Some interesting news concerning Nokia and its likely future strategies regarding devices, operating systems, and markets broke over the weekend. The website for the Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market (OHIM) has posted details of three new ‘series’ trademarkets for mobile devices that may enter production soon. These would be the Cseries and Xseries of handheld devices, [...]
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The online incarnation of the UK-based newspaper, the Guardian, carries an interesting article today in which it cites unnamed sources as saying that Nokia is planning to launch a new touchscreen handset that will use the Android open-source Operating System (OS) software. Said to be unveiled at the Nokia World shindig in September, the Android-based [...]
Over the last fortnight number of announcements have been made that I think are worth examining in the context of Juniper’s recently-published report on low-cost handsets and how we expect operators and vendors to concentrate on this potentially massive market. Pakistan has just reduced the mandatory SIM Activation Tax from Rs500 per connection to Rs250, while [...]
In recent months, I’ve been looking at the flipside of the smartphone phenomenon. Smartphones accounted for 13% of all mobile device shipments in 2008 and, by 2015, such devices will likely represent around one-third of all annual new mobile phone sales, we believe. Giddying numbers. Especially for pressurised device vendors keen to stabilise their balance sheets [...]
Apple appears to have inadvertently exposed its plans for 3G-enabled personal computers, after eagle-eyed technology analysts spotted a (now-withdrawn) job advert on Apple’s website that sought an engineer with “experience of 3G Wireless WAN” technology. The implication is that Apple is planning to bring its popular Macintosh personal computers into the mobile broadband space by embedding 3G-standard [...]
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