1991 Starting from the core

“I won’t talk about the design of this thing, but the concept is indeed advanced, and it’s good to be advertised.”

As Chairman Hongyuan who personally presided over the assembly line and witnessed the birth of Yuanxin's first PDA mobile phone, Jiang Qingchuan was used to seeing too many different types of mobile phones and PDAs coming to OEM. Among them are many experts in consumer electronics such as Sony and Apple.

In contrast, he naturally doesn't think this PDA is so good-looking.

But at least it is avant-garde in terms of function and concept.

It fits the tone of Yuanxin very well.

But Jiang Qingchuan is still a little worried deep down in his heart - an emerging technology company often becomes "gambling" because it has no baggage, and will boldly launch products with advanced concepts. Even if it fails, it will be a waste of investors’ money. But if it succeeds, the benefits will be huge, and it may open up a new industry and market.

This is the fundamental concept of venture capital.

It's just... Yuanxin can no longer be regarded as an emerging technology company. Although it has not been established for a long time, it is only seven years old this year, but the field it involves is the mature and old-fashioned semiconductor industry, and its business development is even better than that of those century-old stores.

In other words, although Yuanxin is young, it is doing the work of the elderly. In the product field, stability should be the priority.

"Mr. Jiang, why won't I talk about the design... I think it's pretty good." Zhu Yuanxin smiled and pressed back and forth on the circular master control keys, feeling the feel in his hands. The more he looked at this home button, the more comfortable he became - there were a variety of graphics and solutions during the design. In the end, everyone held meetings for several days before finalizing the function and appearance specifications of the home button.

It's really good to use now.

Jiang Qingchuan smiled and said nothing.

Su Yuanshan also felt that the design was a bit conservative and quite average, not worthy of its dazzling concept.

This PDA is equipped with the latest YOS2.0 system. Under Su Yuanshan's strong intervention, it is not much different from the system of later generations of smart phones - at least, the framework is completely based on the framework of later generations of smart phones.

The only shortcoming is that the application ecosystem is still very fragile.

It has been a year since YOS held a press conference last year. Although many PDA manufacturers at that time gave enough face and adopted the YOS system in subsequent PDA launches. However, due to the popularity of awareness and the Internet, these people who make PDAs obviously did not realize that the YOS application center will develop a massive platform... So much so that many PD manufacturers go back with YOS development documents only for their own products. I developed some small apps independently, and the idea of ​​setting up an app store was entirely based on US dollars.

…

Su Yuanshan pressed the home button, tapped the camera with his finger, and then pressed the side button to take a photo of the office.

"The resistive screen is still a bit unsatisfactory." Su Yuanshan opened the photo. Although the screen resolution was very low, he could still see it. It’s just that the resistive screen needs to be pressed hard.

"Of course it's inconvenient to use fingers, so I have to use this thing." Zhu Yuanxin was testing handwriting. As he flicked the stylus on the screen, the handwriting input method soon popped up as a candidate.

Handwriting recognition comes from the cooperation between Sony and Pandora Labs. The current recognition accuracy is very high, and Pandora has also set up a small team to be responsible for the handwriting project.

"Well, it is indeed more convenient to use a stylus now." Su Yuanshan picked up the stylus and kept clicking on the screen to test.

After a few minutes, he put down his phone and exhaled contentedly.

It's only 1998, so that's about it.

“How much does it cost now?”

"The material cost alone is 800 US dollars." Jiang Qingchuan chuckled: "Even if you sell it for 1,000 US dollars, you will only make a small fortune."

"1,000……"

Although the Vidoo series has maintained high-end market pricing overseas, it has inevitably been impacted by price cuts from international mobile phone manufacturers. The past success of harvesting the market with the first MP3 mobile phone cannot be reproduced.

For example, the Vidoo7M released at CES this year has a starting price of only US$799, which is about 6,500 yuan in RMB. The initial price of Vidoo7 has dropped to US$699.

This price is actually very close to the initial launch price of the main high-end models in later generations with extremely high gross profit margins.

Of course, although the price has dropped, the gross profit has not dropped much - after all, the cost of flash memory particles has dropped.

"We should leave the pricing to Lao Duan and his colleagues to discuss. We are promoting this as a concept machine, not a main model. It can be advanced or retreated."

Mobile phone pricing policy is a systematic and complex knowledge. Even Su Yuanshan is a complete layman in front of a mature sales and marketing team. If he wants to make a decision, it will be purely a slap on the head.

Now that the mobile phone has come out anyway, all we have to do is push hard, and even if it is a loss, we have to push it forward - Su Yuanshan is not like Motorola in his previous life, who made the Tiantuo A6188 and saw that the situation was not good, then nothing happened, and finally lost in Smartphone market.

Under Su Yuanshan's intervention, BOE established a laboratory specifically for mobile phone panel technology. The costs were jointly borne by Yuanxin and BOE, and Yuanxin provided technical support at any time. At present, the laboratory is developing and moving forward unswervingly on the historical trajectory.

For example, capacitive screens, such as multi-touch, and IPS, ASV, OLED technologies in the general panel field, etc.

These are all corner overtaking projects carried out by BOE with the support of Yuanxin.

…

Half an hour later, Chen Daohua arrived at the office dusty and dusty, holding a laptop in his hand.

"Mr. Chen."

The four people present stood up to greet him.

"Hmm, hello everyone." Chen Daohua put the unlabeled notebook on the coffee table with a smile on his face.

Of course, the notebook must also be manufactured in Hongyuan. It was only because Chen Daohua was impatient that he waited until now in the test workshop.

Su Yuanshan turned the notebook to face him.

Chen Daohua laughed and said: "No system is installed, just bare metal."

"Well, it's okay." Su Yuanshan took a gentle breath and opened the front cover of the notebook.

This notebook uses the most advanced YX5333 processor with a core frequency of 333MHz.

Thanks to the low power consumption of the YX architecture RISC instruction set, the thickness of this notebook is only 0.8-2.3cm, which is much more noble than the similar models on the market.

In addition, it also uses a 14.1-inch color LCD and DVD drive that are currently only available from IBM.

In addition to these top-level configurations, its biggest highlight is the use of Yuanxin’s latest 1G solid-state drive.

In the current year of 1998, it was a terrifying configuration monster, capable of arrogating all living beings.

If it has any shortcomings...

I'm afraid the only ones are that it does not support window systems, only Linux systems, and it will support WinOS, which is undergoing final testing in the YOS laboratory.

WinOS can be understood as the desktop window version of YOS.

In other words, it's not that it doesn't support Windows, but that Windows doesn't support it.