, and it was discovered that each of them saw each other's faces on the screen.

Just as everyone in the audience was wondering how this was any different from making a phone call in a room, and then some people realized that it was a video call and so on, was this a cell phone?
Mobile phones support video calls? Holy crap.

Although they felt that taking off their pants to fart was a bit unnecessary during a video call in the same room, the next scene made these people apologize for being hasty.
I saw the perspectives of the two people on the left and right of the screen begin to zoom out until they were ten thousand meters high, overlooking the entire map of China. It turned out that the mother on the left was in her hometown in Heilongjiang, and the daughter on the right was attending university in Hainan.

The next moment, the scene changes, and a warm moment occurs between migrant workers in Beijing and left-behind children in their hometown through WeChat.

Due to the special nature of the jobs of a doctor and a train driver, the couple are rarely together. They express their longing for each other through passionate chats on WeChat.

At this time, a gentle voiceover appeared in the venue, "WeChat. It makes family and love close, and makes the person you want to see feel like he/she is right beside you."

Don't use the knife of affection to kill people. This made many people who felt the same way couldn't hold back their eyes and turned red.

The next moment, a revolving lantern introduced the new gameplay of Shake, the optimization and changes of the new version of WeChat.
The picture faded and applause broke out.

"This is the new version of WeChat that Bi'an has brought to you. The most important thing is that it supports video and voice chat. As you can see in the video just now, it allows relationships to not be bound by distance and space. Of course, another important point is that everyone can save a lot of money on their monthly phone bills."

The people in the audience then realized, yes, once this function is released, all text message and phone charges can be saved, and video and voice chat can be done directly when there is internet, which is so convenient.

Some guests in the front row frowned. This function of WeChat is going to revolutionize the traditional operators. It can be said that the emergence of new things such as WeChat micro-chat has replaced the functions of SMS, MMS and phone calls to a certain extent.

Video calls did exist in the past. QQ had this feature a few years ago. However, it was limited by the bulkiness and inconvenience of computers and had little impact. Once the chat function of mobile social software came out, it was a dimensionality reduction blow to phone calls. After all, the phone function with real-time imaging allows calls to be made wherever you go, which is simply amazing.

It is conceivable that China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom would all be horrified when they saw Bi'an's press conference.

Seeing the chain reaction and heated discussions about the new version of WeChat in the audience, Zhang Xiaolong felt a sense of accomplishment, which was a feeling he had never had in all his years working at Tencent.
"It's all talk and no action. Now I'll show you the video call function."

A familiar scene played out on the big screen. After splitting the screen, the left side of the screen showed a close-up of the mobile phone interface, and the right side showed a panoramic view of Zhang Xiaolong.

Zhang Xiaolong then opened WeChat on his mobile phone, found Lei Jun among his friends, clicked into the chat page, pressed the plus sign, and then selected video call.

The sound of "Ding ding ding~ Ding ding ding~" was heard in the venue. After a few seconds, the call was connected and the picture changed again.

At this time, Lei Jun's face was displayed on Zhang Xiaolong's mobile phone on the left side of the big screen, and Zhang Xiaolong's appearance was displayed on Lei Jun's mobile phone on the right side.

Zhang Xiaolong looked at the contents of the teleprompter, frowned and said dryly,
"Hello, Mr. Lei, are you OK?"

Lei Jun was immediately excited when he heard this, and answered reflexively, "OK, very OK, and you?"

"I'm OK too!"

The two big guys showed off their English in such a contrasting way that some people in the audience burst out laughing.

“I would like to take this opportunity to wish the Bi’an press conference a complete success.”

"Thank you, and I wish the Xiaomi press conference on the 10th of next month a success~"

The two exchanged some business praise in public, then hung up the call.
At this time, someone in the audience noticed the highlight. The phone that the two people used to demonstrate the video call seemed to be something they had never seen before.
(End of this chapter)