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I had a Nokia 7650. Awesome, but slow.
I had a Nokia 3230. Terrible, but reasonably fast. I mean, after a half-dozen firmware upgrades and repairs, the thing would crash on an incoming call, and I had to pull the battery to stop it vibrating-alert-ing itself to death.
Then the Siemens S65. Ahh, Teutonic understated simplicity. Great phone! Shame about their Bluetooth handsfree, which now won’t turn on. It just “bleep!”s feebly at me.
Then I said I wanted an iPhone on launch day. I still have the option open to me to get one, via Cingular International.
But I got a Nokia N95 instead.
For me, it’s the spiritual successor to the 7650. With speed, maturity of applications, real actual functionality and it’s an indispensable part of my working day.
Recommended!
To flesh out the bundled apps, I’d tip you get Fring, the GMail application and Salling Clicker.
…anyone know how to get it to pair with Address Book on Mac OS X, for dialing and sending of SMS? The Nokia iSync plugins allow me to sync perfectly, I just can’t “mate” with Address Book.
With a new business venture, come new challenges. I’m not endorsing any brand here, nor am I saying that the pictured vendor has any formal, informal, or inferred relationship with my new company.
But I am saying that I am now embedded in a new network/platform project, and that this device might have something to do with it.
Given that I now will work feverishly to obtain one on launch day, they have obviously got the mix right.
It’s equal parts widescreen iPod, PDA-computer hybrid and phone with an operating system that doesn’t suck.
My previous forays into PalmPilots with GSM jackets, Newton MessagePad 2100s with GPRS cards, and Symbian Series 60 have all been leading to this point.
As long as they don’t count Australia as Asia, which means a 2008 launch date for the masses, I can see a lot of people dropping Windows Mobile smartphones quick-smart.
Naturally, it’s first-generation, and may be enabled only for the Sony branded parts of your livingroom and jacket-pocket.
But free content downloads as 8Mbps MPEG-4 (H.264/AVC) should yield great HD results: I have done tests at those rates and have had only positive reviews so far.
Imagineering the approach Sony may take, I can see harmonious, elegant and profitable integration amongst the Sony properties of:
There’s no shortage of commentators ready and willing to pile scorn on Sony’s choices based on a creative set of interpretations of Sony’s failures and shortcomings.
The current trend of articles built as “The Seven…”, “The Top Tips You Need…”, “5 Winning Strategies” (etc) are starting to grate a little on me. I can only guess that this is a Q4 2006 “minutes to midnight” attempt to grab social networking visibility.
But at least Ken has gone out on a limb and named some working/nearly-working implementations for marketing messages via mobile.
Real-world working models have been few and far between in my usage and visibility of them as a consumer. As a technologist, it’s clear that the device no-one can leave home without, and which is seen as a link to the rest of the world no-matter-where, is an advertising success story waiting to happen.
He’s right in that with regard to some blue-sky ideas:
It’s [the strategy] not clear, and by the time this one is figured out, the mobile marketing train will have left the station long ago.
In this context, as per his opener, the most-discussed strategies may not have the strongest long-term prospects.
The one I feel most strongly about is the corollary/inverse proposition of
3) Location-based advertising: Remember all the hub-bub about location-based services in 2000? Mobile phone users will merrily walk down the street as their mobile phone beckons them in to the nearest boutique or café with a well-timed ad. The scenario sounded nice…until you actually thought about it for more than two seconds.
Traveling in Europe and East Asia at the beginning of the year, I acutely felt the begging need of a location-based, customer-initiated, service to give me context-and-texture for where and when I was.
