Mobile Phone Development and Cellular Development

In my blog, I would like to share all my knowledge about the mobile phone market, mobile phone models, mobile phone technology, mobile phone software development, mobile phone business, mobile phone online, 3G mobile and HSDPA mobile.

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

China refurbish Nokia E66 , sell at USD90.00

model: nokia E66-TV
retail price: around USD90.00
network: GSM 900/1800MHz
dimension: 108*52*14MM
weight: 125g
package: 2 batteries, 1 charger, 1 datacable
standby tiume: 100-130 hours
talk time: 100-120minutes
support language: simplified chinese and english
screen: 2.4 inches 26,000 pixel:240×320px
music file:mp3、midi、wav、amr
video file: 3GP,MP4,
camera pixel: 300,000 pixel
sync: USB bluetooth
photo: jpg、gif
game: support
phone book: 200 name cards
SMS capacity: 100 SMS, support MMS
OS/: MTK
battery capacity: 1000mAh
Other functions: MP3, MP4, andsfree, recording, WAP, hand writing, radio, bluetooth, GPRS, MMS, ebook, dual SIM, currency exchange


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China refurbish Nokia N83, sell at USD90.00

model: NOKIA N83
retail price: around USD90.00
network: GSM 900/1800MHZ
dimension: 94*53*15 mm
weight: 98g
package: 2 batteries, 1 charger, 1 datacable, handsfree, 1 512 TF card
standby: 260-360 hours
talk time: 280-380分钟
support language: simlified chinese and english
screen: 3.0 inches 26 pixel 240x320px
ringtone: mp3、mmf、midi、wav
music file: mp3
video file: 3GP MP4
video pixel: 300,000 pixel
sync: USB bluetooth
photo: jpg gif
address book: 250 name card,support call-in group, photo
SMS capacity: 50SMS (not support MMS)
battery capacity: 1200mAh
functions: MP3,MP4, handsfree, bulk-SMS, recording, WAP, hand writing Chinese board, Radio, Bluetooth, GPS, dual SIM, calender, note, alarm clock, calculator

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China refurbish Nokia 5900, sell at USD90.00

model: NCKLA 5900
retail price: around USD90.00
network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
dimension: 102×53×13mm
weight: 105g
package: 2 batteries, 1 charger, 1 handsfree, 1 datacable
standby time: 280-420 hours
talk time: 300-460 minutes
support languages: English, Italian, French, Arabian, Spanish, Iranian, Turkish, Portugalish
screen: 2.8 inches 26 pixel 240*320px
ringtone: mp3
music file: MP3
video file: MP4/3GP
video capturing: support
sync: USB/bluetooth/GPRS
photo: jpg,gif
phone book: 500 contacts
game: support
O/S: Windows Mobile 6.0
battery capacity: 1000mAh
other functions: handsfree, bulk-SMS, recording, WAP, radio, bluetooth, GPRS, MMS,ebook, dual SIM, IPCALL, calender, note, calculator, currency exchange,timer, world time, mobile TV

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China refurbish Nokia e99, sell at USD90.00

model: NOKLA E99
retail price: around USD90.00
NETWORK: GSM 900/1800MHz
DIMENSION: 100*52*13mm
WEIGHT: 109g
PACKAGE: 1 BATTERIES, 1 CHARGER, I HANDSFREE, 512M TF CARD, LEATHER CASE
STAND BY TIME: 220-360 HOURS
TALKING TIME: 240-380 MINUTES
SUPPORT LANGUAGE: SIMPLIFIED CHINESE AND ENGLISH
screen: 2.6 inches1600 PIXEL 320*240px
ringtone: mp3,mp4
music file: MP3
video file: MP4/3GP/AVI
sync: USB/bluetooth/GPRS
photo: jpg,gif
o/s: MTK
battery capacity: 1000mAh
other functions: handsfee, bulk-SMS, recording,WAP, hand writing chinese text, bluetooth, GPRS, MMS, ebook, IP call, calender, note, alarm clock, calculator, mobile QQ

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China refurbish Nokia 5800, sell at USD90.00

retail price from China: around USD90.00
network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
dimension: 111×52×14.5mm
weight: 109g
standby time: 406小时
talk time: 525分钟
language: simplified chinese, traditional chinese and english
screen: 3.2 inches1600 pixel 320*240px
ringtone: MP3、midi、MP4
music file: MP3
video file: 3GP、MP4
camera video: 130 pixel
sync: USB、bluetooth、GPRS, Java
photo: JPEG、bmp
function: handsfree, recording, WAP, chinese text hand writing,radio, bluetooth,GPRS,MMS, extend memory, ebook, calender, note, alarm clock, calculator, currency exchange, stop timer, mobile QQ, eMAP

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China MID and MID phone

There are more and more niche mobile phone idea come out from China due to the local demanding. When it comes with volume, then, it starts to export to other country.

We know MID (Mobile Internet Device) is one of the main portable online device in the coming time. Intel support it a lot too. The question is there is none of any International brand launch a good MID products to the market. In China, people have realized it.
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That mobile phone is a MID design interface supporting for the various online functions and options. The more important is it works on TD-SCDMA、CDMA2000、WCDMA, HSDPA, EVDO, with AMD CPU, 4 inches WVGA, 480x800 pixel.

High quality clone iphone: Uiphone at USD60.00

115.5x62.1 x12.5mm,480*320 3.5 inches multi-layers, it's the best clone iphone from China currently and the retail price is only at USD60.00. It supports all copy music and video locally can download online in China.

What people benefit from it? First is China market user, then, India user, then, Pakistan user, then, Arabia and Africa users. Since in those markets, the government do not care the IMEI, when the mobile phone can work, it's allowed to use. Just the if the car can move, then, it's allowed to go to street, since the traffic power ar weak. For mobile phone, since the communication power is weak, so, the government allow any mobile phone can talk to login to their network.

It makes the opportunity that any mobile phone can login whenever it's clone, copy or refurbish. The price is cheap, work, and good outlook, then, the market is demanding. Currently one more element makes people buy it due to many free digital contents can download online and sync to mobile phone. When a smart phone is cheap enough, the user love it too.

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China clone iphone again: iOrange

Hiphon, Uiphone,, it comes another one iOrange. Which clone also the idea and outlook of iphone and shape to be multi-layer alike too.

It sells good in China again as well as India. In India, there are near 20,000,000 mobile phone imported monthly from China, and all of them are such phone or the clone mobile hone.

The price is only at around USD60.00.

The China clone, copy and refurbish mobile phone have come to be a very matured supply chain. When the brand items can easily export from China and re-export from Hong Kong to the world. The logistic, selling channels, parts supply, copy packing supply are all established. Any one has the order on hand, it can resell eaily from China and benefit from it's low price.

However, the rules of trading such mobile phone is NO WARRANTY. Before the payment, it can check anything, after paid, no more replacement.
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The most expensive brand mobile phone in China: HTC

In China, there are many clone mobile phone and refurbish mobile phone, and the market is always missing the brand HTC to clone.

HTC launch many mobile phone in China where the price is selling even higher than Nokia and Samsung, and their HTC diamond series even fight down iphone in China and Taiwan. People do not clone them due to the hardware limitation. And their user community are not the mass consumer, it's designed more for the senior commercial people.

For example, in their latest phone comes with 5 million pixel, JAVA、bluetooth、WIFI、GPS、weight sensor、video phone, 1g CPU, Windows Mobile,3.2 inches WVGA(800x480px), mutli-touch, 256 ROM+128 ROM, etc.
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China ophone , have started its App Store

China ophone is supported from China Telecom with the O/S of Android. The advertising from China to build its own App Store alike online shop is started.
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On 31-8-2009, China Telecom launched the ophone and many local big manufacturers follow to its decision of launching the ophone hardware design concept phone. The involved factories are not only the local big manufacturers, it includes also the Samsung Motorola etc. The ambition of the ophone is about the gather of all China local developer to develop it App Store alike online store of ophone plug-in.

Friday, 2 October 2009

China made ipohne: ophone

It's not the Hi-phone, it's the China local style ophone, the idea is originally from the iphone after crashed the negotiation with iphone of entering China market. Apple refuse to share the digital contents, refuse to control the political and religious contents, finally, China Telecom build the own ophone where the production positioning is exactly the same as iphone.

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The product technology is same as multi-touch, virtual keywords and function buttons. The more important is the building of the China Telecom App Stores where attract almost all of the Mainland local developers to enter China Telecom to develop the own add-ons.

ophone is started and the local mobile phone manufacturers are also involved into the production, such as Huwei, ZTE, HTC, Lenovo are based on ophone o/s to produce the phone where is a linux based o/s and open source.

ophone is also a 3G phone with TD-SCDMA, the China own developed 3G system. There are still not that much of iphone in China, usually, the users are the Chinese from Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese to bring the phone to China, since the App Store do not exist so much of the simplified Chinese add-ons, which block it's development of capturing the Mainland Chinese user.

Secondly, there are many Linux developers in China, where they the outsource jobs from red hat, google etc. Those people are always seeking for the opportunity for making more money, ophone is one of their channel for getting money. In Groug Dong province, there is a Linux center employing more than 6,000 people to develop the Linux for making money. Such center get the support and sponsor from the provincial government a lot.

ophone is a place also for starting to evaluate the outsource of the talents jobs to China likely India.

The VPN of iphone

I would like to add an video taken from me about the using of the VPN in my iphone. In European, American or Japan, people are hard to immagine why need to use VPN in iphone. Since in those countries, the info are completely open, people can even insult and hammer their national president and prime minister. However, in China, it's not. In Thailand, due to Youtube do not delete and forbidden the video insulting their national king, so, Youtube get banned to enter Thailand.

In China or Thailand, if people need to use Youtube or Facebook for their normal activities, it can only use VPN which is the cheapest option.




They are 2 Chinese language demo people the way of using VPN to browse online with iphone. It's a good demanding for the people from outside Mainland China and need to stay or work in China, then, they need the VPN service.

Wednesday, 30 September 2009

The 3G in China

In Europe, the 3G got unexpected low sales in the beginning. It did not mean the 3G was not good, the problem was from the insufficient of the user's experience circulating in the market. And some of the operator sell the new features instead of the new service and even the new experience that can bring to the user from using the 3G.

In China, the 3G start later than the developed countries for few years, and China Telecom take the advantage from neglecting to move in the wrong path. When China Telecom start to launch the 3G, they promote it as the new experience to the life. And how convenient of using their mobile phone. China Telecom never sell 3G phone, they sell the new service and new experience bringing to the users. The following poster in the advertising poster that China Telecom post in the lift of many building:
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In few years ago, we often see the mobile phone manufacturers and operators sell the mobile phone as a hi-tech. Which makes them more hard to sell the value-added service, such as online, mobile phone online contents and other cloud functions. When the manufacturer and operators change to sell the new experience, it boom the sales. The Telecom and any hi-tech are no longer only the technology, the more important is about the new experience bring to the users.

Thursday, 17 September 2009

The best practice of web 2.0 from iphone

All people know that App Store is success story in the world in the past 10 years which is also an important case for the MBA study. And few of the MBA lesson would teach that it's also a success web 2.0 story too.

web 2.0 means position yourself as a platform to let all people share the info and create the contents. In the N generation, they grow up from the environment of sharing info, they are willing to share all with people. Every success of the web 2.0 must consider the contribution from the N generation.

web 2.0 also means attract the talents to work for you. You just pay them when their job get success. App Store comes in such way of providing the part of the SDK and let all people to do it for free to iphone. It's a sort of the success web 2.0.

In the coming time, more web 2.0 will happen in the mobile phone platform. Such as the pay contents, searching service etc. It will not be likely what we experience from the PC to online, it will be more unique using experience that we never found before.

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

The best word-of-mouth option: SMS

The word-of-mouth is abut how to let other people to talk your website, your product or your service. We often see from the travel agent advertisement that 4 people go together, one for free. So, when we gather 2 people or 3, we will try to best to get 1 more people to share the cost to be lower. In that case, we all do that word-of-mouth of that travel agent.

The core of word-of-mouth is the way that people would talk our product or service, so, the product and service must be ok to talk by any person. Lets say if we talk about program, then, most of the people in the world cannot do it.

There are not existed of any platform which is specific for the word-of-mouth. And I make sure SMS advertising is and will be. When we send such travel agent advertising to the people, it will make people try to talk of it especially that SMS send during the lunch time and dinner time. It would make more people to talk during their table time. So, SMS is not just the message sending, it's about the solution of the word-of-mouth advertising.

Thursday, 25 June 2009

The China 3G development move even faster than Europe

The following poster is advertising poster from China Telecom.
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Which is about the application of the 3G in China. People use the mobile phone for web-camera, wide-band online, home and office alarm setting and control the on/off of the door entrance. It's nothing new of the application in Europe, the question is the scale of using such function is highly popular in China even the failed video phone in Europe, it see the hope in China from using it for Youtube alike function in sharing online for all China local 3G users.

The 3G service cover only the first and second grade cities of China, such mechanism indirectly filter the people from China who have the good buying power and highly accept the imported products and brands. Due to the high nationalism in China, many imported stuffs are not that easy to filter their right customer especially the Japanese products. And the 3G network advertising and the m-Coupon is an efficiency way for the international brands in China to filter their right customers.

How China local Cottage mobile phone flight down all international brands in China local market

The management from China cottage factory are operating more efficiency than any multi-national companies, it's not the joking, it's from real case. There are many copy factories who provide the mobile phone with excellent camera function and with zoom and editing function, eletro-plating of gold, BMW and LV casing etc. And the selling price is only one third of the original. In China, near 1 billion consumers are lacking of the middle grade education, they do not care any brand, high radiation, poor quality battery or the after sales service, things cheap is right.

Any brand war, service wall, advertising ware are just the same meaning of the price war. and the reseller are also not care of holding the customer community, no one would like to be a high loyalty of any specific brands from that 1 billion consumers market. Any reseller, if you are willing to go to the village and the third and forth grade cities to seek for the business, they can get the good order. And all of the repairing works are putting to the local repairing soho.

The cottage mobile phone factory are operating with excellent management as well as supply chain. The chipset, LCD, touch screen, LED, crystal, cable, camera module, refurbishing mobile phone sourcing networks and selling channels are highly tie each other. It needs just a phone call, all the goods will come to the door within 1 days.

And due to the huge profit, all people work hard, plus many mobile phone wholesales market places in the different cities, it accelerate the distributing of the cottage mobile phone.
In 2009, Samsung launched totally 47 new models in China, Nokia launched 19 models. And the cottage mobile phone launch daily 4 new models, in a year, it launched more than 1,000 new models with one third of the original mobile phone price.

The cost BOM of the cottage mobile phone is very low, they do not have advertising (base on personnel network), no official factory, use recycle materials, no R & D cost, copy, so, the cost is extremely low.
The big support from the parts factories and the demand from the 1 billion local consumers, it helps the cottage develop fast of selling 150 million pieces mobile phone within 3 years. Which is the single biggest market share in China.

Now, the cottage factories are entering the MID, MP3, netbook, PC and other profitable digital products. The government know it, and the government do not care. since there are under running of a policy of pushing the home appliances to the village to let the farmers can also enjoy from the digital life. LCD TV and mobile phone are the 2 main digital electronics that the farmers want to have or currently have one of them.

Sunday, 17 May 2009

The new aim and goal that the China medias are betting for?

In 10 years ago, most of the China medias bet if the online would be a break through for them or letting any new media to cut into the market. Finally, there were generated more new media in China where they expressed to be the chatting service provider, internet portal, forum (present continues tense news media) etc. And now, those online media are changing to be the web 2.0 where allow boarder opinions from the market instead of controlled by the government.

In 2009, a new betting come again, the mobile phone media. People demand for the real-time news and info. And China is also existed of the WAP site registration and mobile base domain registration too. One of the property developers are also started to use the WAP site to promote their property too.

The more important is that there are existed many paid service from China for the mobile phone users, such as the paid-subscription, mobile phone contents such as wallpaper, ringtone, logo, the paid-plug-in of the mobile phone etc.

The opportunity is that there are none of any company come to be the first, in this time, the traditional medias and the online medias are both watching and waiting, no body care move first. People talk a lot about how AT & T and other iphone sole distributors benefit from online and how Vodafone benefit from mobile phone online too. And none of any move forward.

Monday, 30 March 2009

How amazing of China Telecom market

In 2008, mobile phone market record it's dropping since 2001. Nortel collapsed, Cisco, Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent keep average, and in China, Hawei, recorded 36% growth in 2008. It was due to the huge Telecom infrastructure demanding from China and the developing country's markets needing the low price infrastructure. In 2008, the turnover of Hawei was USD17 billion. In that 2009, the target is USD30 billion internally from Hawei.

Such company exist for 20 years old and found from an military officer in the beginning. And now, the low price is no longer the only option from Hawei after signed the contract with a Norway operator for their 4G infrastructure. It also means Hawei have met the international standard of offering the international grade equipments.

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Mobile phone online: the interface helping newsaper media to re-born

The hard-copy media especially the newspaper and magazine are facing the problem of declining. And their advertising revenue are also reduced too. Even the big newspaper like New York Time or the famous magazine like Elle are facing the problem of getting hard for extending or even maintain the circulation community. And of course, their advertising is also a problem too even provide the discount for some old clients.

It's due to the info demanding from the world is changed. People no longer need the deep analysis from the so-called experts. Since people can search online to find the info which is more close to the fact and more accuracy of the origin. And people also do not demand for finding the story behind the news. Everyone can search online. And all the world are facing the problem that the info over-loaded. So, the new demanding is the constantly updating of the info or the fastest providing of the info.

Such as the USA President, before the election, he provided the real-time info to his "lovers" where is as updated as the news medias received as soon as that "lovers" provide his / her mobile phone number. It means the mobile phone interface is the main source for getting the fastest update of the info. And such situation reflect the demanding of the people want the fastest news instead of the depth news. So, mobile phone will be a main platform for the hard-copy medias to launch their service to fight with the traditional strong PC online medias.

Sunday, 1 March 2009

Why China seller can sell Samung, Nokia, Sonyericsson phone less than 50% of the international price






It's because China seller sell the refurbish mobile phone and claim as "original". In the international standard, "original", means brand new and originally from the manufacturers. And in China, it means come with the "original brand". See the quotation from the market place in Shen Zhen China. Where is a place full of mobile phone and mobile phone accessories sellers. They sell in the market place, and there are near 10 market places in Shen Zhen for doing such business. Many people from Africa, Latin keep of staying there for constant sourcing of such cheap mobile phone.

In South East Asia even exist of the tour group for the mobile phone field people to go to such market place for purchase together. See the photo of all market places there, which is already one of the main sourcing options for the mobile phone industry.


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Saturday, 28 February 2009

7 mobile phone functions that must have for the good price mobile phone going to sell in 2009

Mobile phone is one of the most tough business in the world, where the investment is high, the R & D budget is high, the advertising budget is also high. And the cycle life of the product are more and more short.
The winner are always the one who own the innovation power such as Samsung and iphone performing in 2008 where is a main competitor of Nokia.

After the 2009 world mobile phone conference, there are 7 new functions that must exist if the mobile phone price want to sell good.
They are:
1. The mobile phone digital camera pixel is higher than 10 million
2. Multi-touch or screen touch
3. The charger plug-in head would be a common and universal standard which could be the micro-USB plug.
4. Solar energy board will be started to use in mobile phone
5. 1G CPU processor would be the bottom line for any smart phone
6. Selling the mobile phone version digital contents will be another competition for most of the mobile phone, the loser can only co-operate with the operators
7. The plug-in software is one of the main resources for most of the mobile phone manufacturers

The unlocking of the Android Gphone




The unlocking business is one of the best profitable business in the world, the tools such as Neelix, Griffin, UFS3, Prodigy etc are ever occupied most of the market ad support many mobile phone trader to source the cheap phone and sell all over the world. Where part of them are even for serving the stolen phone.

The operators from the developed countries are always hammer the manufacturers to make more protection, however, all the time it get hacked from the unlocker. Some of the countries like UK are even set up the law of forbidden to change the IMEI and reset any software setting for the unknown source mobile phone. And all failed. Because people use the online log to by-pass the control from the government. When iphone try to protect the operator by making more complicated protection, it get hacked too.

In that time, gphone take the another way of protecting the operator by making the phone to be forbidden of unlocking. Once the phone get unclocked, it cannot support for any plug-in software. Since the new value of the mobile phone is from the plug-in software (iphone proved it already), if it cannot support for the plug-in, most of the high-volume mobile phone users would not use it. So, the trader cannot sell the phone to the good buyer who can pay high for the phone. Which is a new way of preventing from unlocking.

The mobile phone refuse to sell for the people below 20




In Japan, there is a series of the mobile phone namely PEACH JOHN×fanfun815T co-operate from Toshiba, SoftBank and PEACH JOHN. PEACH JOHN is one of the famous woman inner wear brand in Japan. Due to too hard of the mobile phone competition in Japan, the new entry can only cut-in the market from the small niche, Hello Kitty phone, Anna Siu phone was the success niche phone in Japan before.

This time, another one with the style and design pattern from the woman inner wear apply on the mobile phone. For the advertising value, that mobile phone forbidden to sell to the people with the age below 20. There are never existed of the sex contents in the mobile phone, the seller claimed that due to the design of the graphic are from the woman inner wear, so, it's still forbidden to the age under 20.

7 biggest price difference mobile phone from the market of the authorized distributor and non authorized distributor

The trading of the mobile phone is allowed for any company even there is existed of the authorized distributors. Especially in China, no body care the the distributors, any product can make money, people import them or clone them, iphone is one of the good samples. And the trading of the original brands mobile phone is another area of doing it. Some of the models exist for big difference.

Sonyericsson X1:
authorized distributor: HKD5480
non authorized distributor: HKD4380

Samsung SGH-i908
authorized distributor: HKD4680
non authorized distributor: HKD3480

Nokia N96
authorized distributor: HKD5080
non authorized distributor: HKD4180

SonyEricsson W980
authorized distributor: HKD3280
non authorized distributor: HKD2280

Samsung innov8 i8510
authorized distributor: HKD6380
non authorized distributor: HKD3680

Samsung PIXON M8800H
authorized distributor: HKD4280
non authorized distributor: HKD2580

HTC Touch Pro
authorized distributor: HKD5980
non authorized distributor: HKD4580

Monday, 26 January 2009

Mobile phone operator benefit a lot from the social networking site

The world top 10 social networking site ranked on 2008:
1. Myspace
2. Facebook
3. Bebo
4. BalckPlanet.com
5. Club Penguin
6. Gaiaonline.com
7. myYearbook
8. hi5
8. Classmates
10. Yahoo! 360
The top 2 have launched the mobile phone version and it makes their community grow even more fast and the operator benefit also more from it.

The social networking site can of course benefit from the advertising, the operator benefit from more ARPU, since the user would login online to reply text, upload photo, music, files, chatting etc. It consume a lot of the bandwidth. And some of the operator are even provide the free SMS for their social networking subscribers. It's also for encouraging the user to login more online. Since the SMS investment from the operator have gained back.

MySpace have co-operated with Alltel, AT & T, Boost Mobile, Celular One/Dobson, Helio, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, Virgin Mobile and Verizon Mobile, it uses the MySpace Mobile alert service which allow the MySpace users free to receive the SMS as soon as any news updated in their MySpace account. The users can click into the link sent from that SMS to login online to their MySpace account for mobile phone online checking the info. And such mobile phone version MySpace is not free, some of them need to pay for USD2.99 renting monthly, some of them 1.5 Pound, some of them 5CAD, some of them USD1.99 monthly etc subjected to the different operators. Of course also some of them are free.

For Facebook, they also co-operate with north American operator and part of the European operator for the m.facebook.com. The operators includes Alliant, AT & T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, Fido, MTS, O2, Rogers, SaskTel, Sprint, Telus, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile, Canada, Virgin Mobile USA, Vodafone etc. And in 2008, there is also launched the Balackberry facebook where more than 1 million download of it in the first 3 months.

Why poeple will love Android

It's all due to people experience good from google's existing online free products. Almost all software from google are for free in order to attract people to stay longer time in google and build the brand effect. Finally click the adwords. And most of the free tools from google got many user's good commend. So, people expect to experience the same from android.

In 2008, BMW announced that there were 30,000 cars installed the "ConnectDrive" where includes the "Google Send-to-car" services. And it helps BMW to save a lot of the development resources and cost. There are also much more other enterprise co-operate with google and get benefited from it. For example, the NTTDoCoMo, Taiwan property agent using google maps for people to seek the home, google map diary from a Taiwan enterprise, 104 bank use igoogle for recruiting, www.liontravel.com use YouTube to introduce the sight seeing place, udn.com install google keyword searching into their website etc. There are all the success case of co-operating with google. So, more people and enterprise expect the Android can do something more.

Android: the batman of the mobile phone

Many people the more surprise from google and many investors are also innvesting a lot in google for it. And wall street are also waiting for the launching day of android too. In 2008, it launched.

The google android base on Linux with 4 software solution including SDK, KeyApps, Middleware and LinuxKernel, the minimum hardware requirement is 32MB RAM, 200MHz processor. Android can suit for the different size of screen display and keypad too. Google plan for it since 2003 they brought Dodgeball, Reqwireless and work with sun and Opera, Motorola and RIM to finalize the product.

Google must enter mobile phone market due to 3 important reasons:
1. There are 1.5 billion of TV in the world, 1 billion online users and the mobile phone users is 3 billion. In the emerging markets, the beginners of using Internet will be even from the mobile phone instead of PC.

2. The mobile phone O/S is not established to be 1 common standard likely the PC yet. So, it allows the demand of an O/S to compatiable or integrate all exisitng O/S and even generate a single biggest O/S. And it comes with the trend to be the open source too.

3. From the first quarter of 2008, the clicking of the Adwords was 532 million times. it marked the decreasing. And the 5% of the clicking of Adwords are / were from the 6% of the online users and most of them are the one with the annual income less than 40,000USD. And mobile phone is another place for google to get more revenue from their searching business.

The strengthen of google is the making of the freeware and open source. Google base on launching the free stuffs to earn money. Which is conflict with any traditional business rule. The rule was the no cost money mean no demand. And google against it. And Android would allow the weak factory to use more on them too, since the O/S cost near 20% of a mobile phone cost BOM. So, Android offer the weak factory the lower option can can sell with the name of google too.

The MAC WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) will change to be ipohne 2.0 developer conference soon

In 2008, the MAC developer conference spot was no longer the MAC, it was the iphone 2.0. iphone open part of the sourcing code, SDK (Software Development Kit) for the public to develop the add-on software for iphone and such software sell in Apps store.

In 2008, the development of the SDK were not just the add-on software, some of the famous sites were also developed for working in iphone too, such as ebay, Loopt launched the LBS social networking, MLB.com launched the iphoine real-time ball game, Sega launched the Super Monkey Ball for the iphone users to control the moving direction via its sensor. And it's whenever the other mobile phone brands cannot do in the short time.

According to the investment bank, Piper Jaffray, forecast, the revenue of App Store will meet 416 million USD in 2009 minimum. If the global economy recover fast, it can even meet 777 million USD - 1.211 billion USD.

The potential competitor of smart phone: PNG (Portable Navigation Device)

We know that Garmin will launch the mobile phone in 2009 with their GPS function. And the portable navigation device sold in 2008 was up to 40 million pieces as compare with 2007, it was sold for 26 million pieces, it marks the high growth in 2008. The mobile phone build-in GPS cannot fight with it due to the PNG comes with more GPS function, more precise location tracking, photo demo, size if display, retail price etc. One of the mobile phone break thru point will be from the using of google map where provide the low price option for the people.

And Tomtom is under discussing with iphone to provide the iphone 2.0 GPS software. And much more people are also under developing the Location Base Searching softwares for iphone. Most of the PND will make iphone to be the competitor in the coming time. The mobile phone with build-in GPS will eventually fight down PNG due to the mass user base. It needs to overcome the technical blocks and more add-on software for it.