Chapter 552 Mate 1S

It has to be said that Arnault's party is still quite interesting. Although there are not many well-known supermodels among the girls who attend, the models with little fame and beauty can also dazzle people.

After all, Paris is the fashion capital, and the Lagardere Group already has well-known fashion magazines such as "ELLE", so there is no shortage of resources.

Just like Arnault's future second wife, she is a model.

The girl Barron brought back to the villa is named Camille Rome. She is less than 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 just graduated. Because of her good figure and appearance, she was discovered by the agency and tried to become a model first.

In fact, Barron was not that interested in Camille Rome's story, and he did not recognize that this girl would become a supermodel and actress in the future. All he needed was this girl to help him pass the time in the evening...

"Your Highness, this is the revised development plan of Honor Electronics transferred by Caesar Fund..."

After leaving the villa and the girl named Camille, and getting on the Bentley Mulsanne bound for the airport, Wang Wanting took out a document from her bag and said to Barron.

"Let's not look at it for now. Just tell me briefly, dear Laura."

"Honor Electronics hopes to adjust the development plan for the second half of the year. They think that the rush to launch the Mate 1C model is not conducive to establishing the high-end image of the Mate series of mobile phones. Therefore, it is recommended to use the Dopod brand to launch low-priced Android phones..."

If you think in this way, it is not unreasonable...

Baron frowned slightly, then gradually relaxed his brows and said:

"Anything else?"

"Honor Electronics believes that the most important thing at present is to launch an Android phone that supports 3G networks. Therefore, they hope to launch Mate 1S in the second half of this year, including 8GB and 16GB versions, and increase support for 3G networks..."

"Okay, let's do it this way..."

Currently, Mate 1 has sold more than 500,000 units. At the current rate, there is no problem for Mate 1 sales to exceed 1.5 million units this year.

However, as Honor Electronics said, the inability to support 3G was one of the reasons why Baron's iPhone sales were not high in his previous life.

Although China will not officially launch the 3G network until April next year, many countries around the world have already entered the 3G era. Japan is the first country to commercialize 3G. After that, South Korea and most European and American countries have also launched 3G networks.

According to statistics, the number of 3G users in the world has exceeded 500 million so it is necessary to launch 3G-enabled mobile phone models.

The 3G network can also enrich the applications of the Android system, thereby attracting more users.

Another point is that the price of the Mate 1S mobile phone can be greatly reduced after supporting the 3G network. This is easy to understand. After building the 3G network, mobile operators naturally hope to promote their 3G packages to allow more users to use the 3G network, so that they can get their investment in the 3G network back earlier or even make a profit.

Therefore, the contract phone of Mate 1S must have a limited package time, usually a package of at least two years, so that mobile operators will subsidize the contract phone for this purpose, so that Mate 1S can be sold to users at a lower price. It is even possible for users to get the contract phone for free when they choose certain packages with a fixed period.

At present, Honor Electronics has established two R&D centers outside of China. One is located in Lijiapo, which is a mobile phone chip R&D center established in cooperation with Avago; the other is the Honor Electronics European branch in London, where they cooperate with Huawei and ARM to develop the next generation of 4G chips.

Speaking of Huawei, they have already entered the mobile phone industry in 2003. After the launch of the Android system, Huawei also joined the Android Alliance, that is, the Open Mobile Alliance. However, the main market for their mobile phone products is in China, and China will not launch the 4G network until April next year. Therefore, Huawei phones that support the Android system will not be launched until next year.

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When Barron returned to London, he saw a 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 contributed to this. In addition to trying his best to "appease" Cather's emotions, he also made several persuasions in front of William.

So the prince and the future princess reconciled, and everyone had a happy ending.

After returning home and reuniting with his wife Bonnie and son George, the family came to the Earl of Bute's house.

Well, Chris, the Countess of Bute, has been pregnant for more than nine months... to be exact, nine months and two weeks.

Therefore, it means that the baby boy in her belly - yes, it has been confirmed before that the Countess is pregnant with a boy this time - will be born soon.

Speaking of which, this is the second time that the Countess has "personally" been pregnant and given birth. In terms of experience, she is naturally more experienced and will not be as nervous as when she gave birth to their daughter Ethel.

The three children of the Bute family are all two or three years old, including Ethel, a boy and two girls. They surrounded little George and teased him curiously.

Barron and his wife sat on the sofa on the other side of the room with the Bute couple, chatting casually.

"It seems that SEM Group's acquisition of Reuters is not going smoothly?"

Count Bute put the newspaper on the coffee table, took off his glasses, and said to Barron.

"It's still a stalemate. Although Reuters prefers to be acquired by Thomson Group compared to SEM Group - you know, whether in terms of the scale after the merger or the synergy of the two businesses, Thomson Group is better than SEM Group, but this acquisition is blocked by antitrust reviews in Britain and the United States. Although they try their best to get approval, it may not be so easy..."

Earl Bute nodded and agreed with Barron's opinion:

"If they merge with 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 it's a stalemate... unless Reuters Group compromises with SEM Group."

Barron shrugged and said with a smile.