Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 2100 Motorola
At 9 am the next day, the 1995 CES exhibition officially kicked off.

Compared with Duan Yun's participation in the previous exhibitions, the exhibition held in the Windy City this time can be said to be unprecedented. As exhibitors, Duan Yun and his team and the team of the US branch had already moved forward at 5 o'clock in the morning. Admission, and the final layout of the booth and the assignment of personnel tasks, everything is ready.

In order to attract attention, besides arranging two business managers, Li Yun also received the reception from local high-paid models. They wore beautiful and eye-catching clothes and conducted a seven-day training. The main content included etiquette reception and product introduction. , In addition, considering that there are reporters from many countries, in addition to English, other reception staff can also communicate in French, German, and Portuguese fluently, and tens of thousands of brochures are also prepared at the booth. Some exquisite small gifts are given to some influential media reporters.

The moment the gate of the venue was opened, audiences poured in like a tide. Among all the exhibition areas, the booth with the best location, the largest area, and the most eye-catching one was Microsoft's booth. It is said that at two o'clock in the afternoon, Bill Gates, the president of the Microsoft Group, will hold a press conference here, so some media reporters who have been booked have arrived at the venue early, preparing to report on the youngest and hottest richest man in the United States and even the world.

Li Yun was in charge of the reception of Tianyin Group's booth, and Duan Yun took several of his assistants to visit the entire exhibition hall.

This year's CES exhibition has reached a new high, whether it is exhibitors or the number of visitors. With the development of world science and technology, ordinary people are paying more and more attention to the progress of technology and electronic product technology, which makes the world's largest electronics exhibition The influence of CES has reached an unprecedented height. Not only manufacturers in the industry and media reporters visited and reported, but also some other cross-industry and even comprehensive media also sent a team of reporters to report on this exhibition in an all-round way.

After Duan Yun walked around the main hall, he did find many bright spots.

For Duan Yun, who has visited the exhibition six times in a row, he has always paid close attention to the development of international electronic technology, and has a relatively in-depth understanding of the current global technology trends. It is easy to find some technological products with strong commercial potential.

In Duan Yun’s view, the products launched by Japanese manufacturers this year are somewhat lackluster, including Sony, and there are not many dazzling technologies. Many of them are upgrades of products launched last year, and some products look very good. Attracting attention, such as household robots and the like, although these products are full of high-tech, but because they are expensive and not rich in functions, they actually do not have much commercial potential and can only be a display of the company's technical strength.

However, on the other side of the main exhibition hall, Duan Yun finally found a product that excited him, which was the new generation of mobile phones launched by Motorola.

Even for the current domestic China, Motorola has a great reputation, and the product that the Chinese people talk about the most is the "big brother" mobile phone they produced in the 80s. At that time, Duan Yun became the first batch of mobile phones in Shenzhen. A user with a mobile phone, and until now, that phone is still in use.

However, at this CES exhibition, Motorola launched a mobile phone sample that is obviously much larger than its big brother, and from the introduction of the product, both in terms of portability and performance, it far exceeds the Motorola 3200 they launched in the early years. That is, a mobile phone called a mobile phone.

Duan Yun was even more surprised that this new Motorola mobile phone supports 2G network.

The 2G network was officially put into commercial use in 1991 at Radiolinja, Finland; however, it became popular after 1995 and was gradually introduced by countries all over the world. It can be regarded as a product of the 20s.

The 1G network was born in the 20s, and it is also the first generation of mobile communication technology, and it can only be used for voice calls, but it has also brought about earth-shaking changes in the field of mobile phones. The mobile phones of the era, and the Nokia of the 80G era, etc., all rose by virtue of these two communication technologies.

At first, people did not realize that the network needs a unified standard, but with the continuous expansion of the industry, based on the non-uniform standards, the previous networks of various countries cannot be compatible, and finally the corresponding standards were formulated, and the 2G era is the most representative The most revolutionary communication standard is "GSM", and some people call it the 2.5G era.

If the 1G era is the era of analog technology, then the era of 2G and 2.5G is the era of digital technology, and the emergence of "GSM" also marks the establishment of "standards" for mobile communication technology.

In fact, in the previous life in 1996, Motorola launched the flip phone "StarTAC", which was the lightest and smallest mobile phone in the world at that time, weighing only 88 grams.

The StarTAC was one of the first phones to see widespread adoption.Approximately 6000 million StarTACs were sold. The StarTAC brand was revived in 2004 and 2007 for some Asian-specific flip phones, as well as cordless phone models.

Motorola applied for the StarTAC trade name in September 1995.

StarTAC was launched in North America on January 1996, 1.

At the time, it was the smallest phone available, and the AMPS phone was an instant success.Successor TDMA and cdmaOne StarTAC are equally popular.

In North America, the GSM model is available through Powertel, VoiceStream, and other early GSM carriers.The StarTAC, which is very similar to the Star Trek communicator, remained popular until the early 21s, appearing in many Hollywood films during the period, such as the 8mm starring Nicolas Cage.

When it was first announced, magazine ads for the phone would include a life-size cardboard facsimile that could be pulled from the page to demonstrate the device's diminutive nature.

The launch price of the Motorola StarTAC phone was $1000.

At present, Duan Yun saw this prototype machine launched by Motorola on the booth. It should be the prototype of Motorola StarTAC. It is also very small and adopts a clamshell design. There is also a small antenna that can be stretched out on the top of the phone. , all in black, looks refined and businesslike.

It's just that when Duan Yun wanted to try this machine, he was rejected by the receptionist in front of the Motorola booth, and told Duan Yun that this phone can only be displayed as a sample at present, and does not provide on-site trials.

Obviously, Motorola has not made the final improvement to this product, but it is just a warm-up before the official release of the product, so that people can understand the basic functions of this product in advance.

(End of this chapter)