WSJ has a good roundup on the various iPhone competitors. One of the top iPhone competitors is expected to be Nokia’s N95, a high-end smart phone that, like the iPhone, has a relatively large color screen (2.6 in), can surf the Web and can play music and DVD-quality video. Unlike the iPhone, the N95, however,
In my recent iPhone series, I touched a lot of nerves when I said that Apple might drive the industry towards a global standard, and that standard might be GSM. USA Today reports: “AT&T has exclusive U.S. distribution rights for five years — an eternity in the go-go cellphone world. And Apple is barred for
I wrote iPhone and the Future of Qualcomm last week, and it generated a huge amount of controversy. My main point in the iPhone series is that if iPhone succeeds in becoming the industry galvanizing event that I think it will be (even if the product itself is a limited success for Apple), it will
Qualcomm (QCOM) has been reaping the benefits of the worldwide mobile industry boom for a while. Qualcomm engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology, key competitor to GSM, the other standard. In fact, while most of the world