Categories
Close
Menu
Menu
Close
Search
Search

Featured Articles

RSS
123

Opinion Articles

Opinion

A time before Android

Mark

Share:

Print

Rate article:

No rating
Rate this article:
No rating

James Rosewell writes:

Whilst flicking through my drawer full of old handsets I thought back to a time when Apple produced a new MP3 player, newspaper editors didn't know what a smart phone was, and Android was only a press release. A quick flick through YouTube threw up the following interview with Microsoft's Steve Balmer offering his thoughts from this time.

Two years later and both Microsoft and Symbian are playing catchup. For the sake of the mobile industry lets hope they don't make too many more mistakes. A two-horse race would be very boring.

Comments

Collapse Expand Comments (0)
You don't have permission to post comments.

Recent Podcasts

ExclusivePodcast - 17th February 2011

We're in Barcelona for the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011. Here's our report at the beginning of the final day, with James talking about the MeeGo and webOS platforms... and Mark reporting on new products from ViewSonic and Motorola Mobility.

ExclusivePodcast - 16th February 2011

We're in Barcelona for the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011. Here's our report at the beginning of day three, talking about personal privacy in the mobile age. Contributions come from Qualcomm, Eric Schmidt of Google and the Mobile Marketing Association.

ExclusivePodcast - 15th February 2011

We're in Barcelona for the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011. Here's our report at the beginning of day two, covering everything from LG's 3D mobile phone and MACH's innovative roaming billing to Steve Ballmer's keynote speech.

ExclusivePodcast - 14th February 2011

We're in Barcelona for the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011. It starts today - but Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Nokia all held press events on the previous evening. We cover the big announcements and also pay a visit to the ShowStoppers showcase.

ExclusivePodcast - 9th February 2011

This week's podcast sets the scene for Mobile World Congress, with mobile payments, mobile applications, the PlayStation Phone and Nokia's future all up for discussion. There's also an interview with Dr Windsor Holden of Juniper Research about the trends and products to watch for when the industry heads to Barcelona.

RSS
First5657585961636465Last

Follow thefonecast.com

Archive Calendar

«August 2026»
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
272829303112
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31123456

Archive