It's easy to install the ratio, but it's not so simple to really get the product out, and now smart phones are still in their infancy, and various related industries are not very developed. In two or three years, you can make a mobile phone with a grass platform team, but it's not so easy now. took Ma Shuzhen to find Feng Fei together, Foxconn and Qualcomm people gave very preferential conditions, Foxconn promised to open a special production line for Huang Wenbin, Qualcomm promised to give Huang Wenbin sufficient supply, and there were discounts if the quantity was large, but the operating system engineer he found was not researching Android.

"Boss Huang, the mobile phone operating system, it still depends on Saipan." It was Deng Kangcheng who spoke, a senior IT engineer.

"Yes, yes, Symbian is a pure mobile phone operating system, what is Android." Another IT engineer, Zhu Yongnian, said.

"Of course Android is better." Huang Wenbin said.

"Boss Huang, you haven't studied mobile phone operating systems before, have you?" Deng Kangcheng said, "University is not about studying IT-related industries. ”

"Jobs still dropped out." Huang Wenbin said.

"Of course Jobs is good, not only Jobs, but Bill Gates also dropped out, but this is just a special case." Deng Kangcheng said, "Saipan is a mature and stable mobile phone operating system, and even Nokia uses Saipan." Nokia is the overlord of the mobile phone industry, wouldn't it be better for us to follow Nokia? Android is just a new thing that has just been made.,The novelty is quite novel.,It's okay to say.。 There are so many bugs and messy memory management. ”

"But Android is an open system, real-time, multi-tasking, and of course it will occupy a little higher memory." Huang Wenbin said.

"Symbian is also an open system, multitasking in real time, and it consumes less power and less memory. It can support GPRS, Bluetooth, SyncML, NFC and 3G technologies. It contains a reference implementation of federated libraries, user interface architectures, and public tools that anyone can develop for Symbian-enabled devices. Symbian separates the general technology of mobile devices, that is, the kernel of the operating system, from the graphical user interface technology, which can well adapt to different input platforms, and also enables manufacturers to make more user-friendly operation interfaces for their products, in line with the trend of personalization, and the java program developed for Symbian has formed a hive on the Internet. Users can install software to extend the functionality of their mobile phones. Zhu Yongnian said, "No matter how you look at it, Symbian is better than Android." ”

It seems that this is indeed the case, "The development of Saipan is inconvenient. Huang Wenbin said, "In the future, it will be the world of Apple and Android." ”

"Apple is okay, it should be able to surpass Microsoft's mobile phone system to third this year, but Android is still far away, and even Linux can't surpass." Deng Kangcheng said, "Saipan will be the first, the market share should be about 50%, although it will decline a little, but it is still far more than other operating systems." BlackBerry should be second, with a one-and-a-half to two-percent share, and the BlackBerry system is closed, and we should do Symbian if we want to do it. ”

Huang Wenbin shook his head, "Android, the next few years will usher in a big explosion of hardware performance, the pursuit of mobile phones will not be limited memory and CPU, but in the growing CPU, memory, screen manufacturers to provide the best possible entertainment experience." ”

"But what about the battery?" Deng Kangcheng sent a fatal blow, "The CPU memory screen has increased greatly, and the power consumption will become larger and larger, what kind of battery can support it?" There has been no breakthrough in battery technology recently, and the best is lithium batteries. ”

"When the screen is bigger, the phone will be bigger, and when the phone is bigger, the space will be larger, and the battery will be bigger, and it can last for a day anyway." Huang Wenbin said.

"The screen is big, the phone is big, the battery is big, so how heavy is the whole phone? Is such a big, heavy thing still stuffed in your pocket? Deng Kangcheng asked.

"According to Boss Huang, I might as well bring a laptop and a feature phone." Zhu Yongnian said.

"The ease of use of a laptop is far less than that of a smartphone, and there is a big difference between being able to use it when you pull it out and pressing the start button for half a minute." Huang Wenbin said.

"I'm sorry Boss Huang, I still don't think Android has any future." Deng Kangcheng wants to have a career, "If you want to make an Android phone, you should ask another master." ”

"Okay, no problem." Huang Wenbin said that although it is a pity, but Huang Wenbin can't keep people at such a high price, what can he do, "What about Dr. Zhu?" ”

"I ......" Zhu Yongnian is not optimistic, but his family has a heavy burden and needs a stable job, and he is not so attached to his career and dreams, so he can only say against his will, "I want to try it, maybe Android can also make a good smart phone." In fact, he thinks that instead of using Android, it is better to use Linux directly, at least Linux has a lot of ready-made programs, and the system is perfect, and it is convenient to recruit people to write code, "Boss Huang, I am an operating system, I have no experience in this hardware, are you looking for someone else to be responsible?" ”

"Of course." Huang Wenbin said, "You can concentrate on developing the operating system. ”

Originally, Huang Wenbin thought it was very easy, isn't it just to put all kinds of mobile phone parts together, just a little experience, there are many copycat talents. Huang Wenbin remembers that there were many copycat machines at that time, with large volumes, large batteries, large screens, or handwriting systems, which simply led the trend in advance. Who knew that when I really looked for it, I found that there was no such talent at all. There are a lot of people who make copycat machines, but they are all ready-made solutions of MTK, and they are just setting a shell to pick up a marquee or something, and they want to switch to Qualcomm's CPU, and they are all blind.

It took a lot of effort for Huang Wenbin to finally find someone who is more experienced in mobile phone hardware. In fact, he didn't find it, but came to the door by himself - this person is called Yu Jie, he just came back from the United States, and he was doing smartphone design in the United States, and the reason why he ran back to China was because the factory couldn't go on and closed down, so Yu Jie was unemployed and couldn't even sign a visa, so he could only return to China to find an opportunity. When I saw Huang Wenbin recruiting here, I ran over.

"This mobile phone hardware, there are a lot of doorways, things that seem very simple to others, to be used in mobile phones, to be manufactured on a large scale, there will be problems. We designed a mobile phone with a glass case, the design drawing is very beautiful, and the sample is also very beautiful, who knows that the glass case always has cracks when it is mass-produced, the yield is too low, and the price increases. Yu Jie introduced Huang Wenbin, "So this time I will definitely learn a lesson and never use too radical design." ”

"That's right, I want a conservative design." Huang Wenbin said that it was all later generations that proved the design, and he had no ideas of his own.

"I don't know what kind of smartphone Boss Huang wants to make?" Yu Jie asked.

"Have you ever seen an iPhone?" Huang Wenbin asked.

"Yes." Yu Jie said, "I have seen 3G last year and 3GS this year. ”

"That's going to be easy." Huang Wenbin took out a 3GS, "I want to make one that is similar to Apple." "Actually, Huang Wenbin wants to say that you can copy one for me anyway, but it seems too much to say so," the border is smaller, the screen proportion is larger, don't need the home button, and make three virtual buttons below. That's how the applications are arranged. Huang Wenbin drew the appearance of several well-selling mobile phones in his memory, "That's about it." ”

"This ......" Yu Jie thought to himself, you are not radical, you are so radical that you are going to die, okay, "This design is certainly very beautiful, but the popular mobile phones in China are still relatively traditional, so it is better for us to compromise first." For example, keep the number keys and keep the screen smaller. "Apple still has a home button, this Huang boss is good, I don't even want home, just three virtual buttons, isn't this equivalent to occupying the screen, how expensive the screen is, wasting on the buttons, it's not as good as the physical use.

"Of course not, don't want traditional buttons, don't want one, just add two volume adjustment keys and a power button on the side."

It's too radical, Yu Jie said: "The handwriting screen has a limited lifespan, and if the virtual buttons also occupy the life of the handwriting screen, it will definitely be broken for three years at most." ”

"The mobile phone we need is very easy to use within one year, it can be used within two years, and after two years, don't think about it." Huang Wenbin said.

"It's so undurable." Yu Jie said.

"The mobile phone I want to make is not a durable good, it is a consumer electronics." Huang Wenbin said, "It's the same as Apple. ”

"Apple isn't as aggressive as you." Yu Jie said, "According to your design, a large number of mobile phones will be damaged in three years, which is very bad for our reputation." ”

Three years later, it was 2012, and who would be holding on to a 2009 phone, "You don't have to worry, do what I say." First design a mainstream version that is about the same size as Apple, and then make a flagship version with a relatively large screen, and then make a cheaper cost-effective model, as well as a high-definition model that focuses on photography...... "What's more?,The main sound quality is too niche.,The main Internet is it.,Now.

"This ...... We don't have experience, so it's better to concentrate on making one. Zhu Yongnian said.

"That's right, too." Huang Wenbin is still very good at streaming, "Make a version first, and talk about the rest later." Then do it first...... "Originally, Huang Wenbin wanted to say that he would make a cost-effective version first, but after thinking about it, there is no comparison of where the cost performance comes from, and now the mainstream is still a feature machine, most of the smartphones are E71, to open the market, you can only make a high-end version first, providing a good user experience. When smartphones become popular, others will care about cost performance. Coarse grains have a large fever, and they will freeze when making calls, which is a very big disadvantage for a mobile phone in 09. After the popularity of smart phones, everyone is used to using mobile phones to watch videos and play games on the Internet, and they don't care about making phone calls, so they can do that, "Let's make a better version first." ”

"A better version?" Yu Jie asked.

"It's just to pile up the material first, the camera CPU memory screen," Huang Wenbin said, "and the indicators are better." ”

"How good is it?" Yu Jie asked.

"Better than Apple." Huang Wenbin said that the operating system is not as good as others, but it is not necessary to work the hardware.

"It's going to be expensive, and the market is small." Yu Jie said.

"Don't be afraid to be expensive, first beat your reputation." Huang Wenbin said, "When the smartphone market grows explosively, you can earn back any amount of money." ”

"It's too radical." Yu Jie smiled bitterly, is this Boss Huang a genius or a madman? Forget it, whatever, it's a salary anyway.