Seven Happiness Cell Phone History

This is not the one that sells sodas.

Seven-Up, which sells sodas, was a competitor of Coca-Cola in the 1980s, and was then bought by Coca-Cola's old rival PepsiCo for all territories outside the United States.

Seven Happiness phone sounds very young, but the time to do cell phones than millet, Meizu are earlier, but did not survive to the present, became one of the many by the netizen nostalgia.

The founder of Seven Happiness cell phone, called Yi Xianzhong, born in 1959 in Haokou Town, Qianjiang City, Hubei Province, graduated from Haokou High School. 1978 was admitted to the South China University of Technology, majoring in radio. After graduation, he was assigned to a state-owned enterprise in Baiyunshan, Guangzhou, where he worked on electronic technology.

Yi Xianzhong worked in the state-owned enterprises for nearly a decade, and his wife is a colleague, in the early 1990s, the husband and wife's combined salary is less than 700 yuan. The company was not attracted by the tide of business to start a business, but was forced to make ends meet.

In early 1991, Yi Xianzhong daughter suffered from a brain disease, treatment costs a lot of money, the state-owned enterprises reimbursement procedures are very cumbersome, he found it difficult to count on, look at other people's faces self-esteem and hurt, Yi Xianzhong decided to make money in the business, to give their own goal is to earn 10,000 yuan a year.

July 16, 1991, Yi Xianzhong started business, just as Guangzhou Yanjiang Road, Nanfang Mansion closure renovation, the need for energy-saving electronic ballasts. Polytechnic graduate Yi Xianzhong smelled the opportunity, others offer 30 yuan, he reported 27 yuan, and successfully received the Southern Building 500 orders.

In order to get together more than 5,000 yuan of production materials, Yi Xianzhong in Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan City, to find a sale of electronic raw materials to the boss, begging the boss to credit to their own, to ensure that the repayment of three days later.

Yi Xianzhong with raw materials in their own one-room home dry open, two overnight to complete the production of 500 electronic ballasts, on schedule to the delivery of the South Building, the success of the money back. This business, Yi Xianzhong three days earned 8,000 yuan, nearly his year's salary.

The leaders of the original unit of knowledge of the easy, invited him back to take the enterprise to turn losses into wins, but the state-owned enterprises many times have nothing to do with the ability, Yi Xianzhong vomited blood and accumulated illness, experienced the complexity of the state-owned enterprises, determined to leave.

Yi Xianzhong, who went back to the sea, has a large electronic ballast factory in Panyu, Guangzhou, on the other hand, began to do foreign IT brand agents, the more they do more and more.

In August 1997, Yi Xianzhong founded Seven Happiness Computer Co., Ltd. in Guangzhou City, launching the "HEDY" computer, meaning Happy Every Day, early Seven Happiness Computer, is a set of parts suppliers, agents, sellers, manufacturers.

In 2000, HEDY invested 500 million RMB to build a production base and scientific research building in Guangzhou, and started to produce its own "Big Buffalo" chassis, power supply, etc. In addition to its own accessories, HEDY also sells them in the DIY market, and HEDY is the only designated desktop computer for the 9th National Games.

In 2004, Seven Happiness set up a digital department to start investing in MP3.

In 2005, the cell phone company, South Hi-Tech, is on the verge of trouble, Seven Happiness began to cooperate with South Hi-Tech OEM, planning the launch of the cell phone, in addition to borrowing South Hi-Tech licenses, but also received part of the South Hi-Tech's R & D team.

Looking back at this point in time, the situation of other domestic cell phone manufacturers, waveguide, TCL, Xiaxin, and other first camp of the entire rout, China Science and Technology Health and Southern High-tech in a difficult situation, Lenovo, TCL, Haier, BenQ and other home appliance brands have got a cell phone admission ticket, ASUS, Kunda and other Taiwan IT manufacturers are also actively applying.

Nanfang Gaoke is also a very early start to do cell phone state-owned enterprises, the technical background is very good, in detail, you can read the history of the development of domestic cell phones (three) Nanfang Gaoke cell phone

In August 2006, the seven Xi, Gaoxinqi, Youlitong together to obtain the state-issued license to produce cell phones. As with many cell phone manufacturers, the first thing to do when you get a license, is to first put the word out, Yi Xianzhong announced: Seven Happiness to join the cell phone melee, at the end of the melee, it is estimated that there will be about 10 left, and I hope that Seven Happiness will also be in the middle of it.

In November 2006, Seven Happiness' first music phone, the H777, hit the market, using the ancient 2.5mm headphone jack.

In January 2008, a man named Gao Bin took over as general manager of Seven Happiness' cell phone business department. Gao Bin is unknown to everyone, but his master and leader is the famous cell phone maniac - Wan Jianming. During Wan's tenure at Changhong, Gao Bin was his deputy, and also assistant to the president of Guohong and general manager of TCL Mobile Phone Assistant.

In August 2009, Qixi created a mid-to-high-end brand, REVO, in Italy, which is positioned as a city brand and HEDY as a township brand.

In September 2011, Seven Happiness H701 was launched, a 2G phone, which some people questioned is very much like the HTC Aspire S, but it's true that even the desktop wallpaper and layout are the same.

In 2012, March 9, Seven Happiness Holdings issued a clarification announcement: H701 cell phone is a product developed by the company with completely independent intellectual property rights, and has not copied or infringed on the intellectual property rights of any other company.

In September 2013, Seven Happiness Q7 was released, with an MT6589 processor, which is the last cell phone of Seven Happiness, and after Q7, Seven Happiness announced that it would no longer Involved in the cell phone business,

In 2013, the seven happy Holdings loss of 123 million yuan, a year-on-year decline of 1608%, you did not read it wrong, and I did not type the wrong number, under the helplessness of the seven happy to know that the continuous sale of indebted subsidiaries, the statement on the data gradually become good-looking.

For the shareholders of the seven joys, after stripping the transfer of assets, looks clean shell resources, whether it is sold or re-injected into the reorganization of assets, are very ideal. 2016, seven joys Holdings renamed Focus Media.

Seven Happiness cell phone business is also slowly gone, but Seven Happiness Group is not the same as many companies specializing in cell phones, the cell phone business is just one of many businesses, after the cell phone business stopped, Seven Happiness's founders and their families in the vast world of capital floating operation, and finally the business is getting bigger and bigger, involving pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, hospitals, nursing homes, real estate, property, computer machines, servers, etc., as for the The process is not part of our cell phone history, so I won't go into it.

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