20070828turkey.jpgAt least for a while…

In the last few years we have fol­lowed the evo­lu­tion of mobile phone from sim­ple voice devices to enhanced mul­ti­me­dia plat­forms with a plethora of con­nec­tiv­ity options, mem­ory capa­bil­i­ties, hard­ware com­po­nents such as cam­eras, GPS etc. etc..

This has lead to expen­sive devices and in most cases has low­ered mobile phone man­u­fac­tur­ers margins.

In the same way we have seen a num­ber of new ser­vices devel­oped for our mobile phones: web browsers, photo shar­ing appli­ca­tions, pod­cast­ing appli­ca­tions, mul­ti­me­dia appli­ca­tions and so on.

The issue I see is that the appli­ca­tions and ser­vices devel­op­ment has not been as fast as hard­ware evo­lu­tion. From one side we have the fact that port­ing an appli­ca­tion or ser­vice in the mobile world is not a sim­ple thing and, in most cases, has not proven to have a well defined busi­ness model. On the other side appli­ca­tions are not tak­ing advan­tage of all the stuff that you can find inside a mobile phone.

A provo­ca­tion:

We have excel­lent mobile phones on the mar­ket today. They have lot of mem­ory, they are fast and they can talk to a lot of other dif­fer­ent devices. Let’s stop the hard­ware run for a year or so and let’s con­cen­trate on appli­ca­tions and ser­vices lever­ag­ing what we have today.

This does not mean that hand­set man­u­fac­tur­ers should stop deliv­er­ing new mobile phones. They could still con­tinue to develop new design con­cept and the trend to reduce size and space may continue.

Let’s make the mobile phone a bet­ter device con­cen­trat­ing on what the mobile phone does and not on what the mobile phone has inside.

Why do I blog this? Some­times a din­ner with other col­leagues tast­ing a good wine bot­tle can lead to incon­sid­er­ate thoughts.

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Why Do Not We Stop Stuffing Mobile Phones?

2 Comments

  • 1 HeavyLight wrote:

    Let’s make the mobile phone a bet­ter device con­cen­trat­ing on what the mobile phone does and not on what the mobile phone has inside.
    Wow!
    Some­body in a posi­tion of influ­ence is talk­ing sense for once!

    I fully agree that we need much bet­ter soft­ware rather than more giz­mos bun­dled into smaller and smaller devices.

    Could we start with oper­a­tors (the Three fam­ily espe­cially, as I’m a happy ThreeUK user) sup­ply­ing the very best soft­ware on their phones?

    For instance, a browser that *really* works with the ‘ordi­nary’ web (and wap pages) like the Opera Mini? Or a cross-​network IM client like Fring or Agile? (Which could also have a cell-​based location-​finding pres­ence sim­i­lar to Jaiku?) And how about a decent push email client (like Gmail’s java app) that doesn’t kill the bat­tery before the end of the day?

    Of course we really need a new user-​friendly, oper­at­ing sys­tem that’s easy for devel­op­ers to manip­u­late but that would require co-​operation with the phone man­u­fac­tur­ers so will need a longer timescale.

    But there’s noth­ing to pre­vent net­work oper­a­tors from forg­ing ahead right now!

    (I dis­cov­ered your blog via your com­ment on Ewan’s SMS­TextNews and have sub­scribed to your rss feed.)

    October 2, 2007 at 11:38 am Permalink
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    2 AG wrote:

    Thankyou for your comment…

    Actu­ally we are work­ing very hard to bring some of thing s you would like to see on a mobile phone.

    There is a lot of activ­ity around new con­cepts and new ideas.. the main issue here is not to bring to mar­ket a clut­tered phone.

    Hope you cus­tomers will be able to see some­thing hit­ting the stores very soon.

    Thankyou again for sub­scrib­ing our RSS feed. We hope you will appre­ci­ate the content.

    October 2, 2007 at 1:22 pm Permalink

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