I'm back in 1990

Chapter 906: Wi-Fi

After saying a few words, Zhang Gaolei left again. Men are naturally very interested in new electronic products, especially mobile phones. Yu Wei had already opened the box and was fiddling with and studying the phone.

However, after fiddling with it for a long time, he still couldn't figure out how to remove the back cover of the phone.

"Holy crap, what kind of phone is this? The back cover can't be opened at all, how am I supposed to put in a SIM card?"

Huang Xiaochuan knew what Yu Wei wanted to do. Nowadays, most people still use the kind of mobile phones where the battery can be removed for charging, and the SIM card can only be inserted by removing the back cover. However, they are old revolutionaries encountering new problems. This kind of mobile phone has completely subverted many of the existing mobile phone usage habits, and the non-removable battery is one of them.

"Give it to me!" Huang Xiaochuan reached out and took the phone from Yu Wei's hand.

He then added, "Take your SIM card out and give it to me."

Yu Wei did as instructed, while everyone else watched.

Huang Xiaochuan skillfully opened the SIM card slot, inserted the SIM card, turned on the phone, switched the language to Traditional Chinese, tried it out, and then returned the phone to Yu Wei.

"Wow, so this is where the SIM card is supposed to be stored!" Yu Wei found it very strange, because this completely overturned the original way of storing SIM cards.

"This is a new phone from Apple. Zhang Gaolei's own is the original version, but the ones he gave you are the Hong Kong version. Since it's not yet available for sale in mainland China, you can use these to familiarize yourselves with it. However, you can only use it as a regular phone for now. Once the domestic communication base stations are connected to Wi-Fi and the network speed is improved, this phone will be able to connect to the wireless network and be used." Huang Xiaochuan explained it to the group briefly.

Upon seeing this phone, Huang Xiaochuan couldn't help but think of "profound". Since Sun Microsystems held a press conference last April, several world-renowned mobile phone manufacturers and telecommunications companies have signed cooperation agreements with Sun Microsystems, obtaining the technical support and free authorization of some functions promised by Sun Microsystems.

So last summer, a relatively advanced wireless network system was installed throughout the entire Guangda Real Estate Building and Huang Xiaochuan's home, allowing people in the building with wireless devices to use the network.

The purpose of installing this equipment was to allow Huang Xiaochuan to use test units sent by several mobile phone manufacturers. These test units were equipped with the "Deep" mobile phone system. Without Wi-Fi, these phones could not perform to their full potential, even though they had already met the design requirements in the laboratories of each manufacturer.

Actually, Wi-Fi technology existed as early as the late 1990s, but due to some technical reasons, it was not permitted to be used in China Mobile's communications sector before 2009.

The main reason is the compatibility dispute between China's own encryption standard and the international Wi-Fi standard. However, this technical problem will be resolved soon. At the latest, by next year, that is, 2009, the restrictions on Wi-Fi will be gradually lifted. At that time, Chinese versions of official mobile phones, including Apple products, will fully dominate the market.

Before the fruit phone appeared, there was a business communication device that briefly appeared on the market, but its touchscreen technology was not yet perfect and could not be compared with the touchscreen function of the fruit phone in Yu Wei's hand.

Therefore, certain features of this phone immediately attracted Yu Wei, and several small games were already installed on it, making him unable to put the phone down. Seeing this, the others followed Huang Xiaochuan's example, removing their SIM cards from their old phones and inserting them into the new ones, and began to examine it as well.

This is the appeal of electronic products to users.

By the time Huang Xiaochuan got home, it was already 9:30 p.m.

Yu Xiang was practicing yoga alone on the first floor when she saw the man return. She asked, "How was it? How much did you drink?"

Huang Xiaochuan first instructed the housekeeper to make him a bowl of hangover soup before responding to Yu Xiang's words: "It's okay, I didn't drink too much. I'll take a shower first and then come down for the soup."

Yu Xiang glanced at the man, who seemed to be in good condition, so she stopped talking and focused on continuing her yoga practice.

After Huang Xiaochuan finished showering and changing his clothes, Yu Xiang also finished her practice and called it a day.

Huang Xiaochuan sat down in the restaurant. The hangover soup was ready, and he picked up the bowl and sipped it slowly. The hangover soup his housekeeper made was actually a hot and sour soup, with a little more vinegar and pepper. After finishing a small bowl of the hangover soup, Huang Xiaochuan broke out in a sweat.

"Feels good!" After drinking it, Huang Xiaochuan felt refreshed all over.

Yu Xiang then sat down next to him.

"You guys didn't drink too much last night, did you?"

"You guys didn't drink too much last night, did you?"

Huang Xiaochuan patted his stomach contentedly: "We're all friends here, and there was no drinking contest. We finished once everyone had drunk their fill."

Yu Xiang rolled her eyes at the man upon hearing this, but she also knew the drinking capacity of these people. Her own younger brother, Yu Wei, was a given, having been trained by his father since childhood and inheriting the Yu family's gene for drinking. As for her brother-in-law, Yue Zhiyuan, she knew him well; although not as good as Yu Wei, he was on par with her husband. The same went for Shi Lei.

The next day, after Huang Xiaochuan got up, he drew back the curtains and, just as the weather forecast had predicted, it snowed again. It probably started around midnight. The snow in the yard that was already there had thickened, and the sky was overcast with large flakes of snow falling straight down.

There were already footprints on the ground. Huang Xiaochuan checked the time; it was almost eight o'clock. The little girl must be outside. He stood by the window and looked around. Sure enough, the little girl was bending over, pushing a snowball on the grass. The snowball was quite big, about the same size as the yoga ball Yu Xiang used when she practiced yoga. The little girl was pushing it with great effort, while the ugly monster ran around her happily.

Needless to say, the little girl is building a snowman.

After washing up, Huang Xiaochuan passed by his son's room on his way downstairs and knocked on the door. There was no response. He pushed the door open and looked inside, but the boy wasn't there. He guessed the boy had gone to the yard. After all, he was still a child, and playing was in his nature.

Upon reaching the first floor, Huang Xiaochuan glanced outside and saw that Huang Zeji had already met up with his sister, and the two siblings were working together to push the large snowball.

After watching for a while, Huang Xiaochuan turned around and went to get something to eat. He had been so busy drinking and chatting last night that he hadn't eaten much, and now his stomach was starting to protest.

When the nanny saw him come downstairs, she put breakfast on the table.

Not seeing Yu Xiang, he asked, "Sister Wu, where is Dr. Yu?"

The nanny replied, "Dr. Yu went to the hospital to deliver breakfast."

Huang Xiaochuan then remembered that his father-in-law was still in the hospital, and since his home was nearby, he naturally took care of delivering all the meals. Moreover, Yu Xiang believed that home-cooked meals were always better than hospital meals, and it wasn't like they couldn't afford it.