Mobile Dad

I spent the last couple of days filling in for my dad while he recovers from surgery.  My parents own a couple of stores in Colorado and though it would have been helpful to manage the front-end, my talents were better utilized elsewhere, like fixing up their homes and properties.  So while I was re-wiring electrical (small stuff mind you) and moving a whole lot of earth, a lot of tech news had occurred while I was away.  Like, oh I don’t know, the preview of the iPhone 3.0!  So sadly I was not there when all the tech sites went live with coverage, but at least there were great summaries:

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With much of the public attention drifting toward WebOS, Android, iPhone and Blackberry, it seems the market leader Symbian and the recently formed Symbian Foundation will not be resting on it’s laurels, offered up it’s plan for five simultaneous builds of it’s OS.  This will allow agile support for in-demand features yet ensure active builds released in the wild are stable and secure.  With such an aggressive plan, one has to wonder how much of this announcement relates to leading the market with innovation or trying to divert the growing attention to the impending launch of Palm Pre, Windows Mobile 6.5 or iPhone 3.0.  This is turning into a great Texas Hold’em poker game.  Heck Palm just went ‘all in‘.

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It seems a war is about to be waged and the weapons of choice are finger gestures!  Engadget has a great in-depth article on iPhone vs the Pre that deals with patents.  I find it interesting the kind of publicity this is generating.  Think about the players and the communities and see if you prioritize the coolness factor of each major player in mobile tech:

• BlackBerry Storm
• T-Mobile G1
• ATT iPhone
• Sprint Palm Pre
• Countless WinMo devices
• Countless Symbian devices

Based on hype, here is my take: continue reading…