Chapter 813 The world’s first commercial mobile phone, Big Brother!

Author: The creeper on the fence

Chapter 813 The world’s first commercial mobile phone, Big Brother!

The Empire Group announced the formal acquisition of Xiangjiang Dadong Telegraph Company. This news shocked all walks of life in Hong Kong for a long time.

More than a month later.

Time quietly entered April 1983.

April 15, 1983.

On this day, Motorola launched its first commercially available mobile phone to the world at its headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Motorola DynaTAC 8000X!

Motorola DynaTAC8000X is the world's first commercial mobile phone. It weighs 2 pounds, has ten hours of charging, half an hour of talk time, and sells for $3,995.

The development cycle of DynaTAC 8000X exceeds 10 years.

At that time, Martin Cooper, who was in charge of Motorola's wireless research and development and was later revered as the father of mobile phones, appointed Krolopp as the project team leader to be responsible for the development of the world's first mobile phone.

On the patent certificate of DynaTAC 8000X, there are a total of three people's names, Krolopp, Cooper and John Mitchell, the leader of Motorola's communications department at the time.

In December 1972, Kropper and his team were given six weeks to prototype a mobile phone.

The task was very urgent because at that time the Federal Communications Commission of Country M was considering whether to allow AT&T to establish a mobile network and provide wireless services in the Country M market.

Moreover, AT&T also has its own mobile phone development plan.

After 10 years of development work and a cost of US$100 million, Motorola finally launched the world's first mobile phone on April 15, 1983.

Of course, building base stations is also a major reason for delays in release.

For this mobile phone.

Yang Ming hasn't gotten it yet, but from his past life, he knows that this mobile phone is what Xiangjiang people call a mobile phone. It weighs about the same size as a brick. In addition to being very heavy, it is actually not as heavy as

The mobile phones of the future will be so convenient to use.

The most important thing.

This mobile phone costs nearly 4,000 U.S. dollars. At this price, it is equivalent to 30,000 to 40,000 Hong Kong dollars today. It is very expensive and very luxurious. Even rich people cannot afford it.

Yang Ming already knew the news in advance, but he had just learned the specific release date of this mobile phone.

In addition, he has asked Chambers to attend the mobile phone launch conference in person and order one such mobile phone to take back to Xiangjiang for him.

That night.

Yang Ming came back from get off work at Imperial Group. While having dinner with his parents, Yang Ming learned from the newspaper that Motorola had officially released and launched this mobile phone.

Obviously, this is still the era of landline phones, and many people are still curious about this new product.

Even in China, many places now don’t even have landline phones, let alone mobile phones.

After dinner.

Yang Ming went upstairs.

He had already received a call back from Chambers.

Chambers has already obtained the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X mobile phone and bought a plane ticket from San Francisco. He will fly directly to Hong Kong to meet his boss.

In addition, after meeting with his boss Yang Ming, he will also go to Yanjing in China and Tokyo to see the status of the Windows system of the supercomputer software company.

After learning that Chambers was coming to Xiangjiang, Yang Ming was still very excited.

Regarding Chambers, Yang Ming trained him as if he were a Mai Lisi.

Have a night's rest.

Early the next morning.

Yang Ming has already learned.

Chambers' plane landed safely at Kai Tak International Airport in Hong Kong.

At this time, Chen Zhenhua and Lin Dezhong went to the airport to pick up Chambers.

Yang Ming did not eat breakfast so quickly, but waited for Chambers to come over first.

8:45 am.

A Rolls Royce pulls up.

Chambers got out of the car.

"boss."

Chambers was really excited to see Yang Ming again.

"Chambers."

The two shook hands.

Chambers brought him the world's first mobile phone from country M.

Motorola DynaTAC 8000X mobile phone.

Yang Ming is also the first mobile phone owner in Hong Kong.

Chambers and Yang Ming went to the garden and opened the box. Yang Ming had already seen this big Motorola mobile phone that really looked like a brick.

"Boss, this is the mobile phone."

Yang Ming picked it up carefully and found that it was the Big Brother that the gangsters in the Hong Kong movies liked to use most.

"Boss, this mobile phone has just been released by Motorola and it is still very popular. It is very expensive and heavy. I am afraid that there will not be many sales in the market."

In the eyes of many wealthy people, this mobile phone seems convenient, but in fact it is not much convenient. In addition to being expensive, the most important thing is that it is bulky and immature.

In addition, if there is no base station, it is impossible to make calls at all.

Even if there is a base station, the call signal is not good.

If so, what is the use of such a mobile phone?

"Chambers, mobile phones are the future development trend. Motorola is the first to develop them and put them on the market. However, we must seize the opportunity."

In other words, Yang Ming certainly cannot let go of the mobile phone market.

For him, if he lets the mobile phone market go, he will miss out on a lot, even involving mobile phone systems, chips, instant messaging, etc.

Chambers is now mainly responsible for the Windows system. In his opinion, if all computers around the world use this operating system, he thinks it will be very good.

Yang Ming and Chambers chatted a lot there.

It's already breakfast time.

Yang Ming and Chambers went to have breakfast first.

After breakfast, today is Saturday.

Originally, Yang Ming wanted to take him to the Imperial Group headquarters. Most people were resting today.

"Chambers, you can go to Xiangjiang Science and Technology Park first. On Monday, I will take you to visit the Imperial Group headquarters."

"Yes, boss."

The supercomputer software company's headquarters in Xiangjiang is located in the Xiangjiang Science and Technology Park. Chambers naturally wanted to take a look when he returned to Xiangjiang this time.

Chambers left here and took a bus to Xiangjiang Science and Technology Park.

...

"Master, is this the mobile phone you are talking about?" Azhu and her three daughters came over and asked curiously.

This mobile phone now has no base station built in Xiangjiang, so it is impossible to make calls. However, Yang Ming knew that it was very meaningful and made him gradually feel like he was back to the era of his previous life.

"It can't be used now."

"Boss, what's the use?"

"Useful and meaningful."

Now Chambers is back.

Yang Ming waited for Yuan Tianfan to return.

In the afternoon, Yuan Tianfan also returned from San Francisco.

When he just returned to Xiangjiang, he wanted to see Li Huimin.

However, he knew that he still had to put the boss first.

Yuan Tianfan was taken to the mid-level villa in Repulse Bay.

"Chambers will be back in the morning and you will be back in the afternoon."

"Boss, I didn't contact Mr. Chambers."

Now Yuan Tianfan is the general manager of Silicon Valley Future Capital, and Chambers is the general manager of a supercomputer software company. Except for the occasional contact between the two, everyone is doing their own thing.

When Yang Ming took out the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X mobile phone, Yuan Tianfan said: "Boss, I know this is the first mobile phone that Motorola has just released."

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