The text messaging function was a function introduced in 1992. An engineer sent an English word to a mobile phone through a computer and achieved the world's first text message.
Yes, this engineer was from Motorola.
After that, mobile phones with the text messaging function also appeared. Both Motorola and Nokia had it, but the whole development process was not very smooth.
First of all, sending text messages required a special text messaging service center. Receiving and sending text messages required special equipment. The previous base station did not have the ability to send text messages at all. This caused the text messaging function to be unusable.
However, with the promotion of GSM technology, the text messaging function was promoted along with the GSM base station. The GSM base station could accept and send text messages, but a new problem appeared. That was the problem of the text messaging service center's ability limitation.
Text messages were not sent with the phone signal. The text message would first go to a special text messaging service center. After being converted by the service center's equipment, it could be sent to the other party's mobile phone.
However, the initial text messaging service center's processing speed was very slow. A text messaging service center worth two million USD with 20 typists could only process 10 text messages per second. This processing speed was completely insufficient.
In addition, text messaging on mobile phones had a fatal shortcoming. At present, text messages could not be sent through the mobile phone.
If a user wanted to send a text message, he needed to call the text messaging service center first and say the content of his message. Then, the text messaging service center would enter the message through the computer into the equipment. Finally, it would be forwarded to the mobile phone.
Simply put, this was not the text messaging function, but the function of a pager.
The reason why mobile phones could not input text by themselves was the core problem of the input method.
It was not that mobile phone manufacturers could not design an input method, but that they could not install it on the mobile phone.
After all, a language involved a large number of words, and an input method required all these words to be included in the database. This was bound to form a huge database.
At least a dozen megabytes. The mobile phone capacity at that time was only a few hundred kilobytes. It was impossible to accommodate such a huge database.
More importantly, the industry did not pay much attention to text messages. They felt that if something could be called, why would they use text messages? Was it not troublesome to type?
Therefore, text messaging developed very quickly. Many of the latest mobile phones did not even have the text messaging function. After all, if you wanted the text messaging function, you had to add an input function to the mobile phone.
But now, according to Boss Jia, their Daqian 3 phone would completely change the status quo of mobile phone messaging.
First of all, the Daqian 3 mobile phone had the ability to send up to 99 characters of text message processing.
Secondly, the Daqian had developed input methods for 12 major national languages, including Chinese. This allowed all users to easily type all the words of a country with just a dozen buttons on their mobile phones.
Although the speed of typing would be much slower than a computer, it was indeed possible to type everything out.
And all Daqian 3 mobile phones will have two different input methods at the same time, Chinese input method and English input method. In addition, according to different countries, the mobile phones sold will also have the text input method of the region where they are sold.
Of course, there were many languages and scripts in the world that were not within the scope of these 12 countries, but the population of those countries was very small. The Daqian did not have to specially develop the corresponding input method. They just had to make do with the English input method.
This problem was solved on the mobile phone side. Secondly, on the interactive side. First of all, the CDMA base station jointly launched by the Daqian and Huawei had an efficient text message processing ability, which could greatly reduce the processing requirements of the service center.
Secondly, because there was no need to manually input text in the service center, and the new text message service center launched by Huawei had improved the processing ability, it could increase the processing speed of text messages by 10 times, from 100 text messages per second to 1,000 text messages per second. In this way, 8.64 million text messages could be processed every day.
It was enough for a city to have such a text message processing center.
Boss Jia excitedly described the breakthrough of the text messaging function to all the customers on the stage, but the audience was not as enthusiastic as before. Some people even showed disdain.
The reason was very clear before, that was, the text messaging function was generally not favored in the industry. There were phones, and things could be explained by phone calls. Why bother typing?
Moreover, text messaging on mobile phones was even more unreliable than before. In the past, users only needed to speak, and the service staff would convert the text into text and send it, which was relatively simple.
Now, users had to type themselves to send text messages, which was even more inhumane. How could it be welcomed by users?
Therefore, the customers in the audience were very disdainful of this service, expressing that they were not optimistic.
And Boss Jia did not care. Anyway, the facts in the future would prove how important text messaging was to a mobile phone. After all, even in the future 5G era, you would still need to send text messages to send verification codes.
"Finally, I believe that everyone is very much looking forward to the price of our Daqian 3 mobile phone!" Boss Jia smiled slightly, and the audience could not help but quiet down.
Although the text messaging function was a bit crappy and was not a good function, the previous functions were powerful enough. So, what price would the Daqian 3 mobile phone be sold at this time?
Would it continue to be the previous price of 1,199 USD?
That made everyone look forward to it.
"This time, our Daqian 3 mobile phone will be sold in two different versions!" Boss Jia opened his mouth and said something that surprised the audience.
"The two versions are the Daqian 3 and the Daqian 3 mini."
"The Daqian 3 mobile phone is just like the one I just introduced. It has all the functions, and the price is 999 USD!" Boss Jia paused and saw the surprised eyes of the audience. He then smiled and said, "The Daqian 3 mini is slightly smaller in size, and it does not have the TF card expansion function. The screen will also be maintained at the level of the Daqian 2, and it will not be able to run higher-performance games. However, it has the text messaging function and all the other new functions, and the price is 799 USD!"
"What!" This time, everyone, including those who were hiding in front of the TV and watching the live broadcast, was shocked.
Daqian's latest mobile phone was 200 USD lower than the previous launch price, and they even had a mini, which directly reduced the price of the mobile phone to 800 USD!
Although compared to the Daqian 3, the mini lacked the TF card expansion function and could not play higher-performance games, this did not affect non-gamers at all. The mini had all the latest functions that other brands' flagship mobile phones had.
Coupled with the price of 799 USD, this was going to be completely crazy!
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