Nokia, Windows Phone 7 and Android

So the newest rumour floating around is that Nokia is in talks with Microsoft in order to adopt Windows Phone 7. Eldar Murtazin may be a well connected and mostly credible source. However, in this case, I think he is wrong and I don`t think that Nokia will introduce a Windows Phone 7 handset in the (near) future. In this regards, I am way more in line with Tomi Ahonen. But we can be wrong, so let`s have a look and see what said alliance could bring to the mobile landscape.

Samsung and Windows Phone 7

Recently, there was speculation that Samsung would concentrate more on Windows Phone 7 in 2011, which will allegedly result in a 2:1 ratio between Windows Phone 7 and Android. As we don`t know whether this is true or only limited to a certain market, I think there is some truth to it.

Fog Computing

Looking at the mobile industry in mid 2010 could be a very fascinating experience. The world is buzzing over the newest iPhone, Smartphones are everywhere, there is even now talk about “Super Phones”. But it isn`t. At least for some. For those interested not in the current state, but the future, I will share with you my vision of what I think will happen in the mobile landscape in the coming years.

Apple vs. Nokia part III

They say the darkest part of the night is right before the dawn of a new day. I think this is very true for Nokia today. Let me explain why I don`t think that Nokia is doomed.

Street credibility report: Palm Pre

They say that letting go is the hardest part in a relationship. When I recently replaced my Palm Pre with a Nokia N97 mini, I realized that this is very true.

Apple vs. Nokia part II

Almost exactly two years ago, I attended my first Mobile Monday in Munich. One of the first things that struck me at the event was the ubiquitousness of Nokia phones. Nearly everybody was sporting either a Nokia E61 or Nokia N95 8GB. Two years later, the conversion to the iPhone is almost 100 percent done. Why?

Blast from the past: Nokia N90

In 2004, Nokia introduced the first three NSeries phones: the N70, the N71 and the N93. History now tells us that it was the N70 that turned into a bestseller and brought the NSeries spirit to the masses. However, after the introduction of the N90, the mobile landscape wasn`t the same.

A friend`s tale or another lost opportunity

Some time ago, I met with a very good old friend. He just got his new E66 the other day. My friend works as head of purchasing in the textile industry and therefore travels quite a lot, mostly to Asia (China). Even so, he is the typical normob. He only uses his phone for making calls and only sparcely for texting. No mobile Web-browsing, no mobile E-Mail, no Web 2.0. He once used the media player in his phone to listen to audiobooks, but not anymore (he now uses an iPod nano for this purpose). Guess what phone he had for quite some time and absolutely loved? Right, a Razr…. Normally, this would result in a “N`nough said” attitude of mine, but as I said, he is an old friend.

Apple vs. Nokia – probably just part one

As we are approaching the final quarter of 2009, it is time for a first look back. In my opinion, the mobile year 2009 was clearly dominated by the “iPhone vs. The Rest of the World discussion”. No matter where you looked, the iPhone was everyhwere. In contrast, Nokia was receiving some hard beating. However, I think that the whole discussion was and still is way too much narrowed down to the iPhone. I wrote the following comment to a blog entry over at mobileindustryreview. It quite well reflects my thoughts about the whole iPhone discussion, at least how it is happening in the fall of 2009. So here we go:

The smart alternative

In the last couple of months, news in the mobile industry were clearly dominated by the iPhone and the rise of so called “smartphones”. These two topics were and still are so ubiquitous that other news are widely ignored not only by the media, but also by a large part of the mobile industry itself. I don`t want to underestimate the importance of smartphones or the iPhone in general. However, I think there is more to the mobile landscape than these two topics. Feature Phones for example. There are some great things to report in the field of these so-called “dumb phones” that are worth more than a look, especially since feature phones are still by a large margin the absolute dominant species of phones sold on this little planet.