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Squawk Box August 27 - Mobility, mobility, mobility! Conference call organized by Alec Saunders
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Wed, Aug 27, at 11:00 AM
(GMT -05:00), US - Eastern
Duration: 30 minutes
There's plenty to talk about in the world of mobile today.

The iPhone 3G is close to outnumbering first generation iPhones by selling 6 million units since launch a scant two months ago. It took the first iPhone over a year to sell six million.

Meanwhile, Android phones are still on the drawing boards as sketches of the T-Mobile G1 leak out.

And how about the fact that SmartPhone and PocketPC magazine has announced that their windows mobile focused publication is... ceasing publication. Bad news for the Windows Mobile market?

And finally... more New nokia N-Series handsets. The N79 and N85 were announced this week. Coincident with that was a great piece by Olga Kharif in Business Week on mobile VoIP... at the same time as Nokia is pulling the SIP stack from their new handsets.
13 participants called in to this call
M Alec Saunders
Dan Rockwell
Tom Orr
Jeanette Fisher
Jonathan Jensen
Andy Abramson
Sergio Meinardi
William Volk
Sheryl Breuker
Warren Bent
Jon Arnold
Jeb Brilliant
Jim Courtney
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William Volk said:
Aug 27, 12:07 PM (GMT -05:00)
bye all
Alec Saunders said:
Aug 27, 12:06 PM (GMT -05:00)
thank you Tom!
Tom Orr said:
Aug 27, 12:06 PM (GMT -05:00)
good call - thanks Alec
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 12:05 PM (GMT -05:00)
awesome
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 12:04 PM (GMT -05:00)
good call
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 12:04 PM (GMT -05:00)
Good call, interesting stuff. :)
Jeb Brilliant said:
Aug 27, 12:04 PM (GMT -05:00)
Great call to listen in to.
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:58 AM (GMT -05:00)
Just hate the idea of no sim
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:57 AM (GMT -05:00)
good point
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:57 AM (GMT -05:00)
Apple's 'carrier' deals are as important as the iPhone itself.
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:56 AM (GMT -05:00)
Thanks Dan :)
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:55 AM (GMT -05:00)
Sheryl.. I think Nokia has far few models than other manufacturers. They are definitely some of the most advanced. But from the current studies we have on going, manufacturers struggle with figuring out what to make, trust me they are tired of making multiple models, but carriers are dictating to them to carter to multiple persona type users. Carriers have a hand in deciding what we use, thats a perspective I think we're not considering, we assume the phone makers call all the shots.
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:54 AM (GMT -05:00)
Alec...is what you mean the ability for all voip clients to speak to each other not unlike traditional telephone services have the ability to speak to each other?
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:50 AM (GMT -05:00)
Dan...do you really think that? Maybe I'm just out of the loop but with the number we have....seems to me there are a large number of nokia phones.
Jim Courtney said:
Aug 27, 11:49 AM (GMT -05:00)
The HSBC story re iPhone has been quelled by HSBC personnel.
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:49 AM (GMT -05:00)
they should do that, but its not up to them, as far as i understand it, and this is based on a study were doing with samsung now, the carrier has alot of influence over the manufactuer
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:48 AM (GMT -05:00)
nokia is one of the few manufacters that doesnt make a bazillion models i think they are semi elitst, with apple being the most elite
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:47 AM (GMT -05:00)
Hi Jim!
Jim Courtney said:
Aug 27, 11:47 AM (GMT -05:00)
good morning ..
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:47 AM (GMT -05:00)
lead users
Alec Saunders said:
Aug 27, 11:47 AM (GMT -05:00)
good morning Jim
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:47 AM (GMT -05:00)
thanks Andy! :)
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:47 AM (GMT -05:00)
true
Alec Saunders said:
Aug 27, 11:47 AM (GMT -05:00)
yeah - there are 4 N-95 models
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:46 AM (GMT -05:00)
they did the n95
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:45 AM (GMT -05:00)
interesting thought...why do people choose anything other than qwerty? I'm simply curious
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:45 AM (GMT -05:00)
who commands who, do carriers tell phone makers what to make? or vice versa
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:44 AM (GMT -05:00)
well why not 5 different n series and 2 different e series....qwerty versus not?
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:43 AM (GMT -05:00)
is it truly a good value to have a bazillion different models?
Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 27, 11:43 AM (GMT -05:00)
Why does Nokia not just choose 5 models and simply improve on them annually instead of keep coming out with new models?
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:43 AM (GMT -05:00)
there was a news bit yesterday about a Yamaha music phone, see if i can find the link, but makes me wonder if manufacterers are thinking are attempting to build more hardware/specific functionality into the phone vs going software
Jon Arnold said:
Aug 27, 11:43 AM (GMT -05:00)
Have to drop off now all, it's been a great call!
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:42 AM (GMT -05:00)
Why can't they pull off a software ecosystem? N-Gauge launched with what, SIX applications?
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:41 AM (GMT -05:00)
Nokia makes awesome handsets.
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:41 AM (GMT -05:00)
carriers
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:41 AM (GMT -05:00)
sad, classic corporate blindness
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:39 AM (GMT -05:00)
that's what makes the App Store special
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:39 AM (GMT -05:00)
Discovery
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:39 AM (GMT -05:00)
NSTL fees, handset rentals porting
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:39 AM (GMT -05:00)
The cost is more like $30k
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:38 AM (GMT -05:00)
not to mention that there was NO WAY for a small publisher to ever get a BREW app on deck
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:38 AM (GMT -05:00)
Verizon never got this
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:38 AM (GMT -05:00)
selling through
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:38 AM (GMT -05:00)
Yep
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:37 AM (GMT -05:00)
The low cost of publishing and marketing of an iPhone app is simply unmatched. Compare the launch of a app across several territories and several carriers on iPhone vs Symbian
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:35 AM (GMT -05:00)
windows mobile needs to seriously reinvent itself in the wake of the app store, publications are gonna go from windows mobile mags to apple iphone dev mags
Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 27, 11:33 AM (GMT -05:00)
advertising is like the last ditch effort to try and monetize technology off people, its less about providing value
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:32 AM (GMT -05:00)
AdMob
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:31 AM (GMT -05:00)
http://www.blyk.com/
William Volk said:
Aug 27, 11:30 AM (GMT -05:00)
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