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If the iPhone's icon based menu system and application interface seems so effective, appealing, simple, friendly and easy to use, do consider this:
I love simple, obvious, user friendly interfaces! It makes using the system so obvious, and so easy to use!
More and more company provide Android based phone device.
2009 seems going to be the year of the Android smartphone device ... 'everywhere' ... :-)
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How does Cingular (with its memorable Blackberry service) eventually transform to become the "new AT&T" (with its distinctive iPhone service) it is today?
Here is a quick fascinating relook at the brand:
In the early beginning, Cingular pioneer the great Blackberry service to the marketplace, ...
A few years later, they acquire AT&T wireless, their parent company acquire the original AT&T, ... and the combined entity morph everything into "the new AT&T".
They initiate their iPhone campaign initially under the (transitional) Cingular brand ...
.. then on the release date of the new groundbreaking device, they rename and rebrand everything under (the new) AT&T ...
That's why today -- as history records it all -- we experience iPhone exclusively available from AT&T, yet we would still notice the "Cingular orange color theme" in AT&T's website today!
The "new AT&T" is the old chic friendly Cingular company and service after all! ;-)
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The Nokia N97's touch computing interface looks cool! Combined with Androids and iPhone touch interfaces approach that are also simultaneously entering the marketplace, the future of touch mobile computing seems would be truly awesome!
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These past few years I always wonder why the exciting Motorola interactive pager that I experienced sometime in 1997 or 1998 in the US ceased to become anything big that dominate the marketplace. From personal experience, I still crisply remember how the Motorola interactive pager was really a great device. It was impressive.
Back then, the device was about the size of a 'pager' (a 'slightly thicker pager' we call it), and -- in a very useful way -- we can use it to interactively update, communicate and coordinate our activities in organizing big conference events that involves thousands of people.
While wondering about that Motorola 'interactive pager' (and what lead to its 'demise'), I also always wonder when (and how) Blackberry get started, in which market it penetrate, and how it creep up the marketplace.
These question stays at the back of my mind for a few years. I am totally 'clueless' about it. I always wonder about it. Throughout the years, I seriously wonder why the Motorola great product ceased to mature in the marketplace, and where/when 'suddenly' RIM/Blackberry appear ...
... until today I found this info:
"Prior to the manufacture of the BlackBerry, RIM worked with RAM Mobile Data and Ericsson to turn the Ericsson-developed Mobitex wireless data network into a two-way paging and wireless e-mail network. Pivotal in this development was the release of the Inter@ctive pager 950, which started shipping in August 2000. About the size of a bar of soap, this device competed against the SkyTel two-way paging network developed by Motorola.
Oh! Now I understand where the RIM/Blackberry root's come from. Now I can see -- a bit -- of the picture of what's going on (in the past). The two things -- the Motorola interactive pager I am talking about, and the RIM/Blackberry device I am wondering about -- actually correlates to each other!
Not only they are related to each other, they competed to each other too!
Seems that somewhere in the past, Motorola innovate and rules, then RIM comes into act. Eventually -- as the future goes -- Blackberry is the one that becomes more able to take idea forward, own it, innovate it further, hence eventually dominate the market almost entirely, especially as the platform switch from pagers, ... to phones ... to smartphones!
Some more facts:
In its early stage of development and presence in the market, Blackberry was available on RAM Mobile Data (originally founded by RAM Broadcasting Corporation as American Mobile Data Communications, Inc. in 1988) & Ericsson Mobitex wireless data network. Later on, RAM Mobile Data was sold and renamed BellSouth Wireless Data in 1995 and later became Cingular Interactive when BellSouth and SBC formed Cingular Wireless.
Such gives us a strong background root and understanding of where Blackberry come from! It also gives an idea why initially Blackberrys eventually always appear in Cingular ads! As the history shows: BellSouth and SBC formed Cingular Wireless.
As the history later fascinatingly goes:
Cingular Wireless later on acquired the old AT&T Wireless; SBC later acquired the original AT&T and re-branded as "the new AT&T". Cingular became wholly-owned by the new AT&T in December 2006 as a result of AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth.
and ...
Cingular -- in January 2007 -- confirmed it would itself rebrand under the AT&T moniker. The corporate name change occurred immediately, although, for regulatory and brand-awareness reasons, both brands were used in the wireless unit's signage and advertising during a transition period. The transition concluded in late June, just prior to the rollout of the Apple iPhone.
It is this (new) AT&T that later on brings us the iPhone!, the 'exclusive device' that consumer (in the US) can get only from AT&T, very similar to the way 'Blackberry' was Cingular's 'exclusive device' in the past.
Oh, how these tiny innovators in wireless portable working device -- RIM Blackberry (and its underlying 'Blackberry carriers') -- have transformed in the past 10 years, and become huge, in the process!
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First is the G1 (in the US), then Agora (in Australia), coming soon -- it was said -- is the O-Phone in China.
This is true sign of growing series of fascinating development of Google Android phones, in the marketplace! :-)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10121920-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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The wait is over. Those that live overseas can still buy G1 Developer Edition now.
There'd be one-time setup fee of $25. The device will cost $399 (free shipping in the States).
For G1 developer only for this time ... but still .. Yikes! It's seriously cool approach!
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G1, G1, G1 ... :-)
People clamouring to see the Nokia N97 ...
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Touch technology + Physical Keyboard seems to be the best combo .. for now. :-)
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I used to like handphone with candy-bar format since long time ago. Candy bar phone is simple, sleek, durable, quick, easy to use, and best of all, can be operated without hassle: you need to do something, you can immediately do it because the phone's screen and keyboard is right there open, to be operated.
But with the emergence of touch technology, and the need to see web pages on smartphones without the hassle of scrolling, I start to think that my favouritism for candy-bar smartphones might need to transform to other form factor that is more suitable for modern needs. 'Slidephone' come to my attention.
Compared to 'candy-bar' phone, slidephone has several advantages:
In that retrospect, I think I will start looking into 'slidephone' model into the future. Not only such seems to provide better capability to optimize the attractiveness of touch interface with the strength, proven-ness and durability of physical-keyboard, at the same time it also allow us to operate the system in the best form factor and in ways that is most suitable to the type of work or activities that needs to be conducted. Hence:
Looking into the future, as screen technology getting thinner, battery getting thinner, components and keyboard getting thinner, we might eventually have 'slidephone' that is as thin as an iPod today. When that happen, we would then have the best of all systems in our hand. Our phone would then become super thin to carry around, comfortable to use as a touch ready browsing device, at the same time also can provide the best tactile keyboard interface ever.
This might be the best and most optimum interface and form factor into the future. We shall see how things evolve. Probably as soft keyboard technology getting mature, we will the physical keyboard eventually disappear. But as of now, an attachment of a super accurate (and super reliable) physical tactile keyboard in addition to the powerful touch interface, is probably the best (and most optimum) form factor, for now.
In all, 'slidephone' probably provide the best interface, for now.
I plan to get one when I discover one that 'perfectly' fits my working chore. (Honesty, the G1 -- or the Nokia N97 -- is really now the 'one' that stays in my mind) :-P
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