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Chapter 409 Warm water boiled frog

Hearing Song Yang's words, Xie Qing, Deng Feng and others all showed surprise expressions on their faces. Of course they understood the meaning of this sentence, and becoming the exclusive antivirus software supplier for Apple Computer, although it sounded like a mouthful in name, actually It is to let the Fortinet anti-virus software be bundled with the Apple computer.

The life of Apple Computer is not going well now, but it is also the only one in the system industry that can compete with Microsoft systems.

If it can be bound with Apple and become the pre-installed anti-virus software for Apple computers, it will be a qualitative change for Fortinet, which may allow Fortinet to gain a group of company-level paying users, no longer The embarrassing situation before.

But this is not so easy, just like McAfee, Symantec and other old anti-virus software, also want to cooperate with Microsoft to become the pre-installed anti-virus software of Microsoft system, but Microsoft has been biting and unwilling to let go. McAfee, Symantec, etc. have released source codes to bind them with Microsoft systems. For this reason, the antivirus software industry has always criticized Microsoft.

Although Apple is in a precarious state and is constantly losing money, it is still unimaginable for Xie Qing to bind the Apple system to Fortinet. I don't know why Song Yang said these words.

After coming out of Feita, Song Yang went to the Alcatel Mobile Phone Industrial Park in the suburbs. Even if he failed to catch up with this year's Christmas sale, the promotion of Alcatel's mobile phone did not fall. After Christmas, next year In the Super Bowl, Alcatel mobile phone, but to invest a large amount of advertising costs, to announce the return of Alcatel mobile phone to the outside world.

"This is a prototype of Alcatel's new generation of mobile phones!"

After coming to the mobile phone industrial park, Alcatel mobile phone president Ertian immediately brought Song Yang to the laboratory, and put a candy bar mobile phone in front of Song Yang.

This mobile phone was redesigned by Alcatel's design department last time based on Song Yang's draft design.

Song Yang picked up Alcatel's new mobile phone, which was quite heavy, but mobile phones are not light these days. The mobile phone in Song Yang's hand, not to mention the lightest, is basically in line with the trend.

Seeing Song Yang's expression, Ertian said, "In terms of materials, we have tried our best to choose lightweight composite materials. Now the weight of this mobile phone is 107 grams. If the follow-up screen, battery, and material technology can be improved, the whole phone will The weight can be controlled within 100 grams!"

This weight is already quite light in today's chronicle where brick phones are prevalent.

"This is Alcatel's new generation mobile phone. The company expects to name it Alcatel P1 mobile phone. It will be equipped with PA semiconductor, a mobile phone chip exclusively designed for Alcatel P1 mobile phone, and use the Symbian operating system!

The screen of the Alcatel P1 mobile phone will adopt a color screen and support functions such as Internet access, calendar, e-mail, and built-in mini-games! "

Ertian said to Song Yang, as a person who witnessed the whole process of P1 research and development, Ertian dare to say that the prototype in Song Yang's hand is the most powerful mobile phone in the world, whether it is Nokia, Motorola or Asian Manufacturers such as Samsung and Sony have never launched such a powerful mobile phone before.

Alcatel P1 mobile phone will create many new mobile phone records, the first mobile phone equipped with mobile phone system, the first mobile phone that can access the Internet, the first mobile phone that can send emails, etc., all of which will be new innovations in the mobile phone industry. Gotta record.

Song Yang used the prototype in his hand, which was equipped with Symbian system, so that the mobile phone with so many functions was added, and the operation was much smoother. Under the mobile network built in the laboratory, although the network speed was a bit slow, it took five seconds to open a webpage. But it is still possible to open the webpage, edit the email and send it, but it takes dozens of seconds to send a 20-character email before it shows that the sending is successful, not to mention the download time required to watch an email up.

As the first mobile phone to eat crabs, the Alcatel P1 mobile phone naturally has many shortcomings. The color screen is too small, and the resolution is a bit worrying. When switching functions, you can even see the pixels on the screen.

The heat is too fast. Song Yang can obviously feel the phone is a bit hot after only ten minutes of experience. Carton, that's weird.

But even with minor bugs, Song Yang is still very satisfied with this Alcatel P1 mobile phone. The launch of this mobile phone may have mixed reviews, but if he continues to follow the old path, he is waiting for death.

"Continued improvement is needed. Part of the heating problem needs to be solved, and battery safety must be absolutely guaranteed. I don't want Alcatel to get a mobile phone and be blacklisted by the airline!"

Song Yang complained to Ertian, he can't imagine being complained about like a certain mobile phone brand, buying a Nokia mobile phone can block bullets in the battlefield, buying a certain brand of mobile phone can be used as a grenade in the battlefield, Song Yang doesn't want this stalk, It landed on an Alcatel phone.

Hearing Song Yang's words, Ertian's face was also a little embarrassed, "We have tested the battery safety, and it definitely meets the safety standards, but because the P1 mobile phone has too many functions, and the system is running, the power consumption is a bit low. Too big, we have started to develop a new generation of batteries with other battery manufacturers, but it may not be used until the next generation of mobile phones!"

It's not that Ertian and the R&D engineers of Alcatel's mobile phone can't see these problems, but there is not enough time at all. It is Ertian and the engineers in the laboratory who have worked hard to develop the prototype before the end of the year. It worked out.

"Before mass production, P1 still needs to be improved, both in hardware and software!"

Song Yang said to Ertian, "When will mass production start?!"

For the reorganized Alcatel mobile phone, the development of a new generation of mobile phones is just the beginning. Whether it can be mass-produced, and after mass production, how will the sales be, are all problems in front of Ertian. For him For me, this is nothing less than the second time to establish a new Alcatel mobile phone brand.

Ertian's spirit was shocked, "The most important thing facing Alcatel's mobile phone now is the problem of mobile phone chips. Although PA Semiconductor has developed chips for Alcatel mobile phones, it does not have a production line. If you want to mass produce mobile phones For chips, you can either build your own production line, but the cycle is too long, and you don’t know when it will be able to start, the second is to find Motorola or Texas Instruments for OEM production!"

The current mainstream mobile phones in the mobile phone industry do not have a strong demand for mobile phone chips, and the requirements are not very high.

But the Alcatel P1 mobile phone is different. For the P1, the mobile phone system and chip will be the core of this mobile phone, just like the system and chip of a PC computer.

On the PA semiconductor side, although Song Yang also invested, there is no problem in designing the chip, but it is not so easy to produce it. Even if the production line is assumed now, it may not be able to catch up with the time.

Ertian tends to let Texas Instruments, Motorola or Asian mobile phone chip manufacturers make OEMs, but he can clearly feel that Song Yang intends to make PA semiconductors self-developed and self-produced, not only for research and development, but obviously I want to hand over the production of chips to PA Semiconductor.

After thinking for a long time, Song Yang finally said, "The first generation of P1 mobile phone chips will be manufactured by Texas Instruments. PA Semiconductor will start a hypothetical production line in Asia. In the future, the mobile phone chips needed by Alcatel mobile phones will be produced by PA Semiconductor." Semiconductor production!"

As a new player of PA Semiconductor, if it sets up its own production line, the defect rate and cost will definitely be high, but if it does not produce now and wants to produce it later, the cost will probably be even higher.

Ertian breathed a sigh of relief, the mobile phone chip problem is solved, and it will not be too long before Alcatel's new generation of mobile phones is mass-produced!

"If the mobile phone chip problem is solved, then Alcatel Mobile will establish a good process standard as soon as possible, and start placing orders with Asian industrial chain suppliers!"

Song Yang's previous trip to Asia moved all of Alcatel's industrial chain to the domestic side. Although there are some suppliers in America, the main parts production and assembly have all been moved there. Alcatel mobile phones will be produced and assembled there, and then sold all over the world.

Song Yang nodded, "Parts and mobile phone accessories, batteries, universal chargers, etc., Alcatel should also be ready!
The promotion of Alcatel mobile phones should start as soon as possible to create momentum for Alcatel's new mobile phones. In addition to these, Alcatel mobile phones need to start implementing some new mobile phone standards. Alcatel mobile phones should not only be a mobile phone manufacturer, but also become a Mobile phone standard setter! "

Mobile phone accessories are also a piece of fat, and even many small mobile phone brands are the basis for their survival. Selling mobile phones does not make money, but they make a lot of money by replacing screens and selling accessories.

And if you can't master the standards and patents of mobile phones, no matter how many mobile phones you make, you can only be regarded as followers.

"Before Alcatel P1 goes on the market, Alcatel needs to hold a meeting and invite mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola to jointly formulate a set of standard "wireless application protocols" for mobile Internet access, so that the mobile phone industry can establish a set that is suitable for different mobile networks. type of global agreement to avoid the chaos of the automated internet!"

Although what Song Yang said was awe-inspiring, Ertian still heard two words, pay the money!
As long as this set of wireless network application protocols is released, except for Nokia, Motorola, etc. that participated in the formulation, and do not need to pay, the rest of the mobile phone manufacturers are basically "represented", as long as they join this agreement and use Alcatel If a mobile phone has a patent for mobile Internet access, then it has to pay for it. Even if a mobile phone only pays a dollar, it is an astronomical figure every year, not to mention it is far more than that.

"For the Symbian system, more mobile phone manufacturers should be invited to join, and the Symbian platform should be opened to other mobile phone manufacturers and software developers, so that the Symbian system can be used on more mobile phones!"

After boiling the frogs in warm water, the standards, systems, and patents formulated by Alcatel were gradually accepted by other mobile phone brands. After that, Alcatel had the opportunity to harvest the leeks of the entire mobile phone industry.

(End of this chapter)