• Standards facilitate growth – open platforms are the future
• We are in transition
  
  • “Let’s make the pie bigger before we fight over a piece of the pieces”
• High performance and ease-of-use are key
• Optimization leads to more business

Creating software solutions for next generation Symbian OS phones (Powerpoint)
Peter Siljerud, Intel Corporation

Via Symbian Expo

The Mobile Handset Analyst discusses the problem of the carriers which compress the images taken by Megapixel cameras. And yes, this is a big problem as soon as you want to moblog quality pictures. With the GX-30 for example, I get pictures at 200-300 KB, but when I send them I have first to compress them as more than 100 KB are not allowed in MMS. The Mobile Handset Analyst concludes:

The issue is likely to come into sharper focus next year with the launch of two- and three-megapixel devices. “We’re in a situation now where MMS is always catching up,” Wood says. “MMS is still a very good framework for sending messages from one phone to another, but if people are going to want to send print-grade pictures, then operators need to think about using an e-mail or GPRS bearer.”

After loosing market share to its competitors (Motorola, Sony-Ericsson), Nokia seems to adapt to today's market. And it seems that this also includes a reconciliation between Nokia and Vodafone.


Vodafone details 3G devices for consumer launch

One of the most striking features of the list of handsets announced (see fig.) is the inclusion of Nokia devices that will be branded with the Vodafone name – suggesting that the world’s No. 1 vendor is finally starting to bow to operator pressure to produce customized devices.

Via Mobile Handset analyst