Fang Chen turned his head and looked at Ma Huateng, who was deep in thought.

To be honest, he is not surprised that Ma Huateng has this kind of fear of difficulties. It can even be said that this kind of emotion is common at this time.

After more than ten years of reform and opening up, the Chinese people have opened their eyes to the world and faced the huge advantages of the outside world. On the contrary, the Chinese people are no longer so confident. It can even be said bluntly that China is now worse than in the 1960s and 1970s. When the Soviet experts withdrew, they themselves

Without data, even with an abacus, we have to develop two bombs and one satellite. This kind of world can be changed, and the ambition and firm determination of others are really inferior.

Just like Lenovo switching from technology, industry and trade to trade, industry and technology, it sounds unsatisfactory, but it is the choice of most companies at this time. There are really very few companies like Huawei that insist on independent research.

But you must know that only high technology has high profits. If Qingtian can really develop a high-speed wireless paging encoding format such as flex code, then the paging system developed by Qingtian will surely stand proudly in the world.

At the same time, those old-fashioned paging systems written with pocsag code will be defeated and thrown into the garbage heap of history.

Just like the scene when Motorola flex code came out and swept across eight methods.

And such a paging system will definitely bring huge profits and a lot of funds to Qingtian!

Investing a lot of money in scientific research and then using high technology to obtain high profits. This kind of high investment and high returns is the path that Qingtian should take.

This road is indeed difficult, but Fang Chen is fortunate that he is a Chinese, and he lives in China. Even if this road is difficult, it is still possible to walk through it.

You must know that in this world, 95% of the countries are not even qualified to take this path.

For example, in 2018, China graduates four million science and engineering students every year, while the United States graduates 400,000. If you exclude 52% of international students, such as Chinese, Indians, etc., the United States graduates only two million science and engineering students every year.

One hundred thousand, China is twenty times that of the United States. This is China's advantage, an unparalleled advantage.

Even though we have some disadvantages in quality, our huge quantitative advantage can not only make up for the quality disadvantage, but even far surpass it.

This is the secret why China's manufacturing output value accounts for one-third of the world's total, which is the combined manufacturing output value of the three world's largest manufacturing powers: the United States, Japan, and Germany.

Of course, there is still a huge gap between us and these countries in the number of top scientists. In some disciplines, if we were to rank among the top ten scientists in the world, China might not even be able to rank among the top ten.

But if we rank in the top 1,000 or 10,000, the proportion of Chinese people will be the highest in the world, absolutely number one in the world, and we have the most scientists and engineers in the world.

"I will go back immediately to organize my efforts to write a new high-speed wireless paging encoding format. If I can't do it, you will fire me." Ma Huateng gritted his teeth and said desperately.

To be honest, he really didn't want to write any wireless paging encoding format. Could this kind of thing be done by a twenty-two-year-old who had not yet graduated from college?

But what if he doesn’t do it? Mr. Fang has already said that he is not suitable for Qingtian!

If he agrees now, even if he can't do it, at least he can delay his death for a while. If he doesn't agree, he will die immediately.

To be honest, he really couldn't bear to part with Qingtian now, not just the 200,000 yuan annual salary Qingtian gave him in one year, or the one million annual salary that he would get in the next two or three years, but also the entire wireless industry.

paging system.

The wireless paging system was created with his hard work. He started writing the wireless paging system software since his sophomore year in college, and in the past few months, he worked hard at Qingtian, working tirelessly and forgetting to eat and sleep.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current wireless paging system is his biological son.

And he couldn't bear to part with his current team. To be honest, since he was a child, except for his excellent grades, he was actually an ordinary person. It was only after he came to Qingtian that he experienced what it was like to be a leader.

, and after leaving Qingtian, I am afraid there will no longer be a company that values ​​him so much, and he will most likely be able to work from the bottom level.

As the saying goes, a man cannot lose power for a day. He has already become a leader, and has a great chance of becoming the vice president or above of the company, with an annual salary of one million. How could he be willing to give up?

"Maybe we can't do it even if we try hard, but if we give up without even trying, we will regret it for the rest of our lives." Fang Chen said slowly.

Ma Huateng nodded heavily.

"In addition, it doesn't mean that you have to use your two or three kittens and thirty or forty researchers to study it. You can entrust the project to domestic or even foreign universities or communications research institutes, and entrust a few more

It's not impossible. Let's work together to develop this new generation of wireless paging coding. It's just a matter of spending more money. I lack everything, but I really don't lack money." Fang Chen said calmly.

After hearing what Fang Chen said, Ma Huateng breathed a sigh of relief. After being enlightened by Fang Chen's words, he was more confident. If he could mobilize the research power of universities and research institutes at home and abroad to write wireless paging codes,

It's really not something more difficult than climbing to the sky. There is still a glimmer of hope.

"With a boss like you, I promise to complete the task." Ma Huateng said half as a compliment and half as an expression of determination.

Hearing this, Fang Chen helplessly rubbed his forehead and looked at Ma Huateng. He was still too young and too raw. His flattery was really dry and numb, not round at all and a bit rough.

Got it!

Ma Huateng seemed to realize that he didn't flatter him well, and Ma Huateng's face instantly turned red.

However, what he said was true. Who is not short of money these days? There are not many people in China who can say that the most important thing they need is money, like Fang Chen.

"Okay, stop flattering and work more. I'm waiting for the day when you get your results. Then I will celebrate your success. Red envelopes and other things will definitely start at five digits. There is another point. Didn't I tell you just now?

Do you want to make the pager bigger? Just use the current size and make the pager one size larger." Fang Chen pointed at the pager and said.

"Then the screen is enlarged a little more, and it can only display two lines, which is not even the same size as the screen. Isn't this disgusting? Moreover, as soon as our text message function is launched, there are only eight characters in one line, and it still takes more to read a text message.

Turning several pages is exhausting. The screen must be larger, at least 2.5 or larger."

For people like Fang Chen who are used to mobile phone screens that are at least 5.5, the slightly larger screens of pagers and mobile phones are really uncomfortable and they are not used to it at all.

After hearing this, Ma Huateng did a quick calculation in his mind, and then said with embarrassment: "Isn't 2.5 too big? If calculated based on the length of 50 millimeters, the width is basically 40 millimeters. If

If the screen is used as the standard, the resulting pager will be as big as a giant Mac, about the size of a palm."

Fang Chen roughly imagined it, and it was indeed a bit big. You must know that the feature phone that everyone is familiar with is the Nokia 5300. This music phone released in 2006 is the first mobile phone for many young people. Its screen is only 2

That's all.

But 2 will not work, because the screen of the pager is longer than that of the 5300. If calculated based on the length of 50 millimeters, the width of the screen is basically no more, only six millimeters.

"Let's say 2.2. In this case, the width can still be 25 mm. The aspect ratio of 2:1 looks good. In addition, you have to find a way to increase the screen-to-body ratio, otherwise the whole pager will look too bulky.

"Fang Chen said.

"Screen-to-body ratio?" Ma Huateng asked in surprise, what the hell is this? How come he has never heard of it.

"This is a word I invented, which refers to the proportion of the screen occupying the entire machine. The screen-to-body ratio of your current pager is basically around 50%. You have to find a way to increase it to more than 65%." Fang Chen looked confused.

Hong said breathlessly.

In later generations, the word screen-to-body ratio is naturally familiar to everyone. Mobile phone manufacturers have also been pursuing a higher screen-to-body ratio in an attempt to reduce those big chins, big foreheads, and big black borders. They have even developed products for this purpose.

It has a punch-hole screen, a pop-up camera and other technologies.

These are all designed to give users a larger screen while retaining a smaller body.

Hearing this, Ma Huateng suddenly felt his scalp numb. For Fang Chen, this was just a matter of words, but for him, it meant that not only the screen had to be changed, but the casing, buttons, motherboard and wiring inside also needed to be reworked.

Design, crazy, really crazy.

"In addition, in terms of color, you can also add more colors. It is best to use metallic paint that is reflective, or you can directly make the shell into metal, but it should be thinner and not too thick.

Otherwise, it will be too heavy." Fang Chen said.

In fact, pagers also have chains of contempt. Chinese displays despise digital displays, and Motorola Han displays despise other Chinese displays.

And standing at the top of all pagers is the Motorola Han Display color pager, which comes in green, red, gold, blue, and other colors. It also reflects light under the sun, so you can see it at a glance from any distance.

Ma Huateng couldn't help but squint his eyes. He roughly imagined that a pager with a 2.2-inch screen, which was larger than other pagers, had a shiny metal shell, and could transmit a seventy-word message. It was indeed very tempting.

When you walk on the street, let alone Doraemon, he is definitely the most handsome guy on the street!

However, he suddenly realized a problem and couldn't help but ask: "Why do you want to limit it to 70 words?"

As soon as these words came out, Fang Chen couldn't help but froze, blinked his eyes, and was speechless for a few seconds. The reason why he said 70 words was just because the maximum number of text messages he could send at one time in his previous life was 70 words.

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After pondering for a while, Fang Chen said: "Actually, use a typewriter to simulate it. Most of the daily content is within 70 words. If the content cannot be finished in 70 words, there is a high probability that it cannot be solved by text messages.

, and the most important thing is, I'm afraid that the encoding method you developed is not fast enough to send too many words at once."

What Fang Chen said is true, but the person who said it is not Fang Chen, but the inventor of text messaging.

Based on experiments, the inventor of text messages found that most content can be said in 140 characters, and one Chinese character is equal to two English characters, so the upper limit of a text message is 70 characters.

It is precisely because of this that countries such as Eastern Japan and South Korea, which also use square characters, have a maximum text message limit of 70 characters.

However, the number 140 has also been inherited by Weibo and Twitter. However, Weibo has since changed to allow long Weibo posts, but Twitter has always maintained the number at 140 characters. The inertia of history is so subtle.

Let’s talk about a very interesting historical inertia. The width of the British narrow gauge railway is 4.85 feet. This size is exactly the same as the width of the previous tram track. However, this size was not invented by the tram, but inherited from the previous four-wheeled track.

The width of the carriage's wheels.

The four-wheeled carriage inherited the ancient Roman chariot. As for the width of the ancient Roman chariot, it was determined by the width of the buttocks of two horses side by side.

It has lasted for more than a thousand years, from ancient Rome to modern times, and four or five types of means of transportation have been replaced, but the one size setting has always remained unchanged.

Ma Huateng nodded angrily. The co-author was limited to 70 characters because he was incompetent and could not invent a higher-speed encoding method.

This is really a man sitting at home while the pot comes from heaven.

"In addition, the accumulation of this kind of technology will be beneficial for us to develop 2g base stations and set 2g standards in the future, so we must do it at all costs." Fang Chen said seriously.

Historically, when SMS was first developed in December of this year, it was not easy to use because it used point-to-point logic at the beginning. It was not fully mature until 1994.

And if the SMS solution developed by Qingtian is more mature, it will become Qingtian's unique skill.

But when he thought about the popularization speed of 2G in China, Fang Chen couldn't help but sigh, forget it, let's play with the switch first.

Next, Fang Chen was too lazy to say anything more and started his career again, leaving Ma Huateng to wait for Wu Maocai to register a paging number and come back.

After Wu Maocai came back, he called the paging station several times and found that there was indeed no problem.

After finishing dinner with Fang Chen, Ma Huateng walked out of the restaurant a little tired. Today was really a big test for him. When Fang Chen mentioned these requirements, he almost completely overturned all his previous efforts.
To be continued...