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Chapter 290 Smartphone?Looking for android!
Since November, Gaoyang has been less busy. This year, the two cash cows, Jiaoyang Company and Yuanda Company, are operating very well, and a bumper harvest is a foregone conclusion.

On November 11, sister Gao Yue gave birth to a baby. On November 12, Gao Yang and Gu Yawen went back to Jinyang.

Gao Yue gave birth to a big fat boy who weighed 8 jins and named him Jiang Bo after her appearance.

Jiang Bing looks ordinary, but Gao Yue's face is quite beautiful. When Xiao Jiangchang grows up, he must be a handsome guy, and his son will be like his mother.

This time back to Jinyang, Gao Yang also met with Yang Yong, Xiao Jin, Wang Yun, Wen Yi and others. Jiajiahui Supermarket and DM business are doing very well this year.

After the opening of Sihai Wine Industry, relying on local contacts and stores, as well as the special counters opened by Jiajiahui Supermarket, this year's business exceeded expectations and can reach more than 300 million.

Both Xiao Jin and Wu Peng have achieved great results in their work this year. Xiao Jin revealed that after the Spring Festival, he is expected to go to Gaoyang’s hometown to be the head of the township. Although it is only a small town with a population of more than 1, it can be regarded as the second in command of the work. Yes.

Today, Xiao Jin is very familiar with the agricultural development of townships and has a strong working ability. Xiao Jin has also obtained a bachelor's degree through correspondence courses.

After Xiao Jin came to work in Renshui Township, He Yong would help contact professors from the Agricultural University and agricultural technology experts from the province to investigate Renshui Township and help plan how to develop rural economic planting projects in Renshui Township.

On November 11nd, the light snow solar term, the whole city of Beijing has been heating for a week, and the first snow of this year has already fallen yesterday.

On the street, there is still some snow that has not melted.

After 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Gao Yang stood in front of the office window, holding a cup of tea in his hand, looking at the snow on the roof opposite, thinking about some plans for 2005.

There was a burst of laughter at the door, followed by Gu Yawen and Wu Ruohan came in.

The two sisters went to the street to buy a mobile phone just now. Gu Yawen's mobile phone was accidentally broken in the morning.

Gao Yang turned around and asked with a smile, "What mobile phone did you buy?"

Wu Ruohan said: "Brother-in-law, we bought a Nokia 7610. It's a new model that has been on the market for less than a month. It's very beautiful. I bought three of them."

Gao Yang came over: "Why do you buy so many mobile phones?"

Gu Yawen smiled and said: "Ruohan also likes this phone, your phone has been used for more than two years, it's time to change it."

Gu Yawen and Wu Ruohan unpacked the packing box, three times the mobile phone, two are white, one is red and black.

Gu Yawen said: "This color is called psychedelic red, Ruohan and I both think it suits you well, do you like it?"

Gao Yang nodded and smiled: "It's pretty nice, thank you all."

Gao Yang connected the Nokia 7650 he was using, a classic slider phone launched two years ago, to the computer, first exported the address book, and then replaced the number card into the new phone.

After Gao Yang turned on the phone, Wu Ruohan introduced next to him: "Brother-in-law, the salesman said that the 7610 is the latest generation of Nokia smartphones. It was released at the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover in March this year. It was launched in Europe in June. It was launched in Beijing on the 3th of last month. It's starting to be available..."

After turning it on, Gao Yang tried the phone and asked, "How much is this phone?"

Gu Yawen said: "The price was 5288 yuan. Wu Ruohan negotiated the price for half a day with someone. We bought three of them, and finally wiped off the change. One is 5200 yuan."

Wu Ruohan said: "I heard that this mobile phone sold for about 6000 yuan in the first ten days after it was launched last month. At that time, there were not many goods, and there were scalpers and roasted seeds and nuts."

Gao Yang recalled that in a few years, when real smartphones are on the market, an Apple computer will only cost about 6000 yuan.

What a huge profit.

smart phone?

Gao Yang was startled suddenly, took out this 7610, and read the manual carefully:

2.1-inch TFT screen, 100 million pixel rear camera, 4 times digital zoom, can shoot up to 10 minutes of video;
Support bluetooth, have USB interface, the built-in player can watch video, also support the music file of 3gpp, RealMedia, Mp3, ACC, MPEG-4 format.

The operating system is Symbian S60 2.0, the CPU is ARM9...

Gao Yang thought of the era of real smartphones, and the two major operating system camps of iOS and Android.

Suddenly realized that this could be a big opportunity.

Thinking of this, Gao Yang said with a smile: "You guys take a rest, I still need to check some information."

Gu Yawen dragged Wu Ruohan back to her office, Gao Yang sat down to light a cigarette, and began to search the Internet for information on mobile operating systems.

The results of Baidu search show that Symbian was established in 1998, and the Nokia 2001 released in 9210 used Symbian OSv6.0, which can be called Nokia's first-generation smartphone.

In 2003, Ericsson, Moto and Nokia were all pushing Symbian 7.0 smartphones.

Then, in 1999, windows released its first mobile operating system, the current version called Windows Mobile 2003.

iPhone OS, not at all now!
Gao Yang also remembered that the first generation of iPhone appeared on the market around 2007, and now, Apple is very likely to organize efforts to develop the operating system.

Then there is the BlackBerry OS of Maple Leaf Country, also known as BlackBerry, which was also founded in 1999 and is still in its infancy. Its influence cannot catch up with Symbian and windows, and now Symbian is the absolute mainstream.

In addition, there is also open source Linux. NEC has several customized models that use Linux, and some operators welcome Linux.

Finally, there is Palm, the ruler of the mid-to-high-end PDA market, but it has little influence in the mobile phone market. PDA is only a niche market, and its shipments are too small.

Gao Yang did not find any android information.

Then, I entered Yahu again, searched foreign language webpages for a while, and finally found some information.

Gao Yang had worked in IT media for 10 years in his previous life, so he naturally knew that Android was not invented by Gugou Company, but was purchased and then redeveloped by organizing forces. It was not until around 2010 that it gained a certain market influence.

Now, this company is still a small company in California. It was founded in October last year. The founder was named Andy Rubin, who was later called "the father of android", Andy Rubin.

Now, the full name of the android company is android inc. (Android technology company), located in Palo Alto, California, which is the core area of ​​Silicon Valley.

Obviously, the android company is not currently being acquired by Google Dogs.

Gao Yang kept searching for information about the android company and Andy Rubin on the Internet, and finally found several clues.

Andy Rubin is currently trying to introduce VC investment for the android company, but it seems to have suffered a cold reception.

Gao Yang is a little excited, can he seize this company, dare to seize it?
After smoking two cigarettes, Gao Yang finally made a decision.

Must try!
At this time, the sky was already dark, and Gu Yawen came in and asked, "Husband, are you still planning to leave work?"

Gao Yang waved his hand: "Yawen, I'm looking up some information, my English is really average, please help me to see if my understanding is wrong..."

Gu Yawen was quite curious, so she came and sat in front of Gao Yang's computer, carefully looked at the English webpages that Gao Yang found, and finally said:

"This company called android is located in Palo Alto, California's Silicon Valley. It has just been established for a year. It should have developed a digital camera operating system at the beginning. The founder's name is Andy Rubin...

Well, this is Andy Rubin publicly soliciting VC investment on a VC exchange forum to develop a smartphone operating system based on the Linux platform.

Husband, what is Linux? "

Gao Yang said with a smile: "Linux is a free software development platform. Its source code is open source. It is a shared software platform developed by open source enthusiasts all over the world. Based on this system, related application layer software can be developed to counter the monopoly of big companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Apple on the operating system."

Gu Yawen asked curiously: "Are you interested in this small Silicon Valley company?"

Gao Yang nodded and said: "Yes, I'm a little interested. I want to ask my elder brother for help, see if I can find this Andy Rubin and invite him to Huaxia."

Gu Yawen was even more curious: "Is this company valuable to you in the Internet?"

Gao Yang said: "Yes, didn't you just bought a new smart phone today? I once suggested to Brother Tao that if the [-] million company wants to transform, it can consider OEM production of mobile phone parts. In the future, it can also make complete phones, or even make Own-brand mobile phones.

Now, Brother Tao has invested in transformation and is doing electronic component OEM business.

I feel that the Linux-based open source mobile phone operating system may have a certain market space in the future, and Silicon Valley is a place where high-tech talents from all over the world gather.

Now that there is such a small start-up company, if we go to venture capital or hold this company, if it can develop, there may be good opportunities and even huge profits in the future. "

Gu Yawen said: "Investing in companies in Silicon Valley should cost a lot of money, right?"

Gao Yang shook his head and smiled: "A small company that has just been established for a year can't be worth much, and 3000 to [-] million US dollars is the highest.

Venture capital will naturally have risks, but if it succeeds, the benefits will be amazing.

For example, if you invested in Yiwang a few years ago, the income will be as high as hundreds of times now..."

(End of this chapter)