Obstacles to Innovation is an excellent post over on MobHappy which asks what are the obstacles to innovation in the mobile industry. There seems to be a constant flow of good ideas, but there are only a limited number of true success stories. The potential of mobile seems almost unbounded, but it seems that much of the time obstacles to innovation are stifling the realisation of this potential.
Maybe not so much a battle as a minor skirmish, but the Sony Ericsson W950, the Nokia N91 and the iPod Shuffle all come out of Ewan's blind listening tests with decent scores. Read the article for details and comments.
Rounding out our CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2007 coverage in style, we (well, mainly Rafe) present AAS video podcast number 6, 11 minutes long and featuring plenty of video of the new Nokia N76 and N93i, plus extensive photo sets for general CES, the N76 and the N93i. Full text reviews of both devices will be along in due course.
It's AAS audio podcast no. 10, in which Rafe sat down for an in-depth interview with Antti Vasara, Nokia's Eseries enterprise manager, for a wide ranging discussion on the marketplace, Nokia's viewpoint and some of the specific areas in business that these devices can address.
Here are some pictures I captured at Day One of CES in Las Vegas including a look inside the Nokia Multimedia (Nseries) Tent and some pictures with brief comments from Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo keynote address this morning. More detailed commentary will be coming in due course.
AAS chief Rafe Blandford weighs in with his official predictions and challenges for 2007, along with an assessment of what he got right and wrong from last year's predictions piece. Essential reading for anyone in the industry or who is interested in where the Symbian OS world is going. Plus, a bonus preview of the front cover of Symbian magazine, Dec 2007...
Ewan continues his first steps with the Sony Ericsson W950i, demonstrating how to hook it up to his PC and how to install his first application. And Happy New Year! Rafe'll be along in a while with some 2007 predictions...
OK, it's official. The S60 (2nd and 3rd Edition) game Invasion looks a million dollars - but it's only half finished and lacks almost everything needed to make it into an immersive (not to mention fun) experience. Here's krisse's detailed review.
It's...... AllAboutSymbian videocast no. 5, in which I review the Nokia 5500 and demonstrate all its unique attributes. Summary? Hey, so what if it's got a 208 pixel screen? - you can use this baby underwater!
Having now had a day or so to mull over the iPhone launch and the media frenzy surrounding it, I've been pondering the fact that in one important way, the iPhone definitely IS a 'break through' device, while Ewan refutes Jobs' 'Five years' boast by casting a satirical eye back five years instead and then describing what we have today.
