Chapter 455: Joint Communications, Connecting You and Me
Since Shirakawa Electric's LCD laptop was a first-time product, there were no major problems but there were many minor flaws.
At that time, TFT LCD screen was used, which was divided into black and white and color.
And due to technological limitations, today's laptops are actually still very bulky, about ten centimeters thick.
However, after more than a year of optimization, Shirakawa Electric's notebook has been compressed to about six centimeters.
Although it is still very thick, the weight loss is obvious.
Currently, there are only two companies in the Japanese market that can produce notebooks, Toshiba and Shirakawa Electric.
The former has a slight advantage in overall performance, while the latter is unique in display technology, so they each have their own merits.
Now, after a whole year of optimization, Shirakawa Electric has once again launched its new generation of notebooks.
The greatly reduced thickness of the fuselage caused huge cheers from the audience as soon as it lit up on the big screen.
In terms of price, Shirakawa Electric's notebooks are still divided into black and white models, with the color model costing 450,000 yen and the black and white model costing 230,000 yen.
The screen continues the previous generation of LCD technology, which is completely sufficient for a laptop.
It's not impossible to use LED, but it's a bit wasteful.
In the era before the development of multimedia, the uses of computers were actually very limited.
Therefore, in order to lower the selling price and increase the popularity of laptops, Shirakawa Electric tries to make the price more affordable.
Of course, since everyone has money, the colorful luxury models are tailor-made for them.
The black and white model costs 230,000 yen, which is about the same as most desktop computers.
This price is already very tempting for most people.
After all, laptops are much more advanced than desktop computers, and they are also portable.
Looking at the lively scene below the stage, Baichuan Feng secretly guessed in his heart that this time Baichuan Electric's notebook should be safe.
With the emergence of new products one after another, the atmosphere in the hall was pushed to its peak.
After exchanging glances with the staff in the audience, Baichuan Feng began to fool people... Bah, Baichuan Feng began to take out his last trump card.
“As everyone knows, in the past year or so, Shirakawa Electric has launched two pagers in the BX series.
As a portable communicator that can be carried with you and you don't have to worry about others not being able to find you in an emergency, the pager has brought so much convenience to our lives.
However, pagers can only receive messages but cannot send messages, let alone make calls like a telephone.
So during the use process, many people will wonder if there is a machine that can be carried as easily as a pager.
And how about being able to return a call anytime, anywhere, without having to search everywhere for a phone booth?"
Baichuan Feng walked and spoke on the stage with his arms folded. When he said the last sentence, he raised his head and looked at the people below the stage.
"Huh?!" The audience widened their eyes.
They seemed to already know what Baichuan Feng was going to say next, but they were still looking forward to this scene.
"Yes, there is!"
"Oh~!", "Swoosh~!"
Cheers and whistles came instantly, and Shirakawa Feng on the stage seemed to be able to feel the vibrations brought by the sound waves.
"KITA-One series mobile phones (portable phones) will satisfy all your fantasies!"
On the big screen behind Baichuan Feng, a slowly rotating mobile phone gradually lit up.
The combination of its compact shape, shiny body, digital keys and a small light-colored LCD screen attracted the attention of everyone present.
"Yes, we called it a cell phone (a portable phone), not a pager or a cordless phone.
It can be carried around like a pager, and can also be used to answer or make calls like a landline phone.
Please note that this is not a shoulder phone, and at 700g any woman can easily lift it. ”
The cheers from the audience suddenly turned into laughter.
As everyone knows, Shirakawa Kaede was implying the big guy from NTT.
As a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, which was just reformed in 1985.
NTT launched a shoulder phone in 1986, but because it weighed several kilograms and was difficult to use, there was no news about it after its release.
A portable phone weighing several kilograms, what a joke! Many men have difficulty lifting it with both hands, how can they make a call?
So it's no surprise that NTT's shoulder phone came to nothing.
“KITA-One series mobile phones use the latest RF chips and baseband chips developed by SIC.
It has the advantages of strong signal stability, not susceptible to interference, sensitive information, few call blind spots, and low mobile phone power consumption.
The continuous talk time can reach 60 minutes and the standby time is more than 10 hours. "
This parameter is much better than Motorola's product in 1983. At that time, Motorola DynaTAC could only make calls continuously for 30 minutes and the standby time was no more than 6 hours.
Although improved models have been launched in the past two years, the improvement is still not significant.
So when the audience saw the parameters displayed on the big screen, they cheered even more excitedly.
In order to let them see more clearly, Baichuan Feng directly took a real machine to show it to the audience.
He gently held the device, which was half the width of his palm and the length of his hand. This action instantly gave the audience an approximate impression of the size of Shirakawa Electric's mobile phone.
This is much smaller and lighter than NTT's bricks.
Without waiting for the audience to continue cheering, Baichuan Feng gently lifted the lower half of the body, revealing a brand new numeric keypad.
Yes, this is a semi-flip design phone. The purpose is to make it more beautiful and technological, and also to protect the numeric keypad.
In addition to these, there is a small oval head in the upper left corner of the phone, which becomes an antenna by gently pulling it.
Does it look familiar? No doubt, it is the mobile phone design from the 90s.
But compared with those bricks, Shirakawa Electric's current mobile phones are much smaller in size.
The reason why it can be made so small is related to SIC's excellent integrated circuit design.
Some auxiliary chips are all integrated into one module, instead of using a single-function chip design.
After all, today's mobile phones can only make calls and can't do anything else.
Baichuan Feng took his cell phone and showed it to the audience. Wherever he turned, the cheers were deafening.
"You may not have any idea about mobile phones yet, so let's experience the changes they bring to our lives."
The convenience of mobile phones, a kind of high-tech, must be demonstrated on the spot to bring the greatest shock and impact.
As Baichuan Feng finished making the gesture, the large screen behind him suddenly switched to a slightly shaky picture.
The background seems to be the top of a building, and at the same time, a girl's figure appears in the picture.
However, because of the howling wind, her long hair was waving wildly in the wind and covering her face.
It can be seen that the girl in the camera is waving her hands vigorously to greet the camera, but the strange thing is that there is only a picture on the screen at this time but no sound.
But it doesn't matter, Baichuan Feng has already picked up the phone. "Please pay attention, it's time to witness a miracle."
After saying that, Baichuan Feng pressed a few number keys and waited for a few seconds. Soon, the girl on the screen took out the same mobile phone and put it to her ear.
"Hello, Shirakawa-san, please take care of me."
"Eh?" Hearing this familiar voice, the people in the audience exclaimed.
"Akina?", "Is it Akina-chan?"
Before everyone could react , Baichuan Feng responded into the microphone of his mobile phone with a smile.
"Please give me your guidance, Ms. Akina Nakamori~"
"Hey, it's Akina!" The audience was slightly agitated.
At this time, Akina Nakamori had already become very popular and even earned the title of "the original singer."
So when her voice comes out, many people feel familiar with it.
"Ms. Akina, I am now standing on the stage of the Shirakawa Electric Conference. There are many fans who like you here~"
After saying that, Baichuan Feng turned his phone towards the bottom of the stage, and the audience immediately started cheering in unison.
"Akina!", "Akina-chan, auntie is cleaning the railway~!"
"Eh?" On the big screen, Akina Nakamori put her hair behind her ears, and her youthful face finally appeared clearly in front of everyone.
Not surprisingly, there was another round of excited cheers from the audience.
"There are so many of you~ Hello, I love you~"
After saying that, Akina Nakamori raised her two scissors hands and gestured above her head. With her two dazzling white teeth, she looked like a little rabbit.
Not only did the audience scream and cheer for her action, but even Shirakawa Feng almost laughed out loud.
Without the PUA of a certain scumbag in this life, her personality is obviously much more cheerful.
"So Miss Akina, can you hear me now?"
"Hai, very clear~!"
Both parties took out Shirakawa Electric's mobile phones and started live broadcasting.
Indeed, this is live broadcast.
In order to promote his mobile phone, Shirakawa Kaede specially asked TBS TV station to dispatch its own broadcast vehicle.
The scene you see at this moment is the one that was broadcast live to the press conference by TV station.
"Ms. Akina, can you tell us where you are now?"
"I'm at Tsutenkaku in Osaka now~" As she finished her words, the camera lens moved behind her.
The huge steel tower frame there is extremely eye-catching.
"Huh?" Everyone was shocked.
They are in Tokyo now, but Akina Nakamori is in Osaka, which...
"Tsutenkaku is one of Osaka's landmark buildings. How do you feel about the KITA-One mobile phone, Ms. Akina?"
"It's amazing that I can use such a small device to make calls anytime and anywhere. It's more convenient than a pager."
"Really? Thank you for your love for Shirakawa Electric. I hope you have fun~"
"Thank you for your care~"
The scene changed, and the hall returned to silence again. The mobile phone image on the big screen slowly rotated as before.
"Sri Lanka~", "It's incredible~"
Although the call was over, everyone was still immersed in the dreamlike scene that had just happened.
"Shirakawa Electric and NUCT connect you and me!"
As the logos of the two companies appeared alternately on the screen, Baichuan Feng also shouted out the advertising slogan that had been written long ago.
Then the price of the communication package, 430,000 yen, was slowly displayed on the big screen.
"Oh~" This time everyone cheered even louder.
You should know that the world's first mobile phone, Motorola's DynaTAC, was priced at one million yen in Japan.
Although the Japanese yen has appreciated and the price of Motorola mobile phones has dropped by almost half, everyone still remembers the sky-high initial price.
So when we compare the two, doesn't the gap widen?
Shirakawa Electric has won a lot of favor~
"The KITA-One mobile phone is now available at all major business offices of United Telecom. Everyone is welcome to purchase it."
Shirakawa Electric's mobile phones are of course bundled with its own business halls, and the price of 430,000 yen is similar to the package price of a contract phone.
Of course, the price of the phone varies depending on the call package. The more value-added services you buy, the cheaper the phone itself.
The ultimate goal is nothing more than to deeply bundle users and accumulate more customers for Japan United Telecom in the early stage.
"Thank you all for participating in this year's Shirakawa Electric New Product Launch Conference. See you next year~!"
The mobile phone was the finale product of Shirakawa Electric's press conference. With the release of the new phone, the press conference also came to an end.
Seeing that everyone was still staring at the big screen, Baichuan Feng seemed to remember something.
"Oh, by the way, this is also a new product from Shirakawa Electric, a high-definition LCD projector. Please support it~"
After saying this, Baichuan Feng smiled, bowed, and left the stage.
Amid prolonged applause, Shirakawa Electric's annual press conference slowly came to an end.
