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Chapter 79 Portable Mobile Phones

Have lunch near Central Park.

Following the boy's request, I went straight to Fifth Avenue. There were not many people at this time. It was easy for white-collar workers to come home from get off work and find a parking space.

In the early 19th century, the first wealthy New Yorkers chose their homes here. At that time, it was just a country trail. Today it is already a commercial center, residential center, cultural center, shopping center and tourist center of New York.

Few streets can take on so many well-equipped and popular shops like Fifth Avenue.

Walking on Fifth Avenue, men in suits and ties can be seen everywhere, and girls in the most fashionable fashions, holding briefcases to enter and exit the tall buildings, presenting an elegant picture of modern American life.

After more than a hundred years of experience, Fifth Avenue has always stood at the top. There is no reason for people to doubt whether Fifth Avenue can continue to maintain its glory for a century.

Two elders followed Han Xuan and visited Fifth Avenue. No matter where they went, they would look up inadvertently and see tall figures of the Empire State Building at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street.

It was designed on March 1, 1930 and built in 410 days. The building is 381 meters high and has a total of 101 floors. It is a typical Gothic building with a gradually tilting and shrinking on the top. A high TV tower extends out from it, like an enlarged pencil, called a "pencil-shaped" building.

Walking and looking, walking for hundreds of meters, we found a place to sell electrical appliances at home.

The first floor looks more than 200 square meters, and the decoration is very classic. The boy thought he had entered the cafe. The employees inside were all wearing black uniforms and gathered to eat together. The small box was filled with Western Chinese food, and the chopsticks were used in a very good manner.

His eyes skipped over the refrigerator and TV and looked directly at the Motorola counter, which contained several "lightweight" mobile phones.

In 1973, Motorola launched its first portable cellular phone prototype, which approved Motorola's world's first commercial handheld phone DynaTAC8000X in 1983.

The phone weighs up to 794 grams and is officially released in the second year. It has a battery life of 10 hours. It can talk continuously for 30 minutes. It can also save the last 30 call records, and the price is as high as US$3,995.

Now in the United States, Motorola accounts for 60% of the mobile phone market, and sold more than 10 million units in total last year, which is already a very good sales volume. In the future, Apple iPhones can exceed tens of millions in just one weekend, easily surpassing it.

There was no one by the counter, there were many models on it, but they all looked the same. I guess even the clerk couldn't tell it out if they were thrown together.

A white girl in her twenties put down her chopsticks and walked over. Her face was sweet and her nose had freckles. She asked, "My name is Brittany. Sir, what do you need?"

"It's not us, it's him." Guo Muzhou said, patting his grandson and putting his hands on his shoulder.

Brittany often encounters this kind of thing, looking at the boy: "Which one do you like? It's very complete."

The headache was distressed, not that Han Xuan wanted to buy these bricks, but that there was something to sell to him and threw the problem back: "What do you think?"

"How about this? MicroTAC, which was released in 1989, has now re-launched a dual-template version that is compatible with G** (global mobile communication system) and TDMA (time division multiple access). The call quality is very good, and it is the best sold here." Brittany picked up a mobile phone and handed it to the boy.

After weighing it for a few minutes, it didn't seem very heavy. Then I heard her speak: "This one adopts the latest flip design, which is 9 inches long and weighs only 349 grams. Do you like it? Otherwise, go and check out IBM's new products?"

"It's okay if you can't go anywhere, let's get the smart phone out sooner or later." Han Xuan said silently and accepted the fact: "Okay, okay, that's it, where's the number?"

"Please wait, I'll show it to you." Brittany bent down and searched for a while, handed him a notebook, which was densely packed with eleven numbers.

The first one is the US national code "1", the last three digits are the New York area code "212", and the last seven digits are the user number.

I looked at each one carefully and found that there were many of them that were easy to remember, and they were crossed out with pencils, and I guess they were chosen to leave.

Mr. Han went to the bathroom. Seeing that his grandson had not yet chosen it, he asked Brittany, "What are the special numbers?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a piece of paper was handed to the boy.

Now it's much easier to choose.

After swiping the card, the old man looked at the bill and cursed: "The mobile phone is only more than one thousand dollars, and the number was spent nearly 20,000 yuan first."

"It's considered an investment, like an antique, it will appreciate in the future."

Back to Manhattan's Upper West Side.

When you put the antiques on the shelf, there are still a few vacant places, and nearly a hundred places are full. Regardless of the quality, it looks very shocking at least.

The boy took off his shoes and curled up on the sofa. If he was at home, Fat Ding or McDull would come to him at this time. He had just left for a few days and missed them a little.

He trotted barefootly to the kitchen and unplugged the charger, groped for a while, picked up his phone and pressed the numeric keys to dial out.

...

The Snow Mountain Ranch welcomes a group of new cattle and sheep. Recently, it is adapting to the environment here and seems to be pretty good.

Fat Ding waited for Joanna to feed her, and lazily lay on the corridor to bask in the sun.

Winnie refused to leave, and stayed here to cheat and drink. There was a good life, but to go to Flathead Forest Park to endure hardships and be a bear fool?

McDull led the grass-milled horses to live a life of a king on the mountain. Sometimes he didn't go home at night and his master was not here, so no one could cure them.

Two chinchillas tried to love before marriage and hid in their cabin. The picture should not be suitable for children, so they jumped directly into the Johnny Turtle in the pool.

...It was lying on its slump, and it was not moving anyway.

Han’s father put on long leather boots and planned to go to the denim to help. Guo’s mother cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks. There were only two simple dishes. Her son was not at home, so she just ordered it.

The phone rang, and the two of them paused in a neat manner and ran to the table one after another.

"This is the Snow Mountain Ranch, who are you?"

Hearing his mother's familiar voice, Han Xuan smiled and said, "Mom, I bought my phone."

"You dead child! It's been a few days, why are you just calling now?"

The father heard a loud voice, and the boy quietly put his cell phone away: "I called you as soon as I bought it, record the phone number, 121222222222."

"...No need to remember, how about you outside? Still in New York?"

"Yeah, I'll go to Rhode Island tomorrow, and my grandfather and grandpa are here. Do you want to talk to them?"

"Take good care of yourself..."

The line was disconnected before he finished speaking.

After all, it is an old antique, what can you blame it?

Han Xuan shrugged, took off the battery and continued to charge, walked to the side of the sofa coffee table, and dialed it over again.

"Meow!"

"hi~fat."
Chapter completed!
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