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   Chapter 409 Boiled Frogs in Warm Water

Hearing Song Yang's words, Xie Qing, Deng Feng and the others showed surprised expressions on their faces. Of course they understood the meaning of this sentence and became the exclusive antivirus software supplier of Apple Computer. It is to make Fortinet antivirus software bundled with Apple computers.

  The days of Apple computers are not very good now, but it is also the system industry, and the only existence that can compete with the Microsoft system.

If it can be bound with Apple and become pre-installed anti-virus software on 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.

However, this is not so easy. Just like the old antivirus software such as McAfee and Symantec, they also want to cooperate with Microsoft and become the pre-installed antivirus software of Microsoft system, but Microsoft has been biting hard, not willing to give up. McAfee, Symantec, etc. have released source code to bind them to Microsoft systems. For this reason, the antivirus software industry has always been critical of Microsoft.

  Although Apple is now in jeopardy and has been making huge losses, it is still a bit unimaginable for Xie Qing to bind Apple's system to Fortinet. I don't know why Song Yang said this.

After coming out of the tower, 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 the Alcatel mobile phone did not fail. After Christmas, next year In the Super Bowl of 2019, Alcatel Mobile, but it has to invest a lot of advertising costs to announce the return of Alcatel Mobile to the outside world.

   "This is a prototype of Alcatel's next-generation mobile phone!"

After    came to the Mobile Phone Industrial Park, Alcatel Mobile President Ertien immediately brought Song Yang to the laboratory and placed a candy bar phone in front of Song Yang.

   This mobile phone was redesigned by the design department of Alcatel last time according to Song Yangde's draft design.

  Song Yang picked up Alcatel's new mobile phone, and it was quite a bit heavy, but the mobile phone is not light these days. The mobile phone in Song Yang's hands is not the lightest, but it is basically in line with the trend.

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

   This weight is already quite light in this chronicle of the prevalence of brick mobile phones.

   "This is Alcatel's new generation of mobile phones, the company is expected to name the Alcatel P1 mobile phone, it will be equipped with PA semiconductors, a mobile phone chip exclusively designed for the Alcatel P1 mobile phone, and use the Saipan operating system!

  The screen of the Alcatel P1 mobile phone will use a color screen to support functions such as Internet access, calendar, email, and embedded mini-games! "

Eltien said to Song Yang, as a witness to the whole process of P1 development, Eltien dared to say that the prototype in Song Yang's hands is the most powerful mobile phone in the world, whether it is Nokia, Motorola or Asia. Manufacturers such as Samsung and Sony have never launched such a powerful mobile phone before.

The Alcatel P1 mobile phone will create multiple new mobile phone records, the first mobile phone equipped with a mobile phone system, the first mobile phone that can access the Internet, the first mobile phone that can send e-mails, etc. These will all be new in the mobile phone industry. Gotta record.

Song Yang used the prototype he had in his hand and was equipped with the Symbian system, which made the mobile phone with so many functions to operate much more smoothly. 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 you can still open the web page, edit the email and send it, but it takes dozens of seconds to send a 20-word email, and it will take tens of seconds to show that the sending is successful, not to mention the download time required to view an email. .

  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 pixels on the screen.

The heat was too fast. Song Yang only experienced it for about ten minutes, and he could clearly feel that the phone was a little hot. As for the freeze, not to mention the first generation Symbian mobile phone system installed on the phone. Caton, that's weird.

   But even if there are minor problems, 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 to die.

   "We still need to continue to improve, the heat problem needs to be solved, and the 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 Ertien. He couldn't imagine being complained like a certain mobile phone brand. Buying a Nokia mobile phone can block bullets on the battlefield, and buying a certain brand mobile phone can be used as a grenade in the battlefield. Song Yang doesn't want this stalk. It landed on the Alcatel phone.

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

It's not that Ertien and the R&D engineers of Alcatel mobile phones can't see these problems, but there is simply not enough time. To be able to develop a prototype before the end of the year, Ertien and the engineers in the laboratory have worked hard. Results.

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

  Song Yang said to Ertien, "When can mass production start?!"

For the restructured Alcatel mobile phone, the development of a new generation of mobile phones is just the beginning, whether it can be mass-produced, and how the sales will be after mass production is a problem before Ertien. In other words, this is the second time to establish a new Alcatel mobile phone brand.

Eltien was shocked, "The most important thing facing Alcatel mobile phones now is the mobile phone chip problem. Although PA Semiconductor has developed chips for Alcatel mobile phones, it has no production line itself. If you want to mass-produce mobile phones Chips, or self-built production lines, but the cycle is too long, and I don’t know when it will start, the second is to find Motorola or Texas Instruments for OEM production!”

  The current mainstream mobile phone in the mobile phone industry does not have a strong demand for mobile phone chips, and the requirements are not too 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 PC computer system and chip, both are indispensable.

  PA Semiconductor, although it is also invested by Song Yang, there is no problem in designing chips, but it is not so easy to produce.

Eltien is inclined to let Texas Instruments, Motorola or mobile phone chip manufacturers in Asia OEM, but he can clearly feel that Song Yang intends to make PA semiconductors self-developed, not only research and development, but obviously. I want to hand over the production of chips to PA Semiconductor.

After thinking for a while, Song Yang finally opened his mouth and said, "The first-generation P1 mobile phone chips will be handed over to Texas Instruments for contract manufacturing, and PA Semiconductor will start assuming production lines in Asia. In the future, the mobile phone chips needed for Alcatel mobile phones will be produced by PA. Semiconductor production!"

  PA Semiconductor, as a new player, will definitely have a high defect rate and cost if it sets up its own production line, but if it does not produce it now, it will cost more if it wants to produce it later.

  Erthien breathed a sigh of relief, the problem of the mobile phone chip was solved, and it was not far from the mass production of Alcatel's new generation of mobile phones!

   "If the problem of mobile phone chips is solved, then Alcatel mobile phones will establish process standards as soon as possible and start placing orders to suppliers in the Asian industrial chain!"

Song Yang's previous trip to Asia moved all the Alcatel industrial chain to the domestic side. Although there are some suppliers in America, the production and assembly of major parts and components have all been relocated there. In the future The Alcatel mobile phone will be produced and assembled there, and then sold around the world.

  Song Yang nodded, "Alcatel should also prepare spare parts and mobile phone accessories, batteries, universal chargers, etc.!

The promotion of Alcatel mobile phones should also start as soon as possible to create momentum for Alcatel's new mobile phones. In addition to these, Alcatel mobile phones need to start to implement some new mobile phone standards. Alcatel mobile phones are not only to be mobile phone manufacturers, but also to become Mobile standard setter! "

   Mobile phone accessories are also a piece of fat, and even many small mobile phone brands can survive. Selling mobile phones does not make money, but by changing screens and selling accessories, they make a lot of money.

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

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

  Although Song Yang's words were righteous and dignified, Ertian still heard two words from it, pay the money!

As long as this wireless network application agreement is released, except for Nokia, Motorola and other companies that participated in the formulation, the rest of the mobile phone manufacturers are basically "represented". As long as they join this agreement, they use Alcatel If you have a mobile Internet access patent for your mobile phone, you have to pay for it. Even if you only pay one dollar for a mobile phone, it is an astronomical figure every year, not to mention it is far more than that.

   "In the Saipan system, more mobile phone manufacturers should be invited to join, and the Saipan platform should be opened to other mobile phone manufacturers and software developers, so that the Saipan system users should enter more mobile phones!"

  Boil the frog in warm water. The standards, systems and patents formulated by Alcatel are gradually accepted by other mobile phone brands. After that, Alcatel will have the opportunity to cut the leeks of the entire mobile phone industry.

   (end of this chapter)