Joseph put his hands on the steering wheel, frowned, as if thinking about some profound and strict question, Hugo, who was sitting in the passenger seat, unfastened his seat belt and was about to get out of the car, but found that Joseph still did not move, and turned around and said, "Get out of the car." ”

Joseph looked up at Hugo, "Are you serious?" ”

Hugo put his right hand on the 'door' handle and broke it directly, pushed the car 'door' and walked down, and said to Joseph, "You have been nagging all the way, don't you feel tired?" ”

Joseph also hurriedly got out of the car and caught up with Hugo, "You really have to buy a brick (the. brick)? ”

Listening to the title of this image, Hugo laughed, "Yes, that's why we came to Motorola." Look, we're all at the storefront. ”

"However, I heard that this thing is not easy to use at all, I can't hear what the other party is saying, and there is often no way to contact the other party, and it is so heavy, it is not convenient at all." Joseph was still frowning and complaining.

Hugo let out a long sigh of relief, "I know, I know what you say, but trust me, it really works to buy it." ”

In Los Angeles in 1992, Hugo finally got into line with tech life, and today he decided to buy a mobile phone! Twenty years later, this kind of thing has no value to discuss at all, but today, it is a new thing that shakes everyone's mind.

The mobile phone was invented as early as 1973, but it was not officially put into use until 1983, in the past nine years, the development of mobile phones is very slow, and the number of mobile phone users in the United States does not exceed 300,000.

Today's mobile phones are ridiculed as "shoe machines", meaning bulky and huge as shoes, and later became more widely known as "bricks", which satirizes rich people carrying a brick down the street. It can be seen that the difficult situation of mobile phones in the market is now.

So, when Hugo offered to buy a mobile phone, Joseph thought Hugo was crazy. However, Hugo has a soul from 22 years later, and it is really unimaginable to live without mobile phones and the Internet. Before that, Hugo did not have the financial strength to improve his life, and he could only passively adapt, and now, the remaining two million remuneration of "Yihai Xiongfeng" has also arrived, so the plan to buy a mobile phone immediately entered Hugo's mind.

As one of the world's top telecommunications companies, Motorola has branches in major cities, but the number of branches where mobile phones can be purchased is very limited. Fortunately, Hugo's city is Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States, which saves a lot of trouble.

Walking into Motorola's main store in Los Angeles, I was immediately greeted by a clerk, "Good morning, gentlemen, I'm Chris, is there anything I can help with?" ”

Hugo's eyes searched the inside of the store, the counter was much less than expected, and the decoration was very simple, after entering the 21st century, mobile communication occupied an increasing proportion of life, so the stores of related industries are becoming more and more luxurious, but now, even the Motorola Los Angeles main store, can still be described as simple.

Chris Keane Keane greeted him with a smile, and the slightly smaller man's eyes kept looking around the store, so his gaze naturally met the stronger man, who seemed to have something on his mind, frowning and pursing his lips, with an uncertain look. Chris knew that to get the business, he had to be proactive, and he did the same.

"Sir, we have a variety of communication tools in our store that will definitely meet your needs." Chris pitched in an enthusiastic tone, "Recently, young people have chosen more pagers, and if necessary, I can show you." ”

The pager, also known as the BB machine, pager, BP machine, is a transitional 'sexual' communication device before the advent of mobile phones, and the use of the pager is actually very simple, equivalent to a radio receiving station, which can be carried around.

For example, if Hugo wants to find Joseph but can't find it, he can call the pager and leave a message to Joseph's pager number. Joseph's pager could then show that someone was calling him, and he could hear the message by calling the pager from a nearby public telephone. For another example, the pager can display numbers, which makes the pager a new means of confession, similar to "520 means I love you", "1314 represents a lifetime" and other ways to leave messages are very popular.

Compared to mobile phones, pagers are now widely accepted, and their sales around the world are very impressive, and they are currently the hottest new instant messenger.

"Pager? Hey, can I take a look? Hugo was a generation that grabbed the tail of the post-80s generation before the crossing, and he didn't have much impression of pagers, because around 1995 pagers basically went downhill, but then he saw a lot of pictures about pagers on the Internet, which made Hugo very curious about this way of communication. And now, Hugo actually had the opportunity to 'touch' the real pager, and he was immediately excited.

Joseph looked at Hugo and paused, he was going to say, "Aren't you going to buy bricks?" But then he imagined that he thought the pager was much more practical than a brick, so Joseph did not say anything to stop it.

Chris stood aside and glanced at Joseph, then shrewdly took Hugo's words, "Of course, please come with me." Then Chris led the way in front and introduced, "We at Motorola are the first companies to launch pagers, and there are currently two kinds of machines, one that can only display numbers, and the other that can display text. At present, our company has different package options for these two machines, and also gives away some ancillary services, such as weather forecasts, news, etc. ”

When he came to the counter, Chris put several different models of pagers on the glass surface and enthusiastically introduced them. Hugo's attention was not on Chris's introduction at all, and he picked up a pager and looked at it.

The black 'colored' body is a little smaller than the cigarette case, and it can be held in the palm of the hand, which is very convenient to carry. On the front is a two-finger-wide display, which seems to be a model that can display text, and there are several small buttons underneath, with the "Motorola" logo written next to the buttons; On the back is a clip that can be fastened to a belt, and Hugo immediately remembered the photo he had seen on the Internet before: a middle-aged man who 'smoked' a cigarette, tied to a black 'colored' belt, with keys, pagers and wallet chains hanging on it, and a large brick buckled behind his back, and the jacket had no way to hide all these things, which is a typical image of a copycat nouveau riche.

Thinking of this, Hugo burst out laughing, causing both Chris and Joseph to turn to look at him, and he quickly waved his hand, "Sorry, sorry, ignore me." ”

Joseph thought that Hugo was satisfied with the pager, so he asked, "What are the packages for this one?" ”

"Oh, $60 for a $12 base fee a month, and then we can give away a daily newsletter." Chris quickly introduced, apparently hearing the signs of success in Joseph's tone.

Hugo pouted, it was cheaper than he imagined, after all, this portable mobile tool did solve many important problems, "Why don't you have a pager in the company?" Hugo suddenly remembered this problem, as an agent, it is very important to keep in touch with customers at all times, and having a pager can solve a lot of trouble, but Joseph did not.

Joseph shrugged, "When you took over you, you didn't have that much work, remember?" "Now they talk about what happened in the past year, but there is no hindrance, they can blurt it out lightly, and even the Golden Raspberry Award can be used as a joke," but Lang matched two. Hugo turned his head and cast a suspicious look, "One is for familiar people, and the other is a number that is usually politely greeted." Hugo suddenly realized.

"Well, do you need to buy two? If he could, I think Carl would need it too, you know, he's starting to get busy now. Naturally, Joseph preferred pagers to expensive and impractical bricks, and he and Carl could afford them.

Now Carl is not only Charlize, but Alex is also helping with many of his work, after all, Joseph has been busy with Hugo recently, and there is no time at all. So both Carl and Joseph's workloads have skyrocketed, and they really need to do a little more preparation.

Chris's gaze couldn't help but look at Hugo, because he knew who was in charge of the decision. Looking at Hugo in front of him, Chris feels more and more familiar, to be precise, not only familiar, Hugo's image has been almost overwhelming recently, and "Yihai Xiongfeng" is the only movie in December to achieve a sweep, otherwise it is indeed not easy to recognize this face.

"Hey, you, are you Hugo? I mean, Hugo Lancaster? "Chris tentatively asked 'sex', if it is really Hugo, then there must be no problem with today's business, and Hugo has been in the heat of his career recently. Thinking of this, Chris's face couldn't help but smile.

"Yes." Hugo turned his head to look at Chris, and 'revealed' a big smile, which seemed very relatable, but the words he immediately said were destined to disappoint Chris, "Thank you for the introduction, but I guess, we don't need a pager, thank you." ”

Chris's smile stiffened at the corners of his mouth, and disappointment crept across his brow: this is terrible.