On January 8, 2011, the global first high-tech electronic product integrating notebook, mobile phone and GPS into one – xpPhone was put into production in High-tech Development Zone, Yiyang. With completely independent intellectual property rights, this national mobile Internet terminal product will start from Yiyang and demonstrate the wonderfulness that China’s “small company with core technology” challenges and defeats the large international companies.
Since 2004, many companies in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have begun the research and development for the integration of mobile phone and notebook, including Samsung, SHARP, HTC Dopod, etc; however, they all failed. After 3 years of research and development, the R & D personnel of Hunan xpPhone Computer Technology Co., Ltd. take the new technology route and successfully develop xpPhone. With custom motherboard, 3G module, operating system and application software, it has obtained 14 global leading patented technologies, such as “wake-up from standby mode”. Integrating the functions of mobile phone and notebook, xpPhone runs the XP system and supports access to Outlook address book and the global three major 3G standards. Although its size is about that of an adult’s palm, it has very powerful functions, supporting a variety of communication standards worldwide and QQ/MSN/Skype free video calls, runs hundreds of millions of software for work, life, entertainment and study, and supporting all securities, futures and foreign exchange software, GPS real-time traffic and all Internet banking services and third-party payment platforms. Its battery life lasts 7 hours, its continuous talk time is up to 5 hours, and its standby time reaches 5 days. Executive Director Wu Huian introduced that the company invested RMB 0.35 billion in building the 1,500-mu Yiyang New Base and made considerable investment and planning for R & D and innovation. One large-scale international ORT laboratory and three R & D centers will shoulder the important task for xpPhone to win in the innovation competition of smartphones.
Xu Yunbo, Member of the Standing Committee of CPC Committee of Yiyang and Director of Publicity Department of CPC Yiyang Municipal Committee, said that the municipal party committee and municipal government will continue supporting the high-tech companies for their leap-forward development, such as xpPhone, through various special funds. |
