Chapter 631 451: The Hammer Mobile Phone Fiasco! Disruption! The Global Impact of the Deep Blue Battery

Over the next few days, telecom providers began supplying Tiangong Technology with information on 4G network standards, frequency band planning details, dynamic band updates, and protocol standards.

The goal was to ensure that Tiangong's baseband chip could be developed with the corresponding protocol stacks and processing logic built in.

Meanwhile,

Guevara Movie Ticketing was growing at an incredible pace. After securing its latest round of financing, it challenged the ticketing platforms of Kuai Pao and Qian Du Group Buy.

And so, the three companies kicked off a massive ticket subsidy war!

A ticket for the Jay Chou movie *Rooftop Love* was only 9.9 yuan!

Even presale tickets for *Fast & Furious 6* were slashed to 9.9 yuan!

Amid this fierce subsidy battle, the movie industry boomed, striding forward with great momentum.

The trailer for *Detective Dee and the Dragon King of the Divine Capital* was released, with its premiere set for the National Day holiday.

Boosted by traffic from Douyin, the total views for *Unexpected* surpassed 100 million for the first time.

Vipshop's stock price continued to rise, its market capitalization reaching a high of 2.37 billion US dollars, reigniting a surge in Hua Country's e-commerce stocks.

Ma Liyun and Liu Qiangdong were eager to get in on the action, successively submitting their IPO plans to Nasdaq.

At 10:00 AM on July 25, the LeTV 1 and LeTV Pro launched simultaneously on Pinbei, Tmall, Jingdong, and the LeTV Mall.

In just one hour, 23,000 units of the 999-yuan LeTV 1 were sold, along with 14,000 units of the 1,999-yuan LeTV Pro.

LeTV's success once again proved one thing: there was no technical skill required to make a smartphone!

In the eyes of Jia Yaoting, Ding Lei, and Zhou Hongyi, they could get a whole suite of hardware and software support from Orange Technology.

All they had to do was design the product's appearance and manage the compatibility between the hardware and the operating system, and they could easily create a smartphone that would sell well.

Meanwhile, after preparing for over a year, Luo Yonghao finally held a unique product launch in Yanjing's 798 Art District, emulating his idol, Lei Yijun.

The Hammer T1 was unveiled!

Perhaps because the market was large enough, even the Hammer Mobile Phone had its fair share of fans.

On the day of the launch, the conference hall was filled with suppliers, media, and fans.

Luo invited Lei Yijun, Huang Zhang, Chen Yongming, Yu Chendong, and others, but in the end, only Lei Yijun did him the courtesy of showing up.

In reality, Lei Yijun didn't want to come either. But setting aside Luo Yonghao's status as a competitor, he was also a loyal Mi Fan and, notably, a major online influencer.

He had tens of millions of followers in the gadget and tech communities, so not wanting to cause offense, and since it wasn't far, Lei Yijun brought Li Wanqiang along to the 798 Art District.

"President Lei, thank you so much! Welcome, welcome!"

Luo Yonghao waved his short little arms, his face a picture of excitement.

Everyone else looked down on him; only Lei Yijun had shown him courtesy and respect.

"You're too kind, President Luo," Lei Yijun said with a smile, and accompanied by Luo Yonghao, he took a seat in the front row.

"The best phone in the Eastern Hemisphere!"

"World-class design!"

"Everything is the best!"

A moment later, Luo Yonghao walked onto the stage and began to boast shamelessly.

Lei Yijun's mouth twitched. 'This guy can make phones, too?' he thought.

After enduring more than an hour of what felt like a one-man show, Luo Yonghao slowly announced the price of the Hammer T1: 3,000 yuan for the 16GB version, and 3,150 yuan for the 32GB version.

Even his pricing strategy differed from his competitors' typical '999' or '888' endings. Online, however, the reviews were polarized.

"Who gave him the nerve? Daring to sell it for 3,000 yuan! For an extra 999, wouldn't I be better off buying a Yaocheng X1?"

"Stop trying to compare it, thanks! The Hammer T1's hardware and system performance still have a way to go to match the Orange C3S."

"If I spent 3,000 yuan on a Hammer phone, I'd be a real tool!"

"Watch out! 5.0-inch IPS screen, 8.3mm thick, 168 grams. It's thick and heavy, no different from a brick."

Among phones on the market at the time, the iPhone 5 weighed 112 grams, and the Xiaomi 2S weighed 139 grams.

For users, the Hammer T1 was too heavy for one-handed use and too cumbersome for two.

"The camera is only slightly better than the 360 F1, and he dares to charge 2,100 yuan more. Unbelievable!"

"2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage is basically the standard configuration for a 1,500-yuan phone. There's nothing special about it!"

"But its body is made of glass and stainless steel, with clean, smooth lines, a symmetrical design, and absolutely exquisite craftsmanship. To be honest, I really want to buy one."

"Hey, guy above, you said it! Talk is cheap. Be a real man and put your money where your mouth is."

"Fangzhouzi has made his move! He reported the Hammer Mobile Phone!"

Netizens followed the trail and found Fangzhouzi's Weibo post.

Fangzhouzi's reasoning was simple: according to the Advertising Law, one cannot use superlative language like "the best" or "number one."

But Luo Yonghao, in his effort to sell phones, had filled the launch with shocking, high-energy claims, constantly throwing around phrases like "the world's most perfect industrial design" and "the pinnacle of human interaction systems."

Was it false advertising? Absolutely!

But all his peers in the industry did it, so Luo Yonghao didn't see a problem.

But Fangzhouzi wasn't having it. He seized the opportunity to go after Luo Yonghao with a vengeance.

After all, the false advertising was a fact, and so was the long-standing grudge between the two of them.

Seven years ago, Fangzhouzi and Luo Yonghao had even been partners and close personal friends.

Fangzhouzi wrote articles for Luo Yonghao's blog platform, Niu Bo Wang, and was considered its number one blogger.

But the good times didn't last, and the two soon had a falling out over ideological differences.

Luo Yonghao directly banned Fangzhouzi's account and posted passive-aggressive articles targeting him.

But Fangzhouzi was no pushover. He immediately went online to expose Luo Yonghao's dirty laundry: running an illegal school, operating outside his business scope, and tax evasion.

Luo Yonghao immediately flew into a rage and reported Fangzhouzi's wife for faking her academic credentials, claiming even her master's thesis was plagiarized.

To put it bluntly, neither of them was a good person.

Therefore, Fangzhouzi seized the chance and certainly wasn't going to let Luo Yonghao off the hook. He not only reported Hammer Technology to the Yanjing Industrial and Commercial Association but also mocked him, saying:

"The Hammer's icon interface looks like someone slapped a mosaic filter on the phone. But there are plenty of fools in Hua Country; even if you sold ceramic tiles as phones, you'd find buyers! Luo Yonghao probably got the inspiration for this phone while scooping shit out of a toilet."

The insults were both vulgar and nasty!

Some potential customers, who had been thinking of taking a chance and buying one to experience the UI and industrial aesthetics of this 'new force in phone-making,' immediately gave up on the idea after seeing Fangzhouzi's Weibo post.

As a result, the Hammer T1 sold just over 7,300 units on its launch day. Enraged, Luo Yonghao turned around and reported Fangzhouzi's anti-fraud fund for suspected fraud, tax evasion, and shady dealings.

The two of them flamed each other on Weibo, just like Zhou Hongyi and Lei Yijun had in the past.

But after two days of tirades, Luo Yonghao discovered it had no effect at all. The conversion rate was abysmal, and the cumulative sales after three days were only 19,000 units.

In contrast, sales of the LeTV 1 and LeTV Pro, launched around the same time, had already surpassed the 500,000-unit mark.

LeTV was wiping the floor with the Hammer Mobile Phone.

With Jia Yaoting leading LeTV to victory after victory, its stock was also skyrocketing.

Industry insiders were surprised to discover that if you followed Orange Technology's lead, while other areas were uncertain, you were highly unlikely to lose in the smartphone sector.

First, there were Xiaomi, 360, and NetEase, and now Meitu and LeTV.

These newcomers, who had jumped into the industry halfway, had somehow left a host of second-tier phone manufacturers far behind, beating them so badly they were powerless to fight back.

Xiaomi and 360 Mobile Phone, with the highest shipment volumes, were even showing signs of breaking into the first tier.

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On July 29, Orange Technology officially announced the Yaocheng X1 SE through its official website, Weibo account, and other channels. The price was 200 yuan higher than the original.

The 32GB standard version was priced at 4,199 yuan, and the 64GB high-spec version at 4,799 yuan.

The specs remained the same, but the battery management system was optimized. The battery capacity was increased from 3200 mAh to 5400 mAh, doubling its life. Under heavy use, it could easily last a full day.

For just browsing the web and chatting, without playing mobile games or watching ultra-high-definition videos and keeping the screen at medium brightness, the battery could last 48 to 72 hours.

This greatly alleviated users' battery anxiety.

For context, back in 2013, the smartphone models with the largest battery capacities were the Huawei Mate at 4050 mAh, the Vivo Xplay at 3400 mAh, and the ZTE Grand Memo at 3200 mAh.

The battery capacity of the Yaocheng X1 SE was over 40% higher than any of those models!

Even more noteworthy was that, according to the specs on the product detail page, the phone's thickness hadn't changed at all, despite the increase in battery capacity.

Additionally, seven new high-definition images were interspersed within the product description.

The Deep Blue Battery!

An era-defining lithium-sulfur battery technology!

A cycle life of 1,000 charges!

A complete cycle refers to the cumulative process of a battery discharging from 100% to 0%. For light to moderate users who charged their phone once every three days, the battery degradation would only reach 20% after eight or nine years.

Of course, no one uses a phone for eight or nine years, because by then, a single app might take up ten, or even dozens, of gigabytes of storage space.

Under normal circumstances, a user would replace their phone in less than three years.

Even heavy users could enjoy the battery's peak performance for the full three years.

The Yaocheng X1 SE perfectly balanced battery life and handling, with an ultra-slim 6.9mm body. While not as thin as the Huawei Ascend P6, its battery capacity was 2.7 times larger.

Although the price had increased, for potential Yaocheng X1 SE customers, spending an extra 200 yuan to eliminate battery anxiety was an incredible value.

On the first day of its release, the special edition sold a total of 61,000 units.

The long life of the Deep Blue Battery perfectly met the demands of Chinese smartphone users, and its actual performance far exceeded expectations.

Before, they had no choice. Now that they did, users' demands for battery life were getting higher and higher.

Millions of Orange Mobile Phone users flooded the Orange community forums, the official Weibo, and Chen Yansen's comment section, demanding long-battery-life versions of the Qingcheng D2 and Orange C3S.

At 8:00 PM that night, Orange Technology issued a formal response: currently, only a long-battery-life version of the Yaocheng X1 was available, and they explicitly stated that no new versions of the Qingcheng D2 or Orange C3S would be developed.

However, the Deep Blue Battery would be used in the next versions of the Qingcheng and Orange product lines.

Immediately, phone manufacturers like Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad, and Xiaomi began calling one after another to request partnerships.

The Deep Blue Battery was incredibly significant for the mobile phone industry. Whether a company wanted to focus on battery life or create an ultra-slim phone, high-energy-density battery technology was indispensable.

Moreover, the fact that Orange Technology dared to use this battery in its own products proved that there were no issues with its energy efficiency or safety.

Chen Yansen's phone rang nonstop from morning to night. Left with no other choice, he had Zhou Shouzhi send out invitations to their various industry peers for a procurement conference to be held on August 1.

After hearing the news, overseas phone manufacturers like Mountain Star, Sony, and LG took the initiative to contact Zhou Shouzhi and ask for invitations.

At the same time,

the tech circles in Europe and the North American Region exploded. Dozens of companies that were researching lithium-sulfur batteries were completely stunned.

It was like a master craftsman who, after spending three years and countless days and nights, had handcrafted a wooden bicycle he believed to be a pinnacle of advanced engineering.

But just as he stopped to catch his breath, he turned his head only to see Senlian Capital already speeding past in a luxury car.

Catch up?

How could he possibly catch up?

The feeling was so damn despairing!

Simultaneously, a storm erupted in the academic circles of Europe and America!

They simply couldn't comprehend how Senlian Capital had solved the problems of the shuttle effect, lithium dendrite formation, and short cycle life.

Countless R&D labs and top-tier teams had been racking their brains over every single one of those technical hurdles, but now Senlian Capital had jumped out and declared: "Stop wasting your time, I've already reached the destination!"

The Lighthouse Country's *Electrochemistry* and *Journal of Power Sources*, along with Europe's *Batteries & Supercaps* and *Compel*, defined the Deep Blue Battery as a new turning point for 21st-century battery electrochemistry.

*Time* magazine didn't hesitate for a second, dispatching a team from its headquarters to Hua Country to conduct a second feature interview with Chen Yansen.

At the same time,

a group of academicians at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was discussing the Deep Blue Battery's scientific breakthrough, its disruptive impact on the field, and its practical contributions to human society.

In other words, the lithium-sulfur battery technology controlled by Deep Blue Technology had been added to the list of candidates for an award.

Although Deep Blue Technology was not the pioneer of lithium-sulfur battery research, it was the first to successfully industrialize the technology and apply it on a mass scale.