Mobile Multitasking Innovations

2010-08-13T08:38:00.000-07:00

Mobile Phone Technology - The Development

Mobile phone is a small, portable communication device that enables people to make phone calls whenever where they are. It receives and gives out signals via the service providersâ€™ transmitting towers and even via satellite. The convenience of mobile phone is allowing people to communicate with one another without the limitation of regions and time.

Mobile phone is a device providing two-way communication. Signal transmission is the very basic concept for mobile phone. It uses the radio wave theories which are similar to the ordinary radios. The frequencies of mobile phones of course are stronger and higher than ordinary radios to enable clearer conversation among users. The transmission of the mobile phones allow these radio wave (signals) to â€œinteractâ€? (to receive and send) from the device to the transmission centers (towers), then to another user (no matter land line or another mobile phone). The signals of mobile phone are split into small cells (This is also why mobile phones are also known as â€œCell Phonesâ€? earlier) geographically. These cells allow radio transmission enabling authorised signals to receive and send out among the mobile phones.

The technology influencing on mobile phone started back in the mid twentieth century. The very first mobile telephony service was in Sweden. It was a form of radio telephony tested by the Swedish police for used in police cruisers. This form of radio telephone is a two-way radio which is still widely used in taxis and police cruisers. In 1946, Americaâ€™s AT&T and Southwestern Bell brought out the first commercial mobile telephone service in 1946. This service is used on communication devices which are permanently installed on vehicles. It uses a weaker signal (compared to what mobile phones receive now), but a similar theory of receiving and giving out signals. Though, the bandwidth is very low.

The â€œmodernâ€? mobile phones are developed, researched and experimented in the 1970s. AT&Tâ€™s Bell Lab and Motorola from United States are the pioneers in that time. Mobile phone was patented individually by Motorola in 1975. Though, the first commercial mobile phone system (also known as network system or system operator) was launched in Japan in 1979. The second mobile phone system was established in 1981 later in United States. In the late 1980s, along with the commercialised mobile phone system, the mobile phone industry started to develop rapidly and attracting more users to use mobile phones.

In 1990s, along with the popularity on a new network system GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication), more and more people started to subscribe for mobile phones. In 2003, there are about 1.52 billion mobile phone users around the world, making it a big and important industry in the technology field

2010-08-12T21:24:00.000-07:00

Utilizing Mobile Internet Innovations

With the advent of the Apple iPhone, more and more people are becoming interested in the possibilities of the mobile Internet. Consumers can now learn to unleash the power of the mobile Internet from their own mobile phones, no matter what phone they have or what wireless carrier network they use.

2010-08-12T10:19:00.001-07:00

Mobile Internationally Device Sales Grew 13.8 Percent 2nd Quarter of 2010

Worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 325.6 million units in the second quarter of 2010, a 13.8 percent increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19 percent of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5 percent from the second quarter of 2009.

“Although the mobile communication devices market showed double-digit growth this quarter, average selling prices (ASPs) were lower than expected and margins fell,” said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. “We attribute the decline in ASPs to a stronger dollar, a depreciating euro, and intense competition that drove price adjustments and changes to the product mix.” Manufacturers such as LG and Samsung pursued market share in a low-margin market but this approach proved risky, as shown by LG’s decline of 27.8 percent in ASP in the second quarter of 2010.

While new product introductions from Apple, HTC and Motorola, along with the drop in ASPs, drove strong sales of smartphones, shortages of components, such as active matrix organic LED (AMOLED) displays impaired sales volumes of some of the more popular new smartphones.

The second quarter also saw some movement in the top 10 mobile device manufacturer rankings (see Table 1). HTC made its debut in the top 10 worldwide ranking, holding the No. 8 position with 139.1 percent growth year-on-year. This reflects the popularity of its Android portfolio but also a more aggressive branding strategy compared to the same period in 2009. “Crucially, as we predicted, the sudden growth in media tablets, such as the Apple iPad, did not appear to hold back smartphone sales. We believe that most tablet users still feel the need for a truly pocketable, yet highly capable, device for those situations when it's inconvenient to carry a device with a larger form factor,” said Ms. Milanesi.

In the second quarter of 2010, Nokia's mobile device sales to end users reached 111.5 million units and a share of 34.2 percent. Nokia's economies of sales and excellent distribution enabled it to hold onto the top spot in the mobile device market. But good quality, well-priced products were not enough to maintain Nokia's leadership in the high-end sector. This caused Nokia to lose 2.6 percentage points year-on-year. Nokia's senior executives need to do more to attract developers and other ecosystem members by revising its platform strategy and improving its communications.

Samsung sold 65.3 million devices in the second quarter of 2010 that translated into a 20.1 percent market share. Although Samsung's sales were strong in developing markets, its shift in product mix caused an overall decline in ASP. Samsung maintained its position in the midtier by launching several new devices, including messaging handsets. This more aggressive strategy toward the mass market enabled it to reduce inventory in the second quarter of 2010. Samsung will also be one of the first manufacturers to bring Windows Phone 7 devices to market, in time for the fourth quarter of 2010, showing that this manufacturer continues to keep its platform options open, even as it works on its own bada platform.

Research In Motion (RIM)’s mobile device sales to end users reached 11.2 million units in the second quarter of 2010, confirming RIM’s position as the fourth largest brand with a share of 3.4 percent this quarter. New devices running BlackBerry OS 6.0 — such as RIM's first touchscreen qwerty slider, the Torch — will be available from the third quarter of 2010. We believe the Torch's form factor will still appeal more to business users than to consumers and will stop many loyal BlackBerry users defecting to other platforms, but it won't attract many new users to the brand.

Apple’s mobile device sales reached 8.7 million units or a 2.7 percent share of the overall mobile device market, but a 14.2 percent of the smartphone market. Apple maintained its No. 7 position in the worldwide mobile device market and held the No. 3 position in the worldwide smartphone market. Apple's sales would have been higher if it had not had to face tight inventory management in preparation for the arrival of the iPhone 4 at the end of the second quarter of 2010. Apple also suffered from some supply constraint on the new device. We expect that a wider global rollout of iPhone 4 will sustain Apple's sales momentum throughout the second half of 2010.

In the smartphone operating system (OS) market, Android expanded rapidly in the second quarter of 2010, overtaking Apple’s iPhone OS to become the third-most-popular OS in the world (see Table 2). In the U.S, it also overtook RIM’s OS to become the No. 1 smartphone OS in this region. “A non-exclusive strategy that produces products selling across many communication service providers (CSPs), and the backing of so many device manufacturers, which are bringing more attractive devices to market at several different price points, were among the factors that yielded its growth this quarter,” said Ms. Milanesi.

2010-08-12T10:14:00.000-07:00

Built on Android 2.2 with Adobe^® Flash^® Player 10.1, DROID 2 Comes Equipped with More Power, More Speed and an Improved QWERTY Keyboard

Motorola today announced DROID 2 in partnership with Verizon. DROID 2 is fully-loaded and built on Android 2.2 with Adobe® Flash® Player built-in, allowing you to experience speed, power and the Web like it was meant to be seen. Balance your social and work life with an improved QWERTY keyboard, fast 1GHz processor, 3G Mobile Hotspot, push corporate e-mail and intuitive social messaging. Packed with memory and enterprise features, DROID 2 keeps pace with your life.

2010-08-12T03:36:00.001-07:00

BlackBerry Desktop Software 6.0

Manage the connection between your BlackBerry and your computer with the new BlackBerry Desktop Software 6.0 What’s new a...

Black Berry History

2010-08-11T11:10:00.000-07:00

BlackBerry is a line of mobile e-mail and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) since 1996.

BlackBerry functions as a Personal Digital Assistant with address book, calendar and to-do list capabilities. It also functions as a portable media player with support for music and video playback and camera picture and video capabilities. BlackBerry is primarily known for its ability to send and receive (push) Internet e-mail wherever mobile network service coverage is present, or through Wi-Fi connectivity. BlackBerry is mainly a messaging phone with the largest array of messaging features in a Smartphone today. This includes auto-text, auto-correct, text prediction, support for many languages, keyboard shortcuts, text emoticons, push email, push Facebook and Myspace notifications, push Ebay notifications, push instant messaging with BlackBerry Messenger, Google Messenger, ICQ, Windows Live messenger and Yahoo Messenger; threaded text messaging and a customizable indicator light near the top right of all Blackberry devices. All notifications and conversations from applications are shown in a unified messaging application which third party applications can access also. Many of these applications would have to be running in the background of other phones to be used. BlackBerry's push gives BlackBerry devices their renowned battery life. All data on the phone is compressed through BIS. BlackBerry has about two thirds less data transfer than any other smartphone^[2], while supplying the same information.

BlackBerry commands a 20.8% share of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the second most popular platform after Nokia's Symbian OS.^[3]^[4] The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies