It's really hard to identify single cellphones from the old smartphones. I'm wondering about how Palm and other's will join heavy in the cellphone market.
Nokia's S60 3rd edition is awesome. The "N-series" is innovative in too many aspects, mainly design. Nokia should invest - as they are doing - in it's designs phones. Motorola and others had really raised they market share for improving it. How many people did you heard speaking: "I liked it 'cause is so cute..."
Mobile market is really raising. IDC predicts that a billion new cellphones will have been sold this year until the end of the year. There are several companies really interested on this. The last news (a happy for Mac fans) is about Apple joining to this, making the "iPhone" a cellphone merged to iPod. It looks so thin as iPod, but have phone functions. But, this is not official to Apple - actually an Apple iPhone concept blog created by an Apple fan Okan Vardarova. All concepts are being sent by other Apple fans - creativy people!
And what about camera? Samsung is the leader in camera's market - and they are very agressive with and 10 MegaPixel Camera in cellphones. It will have auto-focus (not any new) and 2x optical zoom - 5x digital zoom, but also models to 3x optical zoom.I wonder about a merging of all the best of each company to make the perfect cellphone: Motorola's Design, Samsung camera, Sony Ericsson walkman technology and Nokia SW and services!
Companies are heavily investing in their "weakness" - or you can read: strong points of the others. Nokia by example have pretty innovative designs to be launched - it was a result from it's R&D invest of last years. By example the Nokia 111 by Daniel Meyer, looks like a candy tablet, and when opened a triangle phone.
But my favorite is the next Nokia AEON Concept - it should be awesome! Look the pictures:
And what about the Network?
When I talk about this, some people sad I'm talking crazy, but - the next revolution in telephony operators survivors is not about technology, but billing. I believe services and content will matter much more than they are today. VoIP and other technologies are already in business, and what is about to happen in mobile telephony is near what already happened to the fixed telco - services. Voice is not the prior for mobility in the past last years, when SMS/MMS was starting to raise. WiFi and WiMax technologies, bundled into mobile will allow users to connect in city clouds more often then using the operator's network. I suppose that - here in Brazil - operator should still have market for long distances, or when mobiles are in handoff on the roads. Anyway, it seems like the mobile operators already know that, improving R&D and tests for WiMax and WiFi in big cities all the world.
For developers, there is a big market to be explored and too many companies really interested to invest in. As I heard once from a Telco Guru: "When market changes, the business model should do as well, and new opportunities comes up."
For developers, you can join:
Forum Nokia
Motodev
Samsung Developer's Club
Sony Ericsson
BENQ Portal
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Good thing you've got here. I just wonder where do you find all that information...
Any suggestions for a next generation mobile technology?
There are several blogs about that such Engadget which I follow. Try to subscribe to RSS feeds.
My opnion about next generation is that, connectivity should be opened for the most single to most complex device, from GSM broadband to WiFi context. I believe that design, services and capacity will make the difference in cost to mobile phones. But this is for the future. Now, devices must improve technologies support such Symbian, Java and others. We're going to have an "OS WAR" in the next years, and user will ever be winning with this.
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