20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3636 Siwenkai

Yang Yixin spoke succinctly over there.

"I'll go over there, it's so cold, you shouldn't come out."

Zhao Chang'an truly lived up to his reputation as a kind and considerate man, unwilling to let Yang Yixin run into his room on such a cold day.

He then said to Yang Yixin, "I didn't eat much tonight, so I'll go get some dishes and a bottle of wine."

"Isn't there a cake?"

"It's too sweet, we need to make something to go with the drinks. Wait a moment, I'll see if the hotel still makes it."

"it is good."

Yang Yixin on the other end of the phone was deeply moved and obediently and gently agreed, thinking that Zhao Chang'an was really good.

Zhao Chang'an hung up the phone and said to Mina, "I've bought you another ten minutes, you should thank me."

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Over the next two days, Zhao Chang'an's team, under the arrangement of Ericsson, visited one location after another in a whirlwind tour.

At Ericsson's mobile platform research institute, researchers demonstrated their future technology direction—a wireless Bluetooth integrated office system and a wireless smart home system—to Zhao Chang'an's team. Even though Qiao Hang and Karl Min were from RIM, they were amazed by this efficient and convenient connection command concept.

Zhao Chang'an learned through inquiry that Ericsson's Bluetooth device manufacturing plant was located in Sweden, but not in Stockholm.

I was originally thinking of going over to take a look, but then I thought, even if I went, I'd be an outsider and it would just be a lonely sight.

However, at the research institute, Zhao Chang'an obtained a prototype of the Sony Ericsson T608, which had not yet been officially launched for sale.

CDMA 800/1900 dual-band; some media reports claim GPRS connectivity via peripherals/firmware; built-in Bluetooth; supports WAP 2.0 browsing; can connect to an external MAC25 camera; supports taking photos of incoming call avatars.

He operated the phone for a while longer and then made a call to Lockhart. After the call ended, Zhao Chang'an smiled and nodded in approval.

However, I felt a little heavy-hearted.

He had previously made many ambitious statements and was full of confidence in the future, and even after acquiring a controlling stake in RIM, Zhao Chang'an remained so.

Today, after visiting the research institute for 2.5G and 3G mobile phone standards, and seeing the T608 prototype in my hand, I realized that I had previously been watching others swim in the water from the shore, thinking I could do better than them. But now, when I actually got in the water and wanted to compete with these champions, I realized that things weren't so easy. While I was painstakingly building and advancing the technology, everyone else was also working hard and striving for success.

Fortunately, as a fish that once leaped out of the water, he could see the course of this historical river more clearly, which was Zhao Chang'an's greatest reliance.

Like many things, Zhao Chang'an and even Wen Ye didn't explain them too clearly to him. If a ruler is not discreet, he will lose his ministers; if a minister is not discreet, he will lose his life; if matters are not kept secret, they will lead to disaster. Therefore, a wise man is cautious and discreet and does not speak out.

This is not just an empty statement, but a summary of lessons learned from thousands of years of success and failure by the Chinese people.

On the morning of the 3rd, Zhao Chang'an met with Ericsson President Ke Dechuan, and Ericsson's mobile platform Siwenkai also participated in the discussion.

Zhao Chang'an didn't waste any words, clearly stating that Pro, as a company held by RIM, has the characteristics of completely independent operation from RIM. Except for using some of RIM's licenses, most of the architecture and infills of Pro elements will be different from RIM's.

Upon hearing Zhao Chang'an's words, Ericsson realized that they had made a misunderstanding. The reason they had been so excited before was because they had always thought that they were negotiating with RIM.

Because Zhao Chang'an is the president of RIM, Karmin is a senior executive at RIM, and Mina is the head of RIM's European office.

However, given the current situation, even though Ericsson knew he had made a mistake, he had no choice but to continue the talks to save face, since the upcoming press conference would be attended by many media reporters from all over Europe, both invited and uninvited.

So this meeting, from the very beginning, turned into an initial discussion between Ericsson and Pro.

Zhao Chang'an first gave a brief introduction to the scale of the first phase and the second phase of the Pro Zhengzhou mobile phone factory, as well as the preliminary cooperation agreement reached with LG and Sharp.

Upon hearing that the Zhengshi factory's first phase was designed to produce over three million mobile phones annually, Ericsson representatives such as Ke Dechuan, Si Wenkai, and Lockhart, as well as Mina and Raimondi from the RIM office, all wore expressions of disbelief.

If Zhao Chang'an can achieve an annual shipment volume of over three million mobile phones at his Zhengzhou mobile phone factory, then his factory will become the largest mobile phone manufacturer in Asia. In fact, only a few single mobile phone manufacturers worldwide, such as Motorola, Nokia, and Flextronics, can reach this standard.

Looking at Zhao Chang'an's excessively young face, these people, though not Chinese, all thought of the old Chinese saying, "A young man with no beard is unreliable."
"I understand your concerns. Here I can briefly mention some of my small achievements in the mobile phone industry over the past two years. The first is the Tianyue Heartfelt Words series, and the second is Excellent Technology—"

Zhao Chang'an recounted the remarkable sales figures achieved by the two mobile phone manufacturing plants in less than a year. He noticed that, apart from Siwenkai, all five people sitting opposite Ericsson showed expressions of surprise.

It was clear that these four people on the other side had never really cared about or paid attention to the domestic situation in the 1nm region; their eyes were obviously fixed on RIM.

"Mr. Zhao, I know some of the data you mentioned, but Tianyue phones actually use RIM's 6230 processor, and it's a simplified version with some components removed. I admit that Tianyue Xinyu's marketing tactics are very clever, but phones are assembled from parts, which is completely different from your plan to build a completely independent phone manufacturing plant. Including the fact that RIM withdrew from the joint venture because of the diamonds embedded in the phones, and Nortel Networks, of course, before they withdrew, you received sufficient compensation to leave Tianyue Future."

Siwenkai looked at Zhao Chang'an and said, "And there's Zhuoyue Technology. Its marketing methods are also very clever. I've seen all the advertisements you've done, and I think they're excellent. The sales figures also prove its success. However, as far as I know, you also withdrew from Zhuoyue Technology not long after."

"Of course, that's not the most important thing. I'm just saying that if your company were given enough production lines and mobile phone components, I believe that with your company's strong marketing capabilities in China, you would be able to sell mobile phones just as well, or even better. It's just a matter of simply assembling a mature mobile phone model versus creating a completely new mobile phone product from scratch. These are two completely different concepts."