Hey, why not?

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It’s long, but it’s worth it. Tomi Ahonen of the blog Communities Dominates Brands lists no less than 20 shifts that have occurred in the telecom industry over the last 10 years. The shifts are:
Mobile phones vs fixed landline phones
Change from voice to SMS
Move from enterprise to consumer centric
Smartphone customers
Postpaid vs prepaid
Subsidised handsets vs unsubsidised
Operator [...]

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Capuchin monkey.
Sony Ericsson has announced Yet Another Mobile Platform:
Project Capuchin will provide developers with an intuitive tool to create applications with a cleaner user interface (UI) without sacrificing the strong, feature rich and widely deployed Java ME
infrastructure, including secure, well-developed content distribution. Project Capuchin’s bridging software will empower two distinct developer communities to leverage their [...]

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I’ve finally done something I should have done a long time ago: I’ve moved this blog to a new web hosting service and fixed the URL so that it’s no longer softwaresweden.com/mobilewebtablet but www.mobilewebtablet.com.
Please update your links to this blog if you have any and they point to the softwaresweden.com URL. The URL to this [...]

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The mobile phone manufacturers are so busy competing against each other that they very well might be missing competitors coming from the side. Like for example full blown PCs that fit in your jacket pocket such as the Willcom D4 by Sharp. Based on the Intel Atom platform, the size (188×84×25.9mm) is not that much [...]

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Sales for first quarter 2008:

Motorola: 27.4 million devices.
LG: 24.4 million devices.
Sony Ericsson: 22.3 million devices

In a few months time the top five chart can be completely rewritten. I wonder if Motorola will even be in it!
What about Apple? Well, their target is 10 million iPhones sold by the end of the year. That’s about the [...]

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In a few years time, every photo you take with any camera will be geotagged. What does that mean? The location of where you took the photo is embedded in the photo file. Now you can organise your pictures not just by time but also by place.
Nokia just released an update to their GPS-enabled [...]

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What happened to video telephony? It was supposed to be the Big Thing about 3G, wasn’t it?
Well, now video telephony of a different kind is emerging. I wrote about it in a blog post about emotional bandwidth and Swedish startup Bambuser over at the GlocalReach blog.

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I visited the Facebook Garage yesterday here in Stockholm. Wrote a short text about it over here.
It’s possible to follow the conference while not being there by using a computer since everyone is blogging, twittering, jaikuing, flickring, bambusing and so on and it’s also possible to be at the conference and not bring a [...]

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Who would have thought it was possible to make Windows Mobile look sexy? Well, it does and I’m happy to say it’s Sony Ericsson that pulls it off with the launch of the XPERIA X1.
Some quick thoughts:
- I wonder what the deal looks like between SEMC and Microsoft. Microsoft and Ericsson has worked together [...]

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Just finished updating my Nokia N800 from OS2007 to OS2008. What an improvement! The GUI is starting to take shape and find an identity if its own. The bundled applications are very good, for example the map application. Seems like the browser is a bit more stable as well.
So, how am I using the N800? [...]

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My newly purchased Nokia N800 web tablet together with, a somewhat larger, Apple bluetooth keyboard became my setup for the day during the Hubbub-conference in Stockholm yesterday.
I tried live blogging during the presentations but gave up. Partly because I didn’t really get up to speed with the Wordpress blogpost editor in the browser on [...]

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Got myself a true mobile web tablet yesterday: a Nokia N800. Let’s see if it will replace my Sony Ericsson/UIQ + Opera Mini-combo for doing all that micro-surfing to kill off dull moments throughout the day. Time will tell.
First impression: a much better device than the Nokia 770, which was a typical 1.0 showing great [...]

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Platform battles… aren’t they fun?
Actually, they’re not. They keep a lot of innovation from happening. Will Google’s move to launch the alliance make the platform battle finish sooner than it otherwise would? Probably not. From that perspective, the Open Handset Alliance was a disappointment.
If you expected a cool device from Google, you should be also [...]

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…and it’s a… web page?
With… robots. And a dog.

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This small notebook with a 7″ inch screen is yet another sign of how there’s opportunity in the black hole of portables: the market between the mobile phone (<3 inch displays) and the laptop (>10 inch displays). The market of web tablets:
It’s not a laptop. It’s not a notebook. It’s not a ultra mobile PC [...]

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Your OpenSocial network.
It’s Google and partners against Facebook (and Microsoft) now.
The address book in your mobile phone is a very simple social networking application that has remained basically unchanged since it first arrived. Adding OpenSocial to the Google Phone might bring some innovation to this application (which probably is amongst the most used applications in [...]

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Spent the afternoon at the Daytona Session here in Stockholm. A mini-conference focusing on the future of the internet. One of the speakers was Stefan Waldeck from Yahoo! Sweden. He talked about mobile (which by the way was a common theme amongst the speakers - seems that’s where the future of the web is) and [...]

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A few disruptive innovations are getting ready to hit the market, opening up for small device manufacturers to fill the hole between the <3 inch display devices (mobile phones) and the >10 inch display device (laptops). The hole reserved for web tablets.
One of them is flash memory replacing the hard drive. Another one is new [...]

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It’s a classic underdog story. When a couple of engineers at web browser maker Opera suggested to management that they should try building a mobile java version of their browser, no one listened. Well, they built it and it’s about to outgrow its desktop bigger brother. Here are some stats for browser market share:

Opera Mini
Opera

May
0.16%
0.74%

June
0.21%
0.91%

July
0.24%
0.89%

August
0.27%
0.88%

September
0.39%
0.87%

(source)
Another [...]

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