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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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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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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I can’t help but smile when I read about TeliaSoneras “ace up their sleeve” in the fight for becoming the operator to sell the iPhone in Sweden. Imagine that: operators fighting over who should sell a phone!
Touch screen, nice GUI and a slick design: those are not the true innovations in the iPhone. The fact [...]

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Yes, what else can you call it, the iPod Touch might very well be the first true consumer friendly mobile web tablet. WiFi, touch screen, full browser support and, of course since it’s Apple, a stunning design. What else can you ask for?
Well, a keyboard would be nice, but I guess the accessory market for [...]

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Wow, what a success. At least the first weekend, the iPhone went for a knockout and succeeded. Up to 700′000 phones is nothing short of amazing especially considering the price. The iPhone has already become and iconic product that has changed the market. Every other smartphone will be compared to the iPhone.
Iconic mobile phones are [...]

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Two observations that point in the same direction: the OS of your mobile doesn’t matter. It’s the internet compatibility that makes all the difference. First an old post by Nokia Linux web tablet product manager Ari Jaaksi:
“Today, we run Linux, X, Gnome, Flash, and friends on Nokia N800. Our big idea form the start was [...]

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Something is happening in the world of mobile phones. Something big. Very big.
The driving forces for the change include the miniaturization of the components necessary for building a PC, the cost of wireless high speed internet access and the platformization of mobile phone software.
Signs of the change include how the company that practically invented [...]

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The Apple iPhone is an interesting and innovative example of a new kind of device: the mobile web tablet. Still, I think Apple will have an extremely hard time living up to the expectations. I am reminded by that after reading the Mobile Enterprise blog:
We’ve got our priorities backwards. Working with junk like the UpStage [...]

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That last post got me thinking. The fact that I can’t get the name of any person calling me by having the phone hooking up to a web service and looking up the name from the phone number is such a sure sign of how far from The Mobile Web we really are that I’m [...]

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From Communities Dominates Brands:
Two interesting milestones will be reached in September 2007. We will reach 3 billion mobile phone subscribers and the mobile music revenues will reach 10 billion dollars. The 3 billion subscriber number will be widely celebrated but also widely misunderstood. It does not mean that 3 billion actual people have phones, as [...]

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…the internet!
Yes, that’s right. Not S60, UIQ, Linux, iPhone OS, PalmOS, Brew or Windows Mobile. No, the net is what will provide the core of any mobile service of the future.
I know I’m contradicting myself somewhat compared to what I wrote the other day about Java and JSR248, Mobile Service Architecture becoming the framework [...]

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Building a phone isn’t easy. Building a phone as revolutionary as the iPhone is even harder, something Apple seems to be finding out the hard way:
Apple iPhone Will Be Delayed Due To Complexity - Foxconn Insiders Say Quality Is A Problem
The Foxconn insiders are blaming Apple for submitting designs for manufacturing that “are not robust [...]

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