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The company that managed to develop the first successful PDA in 1996, the Palm Pilot, is losing out in the battle for the smartphone market. Palm didn’t have the resources to quickly match the iPhone, RIM, and Android. Palm’s own smartphone, the Pre, was late to market when it launched in June last year. The industry [...] Google has the Midas touch and never fails – right? What if they made a Google Phone (gPhone?) and disrupted the global phone market? They already have a smartphone OS and aggressive plans for the market. Rumors about a Google Phone have been floating around for some time but gained momentum yesterday with tweets claiming that [...]
Satio smartphone with camera All mobile phone vendors hope to repeat the success of Apple with a new Jesus phone. Sony Ericsson’s candidate is Satio (previous working name Idou) and they are positioning the integrated 12 megapixel camera as the “killer app” that will lift Satio above the other smartphone competitors when it hits the shelves [...] Have the mobile operators overlooked how customers use the Forwarding To Voicemail function when a call is not answered? If someone calls your mobile and you don’t answer, the call is forwarded to your voicemail after a few rings. I find it very irritating that I can’t set the time to more than 30 seconds [...] Many critics of the EU Telecom Package have feared that the principle of Net Neutrality will be undermined and abandoned. One example of this is TeliaSonera, which has blocked VoIP and P2P file sharing in their cheaper Swedish data plans Mobilsurf Bas and Mobilsurf Alltid. In May, AT&T also limited their mobile data traffic. In their [...] Will financially burdened telco operators postpone investments in the 4G technology LTE? This has been an ongoing topic within the industry for over a year. LTE provides the operators with higher capacity, spectral efficiency, and data rates but requires heavy investments in new infrastructure. The alternative is to settle for the 3G upgrade HSPA or [...] Today it is obvious that business models that are based on public Wlan networks will never live up to the hype from 2002-2004. The dramatic price pressure for mobile data via 3G/HSPA undermined the market for Wlan operators. The choice is easy between spotty Wlan coverage and comprehensive geographical service with a 3G dongle. Other players [...] |
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