Wireless Data News Blog - November 10th, 2006
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Nov. 10th, 2006
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- 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).
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