Chapter 163 Monday, January 9th

Pei Qian got up early and headed to the study hall.

There were only two exams left in exam week, one open-book and one closed-book.

Although strictly speaking, the difficulty of an open-book exam wasn't much lower and getting a high score was just as difficult, as long as you were familiar enough with the notes and textbooks, you could get a decent score. So it didn't require too much effort.

For Pei Qian, the closed-book exam was much harder. After all, it all depended on memorization. If you couldn't memorize it, you just couldn't. There was no room for fooling around.

Therefore, Pei Qian still put most of his energy into the closed-book subject, striving to make a breakthrough through his own efforts and no longer just barely passing.

He had to get at least a 65 or 70, right?

If he scored 60, it would be difficult for Pei Qian to tell whether it was due to his own efforts or the grader's; but if it was 65 or 70, then it was definitely all his own effort!

The difference was significant.

Arriving at the study hall, Pei Qian spread out his notes, put his phone on silent and out of reach, and then began to review.

Last weekend, almost all the news in the e-sports circle was taken up by the IOI Global Finals and the GPL Spring Split, and it even broke into the mainstream. Even many people who didn't usually pay attention to e-sports got the news from various channels.

To be more precise, ninety-nine percent of the news about the IOI Global Finals was related to FV Club.

As the last remaining Chinese team, they cleanly and unexpectedly defeated the old European and American powerhouse CEM 3:0, making the Chinese audience feel proud. Undoubtedly, they would receive all the attention and applause.

Although Longyu Group could influence the domestic media to some extent, in this situation, Longyu Group was powerless.

FV Club was now the absolute focus. If you didn't want the media to report on them, would they just not report?

Therefore, Zhao Xuming had obviously given up. Since he couldn't change it, he would accept it.

The popularity of FV Club could also bring some heat to IOI, which wasn't a loss for Zhao Xuming.

But for Pei Qian, this situation was a bit difficult to handle.

Because both the popularity of the GPL and the popularity of the FV team were directly related to his interests.

The popularity of the GPL meant that the prices of various sponsorships and advertisements would also rise. The more popular the league, the more money it would make. And it was hard to say whether the FV team's good results would revitalize the IOI national server, but it would definitely make the FV team's value skyrocket.

When the time came, various sponsors and investments would come one after another. The scene was too beautiful to imagine.

Of course, there would be huge bonuses for winning each game after entering the top eight. According to FV Club's rules, after taxes, the club would take 20% of the prize money, the coaching staff 20%, and the players 60%.

So for Pei Qian, the bonus part was okay, after all, the majority was distributed to the players and coaching staff.

Of course, if they won the championship, the bonus would indeed be a lot. Calculated at 50% of 3 million dollars, after taxes, the club should only get less than 300,000 dollars.

Even with the 25% sales revenue from the custom skin for the game company, it shouldn't be much.

Converted into RMB, it would only be a few million. For Pei Qian, who had seen many worse situations, it was just a drop in the bucket.

Besides, they might not win the championship.

FV had only just reached the top eight. Although the top eight match was relatively smooth, this was the World Championship, full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. The strength of the opponents in the semi-finals and finals would definitely increase exponentially.

Wanting to win the championship after just reaching the top eight? Was that a bit too much to ask for?

Moreover, the bonus allocated to the club would definitely be used for a specific purpose. Since it was the bonus earned by the club, it would definitely be kept for the club's daily operations, so Wu Yue could find a way to spend it.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Pei Qian felt that he could shift his focus from Los Angeles.

He had originally hoped that FV Club would be eliminated in the first round in Los Angeles, so he could spend more money, but he didn't expect FV to perform so well, which made Pei Qian feel a little disappointed.

Since he couldn't count on them, he would shift his attention to other industries.

Seeing that this short settlement cycle was coming to an end, various products should be released intensively within the next week or two, so he still had to pay close attention.

Of course, no matter how big things were, he had to deal with them after the exam.

Pei Qian put his phone even further away from himself and began to review seriously.

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12 PM.

Pei Qian stretched contentedly. He had completed his study task for the morning.

"As expected, the phone is a scourge. My distance from it is directly proportional to my study efficiency: the closer the distance, the lower the study efficiency."

"Time to eat something delicious!"

Pei Qian, who had studied all morning and insisted on not looking at his phone, was a little proud. He packed up his notes and left the study hall, preparing to go to the nearby Moyu Internet Cafe for a meal.

He picked up his phone to see if there were any new messages.

But no one from the company contacted him. Instead, the phone itself pushed a system update notification.

"New stable version update notification? The stable version has finally been developed."

Pei Qian saw that the phone's battery was still very full, so he directly chose to update.

Pei Qian himself was using an Otto E1 phone. This phone was released in March of last year and he had been using it for exactly 10 months.

It was still smooth and not laggy, which was to be expected, since it used the flagship chip at the time.

When he first got it, the 247-gram phone was indeed very heavy, but he got used to it after using it for a long time.

Moreover, the advantage of a large battery was that he was completely free from battery anxiety. He could play on his phone all day and still have power when he got home.

Of course, this might also be an important reason why Pei Qian's study efficiency was so low.

In these 10 months, Otto Phone had also frequently made some small system updates, constantly optimizing some functions. But this major version update had been brewing for several months.

In fact, the development had already been completed, but the update of the mobile phone system had to be cautious, because once the official version was pushed, most mobile phone users would choose to update. If something went wrong during the update process and caused data loss, that would be a huge accident.

Therefore, it wasn't until today that the stable version of Otto Phone's new system was officially pushed for update.

By the time Pei Qian arrived at Moyu Internet Cafe, ordered food, and started eating, the system had finally finished updating.

"There's so much content in the update, let's see what's changed."

Pei Qian checked the new system on his phone while eating.

The most direct feeling was that it seemed much smoother?

Whether it was swiping the desktop, dragging icons, or other operations, everything became as smooth as silk, very close to the feeling of a Pineapple phone.

Moreover, possibly because the Otto E1 was originally equipped with a high refresh rate and a flagship chip, this smooth feeling was even more responsive than the Pineapple phone!

In addition, those system functions that had been updated successively could also be freely customized according to your preferences.

For example, you could freely drag the calendar, clock, alarm clock, etc. to the desktop or delete them, and you could also customize the content on the negative one screen. As long as you spent a little time, you could transform the phone's interface into the most comfortable and convenient form for yourself.

This was the result of months of hard work by the entire Otto Technology team.

Chang You had originally planned to add some system functions to the phone, but Pei Qian had rejected it.

Pei Qian told Chang You to focus all his energy on fine-tuning the details, including linear animations, etc., everything should be compared to the Pineapple phone. After all, this aspect of the change only slightly improved the user's hand feel, and would not affect the actual power supply. It was a thankless change.

But everything had its advantages and disadvantages. After several months of patient tuning, the linear animation of Otto Phone's new system was finally completed and could be released!

Every operation on the phone gave people an incredibly smooth feeling.

There was no other way, Otto Technology's developers had to do something, if they didn't do linear animations, they would do other functions.

Pei Qian constantly opened and closed mobile application processes, played for a while, and then continued to check other aspects of the changes with satisfaction.

The camera system had also been greatly updated. Compared with the previous camera system, it was basically completely redone and had a large number of new functions.

As a mobile phone released ten months ago, Otto's camera module was already slightly behind, but the updated camera system added a large number of optimization algorithms, including automatic image recognition, automatic color adjustment, automatic beauty, etc.

Simply put, it automatically recognizes the photo, judges whether it is food, scenery, or a person, and then automatically switches to the corresponding algorithm to make the photo look better.

Of course, users can also quickly choose to turn off all algorithms when taking pictures to take the most authentic photos.

However, most people still prefer the photos automatically edited by the system, after all, they look better.

Many beauty cameras are criticized because they are too heavily edited, such as overly bright colors, too high saturation, or beauty treatments that cause disproportion, etc., which makes people feel very fake.

The camera system updated by Otto this time had been repeatedly debugged in the Image Laboratory. Many professional photographers had studied it for a long time, trying to find a balance between restoring the original appearance and post-processing beautification as much as possible.

In addition, the Aeeis Mobile Assistant has also been updated.

In fact, almost all domestic mobile phones currently use Xunke Technology's voice technology. Shenhua and some other domestic mobile phone brands have already launched voice assistants.

Aeeis was just packaged differently from these voice assistants, and there was no significant improvement in practicality, so this was not a very sensational news.

In addition to these, there were some other small updates, but Pei Qian himself didn't notice them, so users probably wouldn't notice them even more.

Simply summarizing the system update content currently seen, the biggest changes were nothing more than three: smoother linear animations comparable to Pineapple phones, a better-tuned camera system, and the Aeeis voice assistant.

Pei Qian felt that these all seemed acceptable.

Although they all had a certain improvement effect on the user's daily perception of using the mobile phone, they all belonged to the "not strong perception" type. The details were much improved, but there was nothing particularly sensational.

The Otto E1 mobile phone had entered the end of its life. According to the speed of releasing one mobile phone a year, a new mobile phone would be released after the settlement of this cycle, officially ending the life of the E1 model.

So many system functions had been updated at the end of this model's life, and new users would not buy the mobile phone for this reason. Since no one bought the mobile phone, no money would be made, so everything would be safe, and Boss Pei would not be harmed.

However, just as Pei Qian relaxed his vigilance, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a new system built-in app on his phone: Mall!

This mall mainly integrated some of the products that Tenda usually sold. Otto mobile phone users could directly place orders here and enjoy some exclusive discounts.

After all, Otto mobile phone was a mobile phone on the surface, but in reality, it was a Tenda industry VIP status.

Pei Qian clicked on the mall and saw a line of bold words on the splash screen.

"Fully Automatic Intelligent Arguing Machine Aeeis, officially on sale!"