Back to 1995

"It was an engineer sent by Yanjing to practice and study, and made a suggestion to the R&D department!"

Hearing Ertian's words, Song Yang was not too surprised. Not only Yanjing, but also Alcatel mobile phone including Panda TV and other research and development departments around the world, send a group of engineers to the headquarters every year for internship , In addition to being able to select some talented technicians, it also allows these R&D personnel from all over the world to know the products, technical levels, etc. that they and the headquarters are developing. This is very important!
"He is Zhang. The blind mode, person detection, and real-time subtitle functions in the P7 smartphone are all proposed by him..."

Sent over by Yanjing to practice and study at the Alcatel headquarters, Zhang Cheng, who was wearing a lab coat, was a little nervous when he was brought in front of Song Yang.

After the release of the P6, and after the machine production capacity of Yanjing Alcatel Industrial Park stabilized, Zhang Cheng and a group of R&D personnel were sent to San Jose and assigned to different R&D departments.

Here, Zhang Cheng has benefited a lot. For him, the most important thing is not how powerful the experimental equipment at the headquarters is, nor how high the technical level is. These are indeed far better than those at Yanjing. For example, Alcatel mobile phone is working with several companies such as PA Semiconductor, ICQ, Google, etc., and is investing US dollars and personnel. Together with Bell Labs, a supercomputer is being developed for research and development experiments!

This is unique in the entire technology industry. Apart from these hardware, what Zhang Cheng cares most about is the research and development atmosphere here. It is indeed the best he has seen in Alcatel for so many years. In the group, the right to speak of technical personnel is quite high, especially in the professional field.

Even those technical experts and technical directors, Zhang Cheng can often come into contact with, Zhang Cheng also has other R&D personnel, and the R&D ideas proposed to these people will be discussed, and it even sounds like unreliable. thoughts, and will not be ignored or even reprimanded...

The blind mode, voice broadcast and other functions that the P7 machine is developing for the blind and hearing-impaired are the suggestions made by Zhang Cheng. He was just unintentional and whimsical at the time. Can the P7 smart phone be used by the blind and deaf-mute?

This was originally mentioned by Zhang Cheng casually. If it was a traditional feature phone, he would definitely not make this suggestion. The visually impaired and hearing impaired can also use and experience smartphones.

Zhang Cheng himself never thought that this proposal could be accepted by the P7 R&D team, but after Zhang Cheng made this proposal, the entire P7 R&D team stayed up all night, and then developed blind mode, voice broadcast, etc. Function, put on the daily life.

Looking at Zhang Cheng in front of him, Song Yang gave him a warm smile, and then asked him about the situation in Yanjing. Hearing the familiar Chinese, Zhang Cheng's heart was slowly relieved. .

As for Song Yang, before Zhang Cheng came to San Jose, he had heard too many rumors about Song Yang in Yanjing. Many of them are true and false, and some are reliable, such as Song Yang who started from scratch. As for some, it is purely some magazines and success masters who use Song Yang to cook poisonous chicken soup and then cut leeks. I guess Song Yang himself would be confused when he heard those people flattering him.

For the new generation of young people in Yanjing, what it means to be the next Bill Gates has long been Mrs. Niu, and no one has mentioned it at all. On the contrary, it is Song Yang, who has become what countless young people want to pursue. The goal!
"According to the expectation of the R&D department, it is necessary to add an auxiliary narration function to the P7 machine. When this function is turned on, when the finger touches anywhere on the screen of the machine, it can be broadcast by voice to let the user know the function currently being operated. In addition In the later stage, voice function will be added to control the device.

The person detection function can help the visually impaired user P7 to detect how far people are within a certain range in front of him when walking on the road, and can broadcast to remind the user at any time.

In the future, Alcatel plans to cooperate with some public welfare and emergency departments to develop a software for public welfare. After downloading, other users such as visually impaired and hearing impaired can use this software to seek help from public welfare organizations on a daily basis. , to solve some troubles! "

Song Yang listened to Zhang Cheng talking about the special functions developed by the P7 R&D team. For most people, these functions may be just tasteless, and there is a high probability that they will never use these functions in this life.

But for other special groups of people in the world, these functions may improve their situation, even if they make their lives less troublesome. For Alcatel mobile phones, it is worth spending a dollar to develop these functions!

"well done!"

Song Yang put down the semi-finished P7 phone in his hand, and lightly patted Zhang Cheng on the shoulder, "When the P7 product conference is held next year, you will represent the R&D team and tell all Alcatel mobile phone users about these functions."

"I?!"

Zhang Cheng looked at Song Yang with surprise and disbelief, and couldn't help swallowing. Where is the Alcatel mobile phone global conference? Since the P6, the Alcatel mobile phone conference has basically become a god. Those who can stand on the stage of the press conference are either the head of Alcatel mobile phones like Ertian, or the technology giants.

To put it bluntly, if anyone stands on that stage representing Alcatel mobile phones, their value will immediately soar a lot. If Zhang Cheng can stand on it, it may not take the next day. he goes!
"Technology that benefits everyone is the truly powerful technology. I hope that when someone mentions Alcatel mobile phones in the future, they will say that the world...needs Alcatel's technology!"

Earning a dollar is definitely what everyone and the company want. This is also the premise. In this material world, if you talk about ideals without talking about money, isn't that just bullshit and fooling two fools.

But who doesn't want to be respected and sought after while standing up and earning a beautiful knife?

Song Yang's words made the world need Alcatel, and Zhang Cheng's face turned red when he was stimulated. He had never drank chicken soup of this level, let alone Zhang Cheng, and Ertian's old face also showed a look of anticipation.

Originally, Ertian wanted to prove himself. Pushing Alcatel mobile phones to the throne of the world's largest mobile phone empire is enough to prove his career as a professional manager.

And if Alcatel Group can not only become a giant company, but also a company that is respected and sought after by the outside world, then Ertian's career will also be redefined, how can he not be excited.

After coming out of the laboratory and walking in the Alcatel mobile phone headquarters, Song Yang looked at the ever-increasing number of buildings used for various functions. Visible to the naked eye, he could detect the changes of Alcatel mobile phones over the years.

When he came to the office building, Song Yang just explained to Ertian, "The P7 machine must be developed on time and then put into production. Now is the early stage of the smartphone era, and the Alcatel Group must maintain its advantage!"

For Alcatel mobile phones, as long as you don’t mess around, don’t play tricks, and play yourself to death, you can establish enough advantages in the mobile phone industry. It will not be so easy to overthrow Alcatel mobile phones in the future. thing.

Song Yang doesn't need to worry about the sales of Alcatel mobile phones. At least in three to five years, he doesn't have to worry about the problem that smartphones won't be sold. Now is the period when smartphones are gradually phasing out traditional feature phones. , During this period, although the major mobile phone manufacturers will compete, they are busy grabbing land, and there will not be too much friction. After the land is robbed, there will be no new sites, and the major mobile phone manufacturers will start. Fight each other.

"In the era of smart phones, not only mobile phones will be changed, but all electronic products may change, and even extend to many industries such as home furnishing and electrical appliances.

Alcatel mobile phones not only want to occupy the mobile phone industry, but also occupy other electronic product fields derived from the emergence of smart phones, including tablet computers, smart watches and other wearable smart products! "

"Tablet?!" Ertian was stunned for a moment, and asked Song Yang involuntarily.

Tablet PCs are nothing new. More than ten years ago, some manufacturers developed tablet PCs, but they were not touch screens. Bill Gates also proposed the concept of Microsoft tablet PCs a few years ago, but in the end because of Technology, hardware level and other reasons have not been developed. From this we can see that Bill Gates' strategic vision is quite good, but he is no longer the head of Microsoft. It can only be said that time and destiny also!
"With the current technical level of Alcatel's mobile phone, it is enough to develop a touch-screen version of the tablet computer. It does not have to compare performance with a real computer, as long as the performance exceeds that of a mobile phone. The screen is about 10 inches, which can meet basic e-book reading and watching movies. , video, it is enough to provide basic processing of emails, documents, forms, drawings, etc., and it is enough for the tablet to be portable and easy to use!"

Elthian understood Song Yang's words. In fact, the tablet computer that Alcatel wants to develop is still a product between a computer and a mobile phone. For Alcatel's mobile phone, the research and development difficulty is not too great.

After smartphones, Alcatel mobile phones have been able to expand the product line, tablets, smart watches and even VR glasses can be developed slowly.

For American technology companies, this year should be the most comfortable year after the dot-com bubble. Revenue and stock prices are soaring. Major technology companies have also distributed a lot of dividends and bonuses, especially A group of companies headed by ICQ, Google, and Alcatel mobile phones have all given out large sums of bonuses to their employees. The prosperity of Silicon Valley seems to be back again!
And before Christmas, if you want to say that the busiest company is Microsoft, the publicity for the Vista system has already begun overwhelmingly.

Microsoft will hold media conferences in New York, Tokyo, Yanjing, Paris, Munich, Toronto and other places at the same time, and all directors and executives of Microsoft will be sent to supervise the battle.

Bill Gates will attend Microsoft's press conference in New York in person. This is also after he resigned as the head of Microsoft. Gates and Microsoft!
(End of this chapter)