Standing on the stage, Aria raised her hand and showed the phone to the audience as it booted up. The displays behind her mirrored her actions, then switched to the audience sitting in the auditorium.
It took exactly three seconds for the phone to fully power up, and since it was the phone's first time being powered on, Aria had to say, "Skip the introduction and consider me an experienced user."
The moment she said that the phone immediately displayed its home screen, where it didn't linger for long since she quickly opened the front-facing camera without any delay, all by using voice commands.
"Now, let's cast it to the screens behind me," she said. The phone understood her command and opened the connection page, which showed all the available screens she could share the live feed of the camera. "Connect to all of them."
With that, all three screens behind Aria lit up with the live feed from the phone, the image was crisp and clear beyond anything anyone had ever seen.
"It really is from the phone's actual camera feed, not one from a high-quality professional studio camera," Aria said, turning around and taking a selfie with the audience in the background so as to display the shot on the big screens behind her.
"Make it cool and post it on my Twitter account," she then instructed, and the screens behind her that were still displaying what was on her phone showed the AI assistant editing the image.
"Now, let's look at one of the most important main features of the Nex One. Our 'ecosystem,' that's been made possible by our G-chip, allows for instant, large-scale data transfers between two compatible devices within a range of 500 meters. Thanks to that, anyone using one of our new phones will be able to transfer any file with their friends even if they're a couple of football fields away. That's also the range limit of our wireless earphones and speakers, which also use our proprietary SLAS and will be released alongside the phone as peripheral devices," she said and then paused to wait for the resulting applause to end.
"Naturally, any device that has all these features demands ample power to support them, and we've all seen phones running out of battery at the worst possible times. To that, I say there's no need to worry with our Nex One—you can use it with everything maxed out for 24 hours continuously on a full charge. For more normal usage, you can expect the battery to last anywhere from four days to a week without needing a charging session. And when you do need to charge it, our new proprietary fast-charge system will take these batteries from zero to full in just under an hour and a half."
"Now, something I'm sure you all want to know about—the price," she said, then paused as the screens behind her showed the three versions of the phone they were launching. "We are offering three initial versions of the Nex One. Though each different size is for aesthetics alone, their capabilities are identical, so the size difference is the only difference. The starting price for the Nex One is $799, the Nex One Pro is $1,099, and the Nex One Plus is at $1,299."
But before everyone could conclude, the corner of Aria's lips curled up and she made the final dash.
"We also have a Nex One Mini, with a lighter processor and slightly lesser camera resolution with similar other capabilities at just $199."
The audience let out a collective gasp, as they had expected that the phone would at least cost $2000 and that itself would be a break-even price or even a loss. Everything that had been introduced about the phone was proprietary tech, meaning, they assumed that the company had to absorb the full cost of research and development, plus manufacturing, instead of just licensing or buying previously existing patents.
But the most shocking one was the Nex One Mini!