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 Tuesday, November 26, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 5:28 PM   0 comments   

GARTNER DATAQUEST DATA

Cellphone sales to end-users:

Q3 2002
.: Nokia Market share: 35.9%
.: Motorola Market share: 14.4% (USA+China count for more than 50% of the sales)
.: Samsung Market share: 10.6%
.: Siemens Market share: 7.8%
.: Sony Ericsson Market Share: 4.8% (5 million handsets sold)

Q3 2001
.: Nokia Market share: 34.1%
.: Sony Ericsson: 8.5 million handsets sold
.: Samsung Market share: 7.5%
.: Siemens Market share: 7.5%


Gartner measures how many handsets are sold to end-users (sell-through), unlike rivals such as Strategy Analytics which measures how many cellphones have been shipped to distributors, operators and retail chains (sell-in).

 

 Monday, November 18, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 8:28 AM   0 comments   

GATES OPENING SPEECH AT COMDEX

In 2 statements:

1. Make everyday "objects" more intelligent:
:: Devices that display "glanceable information" (alarm clocks, wrist watches)
:: Smart Displays, formerly code-named "Mira," meant to let users at home access their PCs without being tied to a desk. The screens can be detached and used with a pen to access the Web, check e-mail, run programs and play music using a wireless link between the display and the desktop PC
:: Software like OneNote, which lets users take notes on the screen without being having to work within the constraints of a word-processing program

2. Get Microsoft Software into living rooms
:: Xbox
:: Windows Media Center Edition (play music, record TV and play DVDs)

Related Article

 

 Saturday, November 16, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 3:51 PM   0 comments   

JAPAN'S MOBILE PHONE SHIPMENTS IN SEPTEMBER 2002 ( 2'857'000 UNITS ) DECREASED 38.8 PERCENT COMPARED TO THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR.

November 14, 2002 (TOKYO) -- The Japan Electronic and Information Industries Association (JEITA) on Nov. 12 announced that Japan's mobile phone shipments in September 2002 decreased 38.8 percent compared to the same month last year to 2,857,000 units. Mobile phones here mean cellular phones, in-car phones and personal handyphone system (PHS) phones.

The downward trend has continued for 16 straight months. JEITA also announced that shipments in the first half of fiscal 2002 (April-September) reached 20,332,000 units, showing a 23.2 percent decrease from the same period of the previous term.

The shipment of cellular phones and in-car phones declined 36.2 percent to 2,783,000 units year-on-year. The PHS shipments declined significantly by 76.1 percent to 74,000 units.

Related link: JEITA's press release (in Japanese)

Related story: Japan's Y-O-Y Mobile Phone Shipments Decline for 15 Consecutive Months

 

 Friday, November 15, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 1:03 PM   0 comments   

QUOTE OF THE DAY: DATA MINING, Philip Zelikow

"Data mining, like any other government data analysis, should occur where there is a focused and demonstrable need to know, balanced against the dangers to civil liberties. It should be purposeful and responsible."

Philip Zelikow, a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
who is executive director of a Markle Foundation task force on national security in the information age.

 

 Thursday, November 14, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 2:17 PM   0 comments   

QUOTE OF THE DAY: NOKIA, Ed Suwanjindar

"Nokia is trying to be all things to all people:
a software provider to its hardware competitors,
a handset company and portal for end users,
an infrastructure company for carriers, etcetera"

Ed Suwanjindar, product manager of Microsoft's mobile devices division.

Related article

 


 Posted by Roberto
 2:01 PM   0 comments   


SPV: THE PHONE FOR EARLY ADOPTERS

ORANGE AND MICROSOFT INTRODUCE THE FIRST WINDOWS-BASED SMARTPHONE IN SWITZERLAND

14.11.2002 - Wallisellen, Lausanne, 14th November 2002. The Orange SPV, the first Windows-based smartphone in the world, is celebrating its launch in Switzerland today. This business mobile phone developed by Microsoft and Orange as part of an international strategic partnership marks the dawn of a new age in mobile communications. The SPV takes the mobile phone one step closer to the PC. In future, users will not only always be able to access the familiar Windows environment wherever they are, they will also benefit from a large number of additional new applications and services. For instance, at the time of the launch, Orange is already offering a direct link to financial information from Credit Suisse in Switzerland.

SPV stands for "Sound, Pictures, Video" and combines high-resolution colour display, clear sound quality, speed and numerous new application possibilities in a handy mobile phone. Equipped with a full-scale version of Microsoft Windows for Smartphone 2002, a colour display which can handle complex graphics and presentations and modern data transmission technology such as GPRS and tri-band GSM, this new smartphone is a complete information centre which fits into a jacket pocket. The phone is manufactured by the Taiwanese High Tech Corporation HTC. This company has many years of experience in this sector and makes, other among products, HP's successful iPaq.

This partnership between the world's biggest software producer Microsoft and innovative supplier of mobile communication products and services Orange involves long-term, strategic cooperation. The aim is to offer future-oriented technical solutions and user-friendly applications in the field of mobile communications.

Orange was heavily involved in development work from the outset in order to meet its customers' exacting demands in terms of user friendliness and, for the first time, Microsoft has developed software specially designed for mobile phones.

"Close cooperation with Microsoft and HTC ensured, from the outset, that the new smartphone embodied immediate customer benefits in terms of ease of operation besides excellent functionality" said Andreas S. Wetter, Orange Switzerland's CEO during the media conference for the SPV launch in Zurich.

Alexander Stueger, General Manager of Microsoft Switzerland said "The SPV is an important part of a smartphone platform which offers users complete freedom to choose their preferred type of mobile communications - from voice through text, pictures and data to video. At the same time, it sets new standards in defining intelligent technologies."

Full press release

 


 Posted by Roberto
 11:58 AM   0 comments   



MOTOROLA BLUETOOTH CAR KIT

"Imagine holding a conversation on your Bluetooth wireless phone while entering a car that has a Motorola Bluetooth car kit. Your phone conversation would automatically transition from the phone to the communication system within the car. You could toss the phone into your briefcase and seamlessly continue your conversation via the communication control panel installed within the car. When the conversation ends, you could choose to initiate another call by using voice dialing features or select to play music from a Bluetooth enabled MP3 player that's also inside the car." Extract from Motorola's website

As my friend David would say:
"The idea that the content follows you unimpeded by device and uninterrupted by transition, and is context sensitive, is great. Much better than "do everything on one device".

 

 Tuesday, November 12, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 11:11 AM   0 comments   

A BAD DAY WITH BAD MOBILE PHONES

Motorola T720
No bluetooth & no ir
InfraRed is missing, and that really makes no sense. This means that the only way to synchronize your contacts and calendar with your PC is through the use of a data cable. This cable (and the needed software) are not included in the box. You have to purchase them as an extra accessory for an extra cost.


Sony Ericsson T300
Not for business users: the T300 has no bluetooth, holds only 250 contacts on the handset and has no calendar.
The 500kb of available memory on the phone defeats the purpose of including a communicam. Once you've got a theme file, a polyphonic ringtone, and some phonebook pictures installed, there's hardly any room to transfer photos from the camera into the phone.


Samsung T100
no bluetooth / no ir
= can't send/receive data when socializing with other people.

 

 Friday, November 08, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 5:58 PM   0 comments   

NOKIA TO LICENSE SOFTWARE FROM RIM

HELSINKI, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia said on Friday it will license software from Research in Motion to equip its products with popular e-mailing services targeted at corporate clients. RIM's Blackberry device and service are particularly strong in North America, but with the inclusion of the company's software into Nokia products it will become available to a much wider audience. It will also help Nokia in North America.

 

 Wednesday, November 06, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 10:55 AM   0 comments   

HOLOGRAPHIC VIDEO, THE EVOLUTION OF 3D DISPLAYS

Three-dimensional holographic video images will be generated by a computer rather than being fixed in a static medium; they will be shown in full-motion color and, with input from a user, changed on the fly. What's more, viewers who move around a holographic video image will be able to see it moving from every side: a phenomenon important to realism and one that many conventional eyeglass-based systems cannot replicate. Read article

3D HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE

In the future, as nanotechnology takes off and we start requiring massive amounts of storage for biological and other nanotechnology research we will see again the need for massive amounts of data storage in fast bandwidth devices like 3D volume holographic optical storage nanotechnology.

 

 Tuesday, November 05, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 1:56 PM   0 comments   


NOKIA N-GAGE

Mobile phone maker Nokia entered a new market on November 4, 2002 as it unveiled seven new devices, including one that doubles as a game console called "N-Gage".
The N-Gage is the first mobile phone that allows consumers to play quality games, which are stored and distributed on memory cards, on a color screen.

Full Article

 

 Monday, November 04, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 9:55 AM   0 comments   

CAMERA PHONE MARKET

9.5 million mobile camera phones were sold around the world in the first nine months of 2002, of which 7.9 million in Japan alone and 97 percent of that total in the Asia Pacific region (Source: U.S. market research group Strategy Analytics)

The market for camera phones, which allow users to take and send pictures straight from the handset, is growing rapidly to 4.6 million units sold in the third quarter from 3.2 million in the second.

It is still a fairly small part of the entire mobile phone market, which expects sales of some 400 million units this year (Nokia has 37% market share).

Japan's Sharp, which is not even in the top 10 of mobile voice handset makers, was the leading camera phone supplier, having sold three million units to consumers in the period. Japan's NEC and Matsushita's Panasonic, Toshiba, Casio and South Korea Samsung Electronics were giving Sharp strong competition.
In Western Europe, where Nokia's and Sony Ericsson's camera phones have been on sale since the summer, only 200,000 units were sold in the third quarter.

Japanese vendors like Sharp are now coming to Europe, leveraging their two years of experience with local operators seeking to copy the success of aggressive Asian mobile carriers.

 

 Saturday, November 02, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 1:11 AM   0 comments   

NOKIA 6650

The Nokia 6650 phone makes mobile moviemaking easier than ever. With a built-in camera for shooting video at over ten frames per second, a 4096-color display, and MMS capability for sending and receiving clips, you can spontaneously share your world like never before. Just shoot, send, and share-it's a cinch with the Nokia 6650 phone.

http://www.nokia.com/phones/6650/

 
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