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on symbian and smartphones…

If you’re interested in the development of smartphones (well they all will be smart soon), don’t miss the excellent overview by Rafe Blandford at AllAboutSymbian. In his CTIA and Smartphone Summit Report he gives an insightfull overview of the smartphone market and stretches out the differences between Us and European markets.

… In wireless broadband, certain data and multimedia service the US market is right at the cutting edge, but there is still a huge contrast between the US and the European markets. This is partly a result of market differences, but it is also due to cultural difference in usage patterns.

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The idea of device convergence which seems to have been championed by the smartphone in Europe is far less prevalent in the US. Even within the enterprise sector, where open platform devices are more prevalent, mobiles are often considered extra devices (people will also carry a PDA or a laptop) and are dominated by the need to mobilise email, with a resulting emphasis on thumb board based input devices (such as the Treo or Blackberry ranges). This means where open platform devices are being used they tend to stop being phones and morph into PDAphones.

Posted on April 24th, 2006 in Links
Tagged as ctia , smartphone , symbian
Written by Rudy De Waele

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