20 years of restarting life

Zhao Changan was not surprised by Qi Xidong's excitement. He had been wandering abroad for nearly 20 years, and this time he came back with the intention of making a big move to make a name for himself. However, Zhao Changan's previous decision, which seemed too stretched, was obviously not the same. to his interests and appetites.

But Qi Xidong's position only represents his personal position. Although he can say that he is also doing this for the benefit of Alcatel, in Zhao Changan's view, for Alcatel, an economic giant, it is its branch business. For a smaller joint venture in the mobile phone industry, the so-called benefits are simply insignificant.

On the contrary, as a global multinational company, they care more about the logic of the local market and the integrity of their partners.

This is also the fundamental reason why Tang Shuang firmly opposes Zhao Changan's betrayal, because if he does this, something similar to BlackBerry and Tianyue may happen in the future.

For Zhao Changan, the future of the joint venture and Qi Xidong's interests are consistent, so he hopes to get effective help or valuable suggestions from Qi Xidong.

"In fact, after the R&D center at the European headquarters slowed down the progress of R&D, the R&D center here has been catching up. All the designs have been made, but prototypes have not been made. Because the Pearl R&D Center does not have such With a budget of one item, we don’t have enough power to discuss the manufacturing of prototypes with the company’s manufacturing department in Europe.”

Qi Xidong's words surprised Zhao Changan.

"There is nothing surprising, because they have been in a state of having nothing to do in the past few months. Only by continuing to develop flip phones can they show that they are not getting the company's salary in vain."

Qi Xidong explained the matter to Zhao Changan with a smile.

After Alcatel decided to move its Asian headquarters and R&D center to Mingzhu as a whole, the mobile phone business department, which was originally a small R&D center in Sydney, and in order to support the technical capabilities of the joint venture factory, was the first to move. Moved here.

Because the relocation of a continental R&D center is not a matter of words, according to Alcatel's plan, they will not completely complete the relocation of the Alcatel Asia R&D center from Sydney to the Pearl until the winter of the following year.

Now at the Pearl R&D Center, only the mobile phone project R&D team has completed the relocation. The relocation of the rest of the R&D and technical personnel will have to wait until May next year for the next batch at the earliest.

Before the mobile phone project R&D team moved here, it was in the Asia R&D Center in Sydney, responsible for collecting user data on the Pacific West Coast and Oceania, and at the same time participating in the auxiliary research and development of some functional modules in the OT501, OT502, and OT701 series of mobile phones that the company is developing.

However, when the personnel of this affairs department were relocated to Mingzhu, more than 40% of them were lost, so more than 50% of the new employees were recruited locally.

As a result, they were originally responsible for the auxiliary research and development of some functional modules of the OT501, OT502, and OT701 series mobile phones. Due to the dissolution of the team, they lost their continued functions and were taken away by the headquarters.

However, these R&D personnel cannot be allowed to idle around all day and get paid in vain.

So Alcatel asked them to serve as a communication bridge between the head office's R&D center and the joint venture factory.

At the same time, they are allowed to make local adaptability suggestions and fine-tuning for the design of the clamshell machine.

After Zhao Changan postponed the launch of the mobile phone to September next year, the R&D center at Alcatel headquarters has actually suspended the research and development of this folding mobile phone.

Because the OT501, OT502, and OT701 series of mobile phones that they have concentrated their technical strength on public relations cover the research and development of these elements such as built-in antennas, WAP Internet access, mobile phone recording, new power-on and off animations, and color screen mobile phones.As long as these are overcome, the difficulty of designing the flip phone for the joint venture will be reduced exponentially, and the final shape of the flip phone will be completed naturally.

As a result, the mobile phone affairs department of Pearl R&D Center, because Alcatel R&D headquarters has suspended the research and development of flip phones, puts the R&D staff here in an awkward dilemma of having nothing to do all day.

So at Qi Xidong's suggestion, this group of people simply left the Alcatel R&D Center and continued independent research and development on the already formed design drawings.

And listening to Qi Xidong, they should have done very well in the past two months.

"For the data you requested, the built-in antenna has been designed by the R&D headquarters before, and has also been tested for signal strength. It is a little weaker than the external antenna, but the reduction is not more than 20%. The next step is to make it on the prototype. In the future, if there are ways to improve it, it may be possible to increase the rate.

WAP Internet access, mobile phone recording, and a new power-on animation. The European R&D headquarters has completed technical research. The only difficulty now is the color screen. In fact, monochrome screens are still the mainstream in the market. Color-screen mobile phones are indeed the direction of future mobile phones. However, The current market share is almost negligible.

As a workaround, we can use the workaround of SGH-A288. They announced that the mobile phone screen to be launched next year will have a light green background light and a light blue background light.Although Alcatel is not yet mature in this technology, Siemens has already made a very good screen. The S10 can achieve stable red, green, blue and white colors. Although it is still far from a true wide color screen, it is enough to meet the needs of today's consumers. market expectations. "

Qi Xidong said: "As for MP3 and built-in cameras, these functions are not something they are capable of producing at all, including the current headquarters R&D center. Moreover, there is no connection between these two functions and mobile phones. R&D After a discussion at the headquarters, we decided to give up."

"I did not ask for these two functions to be used on flip phones. I just suggested that the company should conduct research and development now and buy a license if there is no patent. These two functions will definitely be necessary functions for future mobile phones." Zhao Changan actually did not want to I won't talk too much about these forward-looking things, but as the top manager of Alcatel's joint venture, Zhao Changan still hopes that he can maintain a good working relationship with him and establish a "this Zhao Changan is really awesome" good impression.

In October this year, SAMSUNG launched the world's first mp3 mobile phone, SGH-M188, with a built-in 32MB of memory that can store songs. However, the current drawback is that it cannot be set as a ringtone for incoming calls.

This mobile phone also won the German Hannover Industrial Design Award.

Last month, Toyo's J-Phone Group (Toyo's third largest mobile operator) launched the J-SH04 camera phone made by Sharp, with a built-in 11 pixels.

However, the new functions of these two mobile phones have not attracted the attention of the market, because the sound quality of the Walkman and MP3 is much greater than that of the SGH-M188, and the J-SH11, which only has 04 pixels, has to be installed in the mobile phone in order to install a camera. A lot of performance is sacrificed, and the photos taken can only be said to be of rough quality, and because a camera is added to the phone, the phone also becomes stupid.

In the eyes of many people, these two redundant mobile phone plug-in functions are boring and inferior.

When mobile phones came on the scene, the only function of mobile phones was to make and receive calls, using analog signals.

Later, after the mobile phone was upgraded to a digital signal, the SMS function became eligible to be activated.

Therefore, in the past few years, the basic functions of mobile phones have been defined as 'calls + text messages', while other additional functions are in the exploratory stage.