NEC dramatically reduces the cost of developing mobile phones, doubling the number of annual development models

The amount paid by users when purchasing handsets is rising due to the surge in development costs of mobile phone handsets and the reduction of sales incentives paid by mobile phone companies, but as NEC introduces a new development method, It seems to dramatically reduce the development cost of.

The number of models that can be developed will be raised to twice as much as in the past.

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According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun news report, in order to respond to the fact that the shipment of domestic mobile phones is rapidly declining, NEC aims to improve the efficiency of development and production of mobile phones by introducing a new development method .

Unlike the conventional product which developed and produced optimum parts and software for each model, this is a "master machine" equipped with parts and OS commonly used by all models, and based on the specifications It is to advance the development of additional software and body shape to be individually placed.

This will enable us to reduce development costs per model by about 40% and to utilize the reduced labor, it will be possible to raise the number of models to be developed annually to about twenty models, twice as much as in the past, We are also planning to expand development and contract production from other manufacturers.

It means that OS and others will be sharedGoogle's mobile phone OS "Android"Would it be that the transition to Android terminal will be advanced at a stroke if it gets adopted?

NEC already supplies many terminalsNTT DoCoMo intends to launch a mobile phone employing AndroidI am anxious just because it is clear.