Back to 1995

Chapter 451
In the era of Hawkins, he established the Palm handheld and pushed an industry that no one cared about to the current state. How much energy Hawkins spent, and how many opponents fought to the death, to reach the current state.

As for Alcatel mobile phone, just released a P1 mobile phone, it has become a rising star in the electronic hardware industry. The technology industry, Wall Street and even the telecommunications industry all praise Alcatel mobile phone to the extreme.

Thinking back to what happened to me at the beginning, and thinking about the current treatment of Alcatel P1 mobile phones, it would be a lie to say that Jeff Hawkins is not greedy, but if you want Hawkins to bow to Alcatel mobile phones, that would be a big deal for him, an old gun. It is absolutely impossible.

Taking advantage of the hot sales of P1 mobile phones, American Telecom continued to attack cities and began to move its broadband and mobile network services to Europe, and London was the first stop.

Unlike in America, in overseas markets, American Telecom adopts the method of investment and acquisition to quickly occupy the local market.

American Telecom will select local small and medium-sized telecom operators, and after swallowing the other party, directly hang up the brand of American Telecom, and then start to develop business locally. The advantage of this method is that it costs less money and can quickly enter the local market. The obstacles will be much smaller. If you are staring at those telecom giants, it will never be so easy.

But the disadvantage is that it is easy to buy a bunch of junk, and indigestion, and finally lose everything.

But for American Telecom, it doesn't care about these things. Now it is necessary to spread the stalls at the fastest speed and at the lowest cost, and then start the century-old business with ICQ, ICNC TV, NBC, and Comcast. merge!
As long as the merger can be completed, no matter how many bad debts there are, they can be shared equally. Anyway, the big deal is that it will be split up at that time. After cashing out and cutting a few crops of leeks, the company after the big merger will be dissolved directly.

When Alcatel's mobile phone production capacity continued to increase, and it announced that it would maintain a monthly production capacity of more than one million units, the outside world still hesitated, wondering if Alcatel's mobile phone was the top iron.

But what followed was the P1 mobile phone, which continued to hit record highs. After a single-day sales of 15 units, the P1 mobile phone created another week in a row, and the single-day sales broke the record of 10 units, completely detonating the entire mobile phone. The industry, as well as the media and the mobile phone industry, were dumbfounded.

After the increase in production capacity, after Alcatel Mobile announced that it would increase its efforts in overseas markets, the P1 continued to set new records around the world, continuously dominating the rankings in China, Hong Kong City, Singapore, Ah San, Siam, Lao Maozi and others. The best-selling mobile phones in Britain and other places topped the list, and once again broke out the terrifying sales of 24 units in a single day!
Although it was only for a short period of one or two days, the sales in these regions surpassed that of Nokia, and then the P1 entered a period of fatigue, and sales began to decline steadily, but still maintained a single-day sales of about [-] units.

However, the limelight of P1 completely overwhelmed other brands of mobile phones. The continuous hot sales made the technology media have to focus on the P1 mobile phone that has been in the limelight during this period.

The media conducted interviews about why users suddenly favored the P1 mobile phone so much. The interviewees had different opinions. Some claimed that the P1 mobile phone has powerful functions and technology that is ahead of other mobile phones. It can surf the Internet and send emails. ICQ chat, etc., and even the "Snake" game have become one of the reasons for some people to buy this game.

In the final analysis, it is because of the trend, fed up with the stereotyped mobile phones that can only make calls, the appearance of P1 broke the fatigue period and allowed users to "recognize" mobile phones again!

Fashion is invisible, but it can affect the behavior of countless people, and P1 mobile phone is now labeled as trendy, especially for young people, owning a P1 mobile phone seems to have A trend, or Bigger...

"The P1 mobile phone will likely become the biggest winner of this year's GSMA Global Mobile Awards. The P1 mobile phone was nominated for the Best Mobile Phone Award and the Best Design Award. Ertian was nominated for the Global Mobile Personality of the Year Award and many other nominations.

Domanf, president of the Global Mobile Association, praised the P1 mobile phone and opened a new era..."

Anxiously throwing down a technology magazine in his hand, Sandel was upset by the praise of the P1 mobile phone. The GSMA is organized by the Global Mobile Communications Association and is the most influential association in the global mobile phone industry and mobile Internet industry. jackpot.

Not to mention the real influence, winning the grand prize is equivalent to having an endorsement for a mobile phone brand, proving that this brand is the best mobile phone in the world, which is a little bit more big.

Whether it wins the GSMA Association Award or not has no effect on Motorola, but in the past few years, as long as there is a lot of praise about mobile phones, it generally belongs to Motorola. The grand prize is basically a duo between Nokia and Motorola.

But now, the emergence of Alcatel mobile phones has broken this balance. With the current popularity of P1 mobile phones and the fact that it truly connects mobile phones with mobile networks, it is no surprise that this year’s P1 mobile phones won awards. To get soft.

What makes Sandor upset is not only the name, which is taken away by Alcatel mobile phones, but more importantly, whether Motorola will join the Symbian camp.

Seeing the unstoppable momentum of the P1 mobile phone, mobile phone brands that were still hesitant before have joined the Symbian system camp.

Brands such as Ericsson, Sony, Siemens, Sanyo, Panasonic, Samsung, etc., seeing the popularity of P1 mobile phones, can't bear it anymore, and want to launch mobile phones equipped with Symbian system as soon as possible.

These mobile phone brands, for the sake of beauty, are not shabby, but Motorola, the overlord of the mobile phone industry, would be ridiculed if they also put down their figure. The former mobile phone overlord has actually fallen to use other brands of mobile phone operating systems At this point, Motorola's Bige is probably going to disappear.

Now Motorola is arguing over whether to use the Symbian operating system, and there is a requirement to use it. Otherwise, Motorola's mobile phones will not be able to launch functions such as Internet access, e-mail, mobile instant messaging, and games, which will seriously affect sales.

But there are also many opponents. Motorola has always been known for its technology. The first mobile phone was developed by Motorola. When it first landed on the moon, Armstrong’s classic quote was also transmitted back to the earth through Motorola’s equipment. This is Motorola’s Bigger and proud, it is really the ancestors.

Now if you use the system of other mobile phones, is Motorola still the same Motorola?

Sandel tends to use the Symbian system. He jumped to Motorola halfway and came to Motorola. He didn't have much feeling for Motorola's so-called Bige and tradition.

What Sandel wants to do is to increase Motorola's sales as soon as possible, and then increase the stock price. He is a professional manager. In the land of America, the only people he needs to account for are Motorola's board of directors and Wall Street, because these two groups, As for his year-end bonus, dividends, and others, Sandor actually didn't care.

Glancing at the time, Sandor looks at the gate from time to time. He needs someone's support before he can install the Symbian system on Motorola's mobile phone. Otherwise, he doesn't know how long this matter will last. Sandor I don't want to see that when other brands of mobile phones have surpassed Motorola in terms of functions, Motorola is still playing with mud...

There was a sound of footsteps, and Sandor got up to open the door himself. A slightly thin man came in. Sandor opened the door and said to the man, "Director Chris!"

The person who came here was Chris Calvin, the third-generation head of the Motorola family. Chris Calvin has now officially entered the Motorola board of directors. He is also the most influential person in Motorola today, even surpassing Sandor. If nothing else, the next Motorola will enter the era of co-governance by Sandor and Chris Calvin.

Chris, who had just returned to Motorola on behalf of the Calvin family and launched the Iridium project, was a bit high-spirited.

Born in the Calvin family, one of the top wealthy families in Ameri, and also a person cultivated by Robert Calvin, the head of the previous generation, Chris Calvin has an extraordinary bearing, and he is the focus person sitting there.

Chris glanced at Sandor's desk and saw all kinds of news about the P1 mobile phone, "President Sandor, come to me, there must be something wrong?!"

Looking at the handsome Chris, Sandor said without any nonsense, "I need the Symbian system to appear on Motorola's next-generation mobile phone!"

Hearing Sandor's straightforward words, Chris frowned, "I'm afraid this is not good news for Motorola mobile phones."

"Motorola doesn't have that much time. In the future, if necessary, Motorola can develop its own mobile phone operating system, but now, Motorola cannot lag behind other mobile phone brands in technology and lose its own market share."

Sandor said to Chris Calvin, and then added, "Director Chris, I signed the Iridium Project!"

This is to remind Chris Calvin that Sandel has just supported the Calvin family on the Iridium Project. The Iridium Project is his long-cherished dream. Chris Calvin must not cross the river and tear down bridges and Sandel's platform.

Hearing this, Chris, who originally didn't want to support this resolution, hesitated a little. He felt that joining the Saipan Alliance would make Motorola obsessed with other mobile phones, but it was different from the decisiveness of the first two heads of the Calvin family. Chris from a wealthy family doesn't have the decisiveness to do everything he can.

If it were his father, if he disagreed, he would never accept Sandor's proposal, but when it was Chris Calvin's turn, he was a little hesitant.

"If this proposal can be passed by the board of directors, I am willing to hand over Motorola's wireless equipment, walkie-talkies, car audio and other businesses to Director Chris for management!"

Sandel upped the stakes again.

(End of this chapter)