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.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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 Even if they have -how many just have a vague notion of "it is bad" or "it is outdated" without even knowing why they think that?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!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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 :)
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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
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
Monday, February 14, 2011
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.
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.
Post Announcement Reaction
Looks like Nokia "burning platform" was being dowsed, but instead they jumped into the fire! There got the emotions off my chest. To quote me, this is the short of what what happened "That would be suicide to his career, and unless he is being paid millions by Microsoft to flush Nokia in order to get Microsoft ahead (Not likely at all)" apparently it was very likely. Windows Phone 7 is not popular in the States for a reason, I promise you that. The average smartphone user wants flexiblity, customiblity. THAT is why Android is growing as fast as it is. I may write more later once I have digested the news a little more, but for now -I sold my stock, and our next phone will be webOS, not MeeGo like I was hoping. I raise my glass to you Nokia. Maybe I will write a eulogy for you later this week.
Nokia Pre-Announcement Analysis
Nokia has had quite the roiling lately. Some facts, speculation, some fiction. A new CEO who is taking the company in a new direction. Possible adoptation of Windows Phone 7 as an operating system, and rumors they are giving up their old systems.
There is a pretty solid line of what is true and what isn't, and the things that are not true do not matter. First-A new CEO Stephen Elop. He replaced an old CEO who had a plan, that plan did not go away. Stephen is not going to start from scratch. That would be suicide to his career, and unless he is being paid millions by Microsoft to flush Nokia to get Microsoft ahead (Not likely at all), Stephen has one choice to continue the strategy that was already there. Dont get me wrong, he is adding to this strategy, which we will get to in a momment, but Stephen cannot stop the boat, only turn it. This means Nokia WILL develop and release MeeGo with Intel. There WILL be a phone using Medfield and a tablet using the same. Symbian will be updated.
Now how things will change. Collaboration, innovation and speed are obvious. Nokia spends more on research that any other phone company and yet does not use the majority of it. That will change. Time to market will change, no longer will it take a year to produce and release, but about 3 months between releases. This means Nokia employees will be required to work longer days, and management is going to shaken until they are pushing their employees and internal structure will change until everyone is working together, which gives us the rumors of potential firing and hiring
Now lets touch on the Window Phone 7/Android rumor. If Stephen decides to use one of these operating systems, Stephen comes from Microsoft and is on good terms with Microsoft, so it WILL be Windows Phone 7(WP7) if anything. That being said using WP7 for the US market makes sense, but doesnt make sense as the only operating system. WP7 (&8) have mindshare in the US and Microsoft will be willing to help finance some of the promotional cost adding to that mindshare for almost free for Nokia. Mean while Intel will not allow WP7 or 8 to be used with their processor because they are not high proformance optimized (excellent article on this at http://www.anandtech.com/show/3697/intel-alleges-windows-phone-7-not-optimized-for-high-performance-wont-support-it)
This means that MeeGo is at this point one of two options (Android being the other) that can use Medfield. (One important note here Android COULD be adopted as a temporary Medfield alternative if MeeGo has developed more slowly than the Medfield Android version. MeeGo will eventually win here according to the Anandtech article, but Android could buy time.)
So Nokia will develop MeeGo for the high end world market, slowly phasing development of Symbian down to a minor recurring cost as MeeGo adoptation grows on the high end and Symbian will move to replace Nokia's current low end feature phones. Mean while in the states Microsoft and Nokia will be promoting each other gaining mind share and market share much as Motorola, Verizon, and Google did with the original Droid. Once WP7 becomes big, other manufactures will start adopting and pushing WP7 at which point Nokia is hoping MeeGo will be gaining traction in the states and worldwide due to Medfield, bringing companies to MeeGo in order to get Medfield and starting just a little bit of history repeating.
By starting on adopting Medfield and MeeGo a year ago Nokia has gained a huge future advantage. Intel is extremely good at iterating processors once they get started. They rarely inovate processors(factories they definately do), but Intel dominates when they follow. Intel also has alot riding on Medfield's sucess and I are certainly doing everything they can to allow it to dominate and stay there.
The unknows (at least to me). HP and Palm have excellent phone software, but so far boring hardware and no mindshare, that could change if HP is working on adopting Medfield. IOS could aleady be moving to using Medfield which would potentially remove Nokia's headstart, and place Nokia behind. And last, but greatest, Nokia needs to be in front of the Medfield wave, not on it. Next generation ARM processors (everything after the tegra 2) are better than first generation Medfield processors in power consumption and speed, so a 1st gen medfield device is needed today, and next gen if not today, then before the end of the year.
Here is to hoping Stephen's can surf the front of the wave. If you havent read it yet check out http://thefeuchts.com/Stocks.aspx and watch the video on Nokia's vision of the future. IT IS THE FUTURE.
There is a pretty solid line of what is true and what isn't, and the things that are not true do not matter. First-A new CEO Stephen Elop. He replaced an old CEO who had a plan, that plan did not go away. Stephen is not going to start from scratch. That would be suicide to his career, and unless he is being paid millions by Microsoft to flush Nokia to get Microsoft ahead (Not likely at all), Stephen has one choice to continue the strategy that was already there. Dont get me wrong, he is adding to this strategy, which we will get to in a momment, but Stephen cannot stop the boat, only turn it. This means Nokia WILL develop and release MeeGo with Intel. There WILL be a phone using Medfield and a tablet using the same. Symbian will be updated.
Now how things will change. Collaboration, innovation and speed are obvious. Nokia spends more on research that any other phone company and yet does not use the majority of it. That will change. Time to market will change, no longer will it take a year to produce and release, but about 3 months between releases. This means Nokia employees will be required to work longer days, and management is going to shaken until they are pushing their employees and internal structure will change until everyone is working together, which gives us the rumors of potential firing and hiring
Now lets touch on the Window Phone 7/Android rumor. If Stephen decides to use one of these operating systems, Stephen comes from Microsoft and is on good terms with Microsoft, so it WILL be Windows Phone 7(WP7) if anything. That being said using WP7 for the US market makes sense, but doesnt make sense as the only operating system. WP7 (&8) have mindshare in the US and Microsoft will be willing to help finance some of the promotional cost adding to that mindshare for almost free for Nokia. Mean while Intel will not allow WP7 or 8 to be used with their processor because they are not high proformance optimized (excellent article on this at http://www.anandtech.com/show/3697/intel-alleges-windows-phone-7-not-optimized-for-high-performance-wont-support-it)
This means that MeeGo is at this point one of two options (Android being the other) that can use Medfield. (One important note here Android COULD be adopted as a temporary Medfield alternative if MeeGo has developed more slowly than the Medfield Android version. MeeGo will eventually win here according to the Anandtech article, but Android could buy time.)
So Nokia will develop MeeGo for the high end world market, slowly phasing development of Symbian down to a minor recurring cost as MeeGo adoptation grows on the high end and Symbian will move to replace Nokia's current low end feature phones. Mean while in the states Microsoft and Nokia will be promoting each other gaining mind share and market share much as Motorola, Verizon, and Google did with the original Droid. Once WP7 becomes big, other manufactures will start adopting and pushing WP7 at which point Nokia is hoping MeeGo will be gaining traction in the states and worldwide due to Medfield, bringing companies to MeeGo in order to get Medfield and starting just a little bit of history repeating.
By starting on adopting Medfield and MeeGo a year ago Nokia has gained a huge future advantage. Intel is extremely good at iterating processors once they get started. They rarely inovate processors(factories they definately do), but Intel dominates when they follow. Intel also has alot riding on Medfield's sucess and I are certainly doing everything they can to allow it to dominate and stay there.
The unknows (at least to me). HP and Palm have excellent phone software, but so far boring hardware and no mindshare, that could change if HP is working on adopting Medfield. IOS could aleady be moving to using Medfield which would potentially remove Nokia's headstart, and place Nokia behind. And last, but greatest, Nokia needs to be in front of the Medfield wave, not on it. Next generation ARM processors (everything after the tegra 2) are better than first generation Medfield processors in power consumption and speed, so a 1st gen medfield device is needed today, and next gen if not today, then before the end of the year.
Here is to hoping Stephen's can surf the front of the wave. If you havent read it yet check out http://thefeuchts.com/Stocks.aspx and watch the video on Nokia's vision of the future. IT IS THE FUTURE.
A Quiet Micro Vision
MicroVision is quite and for mainly one reason-They are buying time. I have been long in this stock for over 2 years now and it is becoming an obvious pattern. They know they have a next gen technology (so no dont expect a buyout unless it is hostile or very very friendly), but MVIS also knows that green lasers are not in place (Apple couldnt put a PICOP in if they wanted to) and so MVIS develops and gets ready everything while it waits on the GL playing games to keep its Stock price above 1 dollar while they buy time.
The CC will come and slightly after it will come good news to keep the stock price up, and then a dilution will come, and then around June we will start getting a continual stream of good news because the direct green laser plant's will finally be up. It is even possible that by Christmas we will see the first projectors using direct green lasers. At this point it is not up to Micro Vision. They are sitting on companies that have expressed interest at a lower price point, and yet they have to wait for Osram and all of the other Direct Green laser manufactures.
The CC will come and slightly after it will come good news to keep the stock price up, and then a dilution will come, and then around June we will start getting a continual stream of good news because the direct green laser plant's will finally be up. It is even possible that by Christmas we will see the first projectors using direct green lasers. At this point it is not up to Micro Vision. They are sitting on companies that have expressed interest at a lower price point, and yet they have to wait for Osram and all of the other Direct Green laser manufactures.
Projector Used in Chillian Miner Rescue
This is from the Chile Mining Rescue this last year. A projector was sent down and I took the time to evaluate which one it is below.
There are rumors on Engadget that the projector used was a Samsung Beam. This is obviously not true (or only one of several used) if you look at the video below and this picture of the Samsung Beam. The Beam has the focus wheel on the side not the front.
I apologize for the poor quality/advertisements in this, it was the best one I could find. Look at 36-38 seconds to see the projector used. It was a 3M MPRO 120 or 3M MPRO 150.
@ 24 seconds:
Note the focus wheel
From 3M Website
Note the similar curves of the sides, the focus wheel on the front.
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