Oct 7, 2009

Big News in the Mobile Market

In case you missed it, there has been 2 pretty big developments in the mobile phone market in the last 24 hours.

1. Verizon has reached an agreement with Google to release two Android phones. Whats major about this is that the phones will also come with Google Voice, an application that AT&T has thus far banned from their iPhone's app store. Google Voice will allow users to transmit several traditional phone features over Wi-Fi instead of a typical cellular connection.

2. In response to Google's latest breakthrough, AT&T announced today that the iPhone will now support VoIP applications. (WOOOHOOOOO!!!!). What is WAY cool about this development is now you will be able to use applications to place regular calls over a Wi-Fi network. Talk about cost savings!

Whether the iPhone/AT&T is based on their pending FFC investigation or on Googles actions remains to be seen.

disclaimer: I know this post has nothing to do with class, therefore don't count it towards my writing submission please! I just want to share the news with the class! :-) Thanks
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5 comments:

  1. Joshua GuestOctober 8, 2009 at 10:39 AM

    Colin,
    Its great that you will be able to place calls over a WiFi network, but when applying this technology to a business case, businesses will need to account for the bandwidth and actually spend more money per month for bigger data lines. I am sure there is a cost savings here but when you have to constantly connect cell phones to your network you lose opportunity cost that your IT team could be doing something else. This is also another security risk to the business.

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  2. Ivaylo DimovOctober 13, 2009 at 6:09 PM

    This news is really cool. I am hoping that my Pre will have an option to use Skype or something similar on it, but as of yet there is nothing there. On the other side Palm Pro has the capability for VOIP. My brother has the phone and is using Skype very successfully.

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  3. Michelle KahlerOctober 13, 2009 at 7:29 PM

    I am pretty excited because Sprint is releasing and android phone November 1. Its by Samsung, thinking of looking into it a little more once it comes out.

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  4. ColinOctober 21, 2009 at 5:26 PM

    Ivaylo,

    The Android I use at work has Skype Lite on it and currently it will not allow me to make Skype calls either to a phone or to another Skype account. Hopefully they will enable this feature someday!

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  5. ColinOctober 21, 2009 at 5:28 PM

    Michelle,

    Check out this list of Android phones:

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/19/android-galore-a-complete-list-of-the-android-phones-and-their-specs-droid-best/

    http://www.obsessable.com/list/google-android-phones-and-devices-list/

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