To win and to lose
Some of the smaller manufacturers have managed to get amongst the large ones, but others have critically failed. HTC is one of the winners, as they have created something amazing this year with their Touch series. The company, that’s still very young, has become really famous and now they are the ones bringing the best ideas related to Windows based handsets. Asus, Gigabyte and Lenovo are getting more and more lost behind HTC, not mentioning E-TEN (glofiish), who have been acquired by Acer.
Lots of HTC Touch Diamonds have been sold this year
The greatest success story is undeniably the one of iPhone’s. Here I’d like to let my colleague Polacheck do the talk, as he’s the one in charge of apples at us:
Instead of the greatest success story, I’d rather call iPhone 3G the greatest hit. It has been a huge impact on the still water of the mobile industry and woke up manufacturers lacking any creativity. All manufacturers, and there are no exceptions, have started designing something similar and somehow user experience became important, although it previously didn’t even exist in the world of telephony. Besides the fact that an important change has happened on the market, iPhone made a revolution in the gaming world as well. Application development received a never before seen boost and programmers launched such creative and unique games that made users happy to pay for them. Apple’s entry to the mobile business woke up the sleeping giants of the telephony market even in the short term, and another push might be the entry of Google and soon we might live the times when the main characteristics of mobile phones won’t be the number of megapixels.
[+] Amazing success, innovative user interface: iPhone 3G
The list of those who have lost includes Bang&Olufsen, Nenonode, Sagem and Palm. B&O has left the mobile industry, Neonode went bankrupt, Sagem ceased to be a separate brand and we can only hear of negative financial results from Palm. Alcatel’s situation isn’t much better either, although they have been trying really hard to do something, but one cannot create prestige from only low-end mobiles.
We’ve been waiting for it for two years: Meizu M8
As for Meizu, we still can’t decide if M8, probably launching after the long development time, will recover its price. It is sure that the videos circulating on the net are sign of an shockingly good usability and the real wonder is that Meizu managed to do this on Windows CE. Practically they’ve put together a GUI from scratch, which is a serious thing and if all should turn out well, they can create a varied range of products on such a foundation.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
