Domestic high-tech companies beat former Motorola employees

Last month, Motorola's global layoffs spread to Chinese institutions, with 500 teams developed in Nanjing being laid. Mobile phone manufacturers such as Lenovo, Huawei, and HTC quickly rushed to Nanjing to "Qibao ".Chen Wenhui, vice president of Lenovo Mobile Terminal department, said at the weekend that Lenovo has recruited 40 former Moto employees and Its Nanjing R & D center will be established recently.

Chen Wenhui described these former Motorola employees as "invaluable" because most of these employees have more than eight years of work experience and there are mature researchers from various departments and positions. That is exactly the case. Lenovo's fourth mobile phone R & D center is planned to change from Wuhan to Nanjing.

According to reports, Lenovo Nanjing R & D center aims to recruit 100 people within one year. Currently, 40 people have signed contracts and the first batch of employees have started to work.

Rapid business growth: higher requirements for R & D capabilities

In the past two years, Lenovo's smartphone business has grown rapidly. After experiencing the less successful happy phone generation, Lenovo's mobile phone became a million-class model in the operator market from A60, and then launched dozens of models such as s880 and k860 this year. According to the latest market share report, Lenovo's smartphone market share in China reached 14% last month, second only to Samsung.

The rapidly growing mobile phone business also has more requirements for R & D. Chen Wenhui also introduced the changes of Lenovo's mobile business R & D team. According to reports, Lenovo currently has about 1000 people in the R & D team, and the Nanjing base is expected to exceed 1200 people next year.

The smartphone market is growing faster than PC, and Lenovo's mobile phone business is expected to grow from 6 million units last year to more than 20 million units this year, chen Wenhui concluded that the R & D capabilities of dozens of mobile phones and the promotion of market segments are the way to win.

According to reports, Lenovo's Nanjing team will be responsible for the R & D of the international mobile phone market business. The reason is that Lenovo has selected five overseas markets since this year, and developing a competitive software system and multi-language environment capability team will be the main requirement of R & D, the former Moto team has full experience in these businesses.

Product lines will be expanded to the high-end market from next year

Although Lenovo's mobile phone shipments are growing rapidly, the current business model of models of less than two thousand yuan and less than yuan has been questioned by the outside world. Chen Wenhui explained that step-by-step coverage after market segments is Lenovo's established strategy. After successful market segments, Lenovo will cover the high-end market next year, in this way, the entire smart phone market segment is competitive.

"We have been developing a mobile phone for more than half a year, and our R & D team is growing rapidly. According to the previous plan, you will be able to see our high-end product models next year ." Said Chen Wenhui.

As Lenovo's mobile phone shipments grow, Lenovo's applicationsProgramApplication downloads for the download platform happy store are also being added. Changcheng, general manager of R & D, revealed that the number of app downloads of happy store has recently exceeded 0.2 billion. Currently, the ratio of paid apps to free apps is three to seven.

Windows Phone will also be Lenovo's choice platform. However, according to Chang Cheng, Microsoft does not allow vendors to open their own app stores, lenovo's Windows Phone app store will appear in the form of Lenovo zones on Microsoft's unified platform.