Tuesday, February 19, 2002
Nokia and Microsoft square off in internet ready phone war
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 05:52 AM
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020219/n18251341_2.html
Is today National Smart Phone Press Release day? :-D Here is another article on SmartPhones and Internet Ready phones pitting two of the largest technology companies in the world against each other. The rivalry between Nokia and MS is nothing new, and now Nokia is taking a page out of the MS playbook by opening their OS up to make things easier for mobile phone makers.
"Top-ranked mobile phone maker Nokia said on Monday it would offer other mobile handset suppliers a complete design kit for making Internet-ready phones, seeking to stave off a push by Microsoft Corp. into the mobile market. The move by Nokia, maker of one of every three mobile phones sold globally, takes aim at computer software giant Microsoft, which said earlier on Monday it was offering phone makers a standard kit of software and computer chips to build new 'smartphones'."
Every day the mobile phone battle reminds me more and more of the computer industry in the 70's and early '80's where every computer maker had their own operating system that ran on their own proprietary hardware. Then MS-DOS took off on IBM clones and really opened things up to hardware manufacturers, developers and especially consumers. I cannot predict who will come out on top of the smart phone battle from an OS standpoint, but I can predict that consumers will be the eventual winner.
Now, I just hope the carriers act together so we can play in this game. Don't make us use these cool new smart phones on your proprietary internal "internets." I can see them now greedily planning on how they can charge us for each theme and ringtone we download. Ugh!
Is today National Smart Phone Press Release day? :-D Here is another article on SmartPhones and Internet Ready phones pitting two of the largest technology companies in the world against each other. The rivalry between Nokia and MS is nothing new, and now Nokia is taking a page out of the MS playbook by opening their OS up to make things easier for mobile phone makers.
"Top-ranked mobile phone maker Nokia said on Monday it would offer other mobile handset suppliers a complete design kit for making Internet-ready phones, seeking to stave off a push by Microsoft Corp. into the mobile market. The move by Nokia, maker of one of every three mobile phones sold globally, takes aim at computer software giant Microsoft, which said earlier on Monday it was offering phone makers a standard kit of software and computer chips to build new 'smartphones'."
Every day the mobile phone battle reminds me more and more of the computer industry in the 70's and early '80's where every computer maker had their own operating system that ran on their own proprietary hardware. Then MS-DOS took off on IBM clones and really opened things up to hardware manufacturers, developers and especially consumers. I cannot predict who will come out on top of the smart phone battle from an OS standpoint, but I can predict that consumers will be the eventual winner.
Now, I just hope the carriers act together so we can play in this game. Don't make us use these cool new smart phones on your proprietary internal "internets." I can see them now greedily planning on how they can charge us for each theme and ringtone we download. Ugh!
