VALUE: After Hours (S07 E12): China’s Tech Leap: Phones, TVs, and EVs

During their recent episode, Taylor and Carlisle discussed China’s Tech Leap: Phones, TVs, and EVs. Here’s an excerpt from the episode:

Jake: So, we should talk about our why we trip then while we’re getting into this. I think we both came away feeling like China has passed the US on some things. There was a phone that was like– it looked like a an iPad that could fold up four or five times on itself. I haven’t seen anything like that in the US.

Tobias: We had dinner in a restaurant in a mall, and then we walked around the mall and we walked into a Huawei store in the mall. It’s not like we were in the Huawei flagship or anything like that.

Jake: No, that was just–

Tobias: It was just in a random Huawei store in a random mall in Shanghai.

Jake: Yeah.

Tobias: In that, they have giant TVs on the wall.

Jake: Oh, my God. That TV was 110 inches, and it was the most clear picture I’ve ever seen in my life. I couldn’t look away from it. It was insane.

Tobias: And somehow, they use AI to take a less clear picture and make it into a more clear picture. They showed they had these blurry videos, blurry pictures of models and then they’d add in. And so, it was like putting your face up against a mirror. The detail was just incredible.

Jake: It was insane. And then, how about the cars in the Huawei store?

Tobias: And so, this is I think the most shocking thing. We went in, and the cars there are, they’re beautiful cars. They’ve got heaps of screens on the inside, leather seats. They’re luxury SUVs, luxury family cars, and they retail for about $30,000 US.

Jake: yeah. And they look better than $100,000 cars here honestly. I feel like pretty safely saying that.

Tobias: And they charge in five minutes.

Jake: Yeah. [laughs] What are we doing here?

Tobias: Somehow, they’ve figured out how to get these cars charged in five minutes. You plug them in and it charges.

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