360 released "360 portable WiFi"

After Qihoo 360’s special machine supply, it officially entered the field of hardware and launched the “360 Portable WiFi” convenient router product – just plug it into any computer that can access the Internet, without any settings, smart devices such as mobile phones and Pads. You can go online. At present, this product has landed on the 360 ​​official website for sale today, priced at 19.9 yuan.

But this is no ordinary router, but more like a combination of routers and wireless network cards, in accordance with the logic of 360, the original intention of this product is "to solve the widespread lack of many users of the wireless environment."

"Now smart phones and Pads are used more and more widely, and the Internet environment is becoming more and more complicated. We hope that we can make mobile devices more convenient, free Internet access, and solve the user's troubles. 360 portable wifi can be as convenient as possible to build a wireless network. Environment, and promote the development of wireless networks, "relevant person in charge of the product.

"360 Portable Wifi" is independently designed and developed by the 360 ​​mobile assistant team and is produced on behalf of OEMs. With the 360 ​​mobile phone assistant and other software-level integration has become inevitable, in the future can even create a wireless connection between the computer and mobile phone, wireless mobile phone USB flash drive, air-to-air maps, separated by software operations and other functions. Getting rid of physical constraints such as data lines has also become another value of this product.

Obviously, convenience and ease of use are the foothold of this product, and it is also the consistent philosophy of 360 software products - to grasp the strong expression of the "white" user needs. In 360, it has always been thought that transitioning a complicated product to a “fool type” will solve the problem at the bottom level, which is more conducive to satisfying the needs of most users, and thus quickly occupy the low-end market.

In fact, before this, there was news that 360 was working with veteran router manufacturer Shenzhen Leike R&D routers. The current product has been formed and the price is within 100 yuan. The product will be the main network security function, 360 in the router embedded network firewall and other protection features, and similar special machine mode to promote.

Some commentators believe that 360's involvement in the router market is to grab a more powerful terminal entrance than mobile phones and to create a concept of a router plus security monitoring. Even through an intelligent router, equipped with 8G of storage space, you can download "acceleration", "masked advertising" and other plug-ins, to achieve the control of the entire starting point of the software industry chain.

Although this rumor and speculation has not yet been further confirmed, but "360 portable WiFi" has basically laid the groundwork for the 360's next hardware layout. Previously, Zhou Hongyi also repeatedly expressed his position on the hardware topic, saying that 360 would like to be an open platform, not to do hardware itself, but to provide users with cost-effective products through cooperation with traditional mobile phone manufacturers.

However, unlike pure hardware manufacturers, 360 does not do hardware for hardware, but rather as a hardware platform to control the Internet more about the entrance and voice. The commentator Hong Bo believes that “360 Portable WiFi” is likely to be just a 360-way product in the field of hardware. Finally, the 360 ​​will still have a wireless router to supervise smart terminals such as PCs, mobile phones, and set-top boxes.