A few days later, Liu Zhiyuan brought several important developers from Hong Kong to Taiwan. This meeting about NDS was held in Taiwan.

NDS is no longer a simple handheld game console. It involves too many aspects. It is difficult to develop it by the handheld R&D department alone. ZTE and Huawei will also participate.

Of course, they are no longer called ZTE and Huawei. Although the name of the Ministry of Telecommunications and Communications of the Han Dynasty is very ordinary, this department swallowed a lot of money.

Even now, this department is the one that can spend the most money, and it is not profitable. Ren Zhengfei and others are too embarrassed to call him now. More than one billion dollars have been thrown into it without even hearing a sound.

"Sit down, Mr. Ren, why are you standing?"

Liu Zhiyuan casually found a seat in front of the conference table and sat down.

"I am ashamed of your trust, Mr. Liu. The Ministry of Communications has spent so much money but has not brought even one cent in return to the Han Dynasty."

Liu Zhiyuan smiled nonchalantly. The communications industry is an industry that invests first and returns later. Before the invested funds take effect, they are all losing money.

But once the base station is built and the satellite is connected, the speed of making money cannot be compared with selling games. In this era of scarcity of mobile phones, it cannot show its power.

When telephones and mobile phones became popular, people looked at China Netcom and others. It didn’t happen all of a sudden. The predecessor of China Netcom started investing in 1993.

This is truly a century-old project that rarely pays off in a short period of time, but that's for everyone else.

"Sit down, Mr. Ren, your Communications Department will be needed next year."

When Ren Zhengfei heard this, he quickly promised, feeling really guilty. That was more than a billion dollars, and Liu Zhiyuan gave it to him without asking.

He really doesn't know how to repay this kind of trust. Only by showing results can he feel at ease. However, the communications industry is not one that can be profitable in a short time.

"Okay, I won't say any more polite words. I know everyone is busy watching the big screen."

NDS R&D will be very difficult. Time is tight. The sooner you start, the sooner you will get results. In 1991, there were no heavyweight product launches in the home game console industry.

The only peripheral with a relatively big reputation is MD's MEGA-CD. This is a very powerful peripheral, but Liu Zhiyuan doesn't care at all.

With the sky-high price and meager game lineup, it’s hard to believe it can be sold. This is a good opportunity for the NDS to be released, and there are no strong competitors.

The only thing that may affect the NDS is that the third generation of Gremlins will be released in advance, and an NDS trailer will be announced at the press conference.

"This is the next heavyweight product of the Han Dynasty, which has not yet been named."

As soon as the big-screen NDS appeared, except for the group of people who had participated in the Gremlins generation at the beginning, everyone else subconsciously exclaimed.

This picture is really beautiful and has a sense of technology, especially the image of the electronic pen staying on the screen below. There is no one in the electronics industry who doesn't know about this, but this is the first time they have seen someone put it

This function is available on a palm-sized game console.

"Is this a new series of handheld consoles from Han Dynasty?"

Shi Chongtang looked at the NDS with admiration. Gremlins 2 is also very good-looking, but overall it is a bit too youthful, and older people like them don't like it very much.

"It's a handheld device, but not entirely."

With that said, Liu Zhiyuan changed the picture, this time it was the back of the NDS.

Everyone is a little confused. The color matching matches the overall situation, but there is nothing special about it.

"Here I designed a small switch, see another picture."

As soon as the picture was shown, everyone couldn't sit still, because in this picture the back cover of the NDS slid down, and inside were rows of numeric buttons, which were phone buttons.

Immediately afterwards, another detailed picture was shown. I saw a long antenna sticking out from the upper left corner of the NDS. It was a bit ugly, but there was nothing I could do about it. Without the antenna, the phone signal would be so bad that I would not be able to make normal calls at all.

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"This is a mobile phone!?"

Ren Zhengfei immediately understood what Liu Zhiyuan just said about the need for the Ministry of Communications next year. The satellites that cost more than one billion dollars to put into space finally have a use.

"Can it be achieved?"

No matter how good the picture is, it’s useless. People like Pixar can make better pictures than this. The real difficulty is to realize the content in the picture.

After hearing Liu Zhiyuan's question, Ren Zhengfei asked directly.

"Mr. Liu, do you have any standards?"

Liu Zhiyuan directly changed to the next picture, standards? What standards do we want in this era? He didn't even dare to touch the buttons, and he didn't even think about any intelligent system.

As long as he can make normal calls, he is afraid that he won't be able to do it. NDS seems to be a product of later generations, but in fact it is a handheld computer and a mobile phone combined into one machine. They run their own programs independently of each other.

interference.

"As long as you can play games normally and maintain basic phone calls, it doesn't matter even if the game quality is a little lower."

As soon as he finished speaking, people from Ren Zhengfei's team began to discuss in low voices.

"Mr. Liu, are you selling mobile phones as a gimmick of selling game consoles?"

Shi Chongtang saw Liu Zhiyuan's purpose immediately.

"I'm afraid this is not easy to handle. Are you going to use two sets of built-in devices? Game-compatible calls are not that easy to implement."

Liu Zhiyuan was afraid that it would be difficult to handle. It would be too wasteful to simply sell NDS as a mobile phone, and the effect would not be very good. The current mobile phone market is not very good.

At a price of nearly US$4,000, not everyone can afford it. The mobile phone market is now completely dominated by Motorola. If you want to seize it, you must have your own characteristics.

For a pure mobile phone, no matter how good-looking the NDS is, it is difficult to compete with Motorola. Without it, it is too expensive. This is not an era in which one can buy a mobile phone with one month's salary.

Even those who have a little money should seriously consider changing to a mobile phone. If they want to occupy Motorola's share, games are a very good breakthrough point.

"It's just because it's difficult that I'm asking you to discuss whether it can be realized."

Shi Chongtang looked at the parameters on the screen and thought. It is not difficult to design NDS as a handheld machine or mobile phone alone, but it is too difficult to combine them together.

“Can you accept the big changes in this new product?”

"cannot."

Liu Zhiyuan refused without hesitation. He did not understand the manufacturing and research and development of mobile phones, but he had been reading information on this aspect recently, and he knew what Shi Chongtang meant.

If you really want to do that, you are really just taping the phone and handheld together. Not to mention how ugly it is, this kind of product will be laughed at if you take it out.

Although his idea is the same, the technical content is not at the same level. The motherboards also run independently, but the power supply is shared. This alone is very difficult.

The atmosphere in the conference room fell silent. Everyone was thinking about a reasonable plan. Suddenly...

"Yes! It can be done."
Chapter completed!