Thanks for visiting... You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.

The key difference between iTunes App Store for the iPhone and the Android Market for Gphones… control.

Developers can put up anything on Android. The absence of Apple style scrutiny for the Android Market presents obvious upsides and downsides.

The ease of entry for developers sets the stage for both exceptional innovation and tawdry applications to coexist. Too much of the tawdry, and the market may be shunned.

The lack of enforcement for user interface standards is the proverbial double-edged sword. How does Google approach this challenge?

Eric Chu is Google Android’s Mobile Platform Manager:

“We feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available.”

The HTC Dream G1 which supports Android has a moving target release date. Speculation suggests T-Mobile could release it in the U.S. within the next three weeks.

[Read more →]

Google’s Android has now secured necessary approval from the Federal Communications Commission.

A beta version of the Android 0.9 SDK with tools for developers has been released along with a development road map for the Linux-based mobile operating system.
Here is the Developer Roadmap for Google’s Open Handset Alliance Project.

Last month, against the backdrop of a limited release, developers cried fowl. Now the doors have been blown wide open.

Sidebar: schematics have surfaced for the Android mobile device, the HTC Dream.

[Read more →]

Look for a T-Mobile Google Android device before Christmas.

High Tech Computer Corp. will manufacture the handset.

[Read more →]

Motorola remains a troubled outfit… it has been for ages.  But the firm now has a 25.8% market share of the U.S. mobile phone handset market.

Why is Motorola hanging on and perhaps turning around while its technology lags?  Solid business relationships with the carriers and a big footprint for distribution.

Boston-based Strategy Analytics tracks mobile device trends, among other things.  It notes that at the end of Q2 2008, Blackberry hit a double digit market share.  The reason why: adding consumer handsets to its lineup of enterprise handsets is proving to be a good move.  

[Read more →]

Is Microsoft’s Zune so far behind the iPod it borders on being irrelevant? Can it be dressed up and given another shot, or should it simply be shot?

Look for Microsoft to try and inject new life into the moribund Zune with original and exclusive video content.

What does this look like? Here’s how Richard Winn, Zune’s Director of Entertainment Development puts it…

“What we would be looking to do with any form of original content is the added component that Zune could provide that iTunes or any competing service couldn’t.”

How much catching up does the Zune have to pull off? Since its debut in November, 2006, 2 million Zunes have been sold. By comparison, Apple sells 3.5 million iPods a month.

[Read more →]