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Chapter 445 The Originator of the Mountain

The screen of ICNC TV station has already broadcast other programs, and it is the audition scene of "America Idol" New York station.

This is a new variety show launched by ICNC TV. Auditions are held from all states in America, and then a champion will be selected to become the idol of the year in America. The singer who wins the championship will get a million-dollar record contract. It will also be packaged for debut.

These are pure grassroots singers. Compared with those singers who were signed and trained by record companies since childhood, these players are naturally good and bad.

But that’s the case, in American Idol, after the trial broadcast of American Idol, the ratings still soared after the auditions in various states, coupled with the routines deliberately created by the show’s guests and judges, the ratings of this show It has soared all the way on ICNC TV, and the highest online audience has exceeded 300 million. It is being continuously supported by ICNC and wants to make it a trump card variety show.

Hawkins has no interest in the shows on TV. He has never been interested in such time-killing variety shows, but Hawkins heard that young people in America seem to be very interested in this show, and many of them hope to become famous overnight. The young people with the idea signed up for the American Idol audition.

Hawkins, who has experienced social beatings, knows that ICNC TV and the American Idol program group will definitely not be so kind. If he wants to finally stand on the final stage of American Idol, he must sign various brokerage agreements. Otherwise, how can he get resources...

Withdrawing his thoughts, Jeff Hawkins frowned. The performance of the P1 mobile phone was somewhat beyond his imagination, and even part of the design and creativity made Hawkins applaud.

But Hawkins is also a little worried. If the functions of mobile phones become more and more powerful, then what advantages does the high-performance handheld computer have? Let Hawkins restless.

On Song Yang's side, if he knew that Hawkins was worried about this, he really wanted to tell Huo that he was simply thinking too much. To put it bluntly, dogs don't even do things like PDAs!

Lao Huo was simply beaten too badly by the society, and he suffered from persecution paranoia. Palm first started to develop handhelds. As a result, Microsoft, Apple, Dell, Compaq, Sony and other giants all killed them, and let the handhelds The mobile phone market became a river of blood, and Palm finally survived. It is normal for Lao Huo to worry about another opponent entering the market, but for Song Yang, he entered the handheld business because of how much he couldn't think about it...

After the press conference, Ertian returned to the backstage, gulping water. Song Yang went over and applauded Ertian, "I think this should be the most exciting press conference this year. The industry will remember this day!"

As far as Elthian's speech level is concerned, it is still far from that of Joe's gang leader, but in today's occasion, there is no need for a person with a good eloquence to come on stage. When you are on stage, the atmosphere is quite lively, but after a press conference, apart from jokes, I probably can't remember what the phone looks like...

Ertian took a breath. After the excitement on the stage just passed, Ertian couldn't help becoming worried again, "I just hope that tomorrow's sales of P1 mobile phones can meet expectations!"

Having been in the electronics industry for many years, Ertian is quite well-informed. According to the situation at the press conference today, it seems that the P1 seems to be very popular. Both questionnaire survey and institutional research showed that the product would be a hit, but no one cared about it when it was launched. Ertian didn't want the P1 mobile phone to follow in the same footsteps.

Regarding Ertian's cautiousness, Song Yang nodded, "Alcatel, we must continue to maintain publicity and increase advertising efforts, not only in America, but also in North America, Europe, and Asian markets. Advertising, invite more celebrities to endorse, hold promotional activities!"

The current Alcatel mobile phone does not have what Bige said at all. Apple’s mobile phone does not need celebrity endorsements because it has already become well-known. At the beginning, it is natural that various publicity methods are needed to increase the popularity and let more people see Alcatel mobile phones!
Regarding the release of the P1, the entire Alcatel mobile phone was very concerned. After the press conference, Ertian hurried back to the industrial park in the suburbs of San Jose, and began to contact the media and dealers to ensure that the Alcatel mobile phone could be sold on time tomorrow.

The North American Global Investment Foundation, of course, is also very concerned about the P1, mobilizing all resources to promote the P1 mobile phone!

Double-click over there, and the major websites in America, such as Yahoo, AOL, Lycos, Netscape, etc., have placed advertisements for P1 mobile phones. In the next week, as long as Internet users in America turn on their computers and enter any The P1 mobile phone can be seen on the webpage of a large website.

Hotmail mailbox, this time, is also the target of advertising. Now Hotmatil mailbox claims to have 3000 million users around the world. It is hard to say whether it is true or not, but in America and overseas markets, email has become one of the most important contact methods. One, and now, on the Hotmai email page, there is also an advertisement for the P1 mobile phone.

As for ICQ, Fortinet, eBay, Amazon, and the overseas super after America, Yeadex, Sohu, 8848, Yinghaiwei, Japan Yahoo, etc., all of them have also replaced P1 advertisements.

If this lineup is placed on the Internet ten years later, I am afraid that other mobile phone manufacturers will cry!

But now the influence of the Internet is far inferior to that of traditional media advertisements, so this time the Internet advertisements are more of an icing on the cake.

The bulk of the advertising is still handed over to ICNC TV, NBC TV and WPP. From tomorrow, several big cities in America, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, etc., large and small newspapers, magazines, outdoor advertisements, train stations etc., large posters of P1 will be affixed, and WPP Group will also place advertisements in cities such as London and Paris overseas.

After attending the product launch event, Brady immediately boarded the computer after returning home, and entered an electronic forum community that was often flooded.

As a result, before Brady was able to fill in the water, he discovered that there were posts about the P1 mobile phone discussion on the forum, and the discussion was quite intense.

Brady saw that the discussion in the forum thread was not how the P1 could function, but whether the P1 was a sign of a new generation of mobile phones.

"BB phones, mobile phones, and mobile phones of Nokia, Motorola and other brands basically belong to the same product, which is a product for people to communicate remotely, and the Alcatel P1 mobile phone has brought mobile phones into the era of feature phones! "

Brady saw that one of the most popular posts listed the P1 mobile phone as a completely new product, completely different from previous mobile phones.

The discussion below about this kind of classification is very intense. Some agree with the views of this post, and some think that the P1 mobile phone is just a trick, just adding a few new functions. It is a bit exaggerated to say that it has created a new generation of mobile phones. up.

Brady looked at these posts. After attending the product launch event, he never thought that the status of the world has reached such a level before the sale of the P1.

In addition to the discussion about the status of P1 in the arena, the most discussed is the Symbian system.

"After watching the press conference, I feel that the Symbian system is probably the key. In the future, Alcatel mobile phones may work on the Symbian system!"

This post was followed by another post, "If the Saipan system is really implemented, I think mobile phones may enter a new era. Compared with PDA handhelds, I am afraid that the functions will be more powerful." many."

Immediately after this post, some people began to refute, thinking that the memory of the mobile phone is too small, the performance of the processor is too poor, and it cannot support so many functions at all.

Looking at the noisy forum, since entering the forum, Brady has never seen such a scene, but it can also be seen that the appearance of P1 has caused a lot of shock to electronic enthusiasts .

"No matter how P1 is, it is the electronic product I am most looking forward to this year!"

After Brady posted a post on the forum, he went straight to bed, planning to go to the America Telecom flagship store in San Jose early tomorrow to buy a P1 mobile phone. Although Brady also knew that it was impossible to get it tomorrow, he still I want to start with a P1 as early as possible.

There are not a few people on the forum who have the same thoughts as Brady, and they are very noisy. It is possible that those who enter this forum are basically electronic enthusiasts, and they will definitely have a lot of money tomorrow.

Early in the morning, Brady got up early, washed his face in a hurry, and then went straight to the flagship store of American Telecom in San Jose. He hadn't inquired about it yesterday. This time, the P1 mobile phone will be available in major mobile phone stores in America, but The main sales channels are still America Telecom's stores, Best Buy, etc., and America Telecom's stores are fully stocked this time.

The American Telecom store in New York has more than 1 phones in stock, and there are also 500 phones in San Jose. This is a one-week stocking. According to the estimate of Alcatel's mobile phone marketing department, if it can be completed on schedule, then this year's Alcatel mobile phone, The annual sales of P4000 will exceed [-] million units, which seems to be inferior to Nokia's [-] million units, but if this sales volume can be achieved, it will already be crazy for the newly reorganized Alcatel mobile phone!
Brady thought he came early enough, but what he didn't expect was that before he arrived at the flagship store of American Telecom Card in San Jose, he found that there were already a dozen people standing sparsely in front of the store, waiting for the American Telecom store to open. , which made Brady vaguely feel that he seemed to be right, and he couldn't say anything about coming later, and he didn't know what would happen.

While Brady was waiting for the American Telecom store to open, Song Yang also came to the Alcatel mobile phone industrial park. At this time, Ertian, as well as Alcatel mobile phone's executives and senior engineers, were already waiting. There, waiting for the arrival of the P1 sale time.

Ertian had never been so nervous before, and when it was almost eight o'clock in the morning, the sweat on his forehead was already emerging from time to time.

When the pointer was about to reach eight o'clock, Ertian looked towards Song Yang, and Song Yang said directly, "Let's go on sale!"

(End of this chapter)