In the last three years, for reasons escaping interest, I’ve had eight ’smartphones’. (Orange HTC SPV C600, Blackberry 6230, Blackberry 8700, Blackberry Pearl, Vodafone v1240 (HTC), Vodafone v1415 (HTC), Blackberry Curve, and currently, a Toshiba G710.
It’s an interesting market in any case. Have a look at Expansys, if you don’t think there’s a lot going on. Not least of which is the proximity (in price and functionality at least) of ultra mobile laptops and PCs. It used to to be the case that smartphone’s seemed reasonably priced because they were mini-computers. that doesn’t seem as relevant with the EEE or OLPC in the market.
It’s also a market that’s technically early and difficult to understand.
Before we’ve even seen Android (Google’s version of the platform), we’ve got sophisticated offerings from Blackberry (Research in Motion), MIcrosoft (various flavours of Windows Mobile), Apple (who’ve not even made a computer you can really use for business yet but seem remarkably ambitious about getting it to work on their phone) and even Nokia.
This is all happening in a market where EVERYONE has a mobile phone and the manufacturers of all phones are seriously uping their game and converging on the Smartphone market.
So, I’m a geek. I’m interested in how these things work and how they will end up taking over consumers’ lives. This blog will be reviews of devices, discussions about software and strategy and observations about adoption. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
