20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3298: Different Choices for One Nano
Seeing Li Xiuying shut up with impatience and contempt in her eyes, and Qiao Hang blushing and pretending to be calm, Zhao Changan wondered if his original idea of ​​further supporting Webzen was a bit too hasty.

The funds originally intended to be allocated to Webzen, including the amount to be allocated, although Zhao Changan had discussed it with Tang Shuang before, the approximate amount would not be less than 150 million RMB.

However, if it is only to support Webzen to complete the research and development of the Sky City and the subsequent research and development of the two adjacent scenes, 50 million RMB would be enough.

However, now is not the time to make an immediate decision. In fact, in addition to reducing the funding for Webzen, there is another option, which is to let Li Xiuying concentrate on technology and not be too distracted by the management of the company.

However, this choice might anger Li Xiuying and make her choose to leave Webzen.

At least in the next two years, Zhao Changan does not want this situation to happen, because the talent pool of domestic MMORPG online games, both in terms of technical research and development capabilities and in terms of ideological thinking, is still in its infancy, and more time is needed to grow Chu Shaozhi and others.

In Zhao Changan's opinion, it is only a matter of time before China's MMORPG online game research and development capabilities surpass those of small countries such as Japan and South Korea. However, if he were to make this argument in public now, he would definitely be met with a lot of ridicule and criticism.

Just like the domestic GDP, it broke the 10 trillion mark last year, reaching 110863 billion, or 1.21 trillion US dollars, Seoul's was 5476 billion US dollars, and Dongyang's was 4.3 trillion US dollars.

If Zhao Changan said that within ten years, China's GDP would surpass that of Japan, many people would think he was dreaming.

This is also the loneliness of the fish jumping out of the water.

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"Let's talk about tomorrow's discussion with LG Mobile."

These thoughts flashed through Zhao Changan's mind. Some things could be considered later, but the negotiations with LG Mobile were urgent.

At the beginning, Yinano’s cooperation intention was with SAMSUNG, not LG.

SAMSUNG launched the flip phones SGH-A188 and SGH-A288 two years ago, which started to sell well in Asia and even created a wave of flip phones becoming popular around the world.

Before that, the sales volume of SAMSUNG mobile phones was basically non-existent and the company had been in a loss-making state.

Although these two mobile phones, including the enhanced versions launched in the past year or so, the sales fame and huge profits brought by SGH-A188 and SGH-A288 were immediately replaced by Tianyue Future's Diamond Phone, TCL's flip-top Gem Phone, and many mobile phone brands that either followed suit or sniped, launching a large number of similarly crude flip-top phones, disorderly capturing the profits of this track, causing SAMSUNG's mobile phone sales to fall into a slump and losses again.

As of now, although SAMSUNG is a giant in the business world, its mobile phone subsidiary is very weak and can only barely rank in the third tier of global mobile phone brands, which is almost on par with many domestic mobile phone companies.

Even compared with Excellence Technology and Wave Guide, as well as TCL, which emerged as a dark horse last year, it seems not enough if we only count sales.

The only difference is that SAMSUNG mobile phones are backed by the big tree of SAMSUNG, which has massive funds and advanced competitiveness in many world-class leading communications and related industries.

This is also the reason why Zhao Changan wanted to cooperate with SAMSUNG in the beginning.

Zhao Changan learned from Jin Shengyu that SAMSUNG is currently developing a new mobile phone. Jin Shengyu certainly doesn't know the specific data of this phone, but he knows two pieces of information: it is a candy bar phone, not a flip phone that continues to make huge profits, and secondly, it is a real color screen phone. Currently, there are not many companies in the world that officially launch color screen phones. The world's first conceptual color screen phone was Lemona, a color phone launched by Toshiba in 93, which uses a 256-color display.

Next came the Siemens S98 color screen mobile phone in 10, which displayed four colors: red, green, white and blue. It is recognized as the world's first color screen mobile phone.

However, the only gimmick of this phone is its color, which actually has little practical value. Like the previous Lemona, it was discontinued due to almost no sales.

Then last year, Nokia 9210 came out of nowhere and became the world's first truly technologically mature color screen mobile phone, and sales took off.

Ericsson, seeing this scene in the same year, could not wait to launch the T68. Although it only had a 256-color display, it was obviously a level lower than the Nokia 9210. However, this did not stop Ericsson's confidence and set the retail price of the phone at US$600, nearly RMB 5000.

However, this mobile phone brought huge trouble to Ericsson. They launched the phone too hastily to make money and treated users as idiots. As a result, the phone had serious lags during use and the brand suffered a huge blow.

Afterwards, Ericsson had to cooperate with Sony in order to get out of this predicament. However, as of now, there is still no sign of easing of the predicament of Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone Company, and it continues to slide rapidly towards the second tier of global mobile phone brands.

That is to say, up to now, there are only two color screen mobile phones that are truly used in large-scale commercial use in the world. One is Nokia 9210, and the other is Ericsson T600, which is priced at US$68 in a hurry to make money.

As far as Zhao Changan knows, Motorola is now working overtime to develop color screen mobile phones. It is currently preparing to launch two models in 02, one of which will be high-end and priced at more than yuan, and the other will be more affordable and priced at around yuan.

That is to say, if Samsung could launch a color screen mobile phone before Motorola, which is as good as 9210 in actual use, or even better than 9210 in some humanized details, then for the world mobile phone power structure in 02, it is absolutely possible to achieve a leverage and leap in the global ranking.

Zhao Changan’s idea is that if Pro can reach an initial cooperation with SAMSUNG mobile phones and use their color screen technology and some other modules, Pro may not even make money or even lose money in this cooperation.

This is a win-win choice in itself. Pro builds brand value, and in addition to making more money, SAMSUNG can also increase its share and bargaining chips in the world mobile phone industry supply chain in this way.

It’s a pity that SAMSUNG Mobile Phones simply ignored the olive branch extended to it by Samsung Pro, which is equivalent to completely ignoring it and completely closing the possibility of cooperation.

This kind of arrogance made Zhao Changan laugh. Not to mention that RIM, which he owns, completely crushes SAMSUNG mobile phones, even the Excellence Technology, which he holds shares in, has higher brand value, production capacity and sales than SAMSUNG mobile phones.

So he found the LG mobile phone division, which was as famous as SAMSUNG in the mobile phone field. Both were considered to be doing well in the small country, but were just little brothers outside.

The LG mobile phone division and Samsung mobile phones were originally the two local "giants" in Seoul. However, these two giants were suppressed by Western brand mobile phone companies such as Nokia and Motorola in China, and they were barely surviving. There was no market highlight worth mentioning overseas.

However, SAMSUNG made a fortune with SGH-A188 and SGH-A288, gaining both wealth and reputation, but put LG's mobile phone division in a passive and embarrassing situation.

We had agreed to be the 'twin bears', but you suddenly secretly wanted to be the boss. What does this mean?
So this time Zhao Changan learned his lesson and no longer used the Pro banner. Instead, he sent a serious letter in the name of RIM expressing interest in cooperation.

The LG mobile phone department, which happened to know that SAMSUNG mobile phones were going to have color screens, immediately agreed to meet and negotiate as if they had found a life-saving straw, and was absolutely willing to do so.