Chapter 957 Big Brother
Most of the 1988 years passed, Li Zhongxin only felt one thing satisfying him, that is, in the middle of 1988, he officially used his mobile phone.
After using this kind of thing, although Li Zhongxin felt that it was not as comfortable as the smartphones of later generations and was quite heavy, this big brother could come in handy. If you want to call and talk about something, you can just use the big brother to call.
Although the senior executives of Zhongxin Company already own pagers, the pagers can only receive phone numbers and do not know what is going on when making a phone call.
At this time, magnetic card phones in China were not popular yet. If you want to reply, if you are not in the office but on the street, you will have to look for a long time to find a public telephone booth or a grocery store to make a call.
The situation was very interesting at that time. Many times, the pager received the phone number and wanted to reply, it took more than ten minutes or even more than half an hour. I found the public telephone here and queued up the number. When I replied, the pager left.
In Li Zhongxin's eyes, this is a big delay. As soon as the Northeast started a simulated telephone service, Li Zhongxin made the big brother there, directly making the senior executives of Zhongxin Company the first to use big brothers.
This is a benefit Li Zhongxin gave to the senior executives of Zhongxin Company. It can also be said that they put on small plywood. As long as he has something to do in the future, he will call them and arrange for them to do something.
Li Zhongxin knew in his heart that after all the senior executives of Zhongxin Company used such a thing, their efficiency would be much faster than usual. As for the amount of money that Li Zhongxin looked down upon, Li Zhongxin really had no intention of caring about it. As long as the senior executives of Zhongxin Company who could be equipped with big brothers and big mobile phones, all the phone bills would be paid by Zhongxin Company.
Li Zhongxin was not satisfied with the phone in his hand at this time because he knew that in 1987, Nokia launched the Mobira Cityman NMT900, the first handheld mobile phone for Nordic mobile phone networks. Compared with previous Nokia products, the Mobira Cityman NMT900 is significantly smaller in size and weighs only 800g.
And he always feels heavy and uncomfortable with the Motorola mobile phone he is holding now. Under normal circumstances, Li Zhongxin has been Nokia's mobile phone since he used his mobile phone in later generations, and he has a special liking for Nokia. In this life, he and Yoma Olila jointly established a factory for producing mobile phones. Now he uses Motorola's mobile phones, he always feels uncomfortable with it. This is actually a very normal thing.
I am building a mobile phone factory here! I use mobile phones made by other mobile phone factories, so how come I feel like I’m slapped in the face.
But! Li Zhongxin really has no choice in this matter. Who makes the analog signals laid out in China now only suitable for Motorola?
Li Zhongxin heard from an engineer who went to build a factory in Heizhou Province when Yoma Olila said that in 1987, Gorbaggio, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, called from Helsinki to Moscow last year with the "Mobira Cityman NMT900". The Mobira Cityman 900 has become an iconic world-class product.
But! At this time, the Mobira Cityman NMT900 is not available in China for the time being. The ones that China has created only support Motorola's big brothers.
The most important thing is that the development of Mobira Cityman NMT900 is aimed at Nordic networks and cannot be in line with China.
According to Yoma Olila, the mobile phones produced by the mobile phone factory invested and built in China are in line with the Chinese Internet. It will take at least half a year or a year for Li Zhongxin to use the mobile phones produced by his own.
At this time, Li Zhongxin bought more than a dozen analog mobile phones. The price of each one was 26,000 yuan, and the Internet access fee was 6,000 yuan. In the eyes of others, this thing was even worth more than gold.
A brick-sized thing cost 26,000 yuan, just to make a phone call. This kind of thing is a waste of money no matter how you look at it.
It’s time to call with my elder brother! It costs more than one yuan a minute, and it costs just a few yuan or dozens of yuan to make a call.
However, Li Zhongxin didn't care. After all, Zhongxin's company is rich now. Not to mention spending hundreds of thousands to buy communication equipment, or spending millions to buy communication equipment, Li Zhongxin would not feel distressed. For Li Zhongxin, the phone bill is even more drizzling.
Who would care about the phone bills that can afford to use the big brother?
Motorola did not expect that after the big brother became popular in Hong Kong, China, things like Big Brother were soon favored by some people who became rich first in the mainland.
Because the big brother is huge, most of the people who use it are big brothers in the business world. Things are as expensive as the master, and soon become a symbol of outstanding status.
Back then, people had no idea about private cars and rarely envied them. When you drove a BMW out, others thought it was a public car, which was far less dazzling than the big brother. Soon people were proud of having a big brother and began a show-off and comparison-style consumption.
Extroverted people will hold their elder brothers all day long, negotiate with food and tea, and put them on the table, just like betting on a wealthy bargaining chip and scepter. The elder brothers will immediately receive more respect, and business negotiations will become easier.
People with restrained personalities will put their elder brother in the shiny boss bag, and the boss is clamped under their armpits. Take it out at the appropriate time, pull out the long antenna, spend more than one yuan on a minute of phone calls, and shout in the crowd: "Hey! Hey! I can't hear clearly, please say it again." This attracted countless amazing eyes.
People in the 1980s were very simple and never hiding their admiration for others. Many people quickly opened up their social circles because of their big brothers. For a time, combing their big backs, applying hair spray, and holding big brothers, became the ideal image of a wealthy person in many people.
Back then, people would not have expected that, more than 20 years later, even street scavengers would have a small and exquisite mobile phone in their hands.
Although the stupid big brother and its long antenna have been frozen in the long scroll of history, those interesting scenes are still worthy of repeated appreciation. Because the big brother who emerged from nowhere has led the life of Chinese people to a new realm.
Chapter completed!