http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/16/3gsm-smartphones-start-moving-to-the-mass-market/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/16/3gsm-smartphones-start-moving-to-the-mass-market/comment-page-1/#comment-31188 CTIA - Symbian Waiting To Pounce On The US at MobHappy Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:00:58 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/16/3gsm-smartphones-start-moving-to-the-mass-market/#comment-31188 [...] The company’s experience with NTT DoCoMo in Japan bears this out — Symbian (along with Linux) is one of DoCoMo’s preferred handset development platforms, and sales of Symbian devices there have grown significantly over the last several years. Western operators, like Vodafone, are increasingly settling on smartphone platforms to standardize their handset portfolio and push the devices more squarely into the mass market. US operators aren’t any different, Panagrossi says, and as they turn their attention to more data services, they’ll start pushing more smartphones — which can also allow them to shift the subsidy models away from being solely based on voice spending. [...] [...] The company’s experience with NTT DoCoMo in Japan bears this out — Symbian (along with Linux) is one of DoCoMo’s preferred handset development platforms, and sales of Symbian devices there have grown significantly over the last several years. Western operators, like Vodafone, are increasingly settling on smartphone platforms to standardize their handset portfolio and push the devices more squarely into the mass market. US operators aren’t any different, Panagrossi says, and as they turn their attention to more data services, they’ll start pushing more smartphones — which can also allow them to shift the subsidy models away from being solely based on voice spending. [...]

]]> http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/16/3gsm-smartphones-start-moving-to-the-mass-market/comment-page-1/#comment-9325 Operators, Vendors Line Up Behind Mobile Linux at MobHappy Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:32:21 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/02/16/3gsm-smartphones-start-moving-to-the-mass-market/#comment-9325 [...] The only thing here that could make this something of a tipping point for Linux is the participation of DoCoMo and Vodafone. DoCoMo, some time ago, specified Linux as one of its two preferred platforms (along with Symbian) for 3G devices, and its top-down approach means it will do a lot of work to dictate exactly what the platform will do to device vendors. Vodafone’s participation, by sheer virtue of its scope, will turn some heads. Remember back at 3GSM when Vodafone said it wanted to settle on two or three smartphone platforms (S60 being one of them) — looks like Linux is the second. [...] [...] The only thing here that could make this something of a tipping point for Linux is the participation of DoCoMo and Vodafone. DoCoMo, some time ago, specified Linux as one of its two preferred platforms (along with Symbian) for 3G devices, and its top-down approach means it will do a lot of work to dictate exactly what the platform will do to device vendors. Vodafone’s participation, by sheer virtue of its scope, will turn some heads. Remember back at 3GSM when Vodafone said it wanted to settle on two or three smartphone platforms (S60 being one of them) — looks like Linux is the second. [...]

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