The day after Zhou Shi left the negotiating table with Huawei, Huawei's Ren Zhengfei came to the door. With such a godfather-level figure, Zhou Shi still respects him very much.

"Mr. Zhou, I'm really sorry, the people below are not sensible......" Ren Zhengfei said sincerely

"It doesn't matter, it's because my cultivation is not enough, and I don't have self-respect, so I can't blame others. Zhou Shiyan said insincerely, originally he had no official identity in Time Holdings, but he overstepped his responsibilities, and as a wealthy man, the leader did what employees should do.

"This is really our mistake, please give me a chance to make up for it!" Ren Zhengfei

"Mr. Ren, Huawei is the most focused enterprise in China on technology research and development, I admire it very much, which is the main reason why I want to become friends with Huawei. "Zhou Shi

Huawei's technology accumulation has made his foundation extremely solid, but no matter how powerful he is, he can't compare to the reborn people's blame. With the sales of 20 billion US dollars, the sales revenue of Nut Mobile will not be too bad.

The Nut smartphone was launched nearly a year later than Guoke, but the price is much cheaper than the iPhone and Guoke. The price range of the mobile phone is between 199~599 US dollars. Last year, more than 20 mobile phones were launched, with an average of one every half a month. Rich configuration and choice, coupled with a clear price system, the sales of three series of mobile phones in high, medium and low mainly use the time Android system. The hardware configuration ranges from Qualcomm and Texas Instruments to the self-developed Spreadtrum Kirin, the GPU ranges from Imagination's PoerVR to Spreadtrum's adreno, and the camera is also the low-end product from OmniVision's OV to Gekewei. Although the supply chain has been greatly expanded and costs have risen, there is a lot of experience in the process. According to the feedback of nuts, the upstream and downstream enterprises of smart phones under Galaxy Capital and Sixiang Fund have become more targeted. I have to say that Zhou Shi's willfulness, this practice of sacrificing the interests of one enterprise to serve other enterprises is not something that everyone can do. Even if there is a large conflict of interest between the companies under the Samsung Group, it is difficult to sacrifice the interests of one department to another. But Zhou Shi is the founder, and his rights and status are completely different from that of a professional manager. There are so many possibilities!

Thanks to the foundation laid by Guoke, the sales of nut mobile phones have largely made use of the marketing system established by Guoke. Because of the price, even if there is not too much advertising, the sales growth rate has exceeded that of Guoke mobile phones. In the first quarter of 2010, about 4 million Nut phones were sold, but the average price was around $300. In the case of ignoring the sales of various spare parts, the sales revenue of nuts in the first quarter was also 1.2 billion US dollars. Sales continued to rise in 4~5 months, with 3 million units sold in nut mobile phones, and there is great hope that the annual sales of nut mobile phones will exceed 5 billion US dollars. The husks and nuts add up, which can properly surpass Huawei. If you add up time friends, spreadtrum and other companies, hehe.....

Nuts' low-end tablet PCs were also on the market at this time, and the pre-sale sales at home and abroad were good. After all, this is the third option after the Fruit Shell PAD, and the price is only half of the Fruit Shell iPad, around $300.

With the participation of the two big bosses, coupled with Zhou Shi's madness, the atmosphere of this negotiation is much friendlier. Huawei's patents are mainly in the field of battery cell equipment, and there are also mobile phone mobile communication patents, but they are not professional, and the number can be imagined. In other words, Huawei at this time basically does not threaten the husks and nuts. Thanks again to the extinct Nortel Networks and the IDCC controlled by Galaxy Capital, without the patent support of these two companies, Husks and Nuts would basically not have a future. And by the way, it hit a lot of competitors, such as Apple, this guy's patents in the field of mobile phones are more than one grade less than Guohu. If he dares to use patents against the husks, he can fight back in minutes. But most tech companies' patents are for defensive purposes, and Guoke is no exception. As for the offense, this is the responsibility of the IDCC.

"We want to keep our stake in Time Android because of these considerations. A Huawei executive spent nearly half an hour explaining.

"I won't say much about the reason, although the development of this system is largely done overseas, it is a pure Chinese enterprise, which is the most important exploration of our company in the field of operating systems. Tablet products such as Guoke PAD are our further development in the operating system. In addition, we are also developing a PC Linux operating system that adopts the model of the app store to facilitate users. In short, these attempts are for the sake of domestic information security. But an operating system that not many people use is clearly not valuable. Time Android's previous strategy went wrong,We adjusted the plan and Samsung and Nokia after communication,Get their approval,I can bear the loss of husks and nuts,The most critical of this is Huawei,For the long-term interests,I am willing to bear Huawei's loss。 Zhou Shi's words have both interests and national righteousness, and it depends on Ren Zhengfei's performance.

"We all see Mr. Zhou's efforts for technology investment, and the appearance of Guoke mobile phone in China has caused a great shock, thinking that this is a flash in the pan and will disappear soon because of patent issues. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhou genius solved this problem. Ren Zhengfei said some irrelevant topics, and Zhou Shi listened carefully, not knowing what to say.

"Mr. Zhou's achievements in smart mobile terminals are enviable, and Huawei also wants to develop in this field and hopes to get Mr. Zhou's support. "Ren Zhengfei

"What kind of support will it be? It will not be talent support, Huawei's talent pool is what we aspire to. Zhou Shi was not too surprised when he heard Ren Zhengfei's words.

"Of course not, we need patent support for mobile communications. "Ren Zhengfei

Huawei is obviously not strong enough in the field of 3G, after the start of 4G, there was an outbreak of Huawei and Honor mobile phones, although the market may be the main reason, but patent problems may also be inevitable. Among the mainstream CDMA and CDMA2000 standards, Huawei's patents do not account for many proportions, and even compared with the domestic TD standard, Huawei does not have an advantage. It can be seen that in addition to acquisition, technology accumulation is a shortcut, and it takes a long time to rely on its own accumulation.

"Patent cooperation, Huawei should have a lot of patents!" Zhou Shi said in surprise

"Huawei does not have an advantage in the proportion of core standards of 3G, at least it does not have the ability to fully protect itself. "Ren Zhengfei

"In this way, of course, there is no problem with cooperation, I believe in Huawei's capabilities, and patent issues cannot restrict your development for a long time. "Zhou Shi

"Yes, we will have a big breakthrough in the field of 4G standards!" Ren Zhengfei

"In this case, let's form a patent alliance and carry out patent protection and ......necessary patent authorization for the alliance within ten years," Zhou Shi decisively put forward a proposal. A patent alliance is an alliance between enterprises based on common strategic interests and linked by a group of related patented technologies, and the enterprises within the alliance realize the cross-licensing of patents, or use each other's patented technologies preferentially, and jointly issue joint licensing statements to the outside of the alliance. Such alliances are very attractive to companies that have a certain strength but lack patent accumulation, and can be both offensive and defensive. For the current Huawei, there is basically no reason to refuse.

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