Many people have complained about the fragmentation of mobile operating systems (OS), which could somehow explain the difficulties with services and applications to become ubiquitous and capture scale. The most important representatives of “fragmentation-land” are, in world shipments, Symbian (44%, mostly Nokia devices), Blackberry OS (19%), Apple’s iPhone OS (15%), Google’s Android (10%), Windows Mobile (7%) and Linux (4%) (source: Q110 Gartner). We should not forget, however, that such variety of operating systems is the main responsible for the enormous technological advancements and breakthroughs in usability that affected directly the way we use our mobile devices. Of course developers have good reasons to complain, but anyway, this is a matter for organizations such as WAC (Wholesale Alliance Community), JIL (Joint Innovation Lab), OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform), and OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) to worry about…
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Mobile barcodes have functioned as an innovative way to transfer information from the physical to the digital world (via readers on mobile phones). These “artistically” dotted squares allow us to hard-link, tag things and see v-cards, phone numbers, just to mention a few uses, connecting things around us to websites, coupons, contacts, phones, etc. And since the first mobile camera-phone was commercialized by J-phone (Softbank) in 2001, Japan, barcode readers are the most useful application for these cameras apart from taking pictures. Mobile barcodes (known as bi-dimensional codes) are an evolution of the traditional uni-dimensional codes, and are able to store plenty of information, e.g.: QR codes (the most popular type) can contain more than seven thousand numbers.
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The world has witnessed in Q110 some relevant mobile market recovery, with 22% more shipments compared to Q109 (which ended in 17% less shipments compared to Q108). In a total of 294.9 million handset units shipped, the big surprise was RIM (BlackBerry) coming up with the TOP FIVE handset makers, ahead of SonyEricsson, and pushing shy off Motorola away from the selected group.
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Apple released a week ago the results for its quarter ending Mar 27, 2010, which were amazingly good considering the slow economic crisis recovery and the fact that there were no significant holidays. In short iPhone continues pulling the entire company as the most profitable item, with 8.7 million units sold (100% increase from last year). Macs sold 3.4 million units (33% increase) and iPods, 21 million units (down 8%, and apparently shifting to more expensive products). No updates on iPad, but research firms have tracked sales of above 1 million units already, by end of April …
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We’re running this fast iPad survey to research the “perceived positioning” of this product. The question to be answered is “What do targeted consumers perceive as the main uses for the iPad in case they were to buy?” Partial results point out to “emailing and using social networks” in first (20%), with “reading books” as a close second (18%). Not many people (3%) think this is a device for what some of us call serious work (word processing and calculations). We’re currently surveying specific target groups such as people that are passionate about mobility and top professionals from world class alumni associations. Scroll down to the end of this article to see our respondents’ general profile …
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MWC 2010-iv. We approach April, and the world should see ‘Wave’ on the shops (it was delayed). Wave is the newest Samsung smartphone powered by ‘bada’, a proprietary Operating System created by Samsung. But what’s ‘bada’? …and can it challenge iPhone OS competitively? …
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MWC 2010-iii. Walking a bit further now in Hall #8 at Fira Barcelona Montjuïc and I saw a beautiful Toyota Prius, powered by Lte in the Alcatel-Lucent booth. Lte, meaning “long term evolution” (= wireless networks), or sometimes referred to as 4G, brings new wireless capacity and lower operating costs. I’ve heard that same story in the beginning of the 2000s along with the outrageously expensive 3G (spectrum licenses plus equipment) …
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MWC 2010-ii. Walking a along Hall #1 at Fira de Barcelona-Montjüic and suddenly I saw a big crowd lining up at the Microsoft booth, for a demo of the newly unveiled Windows phone 7 series – Ready. Set. 7. type of thing. (Perhaps alluding to the slow start on the previous versions of the mobile OS 
) …
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MWC 2010-i. At the time I got into the El Prat Airport, going to the Fira de Barcelona-Montjüic, I went across a couple of ladies holding a sign that said “Steve Jobs” as if they were waiting for the Apple boss to go on a ride to the Mobile World Congress very fast, aboard the Opera Mini Express …
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This is a bit technical, but noteworthy. And as a rule of thumb, the more open the OS source, the more room there is for development. In this regard Android is the darling OS, with plenty of room for collaboration and development. G1 was just the first, and more sophisticated phones will certainly come, so we should keep watching …
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We’re still looking into the best mobile phone for business, sorry I took a while to come back My network indicated Blackberries, E and Nseries, Windows Mobile, iPhone and G1, in their order of preference. After seeing many attributes, let’s address what is really important for a business person, their scheduling suite, and all related tasks …
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April 6, 2009 in
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Tags: Android, BlackBerry, Bold, Browsing, E71, G1, IE, iPhone, Safari, Series60. Make a fuss! ;-)
While trying to understand why my connections indicated Blackberries, E and Nseries, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Android phones, in the order of their preference for the best mobile for business, we learned that browsing was just the third most essential function for these phones …
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