Someone sent this pie graph to me earlier today, and I thought it was pretty interesting. In fact, our whole team is still talking about it. Before I get into anymore details, let me show you the chart first.
Are you surprised that RIM has such a huge smartphone market in the US? I am not. It did surprise me that Apple actually lost market shares between Q4 2007 and Q1 2008 though, but that’s not my point. What did surprise me is the following chart:
Nokia owns 52.9% of the World Smartphone Market? That’s huge! I guess US only covers a small portion of the world mobile industry. In fact, 44.5% of the US market is only equivalent to 11.4% of the world market!
I believe that Bharti Airtel and China Mobile alone already have more than the total number of US mobile subscribers combined, so the numbers do make sense. Just not what I had imagined, since Nokia smartphones aren’t as popular here in the US. I guess world domination is more important!
Technorati Tags: smartphone, china, india, news, graph, cell phone
June 12th, 2008
Google’s Android mobile system is making an impact on people already. More so on MIT students this time though. An MIT professor recently gave his students an assignment to design a cell phone program (or application I guess) using Google’s Android system.
This is going to totally change the mobile industry. Might be a little early to tell, but It almost sounds like having Linux on your phone. Check out these couple programs:
“One project named GeoLife gives users a way to set to-do lists and get reminders on their phones. Walk by the market, and the device might buzz with a message that you’re supposed to pick up milk. Another effort, named Flare, was designed to help small businesses like pizza shops cheaply track their drivers.
Then there was Locale, which lets users configure their phones to automatically adjust their settings when the devices detect themselves in certain zones. So you might set your phone to automatically go into vibrate mode in the office and silent mode at the movie theater, and ring everywhere else.”
The whole article is on Boston.com.
Technorati Tags: MIT, students, news, mobile, phone, cell phone, cell phones, google, google mobile, google android, boston, news, business, MIT students
May 14th, 2008
We all figured there will be some consolidation in the mobile industry eventually. It seems like it might become a reality soon. The Wall Street Journal reported a couple days ago (I know I am a little late on this one, sorry) that Deutsche Telekom, the parent of T-Mobile, is thinking about acquiring Sprint Nextel. If that happens, they will become the biggest carrier in the US! You can see the article on AOL Money.
There are a few things that might become somewhat complicated if this happens though. For one, integrating the technologies will be pretty challenging. T-Mobile runs on the GSM network, whereas Sprint Nextel is on CDMA with Java. The two networks are completely opposite like fire and ice, water and oil, donuts and oranges (sorry, ran out of analogies for the last one there).
This will still be very interesting though. We could be seeing some big changes happening in the near future!
Technorati Tags: wireless, mobile, cell phone, phone, t-mobile, tmobile, sprint, sprint nextell, cdma, gsm, deutsche telekom, wall street, wall street journal, business
May 8th, 2008
As one of our readers pointed out, the Nokia Morph, if it becomes a reality, would most likely blow the current mobile industry away. The following is taken from the Nokia website:
“Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices:
- Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live
- Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving
- Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension
- Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge
- Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices”
I am very amazed. Check out the article on Nokia.
Technorati Tags: nokia, cell phone, mobile, mobile phone, phone, nokia morph, nanotechnology, news
April 25th, 2008
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