Comments on: ThoughtPiece: The State of the Smartphone Market http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/07/11/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-smartphone-market/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 25 May 2013 13:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kevin http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/07/11/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-smartphone-market/comment-page-1/#comment-169920 Kevin Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:48:30 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/07/11/005062/#comment-169920 This is very USA centric–how about the Symbian platform? In Europe, Nokia is a significant if not the dominate smartphone vendor.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/07/11/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-smartphone-market/comment-page-1/#comment-486606 Kevin Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:48:00 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/07/11/005062/#comment-486606 This is very USA centric–how about the Symbian platform? In Europe, Nokia is a significant if not the dominate smartphone vendor.

]]> By: James http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/07/11/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-smartphone-market/comment-page-1/#comment-169643 James Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:07:14 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/07/11/005062/#comment-169643 Until you can add your own applications to the iPhone, it is NOT a smartphone. It is a very slick media phone, and is going to really eat into Sony Ericsson’s market share. Apple may eventually go that route, but it’s going to be at minimum 6 months to a year before we see anything from them. RIM is definitely in good standing, but as mentioned by one of their execs, they cannot get complacent with Apple around.

They have the upperhand and should act on it, roll out 3G and WiFi as quick as they can, bump the specs in their consumer phones to record video with higher meg cameras and they should get some kind of system to alert owners when new updates are available so that we don’t have to troll forums to find the latest software.

As for Windows Mobile, it’s always going to be there, and it seems even with high profile devices like the Q and Blackjack, MS and Co. aren’t able make huge gains. I haven’t used WM6 so I can’t comment on if it’s a big improvement. As long as RIM can keep and improve in the enterprise arena they should be alright against MS.

Palm is close to dead. I give them one year before they’ve completely changed. Either they get eaten up by someone else, move entirely to WM or go chapter 11. They seem to have gotten confused with the correct date for April Fool’s when they released the Folio.

]]> By: James http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/07/11/thoughtpiece-the-state-of-the-smartphone-market/comment-page-1/#comment-486605 James Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:07:00 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/07/11/005062/#comment-486605 Until you can add your own applications to the iPhone, it is NOT a smartphone. It is a very slick media phone, and is going to really eat into Sony Ericsson’s market share. Apple may eventually go that route, but it’s going to be at minimum 6 months to a year before we see anything from them. RIM is definitely in good standing, but as mentioned by one of their execs, they cannot get complacent with Apple around.

They have the upperhand and should act on it, roll out 3G and WiFi as quick as they can, bump the specs in their consumer phones to record video with higher meg cameras and they should get some kind of system to alert owners when new updates are available so that we don’t have to troll forums to find the latest software.

As for Windows Mobile, it’s always going to be there, and it seems even with high profile devices like the Q and Blackjack, MS and Co. aren’t able make huge gains. I haven’t used WM6 so I can’t comment on if it’s a big improvement. As long as RIM can keep and improve in the enterprise arena they should be alright against MS.

Palm is close to dead. I give them one year before they’ve completely changed. Either they get eaten up by someone else, move entirely to WM or go chapter 11. They seem to have gotten confused with the correct date for April Fool’s when they released the Folio.

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