Wireless Data News Blog - November 10th, 2006

Nov. 10th, 2006

Flash storage embedded into SIMs as well as related functionality that uses software built-in into flash and SIMs starts to reach critical mass - and leaders are Sandisk/msystems and Samsung.
Samsung leads in phone design as well - introducing Windows XP based phone (yes, mobile one + Wimax) and mp3 player with mobile phone functionality. Plus it offers a phone in US (with HELIO) that offers Google map-based GPS-enabled applications. Google is now into mobile applications - and have you noticed that GMail is not a beta now as you can register for it by SMS without any invitation.
ARCHOS starts to sell a multimedia player that could be used a mobile application platform - unlike similar offering from Microsoft.
OpenMoko adds another mobile phone Linux platform - with phone soon to be available in China.
Verisign touts mobile phone-enabled vending machines as something new - while years and years ago they were trialed in e.g. Japan and Finland and proved to to be really profitable due to low actual usage.
Some South African company (named POGO) tries to play Napster (that is original one) game again providing p2p file sharing for mobile content (ringtones including).