Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 861 A Hundred Flowers Bloom
The first day of the Gregorian New Year 2008 passed unremarkably. On the second day of the New Year, the sales figures on the official website of Yike were released, and the global sales of Mars exceeded 300 million units.

There is no solemn announcement, no notification of the head of the speech, no tricks for YouTube to record videos.

It's just a simple line of words on the official website.

It seems that Yike has become numb to its own sales, and it seems that this kind of logic does not need any fanfare.

You take it or you don't take it, the number has been put here.

Fang Zhuo didn't know whether the mood of his good friends in China had been misunderstood, but he soon saw the intensive reactions of international manufacturers.

Just one day later, South Korea's LG, which previously announced cooperation with Verizon, announced on its official website that it will launch a 3G touch-screen mobile phone equipped with Symbian system in March.

Two days later, Sony Ericsson, the world's top three mobile phones, also announced that it will launch a 3G touch-screen smartphone equipped with Microsoft's Windows Mobile system in the first half of the year.

On January 1, Microsoft announced the system upgrade plan, which will launch the Windows Mobile 7 operating system on April 4 to better support cooperative manufacturers.

On January 1, Nokia also made news. First, it announced that Symbian will launch the fifth edition of the S8 system. Second, it announced that it will launch a full touch-screen product in the third quarter of this year.

For several days in a row, the global mobile phone industry was extremely lively, with news flying everywhere.

A lot of news actually has symbolic actions behind it. For example, Sony Ericsson's choice of WM system means that it has completely invested in the Microsoft camp and will sell its shares in Symbian.

This was quickly verified.

On January 1, Kallasvuo Kallasvuo, the head of Nokia, announced that the company would acquire a total of 13% of the shares held by other shareholders of Symbian, making Symbian a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nokia, and establishing a non-profit Symbian Class Foundation.

The Symbian Foundation will provide operating systems to major manufacturers around the world in an open source manner.

Open source, open source, this operation is somewhat familiar.

Fang Zhuo specifically contacted Miyamoto, the person in charge of Sony's mobile phone, about this matter, and got a long-awaited answer.

"At the beginning, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens, Panasonic, and Samsung subscribed for the shares of Symbian, and they wanted everyone to develop together."

"But now, Symbian symbolizes Nokia, what is the meaning of this company?"

"Also, as consumers increasingly demonstrate that they are receptive to other operating systems, the mobile phone industry is changing, and this is an opportunity well worth exploring going forward."

Miyamoto Ichiro was very honest and talked about his perspective on the industry.

The iPhone and Mars have been launched successively, which seem to be heterogeneous, but they have achieved their own success, which is quite shocking to many manufacturers.

In addition, Fang Zhuo also curiously asked Sony Ericsson's new phone equipped with Microsoft's WM system in the first half of the year. According to Microsoft's timetable, this will happen between April and June.

Ichiro Miyamoto was rather vague on this point. Although Mr. Fang is a foreign director, Mars' popularity is extremely competitive. He only said a few words, but revealed a surprising piece of information.

Sony Ericsson's new machine will use a resistive screen.

"Resistive screen? A resistive screen equipped with WM system?" Fang Zhuo was really surprised.

Since seeing all kinds of information from his peers this month, he has never thought about the term resistive screen.

But... the resistive screen does not support multi-touch, which really bypasses the patent restrictions in a physical sense.

"Mr. Fang, because the cost of the resistive screen is cheap, it can be 20%-50% lower than that of the capacitive screen." Ichiro Miyamoto gave a down-to-earth reason.

The screen is a big item in the cost of a mobile phone.

Fang Zhuo reluctantly accepted such rhetoric, but still suspected that it had an inseparable relationship with the patent.

When he brought this information to discuss with Yu Hong, the latter talked about the recent operations of his peers from a market perspective.

"If a mobile phone becomes popular, I must study why it is accepted by the market and why it is loved by consumers."

"Some manufacturers think it's a system factor, so they install the system, some think it's a full touch screen, so they put a full touch screen, some think it's a front camera, so they put a front..."

"Everyone launches a variety of different products based on their own situation and judgment on the market."

A Mars is in front of you, just see what you can learn.

Yu Hong's interpretation.

"It seems a bit overconfident." Fang Zhuo laughed and praised another competitor, "Jobs is still calm, this is the style of a master."

The next afternoon, Yu Hong brought news of this opponent. It is said that Apple's new phone launch event will be held in March.

"..." Fang Zhuo looked at the highly credible news, and could only say, "Very good, a hundred flowers bloom."

Walking together from all walks of life, a hundred flowers bloom, and the strength rises.

"When is our new phone launch event?" Yu Hong wanted to talk about this.

"They all still need time. The fastest LG is also in March. With the new models of its peers, the popularity of Mars will definitely drop, but it will not hinder our rhythm too much." Fang Zhuo has repeatedly studied and judged his peers Their actions, "I am most concerned about iPhone and LG now."

Needless to say, the sales volume of the iPhone is still good despite being attacked by the front-end and 3G, and it is not rigidly sticking to the original release schedule.

As for LG, the most important thing is its cooperation model with Verizon. The two will definitely use subsidies, which is worth watching.

After Yi Ke's celebration party, Fang Zhuo talked about the reasons for Mars' success in an internal meeting.

One of the most important things up front is the price of $199.

Without this price basis, Mars would never have the current sales situation.

This is a point that must be clearly and clearly recognized.

Judging from the current situation, the cooperation between Mars and T-Mobile is undoubtedly a win-win situation.

Later that evening, Google's Schmidt got on the phone to talk again about the Samsung approach.

There have been so many news on the market recently, almost nothing to do with Android. The major manufacturers seem to have maintained a certain tacit understanding that Android is open source, but they just don’t choose it.

Under such circumstances, the attitude of Samsung, the world's second manufacturer, is invaluable.

Schmidt took Samsung very seriously and tried hard to promote its adoption of Android.

In the communication with Samsung in the past few days, the other party mentioned several key patents in the hands of Yike Company as expected.

If Yike is willing to talk, then Samsung Electronics will fly to Silicon Valley to talk.

If Yi Ke doesn't want to talk, then shelve the contact for now.

"Schmidt, Samsung wants to bypass the Pro alliance, which is a kind of damage to our framework." Fang Zhuo expressed dissatisfaction with Schmidt, "The Pro alliance is a foundation for the vigorous development of Android."

Schmidt echoed the condemnation, but said: "Mr. Fang, as long as there are more models equipped with Android, it will be beneficial to the whole. We urgently need strength to fight against the Microsoft WM and Nokia Symbian camps."

Yike Mars is very successful, but from a global perspective, there is still a lot of room for improvement. Now is the time to use the shock of Mars to actively do things.

After all, Fang Zhuo agreed to negotiate. Samsung actually has many complementary patents in its hands. In addition, it is also beneficial to cooperate with Samsung and the Hummingbird chip project at this time.

Only half a day later, Samsung confirmed the itinerary. Samsung Electronics President Lee Jae-yong will personally lead a team to fly to Silicon Valley to discuss tripartite cooperation.

Lee Jae-yong, the crown prince of Samsung, is an old acquaintance.

Fang Zhuo was deeply impressed by this man, and also by the speed at which he was in charge of Samsung Electronics.

(End of this chapter)