So far, Honor Electronics has prepared more than 300,000 Mate 1s in stock, and is still in production...
This number has made the management of Honor Electronics a little nervous - after all, as a touch screen smartphone that is completely different from the previous feature phones, they are not sure whether the Mate 1 will be popular. In their opinion, although such a mobile phone is epoch-making, it is really risky to produce more than 300,000 products before it goes on sale and before getting consumer feedback.
But Baron knows that, apart from anything else, in terms of mobile phone performance, the Mate 1 is even slightly better than the IPhone 1. In the original time and space, as the lowest-selling model in the IPhone mobile phone series, the IPhone 1 can have a sales volume of nearly 1.4 million units, and the sales volume of the IPhone 3G released next year will directly exceed 10 million. So no matter what, Baron is still very confident that the sales volume of the Mate 1 will exceed 1 million units.
Now, after 8 Honor Experience Stores opened for nearly 20 days around the world, the management of Honor Electronics has finally felt a little relieved, because from the feedback of these experience stores, users are still very enthusiastic about the Mate 1 phone.
In addition, since the opening of Honor Experience Stores around the world on June 1, they have opened reservations for the Mate 1. Now, nearly 20 days have passed, and the total number of reservations received by Honor Electronics has exceeded 30,000 units - this is equivalent to an average of more than 200 Mate 1 mobile phone reservations per Honor Experience Store every day.
This number may not seem very high, mainly because the most popular mobile phones on the market are still Nokia, Motorola, BlackBerry and other mobile phones. There are also some brands of "smart phones", but they are all controlled by physical keyboards. Therefore, most users are still waiting and watching for the launch of a mobile phone model like Mate 1, which mainly relies on a touch screen and is very different from the current mainstream smartphones.
Also because of the experience, after trying the operation, some users gradually accepted it and finally started to make reservations. In addition, the daily reservation data of these experience stores is also increasing with the passage of time. According to estimates, by the end of June when Mate 1 is officially launched, it will not be a problem for the number of reservations to exceed 50,000...
It should be noted that reservations for Mate 1 require full payment, and currently only on-site reservations are available in Honor experience stores in 8 cities around the world. So this number is already very impressive.
When Honor Mate 1 goes on sale on June 28, the first batch of sales areas will include North America, most European countries, and parts of Asia including China, Japan and South Korea. It will be sold through Honor experience stores and partners at the same time. By then, the sales channels will be much larger than now. Therefore, after deducting the estimated 50,000 pre-orders of 300,000 Mate 1 phones that have been produced, only 250,000 will be left...
It seems that there may be a shortage of supply...
But there is no need to worry too much, because Honor Electronics' production base in China can expand the scale of production lines at any time. The only thing is that the supply of original parts needs to be prepared in advance to avoid problems in the supply chain.
It is worth mentioning that the Android system installed on Mate 1 at this time has good applications. The most popular one among users is the pre-installed game "Fruit Ninja".
This game was produced by Halfbrick Studio, an Australian game studio previously acquired by Digital Future. Because the game method is very suitable for touch screen control, as an experience of Mate 1, this game is the most tried by users.
Woaw Technology has also completed the development of their beta version of Woaw app, and is currently optimizing it. Both the iOS and Android versions will be launched in July.
In Barron's previous life, the first iPhone 1 was divided into two versions, 4GB and 8GB, priced at $499 and $599 respectively.
Later, Apple found that the 8GB version of the iPhone was more popular, so it discontinued the 4GB version a few months later and launched the 16GB version the following year. Therefore, Honor Mate 1 only provides an 8GB version, priced at $568, which is lower than the price of iPhone 1. In addition, it is also prepared to launch a 16GB version before the end of the year based on consumer feedback.
As mentioned before, in countries such as Europe, the United States and Japan, consumers mainly purchase mobile phones through operators. Therefore, in addition to gradually increasing experience stores and selling them in experience stores, Honor Mate 1 is also available for sale at their operator partners.
In North America, its second largest operator AT&T supported Apple's iPhone research and development earlier and will become the exclusive seller of iPhone in the future. However, Honor Electronics' negotiations with its largest operator Verizon were not smooth, and it finally reached a cooperation agreement with T-Mobile to sell the Mate 1 mobile phone in North America.
As for Europe, O2 Telecom has also reached an agreement with Apple to exclusively sell iPhones in Europe, and Barron does not intend to play any tricks against Apple in this regard. In addition to being sold through O2 Telecom, Honor Mate 1 will also be supplied to other operators such as Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom, but it is hard to say whether the other party will focus on recommending it.
In China, Honor Electronics will not only gradually increase the layout of experience stores in Yanjing, Shenzhen, Chengdu and other places within this year, but also cooperate with operators such as China Mobile and China Unicom, as well as mobile phone stores such as Gome and Suning to sell Mate 1.
In short, at present, Mate 1 can be said to have made a big splash after the release of iPhone, and was the first to appear in front of consumers and provide experience. It is also ready and will start formal sales in more than a week.
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"What are you talking about? Mate 1? Barron, I've already reserved that phone, and I can't wait for it to go on sale..."
William also came here and joined the chat. He had a good relationship with Barron, and now the two of them are like-minded...
As early as when Barron's son George Cavendish was born, he took the initiative to ask to be George's godfather, and said that when he has a child, he will also let Barron be the godfather of his child.
At this time, William's hair looks quite thick - Barron remembered that starting from the next year, affected by the strong baldness gene of William's grandfather Prince Philip, William began to lose his hair, and until he got married in 2011, the baldness became more and more obvious...
"Don't worry, William, when that day comes, you will be the first person to get the Mate 1 phone."