I think the biggest battles in the smartphone market are yet to come.
I have an iPhone 3GS and I love it, and while the iPhone is considered the best smartphone yet I see multiple problems with it ...
- piss-poor battery life ... yes, I recharge it at night but there are days
when I forget about it ... the other Symbian-based smartphone I have
can last for 3 days - basically I'm not using the iPhone as a phone
(too unreliable)
- no replaceable battery
- the UI paradigm is lacking in areas Microsoft / WebOS / Android seem
to address ... those app icons are taking valuable screen estate without
much usefulness
- valuable applications aren't properly integrated with iOS ... I have the
following apps: Skype, YMessenger, Twitter and Facebook; and none
of them are saving contact info in my iPhone's contacts. This is one area
Windows Mobile 7 seems to be addressing
- the notifications are really fucking disruptive ... it
interrupted my TowerMadness game multiple times :)
- for developers you need OS X / Xcode for development,
and this can be a PITA. WinMo7 probably has the best developer tools
available.
- iOS has Game Center, but Microsoft has the XBox console market and
XBox Live upcoming in WinMo 7. Depending on their implementation,
the XBox Live integration can be groundbreaking.
- WinMo7 will probably have the best Office integration you can get on a
smartphone.
And I don't own an Android phone, but I see lots of fragmentation problems and poor management of the marketplace.
Bottom line being: lots of areas where iOS / Android could be improved, lots of room left for competition.
Don't count on Microsoft / Nokia being dead, yes big corporations are rigid and have a hard time changing directions, but they still have lots of resources, lots of talent and the duty to reinvent themselves when the shit hits the fan.
I have an iPhone 3GS and I love it, and while the iPhone is considered the best smartphone yet I see multiple problems with it ...
And I don't own an Android phone, but I see lots of fragmentation problems and poor management of the marketplace.Bottom line being: lots of areas where iOS / Android could be improved, lots of room left for competition.
Don't count on Microsoft / Nokia being dead, yes big corporations are rigid and have a hard time changing directions, but they still have lots of resources, lots of talent and the duty to reinvent themselves when the shit hits the fan.