As the recession continues to bite, will there be any innovation in the mobile market in the near future? I don't just mean at the top level, where smartphone users (no matter the OS flavour) will try out every single application they can, but in the marketplace where hundreds of thousands of phones are bought every day. How will new services prosper in the modern environment? Read on for my thoughts.
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Not sure what your point is. 'Who will fund these new services' is not a problem that is unique to either mobile or recession. I don't think Nokia's move into services is particularly helping as it stifles innovation from smaller players. (Not just Nokia, but Google, the network operators etc. no matter how good their products might be.)
It's *fewer* resources, not less resources. 😊
I don't see how, in a year which has seen the introduction of:
- 1GHz+ mobile CPUs (Snapdragon)
- large (>3.5"😉 touchscreen AMOLED screens
- 12MPx cameraphones
- 720p recording on a phone
- demo of SMP processing on a phone
- demo of a multitouch resistive screen
just to name a few, one can really say "Hardware seems to have reached a plateau".
Before writing an opinion piece on the state of the entire mobile market, you should have stepped out of the Nokia bubble in which you live. Nokia hardware is stagnating, everybody else's isn't.
rvirga wrote:I don't see how, in a year which has seen the introduction of:
- 1GHz+ mobile CPUs (Snapdragon)
- large (>3.5"😉 touchscreen AMOLED screens
- 12MPx cameraphones
- 720p recording on a phone
- demo of SMP processing on a phone
- demo of a multitouch resistive screen
That's a list of items that 99% would be happy living without and, with the exception of multi-touch they are all badly flawed innovations.
Give me something I really want/need.
A little progress downward is not bad at all . To stay in contact with the "real thing" . See my post from Sept 2050 here : http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/88414/
I think a hardware isue to develope might be the screen . Something like : Amoled , very good visible in sunlight and multitouch with gloves on .
Moneywise I don't understand why Nokia doesn't sell "little giveaways" as (birthday)presents in the form of a fysical coupon with pretty envelope . A voucher to get some "CWM" , funny app , battery or the like .
Half of the people own a mobile Phone and many wouldn't mind to get a small compliant gift from their friends .
Present it at Ovi's or any physical phoneshop .
😊 Regards jApi NL
rvirga wrote:I don't see how, in a year which has seen the introduction of:
- 1GHz+ mobile CPUs (Snapdragon)
- large (>3.5"😉 touchscreen AMOLED screens
- 12MPx cameraphones
- 720p recording on a phone
- demo of SMP processing on a phone
- demo of a multitouch resistive screen
just to name a few, one can really say "Hardware seems to have reached a plateau".
Before writing an opinion piece on the state of the entire mobile market, you should have stepped out of the Nokia bubble in which you live. Nokia hardware is stagnating, everybody else's isn't.
How many of those are truly innovative, rather than incremental changes to existing tech.
Faster processor... sorry, buying public don;t care on specs, jsut if it works/.
Megapixel cameras, We've argued often that (a) 3mp is more than sifficent for 95% of use cases and (b) the cmos is far more important
720p recording... err, it's still video recording. Is it big massive change? Don;t think so.
demo of smp... see processor
demo of multitouch... well we all know the UI debate can spin on and on...
As to stepping out the bubble, well I;ve got various phoens and OS within arms reach of this desk so thank you for your view on my view - I respectfully disagree. Fundamentally the iPhone is still the iphone launched years ago with some spec bumps, but nothing fundamentally new... windows mobile continues to run the same enterprise battle, Palm's WebOS remains to be seen but a social address book does not make a platform...
And show me where the start-ups in mobile are that have solid revenue making potential? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
There is innovation, and plenty of it; whether this innovation is evolutionary or revolutionary is immaterial.
I remind you that the main innovation brought by the N95 was its 5Mpx camera, which was an incremental improvement over existing 3Mpx ones. It's funny to see that some of the people who in 2007 called the N95 "innovative" are now saying that incremental improvements aren't real innovation.
Arguing whether we need/want these improvements is also beside the point. Some of us do, and nobody elected you the official spokeperson for all buying consumers.
rvirga wrote:There is innovation, and plenty of it; whether this innovation is evolutionary or revolutionary is immaterial.
I remind you that the main innovation brought by the N95 was its 5Mpx camera, which was an incremental improvement over existing 3Mpx ones. It's funny to see that some of the people who in 2007 called the N95 "innovative" are now saying that incremental improvements aren't real innovation.
Arguing whether we need/want these improvements is also beside the point. Some of us do, and nobody elected you the official spokeperson for all buying consumers.
Nail hit squarely on head there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation
"The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking..."
Ewan thinks that only revolutionary change counts as innovation. Which is fine, but in that case what was the last revolutionary innovation from Symbian? .. The introduction of S60?
Comes With Music is innovative.
However, far more important is packing an inexpensive devices with lots of features. Not many companies are doing that. 5800s available for under 150 euros now. Pretty damn good.