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Update: (May-2-09) Since I wrote this piece, it seems that the Palm OS folks have changed their minds, recognizing that ignoring the current customer-base was a mistake. The Palm Pre will come with a PalmOS Emulator that will “let the phone UI look and act like the Garnet OS, and even has virtual, on screen … Read more
I just noticed that this year’s Design For Mobile conference, organized by the folks from Little Springs Design, is scheduled for April 20-22, 2009. I attended last year’s event and it was a good event with attendees and presenters from both academia and industry-practitioners. See the Design For Mobile website. ceo
I’ve updated my diagram on non-messaging Mobile Applications: Browser, Lightweight, Local-based Applications (click to enlarge): I will be using this diagram on an upcoming article that I’ve been cooking for a while. ceo
Source: THE NIELSEN COMPANY ISSUES TOP TEN U.S. LISTS FOR 2008. Motorola on the top and Nokia on the bottom – wow. And in between in that order: LG, Apple and BlackBerry. Wow again. The US does operate differently than the rest of the world! ;-) I wonder for how much longer that will hold … Read more
I found the above via Mobile-Facts and it is quite funny (and probably even true!). The important concept here, even if not the best of examples, is that an open market and ecosystem is a very good thing… ceo
Happy 2009 New Year to all my readers. My first post of the year is about mobile applications: local/native vs. web, and app-stores. App-stores have been shifting the balance on application development and distribution (back) towards local/native applications. I don’t mean to undermine mobile web which will continue to be very important and very large … Read more
Worldwide Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 42% penetration in 2008 and 53% penetration by 2014 worldwide. US Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 88% penetration in 2008 and 104% penetration by 2014 in the United States. The above numbers for the US matches the penetration numbers reported by CTIA for 2008 of 88%; as I blogged the other … Read more
A recent report by the PEW Internet Project titled Networked Workers reveals a couple of interesting numbers on texting usage in the USA: General Numbers on Technology Usage by “Networked Workers” 93% own a cell phone, compared with 78% of all American adults 85% own a desktop computer, compared with 65% of all adults 61% … Read more
According to Gartner, worldwide smartphone sales reached its lowest growth rate with 11.5% increase in 3rd quarter of 2008. It also says that Nokia is the #1 smartphone manufacturer/seller: Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2007. … Read more
2008 was a very interesting year for me, with both failures and successes and tons of lessons learned. But life is good. 2009 will be a very interesting year for mobility and handsets and applications. An example of this was yesterday when I was on my way to the Orange Partners Conference. The bus driver … Read more