Chapter 408: Lin Qiangsheng's Expectations

"Dongxing has released a mobile phone product, Anycall! It's only one-third the weight and volume of a Motorola phone! The San Francisco and Los Angeles area media quickly picked up news about Eastern Star's latest mobile phone, creating a free, large-scale advertisement for Eastern Star.

Soon after, local media in the states of the West Coast of the United States also reported that this latest compact phone is so unique and amazing! It has a mass of only 210 grams, which is an official number, but it's enough to be jaw-dropping!

You must know that not long ago, Motorola just launched its own commercial mobile phone, which is about 260mm long, 27mm wide, 38mm wide at the widest point, about 78mm thick, and weighs 1.1kg.

There is no doubt that this thing is a big thing, and people have just rejoiced at its appearance, surprised at the fact that they can use this mobile portable device to talk to people in another location, and even well-informed scientists are amazed at the magic of mobile phone technology.

Motorola's mobile phone freed people from the shackles of the phone line and carried it with them to travel freely. Although it is somewhat expensive, selling for more than $3,900, it is about $10,000 in purchasing power after 30 years. But this mobile phone is a great convenience for outdoor communication between people, and it is a great progress in communication technology!

Motorola did a lot of work on it, and during a demonstration in the early 80s, the chairman of Motorola happened to be in Washington. He visited the vice president (Bush Sr.) and showed him the new mobile phone, which the latter was impressed.

George H.W. Bush then took the phone to President Reagan, who asked, "Why don't we have this thing yet?" ”

It can be seen that Motorola's mobile phone brought a huge surprise to people at this time, and Dongxing's mobile phone is better than Motorola's product that took 10 years and 100 million US dollars in development costs!

Soon after, the appearance of the Anycall mobile phone swept through the East Coast of the United States like a hurricane, and then the North American media widely reported on the appearance of the mobile phone. At the same time, the news quickly crossed the Atlantic to the European continent.

People are very curious, and after Motorola just released its first mobile phone, Dongxing released this smaller and more sophisticated phone. What kind of company is Dongxing, and when will their mobile phones be mass-produced and sold?

Some dealers and people who are interested in mobile phones actually made calls to the headquarters of Dongxing by flipping through the Yellow Pages, and they asked when the mobile phone released by Dongxing would be available for sale and sought product agents.

"Sales? No, no, no, the company isn't ready right now. Mr. Governor, you may wish to wait a little longer. What the? You've already bought a Motorola phone, that's okay, I'll give you one when the product starts mass production! Hahaha, it's nothing, just treat it as a Christmas present! Lin Qiangsheng smiled proudly and hung up the phone of the governor of California.

Lin Qiangsheng rang the intercom and said to the secretary outside: "Let Tarona come!" ”

"Yes sir!" The secretary replied, and she then called the company's newly established communications department. About three or four minutes later, Tarona, dressed in a women's suit, knocked on the door and walked into Lin Qiangsheng's office.

Lin Qiangsheng stood up and walked in front of Tarona and shook her hand, and after inviting Tarona to sit on the sofa, Lin Qiangsheng said to her: "Wright, the press conference the day before yesterday worked very well. When do you expect the FCC to approve our application? ”

Tarona. Wright, who has just been promoted by Lin Johnson, is 33 years old and is already the mother of a 7-year-old child, and her husband is an associate professor at a university.

Originally, Lin Qiangsheng insisted on using Chinese as the company's top executives, but Tarona's performance as a sales supervisor in the sales department of Dongxing Electronics Company was indeed very good, and Li Jing and Wang Huichang both recommended this woman to him.

Considering that most of the employees in his company are still native Americans, Lin Qiangsheng chose a pure American to serve as the company's top management, which can also play a role in harmonizing the company's internal atmosphere. So he resigned himself to Tarona. As the president and CEO of the newly established Dongxing Communications Company, Wright personally presided over the press conference the day before yesterday. Her affable appearance and down-to-earth and generous demeanor also added a lot of points to Dongxing's first mobile phone.

Tarona smiled slightly, her expression made Lin Qiangsheng's eyes light up. He immediately felt that he had made the right choice. This woman does have an elegant temperament, and the fashionable big curls that were originally a little awkward in Lin Qiangsheng's eyes are not so conspicuous.

This female CEO looks a bit like Bonnie in Die Hard 1. Beatilia, Tarona is just as motivated and hard-working as the heroine of that movie!

"We have forwarded the relevant test data of the DX-100 mobile phone to the Federal Communications Commission, and if everything goes well, the FCC will issue us a production and sales license in about 60 days," said Tarona. The company's product test data are in line with FCC standards, and I will follow up with the FCC test! ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded and said, "That's the best." At present, there are only two mobile terminal products in the U.S. market: Motorola's mobile phone and Bell's car phone, and we will strive to become the second company to produce and sell personal mobile phones in the United States! ”

"However, our product technology has copied a lot of Motorola and Bell's technology in some aspects, although we do not sell products, these two companies are likely to require us to disclose technical details to third parties, and the company's legal department should be prepared!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng smiled: "Then come on, I'm waiting for them to negotiate the conditions!" ”

He then said to Tarona: "You have to be prepared to negotiate with Motorola. Through the exchange of technology in exchange for the underlying technology of mobile phones we need, and even in digital communication technology, we must strive for it! This is the future development direction of the company, I have always felt that analog technology mobile phones can have 10 years of vitality is almost time to be eliminated! ”

Tarona nodded a little puzzled, it was the first time she had heard of the idea that analog communication technology was going to be eliminated, but she still said, "Understood, I will do what you want!" Lithium-ion battery technology is our biggest advantage, Motorola has no way to reduce the size and quality of mobile phones in a short period of time, they don't want to completely withdraw from the market only to exchange technology with us! ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded approvingly and said: "Whether it's AT&T or Motorola, my bottom line is to exchange for their analog communication underlying technology and some digital communication technology!" And it's better to have one of these two companies OEM for us to produce mobile phone products for two years, and jointly fund the production of lithium-ion batteries, before we are ready for the factory! ”

Tarona nodded and wrote these down in a small notebook, and Lin Qiangsheng continued: "If you think about the other conditions, you might as well open a higher price." I guess Motorola will be very eager to get a patent for lithium-ion battery technology as soon as possible, and we can make a big deal! ”

"Okay, Mr. Lin!" Tarona nodded and said, she felt that the conditions offered by the boss were actually taken for granted, and she had a great hope of making a deal with Motorola.

At this time, Motorola's headquarters in Illinois had learned of the news of the release of the mobile phone by Eastern Star.

They were amazed that the mobile phone products they had just started selling had already had other competitors within three months. Especially when it was learned that this competitor's product was so much smaller and lighter than their mobile phone, Motorola's mobile phone division immediately fell into a panic!

In the early eighties, Motorola was still a medium-sized company, and it was not yet the multinational conglomerate with a turnover of tens of billions of dollars a year!

AT&T, the American telegraph and telephone company, is a well-deserved boss in the communications industry at this time, and Lin Qiangsheng does not think that AT&T will now go to court with Dongxing. Because the size and market share of this company are too big and terrifying, it is in the dilemma of being broken up by the US government!

As for Motorola, Lin Qiangsheng can't wait for them to come to him, because Motorola has been developing communication technology for decades, and this company's technical background is very rich, and it has a lot of technologies that Lin Qiangsheng dreams of in his hands!

Motorola attached great importance to the continued development of analog communication technology, but it did not invest enough in digital technology, and even in the mid-90s, it expected that analog communication technology would continue to make a brilliant appearance. This company has gone too smoothly in the early stage, it can be said that there has been no competitors in the American market, and Americans are also more nostalgic, and they can use a mobile phone for N years without changing. This also made Motorola obsessed with its past achievements and was so confident in itself that it later became sluggish to respond to the market.

If you want to force Motorola to hand over all these technologies to Dongxing, of course, it is impossible, but this opportunity is very good, Lin Qiangsheng doesn't believe that he can't force what he wants, otherwise everyone will stand up, anyway, he has time, but Lin Qiangsheng believes that Motorola must not be able to wait!

At this time, the head manager of Motorola's mobile phone development department, Rudy. Krolop had already learned from the marketing department about the release of a mobile phone from Eastern Star.

After carefully observing the Dongxing mobile phone in the news pictures, he gathered the members who developed the mobile phone with him and all the subordinates of the mobile phone development department to analyze the products of the Dongxing company, and set the research topic: why is it so small! (To be continued......)