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Everything cellular is hot right now, driven in part the enormous market pressure being created by Apple around iPhone. In addition to the hoopla over iPhone, in the last few days, we’ve seen stories a whole bunch of stories.
New products are hitting the market: the Nokia E66 and E71 phones which we talked about yesterday, and the Sony Ericsson XPeria-X1 which had engadget just drooling a couple of days ago. We talked at length about the E-Series phones (which some were very excited about), and while we thought that the XPeria had beautiful industrial design the quality of the browser had the potential to make that all moot.
There has also has been an unprecedented volume of new video, including the Garmin Nuviphone and that blurry little video of the BlackBerry Javelin. We discussed whether Nuviphone had a chance, given their delays and strong focus on GPS. Does it really have a chance after the iPhone 3G ships with GPS built in?
New operating systems are also debuting: There’ll be a TREO upgrade this summer to Windows Mobile 6 as well… the HTC Diamond will be out with… Android first and then Windows Mobile 7? Wow.
And in the middle of all this, there’s an oddball patent from Microsoft for something called the Microsoft VEDA which looks like a bad 1980′s drawing of a futuristic science fiction notebook computer.
On the call: Brad Jones, Dan York, Dave Brown, Jeb Brilliant, William Volk, James Body, Phil Wolff, Jonathan Jensen, Sheryl Breuker, Frank Abrams
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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It's not HTC Diamond that will come with WM7 or Android, it's HTC that will release products with these Operating systems…
Putting MS Pocket Internet Explorer in the Experia is like wearing a Versace suit to a dinner party… with Crocs on your feet. WTF is Sony-Ericsson thinking? That browsing doesn't even do javascript, so all apps like Google Maps are out. S-E, go talk to Opera *now* !