Some Recent Mobile Industry Updates

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On any average day, I come across hundreds if not thousands of interesting articles on Twitter. Being that most of my Twitter friends are geeks like me, I would say approximately 80% of those articles are about the mobile industry. If I would blog about even half the exciting mobile developments I read, I would never stop writing. So I figured I would write a short summary of what is happening with the major mobile players based on things I have read recently. Here goes…

  • Nokia: Nokia reported its worst ever quarter with losses of $832 million in the third quarter. I am assuming this is a result of the competition that is strengthening. I am referring of course to Apple, Android, RIM, and even Windows Mobile. Nokia is coming out with the very awesome N900 tablet/phone, and I for one, would love to get my hands on it. Not sure if it will put Nokia back up to its past numbers, but I am sure the N900 will be a very popular phone, if the best mobile phone out there.

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  • Android: Android is spreading its wings with new devices being announced all the time. The most exciting of them are the Hero, which impressed me a lot, although definitely has its minuses, and the Motorola CLIQ, which has everyone very excited, but I personally am yet to be convinced. Android has a new campaign bashing the iPhone and focusing on its shortcomings. I personally am not a huge fan of this kind of marketing, but the video does mention some very valid points.

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  • Sony Ericsson: It would take a lot to get me to buy a SE phone, never been a huge fan, but the new Xperia 3, might just change that. It is yet another Android device, and with a Snapdragon processor, making it the fastest Android device to date. It also has an 8 megapixel camera, as well as all the other goodies found on the average smartphone today.

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  • Apple: Apple is continuing with the cat and mouse game regarding jailbreaking the iPhone. The new 3GS is supposedly unjailbreakable, but a hacker friend told me that will not be the case for long. Besides that, there are the frequent rumors about the Apple tablet, which Kevin rose just tweeted is not gonna happen, based on a leak from a drunk Apple employee (gotta love Twitter).

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  • Samsung: Is it just me or does Samsung pop out new phones faster than I can say TouchWiz? How many phones are in their Omnia line now? The Omnia, Omnia HD, Omnia Pro, Omnia 2, do I need to continue? Samsung also jumped on the Android bandwagon with the Galaxy, a solid phone, but in my opinion, not solid enough to replace an iPhone, if I were to go touch.

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  • Microsoft: I consider Microsoft guilty until proven innocent. I am told that Windows Mobile 6.5 is amazing, but I will believe it when I see it… That’s all I have to say about that…

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There really is so much more I can write, just jotted down some of the things that stuck out in my head. You can see specs and features for all the mobiles at http://www.mobilephone-expert.co.uk/. Would love to hear what new phones you are exciting about, so please share your thoughts in the comments.

Hillel


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Hillel Fuld is a global speaker, entrepreneur, journalist, vlogger, and leading startup advisor. He brings over a decade of marketing experience with leading Israeli and Silicon Valley startups, and currently collaborates with many global brands in an official marketing capacity including Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Huawei, and others.      Hillel covers the dynamic local tech scene for many leading publications including Entrepreneur magazine, Inc, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Next Web, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Venturebeat, and others. Additionally, Hillel mentors startups across Israel in different accelerators including The Google Launchpad, the Microsoft Ventures accelerator, Techstars, The Junction, and more.    Hillel has been named Israel’s top marketer, 7th top tech blogger worldwide, has been featured on CNBC, Inc, and was dubbed by Forbes as “The Man Transforming Startup Nation into Scale-up Nation”.       Hillel has hundreds of thousands of followers across the social web and can be found on Twitter at @Hilzfuld. You can learn more about him on his website: www.hilzfuld.com

 

3 thoughts on “Some Recent Mobile Industry Updates

  1. Informative round up man. The mobile platform is really the best place to be – penetration is tremendous much more than the web.

    I kinda feel bad for Nokia, all the touch screen stuff has taken from their market – but look out for them to come back in mid-late 2010.

    Apart from that Android impresses me the most, i’ve worked a bit on it very much like the the flow of the application.. Hey you didn’t mention anything about the BlackBerry, ur personal fave! LOL 🙂

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