"What is a mobile phone?" The moment the live broadcast started, a huge picture was projected on the main stage of the press conference, like a screen in a movie theater.
Mobile phone press conference, high-end promotional video concept film first!
This was the conclusion Boss Jia came to after watching the press conferences of various mobile phone brands such as Xiaomi, Apple, Huawei, and so on. Therefore, Boss Jia spent a lot of money, a total of one million US dollars, to produce this TV promotional video with a production company in the United States and a special effects animation studio.
Therefore, the first thing the audience saw was the projection of the promotional video, while the audience in front of the TV started to watch it directly.
"The telephone has been evolving for 100 years!" A brisk but sexy male voice introduced in the promotional video.
"In 1876, with the efforts of Mr. Bell, the world's first telephone was born!" Bale and the phone he developed appeared on the screen. However, it wasn't just a simple picture. It was a middle-aged man with a full beard and blonde hair. He was talking to a huge phone and conducting an experiment.
At this time, Bell was carrying out the final experiment. Just as he was about to put his ear to the speaker and was about to speak, his arm accidentally touched a bottle of sulfuric acid. Half a bottle of sulfuric acid hit Bell's left leg. In great pain, Bell shouted, "Mr. Watson, come and help me!"
Mr. Watson, who was on the other end of the phone, heard this sentence clearly. He hurried to Bell's room and helped him clean his wound. At the same time, this sentence became the first sentence to be spread through the telephone all over the world.
The following promotional video was basically about the history of the phone's development. It listed out all the important points of the phone's development. At the same time, just like Bell's video, every important point was accompanied by a short video.
Although this led to the introduction of the history of the telephone's development to take 15 minutes, because each short video was very well shot, very delicate, and full of drama and fun, the audience watched it with great interest. There was nothing boring in the promotional video.
"As early as 1976, the first mobile phone was born, but even now, we still need to use it like this!" With the end of the explanation, it was time for the short video. Then, we saw a man talking on the phone, constantly making loud noises, but we couldn't hear the other person's voice.
"Hey, the signal here is not good. Let me climb higher!" After saying that, the caller stood on the table.
"No, I still can't hear clearly here. Let me climb higher!" Then, the man tried to climb to the roof of a nearby building, but unfortunately, he still couldn't hear clearly.
Then, this person climbed from the top of a tree to the roof of a three-story building next to it. Then, he climbed to the roof of a seven-story building. Then, he climbed to the glass wall of a 20-story building. Then, he climbed to a helicopter, and then a supersonic fighter jet. Finally, this person stood on a satellite in space and found that the mobile phone was completely silent.
"Hahahaha!" When the audience saw this short video, they couldn't help but start to laugh wildly.
However, after laughing, many of the audience members could not help but sigh. This was because this was their daily experience of using a mobile phone. As the mobile phone's signal was not good, they had no choice but to speak loudly in all sorts of ways. They had to lift the mobile phone up high in all sorts of ways. Sometimes, they really had to climb onto a table or the roof to talk. This was a somewhat exaggerated short video of the embarrassing scenes of using a mobile phone on a daily basis.
"Now, it's finally time for the mobile phone to evolve again!" The voice in the video said loudly, "The mobile phone should always evolve in the direction of smaller, clearer calls, more stable sound, and more battery power."
"So, we need the mobile phone, which is the cellphone, to be smaller!" After that, the mobile phone in the video shrank by half.
"A little smaller!" Then, the mobile phone shrank by half again.
"A little smaller, so small that one can hold it completely with one hand." Then, the mobile phone shrank by half again.
"Well, this is not enough. We need to change its call mode to make its voice more stable. Maybe CDMA is a better choice!" Then, countless electronic parts in the small mobile phone flew out, and then other electronic parts flew in. It was equivalent to the internal system being completely updated.
"Oh, I also need more stable and continuous power. Maybe a rechargeable lithium battery is a better choice!" Then, the huge dry battery that the mobile phone carried flew out and was replaced with a smaller lithium battery.
"Oh, this screen is a little too small. We need the screen to be bigger." Then, the mobile phone's screen was enlarged by half again.
"It's not enough to only display the dialing numbers. I think it should be able to display more things!" Then, English and Chinese characters appeared on the screen, and even the time display.
"Oh, I think it should be more beautiful in the end, like the ancient jade of Hua Xia!" Then, in the end, the mobile phone's appearance was completely changed. The ugly black hard plastic shell turned into a piece of white jade-like … plastic … Well, it was plastic that looked like white jade.
At this moment, whether it was the guests at the scene or the audience around the world, they were all shocked to see the transformation of the mobile phone on the TV. They watched as the ugly mobile phone turned into a small and exquisite Daqian cellphone that looked like white jade.
"Okay, that's more like it!" The voice in the video laughed and said, "But I think at this time, 'cellphone' is no longer appropriate to describe this little cutie. Let me think, 'handset' might be a better name!!"
During the live broadcast, the Daqian deliberately made two versions of the video. The one that was shown to the domestic audience was naturally the Chinese version, while the one that the foreign audience saw on TV was the English version.
So, everyone saw the two words "cellphone" and "handset" respectively.
The word "handset" originally meant a telephone handset, but Boss Jia used it as a special word for cellphone. This was also the first time that handset, as an English word for cellphone, appeared on a global occasion.
Later, as the Daqian cellphone continued to use this word to describe this small cellphone, handset gradually became the word for cellphone.
This was also the first time in history that a Hua Xia person invented the most commonly used English word. At first, no one found any problems with it. It was not until a few years later that a professor in the United States wrote a paper on the word "handset". Then, the world was surprised to find that the English word for cellphone, which would become the most important electronic device in the world in the future, was actually invented by a Hua Xia person.
This made the entire Western world extremely jealous. Some people even proposed to change the word for the mobile phone. However, the problem was that after seven or eight years, everyone was already used to using the word "handset" to describe the mobile phone. There was no way to change the word.
And when this news spread to the country, Boss Jia became the hero of Hua Xia. There was even a college entrance examination that used the English word invented by Boss Jia as a national college entrance examination question for reading comprehension. This was something that Boss Jia never expected.
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