Chapter 230: A Big Sensation on the Whole Network [Two Greater Chapters]
Approaching 3 p.m., the luncheon in the Taishan Mansion came to an end. At this time, the whole hall was talking about business.
Guo Wanliang, chairman of 'Xinfei', took his assistant to Zhang Fan and others, ready to sell his own 'mobile phone music decoding chip'.
"The audio decoding chip in Mr. Zhang's mobile phone, is it Yamaha or SRS? I'm going to introduce myself to you......"
"We, 'Xinfei', also developed a music chip last year, and we dare not surpass them in terms of sound quality output and external amplifier, at least we can make a tie. The key is that the price is fair, and there is no bullying for children! β
One person interjected: "Lao Guo, you are doing business at every opportunity." The 'Xinfei' chip is still good, Mr. Zhang may wish to consider it, they are all their own people, and there will be no problem with quality and price. β
Zhang Fan nodded and smiled: "I can trust this, I will bring the sample back in two days, and I will let the hardware colleagues see how the effect is......"
"What about my sister?" Zheng Lan asked with a smile.
"Aren't you 'AMEC' developing 'mobile multimedia processor chips'?" Zhang Fan turned his head and said.
"That's the first project, and we have other chips too, right?" As he spoke, Zheng Lan looked at Liu Chengzhi, chairman of AMEC.
Liu Chengzhi nodded and smiled: "Our biggest strength should be in the field of digital audio and video chips...... In terms of related software development, it has reached a strategic partnership with Microsoft. β
"How?" Zheng Lan smiled and said: "When you develop the second generation of products, do you want to try our chips?" β
"The best ...... that can use your own people" Zhang Fan looked at Zheng Lan and nodded.
The fact that AMEC can do OEM for foreign chip manufacturers shows that their process and manufacturing level are completely fine.
At present, the supply chain of Dabai S1 mobile phone hardware has been decided, and the second-generation products are almost determined, but the tablet hardware is still in the testing stage, as long as it can meet the standard, you can consider using domestic chips.
The use of domestic production not only reduces costs, but also supports the domestic industrial chain and establishes a reliable product supply chain system.
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"Mr. Zhang came just in time!"
"Look at how our Lenovo engineering machine is doing? Is there a chance to defeat you Dabai? β
In the center of the stage in the hall, Lenovo Zhu Li was explaining their engineering machines to the surrounding bigwigs, and hurriedly stopped when he saw Zhang Fan, Zhou Yang and others coming over.
The engineering machine in Zhu Li's hand is an Android smartphone developed by Lenovo at the end of last year.
It will be sent for inspection in mid-March this year, and it is expected to be launched from mid-June to July.
The model of this mobile phone is tentatively named 'Lenovo P701', and the design has absorbed some inspiration from the big white S1, and the overall design is rounded and square.
There are three buttons on the front, the screen is a '4-inch Samsung HD screen', and the system uses Google's latest Android 1.5.
The number of other hardware jΓΉ is reduced by half compared to Dabai, and the storage space is only 256M. The internal pricing is: 1500 yuan.
'Lenovo P701' mobile phone is a test product for them to 'grab the mountain' this year, not a boutique mobile phone that 'Lenovo' wants to build.
The model of the flagship level will not be seen until the end of 09.
Other domestic mobile phone factories are also mostly 'first put a cannon' this year, and the domestic mobile phones that are expected to be listed this year, including Samsung, Apple, Nokia and other foreign mobile phones, basically do not have products of the same level as Dabai.
The design is following the trend, borrowing from the big white S1, and the smorgasbord-style patchwork is very strict.
In terms of content, except for Xiaomi to prepare a Xiaomi system that is not fully optimized, everything else basically uses Android native.
In terms of hardware, it is generally half lower than Dabai, and one or two hardware highlights are used as 'gimmicks'.
For example: Lenovo this. The main direction is the 'Summer Student Machine', and the highlights are all in the gorgeous phone case.
However, the design details of their mobile phone case are not enough, and the materials used in the mobile phone case also give people a sense of cheapness, which is worth up to 200 yuan in the future market.
But in this year's market, such mobile phones have completely surpassed Nokia and Samsung's so-called 'hot sellers'.
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In the evening, the sun sets.
In front of the Taishan Building: Cars drive out of the parking lot. Zhang Fan originally wanted to 'have a simple meal with his sister in the evening', but he still didn't escape the shopping mall.
In the evening, Liu Chuanzhi set up a table in a private restaurant and invited the CEOs of ZTE, Huawei, Coolpad, and Xinghuo to have dinner. Let's talk about your views and opportunities for the future development of the industry.
Zheng Lan also had dinner with him.
Among the four mobile phone giants of 'China Cool Alliance', Lenovo and Coolpad should be regarded as the two earliest companies to develop smartphones. Before developing Android, they also tried other mobile systems such as WM and Linux.
Lenovo first developed smartphones in 2000.
At that time, Microsoft's Windows Mobile mobile system had just been released, and Lenovo saw a market opportunity and began to develop smartphones based on Microsoft's WM.
It wasn't until 2003 that Lenovo's first self-developed smartphone, ET180, was officially launched.
At that time, the price of this mobile phone was close to 6,000 yuan, and it was known as 'a mobile phone computer that can fit the world in'.
ET180 for the domestic mobile phone industry in 2003, no less than this year's big white mobile phone brought by the sensation. As soon as it debuted, it almost occupied the headlines of major IT websites, computer newspapers, newspapers and other media.
The only one that can fight with ET180 is the 'Dopod 515' developed by HTC Electronics.
At that time, HTC was arguably the world's largest WM smartphone foundry, monopolizing 80% of the market.
The emergence of Lenovo ET180 not only broke through the situation of zero domestic smartphones, but also brought a sense of crisis to the industry giants.
Since then, the two companies have been in this area: the 'smartphone field', which is difficult for ordinary consumers to access.
Soon foreign manufacturers such as HP and Sony Ai also joined the fray, and it was only then that Lenovo really felt that it was standing on the world stage.
Later, in 2005, Lenovo developed the ace smartphone 'ET960'.
The phone also uses the Microsoft WM operating system and a full touchscreen design.
Its unique mobile phone design can be said to be 'amazing' at the time! In that year, he received the highest honor award from the Industrial Design Association of America.
Interestingly, the phone also comes with a 1.3-million-pixel CCD front camera, which most smartphones don't have these days.
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At the dinner, as soon as he talked about the development experience of smartphones 6 years ago, Liu Chuanzhi couldn't help but get excited, and pulled Zhang Fan's eyebrows to talk about the hardships and achievements at the beginning.
However, at that time, the Internet was not popular, and smartphones were too expensive, so the sales of smartphones developed by Lenovo could not go up at all.
Last year, they developed 'Beacon08' based on the Linux system, which was originally very ambitious to compete with Apple.
But after the product was launched, they found that the Linux system was almost a blank in terms of application, and the actual application was not as good as a copycat mobile phone.
In addition, at the end of last year, the big white mobile phone was born, which made the 'Lenovo 2008 smart phone layout' lose across the board.
Speaking of this, Liu Chuanzhi couldn't help but admire Zhang Fan even more, and praised Zhang Fan for his accurate and unique vision.
When Google announced the Android system in 07, Lenovo also received a development invitation, but no one in the top management thought that there would be any development of Google's system, and at that time they were also developing mobile phones based on the Linux system......
But no one expected: in just half a year, Android Smart Storm landed in China. Even the foreign Google custom machine has not yet been sold, and it has fallen into a hot discussion.
Speaking of this, the chairman of ZTE said a classic quote of "smart phones see the world, and the world's mobile phones look at Dabai".
At first glance, I think it's a bit too exciting', but if you think about it carefully, the current domestic Android smart market can be so hot, all of which are related to the big white mobile phones that came out of nowhere.
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In the conversation with Liu Chuanzhi and others that night, Zhang Fan also gained a lot of 'senior views'.
The development process of each of their products is a microcosm of an era.
Many of them were very cutting-edge technologies at the time, but they can only be regarded as 'pediatrics' and 'obsolete goods' now.
But there is a famous saying in the ancient Chinese saying: the things of the predecessors are the teachers of the future.
Now the products seem to be very high-end, but one day they will enter the era like those products in the past. Looking back 5 years, the current product is only the 'ET180' in '03.
Let's look at the current situation of Microsoft WM and Google Android......
Zhang Fan's idea of developing his own operating system and building a 'Spark Technology Ecological Chain' in the future is clearer!
Just when everyone was eating and chatting and talking about the future development of science and technology, the news of the establishment of the "Huaxia Wi-Fi Alliance" landed on the Internet like a storm!
From the 3-minute report of the national "News Network" at 7 p.m., to the large-scale publicity of the "Focus Interview" after 7:30 p.m., and then to the headline reports of many Internet portals such as People's Daily Online.
JUST 3 HOURS, THE 'HUAXIA WI-FI ALLIANCE' HAS BECOME THE OBJECT OF HEATED DISCUSSION ON THE WHOLE NETWORK!
Among them, the emergence of Xinghuo Group also made netizens see it thoroughly: "What is the relationship between Dabai, Weixi, and Five Minutes." β
After seeing the list of '37 founding members of the alliance' announced by CCTV and People's Daily Online, almost the whole network was a sensation!
The list almost covers the most cutting-edge enterprises in the current 3C industry and the three major science and technology fields in China.
From manufacturers to operators, it can be said that the whole industry chain is covered, and almost every enterprise scale is tens of billions.
Even if there are individual companies that are not, they are still cutting-edge enterprises in the industry.
For example: Spark Technology that appeared among the crowds.
Spark is the bottom of the alliance giants in terms of asset size, but no one dares to underestimate it.
Because both "News Network" and "Focus Interview" clearly mentioned:
"ZTE, Huawei, and Xinghuo jointly established a gigabit wireless technology research and development room", "Zhang Fan, chairman of the Huaxia Wi-Fi Alliance's 'advocate', Xinghuo, said: ......"
From these sentences, everyone can see the importance of Spark in the alliance.
IN ADDITION, THE TWO 'WI-FI CORE TECHNOLOGIES' OF THE ALLIANCE ARE BOTH DEVELOPED BY XINGHUO DABAI, WHICH MAKES MANY NETIZENS, INTERNET COMPANIES, AND RELATED INDUSTRY BOSSES ...... are all a little 'confused',
"How did Dabai become allies with China, China, Cool, Lian, China Mobile, and China Unicom in half a year?"
"How can you put on the clothes of 'Spark Group' in a short period of time and become the core advocate of 37 giant enterprises?"
"HOW DID YOU DEVELOP WI-FI TECHNOLOGY THAT EVEN THE US IMPERIALIST DIDN'T HAVE 'OVERNIGHT'? AND TOGETHER WITH HUAWEI TO ORGANIZE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE 'HUAXIA WI-FI ALLIANCE'? Also want to develop the 'fifth generation wireless network' technology? β
This column of questions and the sense of span brought by the news of 'Gigabit wireless research and development' and 'the establishment of the Huaxia WIFI Alliance' have made many netizens and industry insiders point out: "I can't adapt to it".
After seeing it, Chen Dazhou, chairman of Renren.com, posted an article in his personal space and said:
"It's like the worst student in the class getting into the best university in the world."
In addition to sighing, he didn't forget to tease the penguin and ask, "What do you think?" β
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This article was published not long ago, and it was quickly reprinted in the Dabai community and space.
Some netizens imitated the 'penguin tone' and exclaimed:
"Holy, you're not lying to me? Dabai's kind of little deflated three was admitted to college? Didn't you scold me on the Internet two days ago?? Quick, slap me in the face, sober me up! β
Under the comments, more than 7,000 community netizens received 'expression slaps' and 'pop' text content within two hours.
No matter how others evaluate and view this matter, Dabai netizens first enjoy the great sense of pride and honor brought by the heated discussions on the Internet.
And on the other side of the ocean, the United States is also in shock! Especially the organizations involved.
"HUAXIA PEOPLE SET UP 'WI-FI ALLIANCE'?"
"You also talk about developing a gigabit wireless network?"
"Impossible, right? April 9 is April Fool's Day in China? β
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