20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3299: LG Mobile Phone Dilemma
This small tea party-like chat lasted until the afternoon when the sun was setting over the sparkling sea. The four of them ended the chat with reluctance and returned to the hotel for a simple buffet.

Although at the beginning Li Xiuying launched an unfriendly attack on Qiao Hang due to her personal worldview, which made the atmosphere not very harmonious; however, once they started to talk formally about work, they were able to put aside their personal emotions, correct their attitudes and discuss seriously.

Zhao Changan said frankly that he would not interfere or participate too much in the research and development of the next generation of RIM mobile phones. This trip to Seoul and Japan, including the domestic mobile phone industry chain, will basically be used for Pro mobile phones.

This was the first time that Zhao Changan expressed this decision in public. Even within the North American headquarters of Nano-Tech, he had not clearly expressed this information before.

It's not that he wants to hide it or anything, but before this, he has not made a final decision. If this is a cooperation between Yinano and SAMSUNG mobile phone, then Zhao Changan believes that it is entirely possible to achieve 'RIM-Pro-SAMSUNG mobile phone', a complementary cooperation between the three.

At least RIM can use SAMSUNG's TFT (thin film transistor) color screen technology and cooperate in the development of MP3 phones.

At present, for RIM, both TFT color screen technology and MP3 hardware capabilities are still in a complete vacuum.

In fact, the real selling point of RIM's mobile phone series is its unique email sending and receiving system, Push Mail email service (a mobile email system with two-way paging mode).

Although RIM is currently well-known around the world, its truly practical and best-selling products are still its two pagers, RIM950 and 5790.

As for the 5810, which had preliminary mobile phone functions, when the phone was designed, the rigorous Mike had no place to put the speaker inside the phone case. Putting the SIM card in it would have cost Mike half his life.

So Mike geniusly equipped each 5810 with a jack for wired headphones. In this way, a Push Mail pager was stuffed with a phone card holder and an external speaker, turning it into a weird mobile phone.

Of course, almost no one bought this phone until the subsequent RIM 6210, which installed this speaker into the phone. It also cooperated with Tianyue Future and Toronto Nortel to launch a castrated version of Xinyu 180.

As of now, RIM has stopped the production of 5180 and 6210 in the mobile phone field, and focused on manufacturing 6230 and the 6230+ that it is preparing to launch next.

As for Zhao Changan's technical requirements for 6230+, Mike didn't object much.

Because in his opinion, these are all RIM series, and they are dispensable and unimportant additions besides the core function of Push Mail email service.

The core function of RIM pagers and mobile phones is Push Mail email service, which uses email channels exclusively and can only transmit emails but not voice calls.

In addition to the core function of Push Mail email service, RIM mobile phones also have a SIM card module and a speaker.

As long as he is not forced to change the appearance of the mobile phone and pager he has in mind, he doesn't mind compromising with Zhao Changan, even if it is the QWERTY keyboard that Mike is proud of, and the core function of the Push Mail email service.

Since Mike's stubbornness was also considered cooperation, Zhao Changan wanted to bundle RIM and Samsung in some unit modules. He didn't have any good intentions, but essentially wanted to snipe the rise of Samsung mobile phones. But since there was no chance this time, he was ready to let Mike go completely and let him model the many functions of the next generation of RIM mobile phones.

Although Zhao Changan was not sure which companies Mike would eventually choose to cooperate with, he was certain of one thing: nine out of ten times they would be North American companies.

After losing the possibility of cooperating with SAMSUNG mobile phones, the functions that Zhao Changan wanted to implement in the Pro mobile phone, such as color screen, flip design, and mp3, will definitely be postponed.

However, although LG's mobile phone business department has not been doing well in the past two years, it is actually only one step behind SAMSUNG mobile phones, and the marketing team is also too poor.

While SAMSUNG mobile phones have been constantly upgraded from SH-100 to SCH-800 and SCH-A2000, the only thing worth mentioning about LG is the candy-bar model LG500, and the rest are all miscellaneous feature phones.

Especially in the past year of the Gregorian calendar, the sales of the two mobile phone companies, which were originally not much different at the beginning of the year, were left far behind by SAMSUNG phones. The LG mobile phone business department, which was late to realize the situation, began to imitate them in a hurry.

LG has provided RIM with 10 models to choose from, including two candy-bar models.

There are eight types of flip models, and some of them clearly state that they use a dual LCD screen flip design.

Metal frame, streamlined design, CDMA and GPRS dual-choice design,——

Zhao Changan can see that after learning from its mistakes, LG is imitating the design and technical elements of SAMSUNG mobile phones, while also envisioning the possibility of overtaking by taking advantage of the new CDMA track.

In fact, in the next few years of Zhao Changan's previous life, LG once became the fifth largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, only behind Nokia, Motorola, SAMSUNG and Siemens. In the first quarter of 03, its shipments exceeded 560 million units, and it was ready to surpass Siemens and defeat the rebellious SAMSUNG in one fell swoop.

In 08, Nokia still ranked first in the world's mobile phone sales ranking with a global market share of 38.6%. Samsung ranked second with 16.2%, and LG ranked third with 8.3%.

Apple's global market share with the first and second generation iPhones was only 1.1%, ranking eighth in the world.

Of course, at this time in Zhao Changan's life, except for him, the fish that jumped out of the water, he had a vague impression of these data. After all, in those years, he saw too many mobile phone advertisements with LG mobile phones as the mainstream and GPRS as the auxiliary in the streets and alleys of Zhengzhou. In those years, domestic mobile phone companies were being slaughtered by these multinational manufacturers in the mid-to-high-end market, and in the low-end market they were facing market erosion by Huaqiangbei. It can be said that there was widespread grief.

However, at present, not to mention the LG mobile phone division which is panicking and has no idea what to do, even the SCH-X430 color TFT screen flip phone that is about to bet on tomorrow's SAMSUNG mobile phone is also feeling nervous.

After all, in the current global mobile phone landscape, Nokia and Motorola dominate the market, plus Siemens, Philips, Sony Ericsson - these strong second-tier mobile phone companies, and China's maturing and rising domestic brands. Under the combined effect of these pressures, the two giants of the third- and fourth-tier mobile phone companies have been squeezed to the point where they have almost no room for survival.