HTC再发力微软平台:硬件混战直指诺基亚

2012年09月20日 23:58    发布者:老电工

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9月19日微软CEO鲍尔默与HTC CEO周永明共同发布新品8X与8S

微软CEO史蒂夫·鲍尔默(Steve Ballmer)站在台上,对手中的Windows Phone 8智能手机大加溢美之词。熟悉的场景,熟悉的赞美,这一幕似乎让人穿越到了半个月前。同样是在纽约切尔西区,同样是两款新品WP 8手机,只是那次是诺基亚的发布会。

一个月内,微软阵营的硬件厂商先后发布了基于新系统WP 8的旗舰产品:8月30日,三星率先推出4.8英寸大屏ATIV S;9月5日,诺基亚发布Lumia 920与Lumia 820;9月19日,HTC同样以8X与8S两款产品出击高端和中端市场。

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9月5日,鲍尔默和诺基亚CEO埃洛普在新品发布会上

鲍尔默出现在了诺基亚与HTC的发布会现场,以他标志性的大嗓门和激情洋溢的演说为合作伙伴助阵,与诺基亚CEO史蒂夫·埃洛普(Stephen Elop)及HTC CEO周永明分别热情合影。鲍尔默不断强调着WP系统的过人之处,赞美着手中新品手机的独特设计。

正如鲍尔默之前所说,这是微软”史诗般“(Epic)的一年;在智能手机领域开始真正发力,显然是微软未来战略中最为关键的一环。只是微软WP阵营内,不免又是一场硬件混战。

三星、HTC与诺基亚是微软阵营的三驾马车。其中,三星横跨Android、WP以及自家的Bada三大平台,HTC立足于微软与谷歌两大系统,只有诺基亚专注于微软WP阵地。三星三心,HTC两意,只有诺基亚一心一意跟着微软走。

相对于埃洛普多次强调微软与诺基亚的战略合作关系,HTC CEO周永明在今日发布会上不断示好微软。”我们与微软的合作关系可以追溯到Windows Mobile时期,是微软最为持久的合作伙伴”。

HTC最初以微软WM起步,凭借Android的先发优势崛起,他们打造了首款Android手机,也是谷歌自有品牌Nexus 1的制造商。最辉煌时期,HTC曾是全球第二大智能手机厂商,市场份额高达18%,甚至一度在美国市场占据首位。

但与苹果的专利纠纷让HTC大伤元气,机海战术让这家中国台湾制造商失去了特色,最重要的盟友谷歌似乎也更多地与三星合作,HTC遭遇着数个季度的业绩下滑与亏损。HTC迫切需要转变战略,而再度发力WP平台就是一条振兴之计。

“WP显然已经成为主要移动生态系统之一,有能力对抗全球其他智能手机平台,”周永明在讲话中不断看好微软平台前景。

鲍尔默也在回应着周永明的好意, “WP阵营真正的明星产品(Hero Product),无与伦比(Incredible)的拍照功能”。鲍尔默对HTC 8X的赞美之词,显然让HTC非常受用。打开HTC主页,8X的产品介绍边就是鲍尔默的评价“8X和8S标志着微软与HTC合作的重要里程碑”。

“独特用户体验”(Unique Experience),诺基亚也是如此形容自己产品。智能手机市场已经成为一片红海,硬件配置几乎趋同,似乎英语中的形容词也显得那么匮乏。“不可思议的”,“无与伦比的”,“几乎完美的”,这些因苹果发布会开始泛滥的词汇不断出现在各大智能手机厂商的发布会上。

除了诺基亚的独有软件服务,三驾马车使用的微软WP 8系统并没有太多不同。与Android阵营一般,微软WP阵营也陷入了硬件大战:各家主力机型配置大体相当,没有鹤立鸡群者,也没有明显的短板。虽然都没有宣布定价,但预计也会在同一区间。

高通骁龙S4的双核处理器成为了标配,1GB的RAM,屏幕都是康宁的金刚玻璃材质,设计做工也都可称精美。三星ATIV S用了铝合金,诺基亚920背部弧形设计,HTC 8X也采用平滑流线的设计。HTC甚至与诺基亚一样玩起了多种彩壳的色彩路线。

外观设计都不错,硬件配置趋于一致,那么产品差异在于何处?三星ATIV S亮点在于4.8英寸屏幕与2300mAh的电池,HTC的主打是拍照与魔声音质,而诺基亚920的杀手锏是超灵敏触摸屏与PureView影像技术。或许这些亮点会成为三家产品宣传的关键词。

随着HTC再度发力微软阵营,尚未成熟的WP阵营,已然开始了内部争斗。在这个领域,HTC最大的对手就是诺基亚,今日发布的8X与8S,显然会与Lumia 920与820正面竞争。

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职位名称                                 Solution Architects-ARD/STBC-Core   
公司                                         微软中国有限公司
职能部门                                 客户应用支持工程/Field application engineering   
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职位所需经验                         10 years        

职位描述
Job Description for Solution Architect
Are you ready to seize an opportunity to work with established and innovative enterprises in the fastest growing economy, China? Do you want to employ your strong business and architectural skills to create innovative solutions for the municipal government and local enterprises? Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group (ARD) are looking for the passionate candidates to join us to apply their skillsets and create the significant business impact in China for the company.
Key Responsibilities
Understand the customer pain points, analyze the market needs, design and develop the solution blueprint that align with the broader business goals in an innovative fashion through the objective assessment of the customer’s existing business imperatives and IT investments
Build up industrial know-how and in-depth understanding of market requirements to define common scenarios, provide architecture design, and translate the business requirements to engineering specification in order to guide and oversee the engineering resource to develop the key solutions / solution components and accelerate the adoption of Microsoft Platform
Provide extensive solution consulting experience and industrial best practices in order to sell our platform enabled application solutions at an executive level, win the trusted relationship from government and influence the adoption of Microsoft technologies and platforms
Support the market development activities to help qualify the right opportunity, contribute to the proposal development, and coordinate the engineering resource to perform proof of concept (POC) projects in in order to win the customer
Serve as a consultant to local solution partners to help them develop and deliver the MS platform enabled solutions to government and enterprise customers

职位所需技能
Qualification and Experience:
Must have a Bachelor’s Degree on Computer Science, Social Science or Business, higher relevant education will be preferred.
At least 10 year related IT working experience including business and technology consulting, business case development, solution and architecture design, application development and system implementation.
Demonstrate the significant working experience in at least one specialization from the three categories below:
o Industry: Government; Education, Transportation, Energy & Utilities, Healthcare, Telco, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Financials
o Technology: Public and Private Cloud, Enterprise Data Platform, Mobile Computing, IOT & M2M, Unified Communications and Collaboration, and Enterprise Application Integration
o Architecture Specializations: Needs Analysis and Envisioning, Business Architecture, Technical Architecture, Organizational Design and Change Management, IT Governance, and IT-led Business Innovation
A resourceful problem-solver with good inter-personal communication ability, able to orchestrate internal and external resources where and when needed to do what’s right for the customer, the partner and the organization.
Excellent verbal and written communication skill in both English and Mandarins is a must and working experience in a multi-cultural international company will be an advantage.
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