I mentioned before when discussing DCM’s Android Fund that Android is a truly global opportunity. While Nokia is probably praying that this is untrue, the recent success of Huawei in Kenya with its IDEOS phone illustrates that Android isn’t just doing well in the First World, its particular approach makes it well-suited to tackle the [...]
(Cross posted to Bench Press) Singapore is a fascinating country – despite the lack of what most in the West would recognize as democratic freedom, it consistently ranks well in terms of lack of corruption and high and growing standard of living for its people. It is also one of the boldest when it comes [...]
I’ve blogged before about how smartphones enable new levels of engagement and context in our digital experiences. Its no small wonder that there are many retailers/restaurants/companies trying to use the engagement and context that smartphones enable to try to sell more stuff to people. While most folks focusing on this have traditionally focused on location-based [...]
It dawned on me recently. I have a great smartphone. I have a long commute and have gotten pretty sick of the repetitive nature of most radio stations. What should I do, then? The current solution I’m trying out are podcasts. For those of you who don’t know, podcasts are RSS/RSS-like subscriptions to audio broadcasts, [...]
As part of my attempt to figure out where the next “big thing” is, I’ve been thinking about how technology has changed my life. While many of the changes have been positive (e.g., I can now talk to my buddy Anuraag based in Japan easily with Skype, or use Google Voice to manage a partner [...]
This past weekend, a TechCrunch article caught the tech blogosophere off guard with an interesting claim: Facebook is building a mobile phone, says a source who has knowledge of the project. Or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware. Which is exactly what [...]
Having written a long treatise on how the DROID 2 and iPhone 4 stack up against one another, I thought it would be good to add another post on where I thought both phones were deficient in the hopes that folks from the smartphone industry would listen intently so that my next phone choice is [...]
Very provocative headline (see title of blog post) for an interesting WSJ piece: “They are serious about making a change,” one person familiar with the matter said. Nokia board members are “supposed to make a decision by the end of the month,” that person said. They should be very serious about making a change – [...]
[This is a continuation of my post on Why Smartphones are a Big Deal (Part 1)] Last time, I laid out four reasons why smartphones are a lot more than just phones for rich snobs: It’s the software, stupid Look ma, no <insert other device here> Putting the carriers in their place Contextuality My last [...]
A cab driver the other day went off on me with a rant about how new smartphone users were all smug, arrogant gadget snobs for using phones that did more than just make phone calls. “Why you gotta need more than just the phone?”, he asked. While he was probably right on the money with [...]