OS Functionality

Rated by OS (or OS included) functionality available (multi-tasking, navigation, file structure, cut/paste, etc) and created by getting a list of common functionality included in some but not all common Mobile OS'
1)Symbian
2)Android
3)WebOS
4)iOS
5)MeeGo
6)Windows Phone 7
Of note in doing this -there are ALOT of apps that do not ship with the devices that would rearrange the order and there is alot of unknown in MeeGo so its place is based off of where Hamattan is.

Apple Marketing

Apple's Marketing is Amazing! I am very impressed. They use the scarcity principle real news sites to promote their product. They manage to take something to release something that is not new, just faster, and have news agency after news agency rave about how amazing it is. Nokia released a phone with a camera that BLEW the competition out of the water and yet despite the phones strengths, it was torn apart in reviews. IF the new thinner iPad was made by HP I guarantee you that the biggest focus of the articles would have been that nothing news was added and doesn't it seem like the tablet will break?

I don't know how Apple has done it, but they have created a product that the MEDIA ADVERTISES for them, and the media is much more trusted than commercials are. Looking through current media articles on them I have seen Scarcity Principle, Band Wagon Effect, Buzz Word (count how many times news sites use Amazing or Magically in iPad articles), glittering generalities and I could go on through all of the propaganda principles and most of them are being used by the news for Apple.

How many American's have even heard of Symbian? Even if they have -how many just have a vague notion of "it is bad" or "it is outdated" without even knowing why they think that? All I can say is congratulation Apple your PR is amazing!

IPad

No Apple. Thinner and faster is not the only thing that matters. Glad about the NFC, but seriously, your late to the party. Maybe we number 3 really will be better.

WMC is finally over

Apparently all the juicy news was from before it even started, with Nokia. Though the Tegra 3 sounds pretty sweet, but like Anandtech, I will believe their performance claims when I see them. It is pretty impressive they have it running already though, cake and a party for that. I am currently still betting on Medfield being the impressive processor of the year. I am just hoping that it run either WebOS or MeeGo :)

High end Hemp

I cannot find out alot about the company, but it appears that QL London is a HEMP that Microvision is working with. They are very high end.

http://www.q-london.com/theatre.html
To quote QL London "The PicoP display engine allows you to enjoy deep, rich colour projection with bright and vivid laser images that are always in focus."
Microvision makes the PicoP display engine.

Another oddity about the company is they display the black version/render on their site, but they have pictures from CES on face book that look like:












Im disappointed that there is not more information about the projector. I wish I could read what it says on the poster behind the projector. Anyway I guess we wait and see (oh and the latin on their website? it is just a place holder, It is greek to me! google it.)

Things Nokia and Microsoft Must Do

I finished switching to Blogger!

So moving to WP7 is a very scary idea. Now that MeeGo is using QT (for all of you who dont know, that is what Intel/Nokia has been focusing on for the last year) the year that it is going to take to get WP7 on Nokia is enough that MeeGo could be finished in the same time. I hope that during this year WP7 implements the following:
No more ugly tiles!
copy&paste
Syncing without cloud
Free Tethering
USB On the go
sorting apps and folder creation
better webservices integration (actually show real up to date status of data)
mulitasking

Nokia Going forward

After a weekend of skiing and having fun, I have thought more about the elephant on my mind and decided that while I do not like Windows Phone 7 personally (because the operating system is not flexible and the homescreen is ugly) I DO understand why it was done, and I think it was a genius next step. While I do not for a second believe that Window Phone 7 can beat Android (and MeeGo I firmly believe CAN) this move will give Nokia time.

Elop's mistake(if any) at this point was the way that the news was announced. A gradual trickle approach would have primed the current Nokia consumer to be okay with the idea and would have cost Nokia less market share. For example if they would have said, "We are going to release phones on the WP7 OS and if it goes well, we will begin shifting resources towards WP7." This would have "splashed" alot less, but IF you believe all news is good news in terms of marketing, then I suppose that this makes sense because all engadget and slashgear can talk about is Nokia now. Nokia is now the dramatic teenage girl throwing a fit and wrapping boys around her finger. Which could be a good place to be. For now though, my next phone will be either MeeGo or webOS and I am not buying back my stock until the dust settles.

On a side note, I think sometime this week I am going to integrate this page with a google blogger page. I will be missing out on search indexing because I add it to this website as an iframe, but it will definately make this page easier to read.