20 years of restarting life

第3812章 5比3和5比2的机型变化

As the two were sighing, Zhao Chang'an's phone rang again; it was Hu Qian calling once more.

"How about it?"

Zhao Chang'an was a little confused, wondering why Hu Qian was calling again. Was she seeking comfort? But he was currently in Zhengzhou and was much busier than she had imagined.

Zhao Chang'an barely slept the night before last, and last night he barely slept for four hours. If it weren't for his youth and the fact that he had practiced the gentlemanly virtue of not being a tool, he would probably be too sleepy to keep his eyes open by now.

"I tried calling my dad and my sister-in-law, but I couldn't get through."

Hu Qian's voice trembled with fear, clearly indicating that she was thinking of a possibility that terrified her.

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Zhao Chang'an was also puzzled, thinking to himself that this shouldn't be the case!

"Do you have anyone's phone number in your village? Call them and ask them to call out to you. Maybe they've put their phones on silent or turned them off while they're sleeping and didn't hear it."

"They never turn off their phones. They never put their phones on silent. I've called them late at night before and I could always get through."

Hu Qian's words made Zhao Chang'an doubt his own judgment. Could it be that it wasn't Ma Er and Gunzi, but someone else, or something else?
"Don't worry, I'll call the security guards at the scenic area and ask them to check it out."

Zhao Chang'an comforted Hu Qian a few more times, saying, "Don't panic," "Everything will be alright," and "Lock the security door from the inside, and don't open the door if anyone you know knocks." Then he took out his phone book from his bag and found the phone number for the security office at the foot of Jiti Mountain Scenic Area.

The scenic area gate is only two or three miles away from Hu Qianniang's home. It only takes a few minutes to get there by riding the tricycle provided by the scenic area.

A dozen minutes later, the security captain on duty called and said that the gate to the Hu family's courtyard was locked to the outside, and the dog inside was barking when it heard someone, but there was nothing else unusual.

The dog was still barking, and the gate to the courtyard was locked, so it was safe to assume that the kind of thing Hu Qian had imagined hadn't happened at the Hu family's house.

Zhao Chang'an was also a little confused for a moment, so he called Hu Qian back and told her to try calling again around 8 o'clock.

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After nearly a year of construction, the first phase of the Zhengzhou mobile phone factory, including the factory area, various supporting facilities, employee canteens, dormitories, and other living service areas, has been completed.

Currently, we are installing and upgrading the Sharp J-SH04 miniature camera production line, and debugging the mobile phone charger and data cable factory, the paper packaging and instruction manual factory, the plastic casing and button factory, and the ribbon cable factory.

Zhao Chang'an's insistence on self-reliance in these low-threshold, high-tech fields that could be outsourced is driven by several considerations. First, it increases employment; second, it avoids quality control issues; and third, it prevents the possibility of supporting potential competitors with counter-competitive capabilities in the future simply for the sake of convenience.

As for components with high technical requirements, such as screens and batteries, mobile phone manufacturers outsource these purchases.

"The concept design of the Pro phone has been finalized. The next step is to fill this small candybar box with modules. Because the final selection of components has not yet been finalized, the design and assembly of the production line will have to wait a while. The design and assembly line will be designed by RIM's R&D center in Waterloo."

Zhao Chang'an stood inside the future Pro phone manufacturing line factory. Because the factory was large enough, the inner walls were inlaid with perforated sound-absorbing ceramic aluminum panels, so his impassioned voice could not form an effective echo resonance inside the factory.

DeWeiner curiously took the concept phone model from Zhao Chang'an's hand. Before this, he thought that the Pro, which had already made a name for itself as a candybar phone, would have a similar appearance to the previous RIM 6230, since the design department was still a part of the team that was separated from the RIM R&D center.

Furthermore, when Pro phones seek external partnerships, they always operate under the BlackBerry name, at least initially, because otherwise, no one would pay any attention to the Pro team. This includes their relationship with Ericsson; initially, the entire Ericsson team believed that Pro was a newly established sub-brand of BlackBerry, distinct from the RIM mobile phone brand, specifically designed to supply Europe and Asia.

Although RIM phones are now world-renowned, they have a major flaw: email communication via their dedicated channels, which are also what they pride themselves on.

This separate channel system is unique to North America; once outside of North America, it becomes a useless decoration.

Furthermore, even if RIM phones implement this encrypted channel in Asia and Europe in the future through other technological means, how local regulatory authorities define and supervise this channel and RIM's servers will be a very thorny issue.

Mike and Doug were indeed two remarkable technological innovators. However, their technological obsession, especially that of Mike, the core figure behind them, made Motorola, which considered North America its home base, feel threatened. Other European and Asian mobile phone companies never regarded RIM as a potential competitor.

When BlackBerry created the Pro brand, Ericsson executives initially thought it was because BlackBerry wanted to solve the regulatory challenges of this dedicated encrypted channel, to differentiate it from RIM's North American channel, and to supply the European and Asian markets exclusively.

This means that while Rro phones may use different component suppliers than RIM phones, the phone models are actually very similar.

However, the phone in front of us is completely different in appearance from the wide and flat RIM phones, and is more in line with the current mainstream candybar phone models.

To put it in terms of data, the RIM 6230 measures 108 mm in length, 66 mm in width, and 20 mm in thickness, with an aspect ratio of approximately 5:3.

The aspect ratio of mainstream mobile phone models worldwide is generally 5:2.

For example, the classic Nokia 3310, which is 113mm long and 48mm wide, has a ratio close to 5:2.

How do we return to the 5:2 aspect ratio?

DeWeiner stared at Zhao Chang'an in surprise.

"Because this ratio is the optimal ratio for one-handed operation."

Zhao Chang'an used this sentence to succinctly summarize the situation.

In his previous life, Zhao Chang'an found it incredible that RIM phones were so successful in the North American mid-to-high-end mobile phone market for six or seven years.

Because of its odd 5:3 aspect ratio, it is not suitable for mobile phone operation at all, but is more suitable for use as a miniature PAD device with both hands.

In Zhao Chang'an's previous life, BlackBerry's peak sales in 06 were only $20 billion.

That year, Nokia sold 3.49 million mobile phones, generating €411 billion in revenue; Motorola shipped 2.17 million mobile phones, generating $284 billion in revenue, with total revenue of $429 billion for the year; and Samsung sold 1.14 million mobile phones.

BlackBerry's total sales are less than a fraction of any of these three companies' sales.

However, in that year, BlackBerry's stock price climbed to $140, and its total market value exceeded $420 billion.

Motorola's market capitalization in 06 was only $600 billion.

In other words, BlackBerry has always existed in the mobile phone industry as a dark horse driven by hype. Its value is not so much reflected in the field of mobile communications, but rather in the stock market as a tool for speculation and capital harvesting.