ZDNet’s roundup of the smart phone battles is an excellent primer to the battle of the goliaths. For me, the most compelling part of the story comes when they handicap the field:
Apple: The 3G iPhone will move units because it has an enthusiastic customer base that will continue to buy the latest from Apple. That’s [...]
Next Monday, I’m really pleased and excited to be running the “Voice Mashup Business Models” panel and the “Service Delivery Platforms” panel at the Voice Peering Forum in San Francisco. The REASON I’m so excited is because the caliber of speakers we have is simply excellent. To prepare for the panel, I asked [...]
Actually, it only feels that way. I downloaded Firefox 3 this morning onto my laptop, and so far, so good. I’m sure the bugs are there and all, but I really do feel like I’m running a new machine. And isn’t that telling? Enough of the applications I use on a daily basis [...]
I’ll take the other side of Phil Wolf’s criticism of iPhone’s push notification service. Phil says it sucks; I say it rocks.
To summarize and to be fair to Phil (as I like Phil very much, as a neat guy and a bright boy), his criticism centers around user interface, architecture and basic network philosophy. [...]
Found this post from telecomtv today about Google’s taking the wraps off of the Google Android operating system. Here’s what caught my eye:
Rubin also said that
the days of the “traditionally’ high cost of software development for
mobiles are numbered and believes that once Android hits the market the
costs of such developments will fall dramatically. He [...]
Thanks to Simon Wardley for finding Earle who found this:
The Evolution of the Cell Phone