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.

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.

Will iphone and Blackberry impact the crown of Nokia?

Personally, i believe that it will be. Since the main warfare of the mobile phone is at the high end smart phone market. For the middle grade, most of the international brands are no longer possible to extend any, and the price war is the main issue for such market. In the high end market, the technology differentiation is still existed. And in the below middle grade market, all are almost belonged to China manufacturers.

Nokia launch around 40 - 50 models of mobile phone per year and it cover a lot of the users in the market. And iphone and Blackberry provide only few models and even just 1 model, theoretically, it cannot harm to Nokia. However, in terms of investor or wall street or profit, it harms a lot especially in 2009. The war of smart phone will explore since most of the common specification and standard of the high end smart phone will be established. And the brand effect and sexy image of the iphone is really hard to fight. Samsung launch the similar i900 Omnia in 2008 to fight with iphone with the same multi-touch interface, however, the sales was not as good as Samaung expected.

One more advantage of iphone performing better than Nokia is that iphone support many third party software and allow any plug-in software where Nokia is still under planning how to make symbian to be an open source after brought the shares of symbian from other developers on 2008. Now, iphone get the support from many enterprise users where support Microsoft email, calendar, google and even the intranet and Cisco system. And the users from Balckberry is also unable to captured from Nokia too. So, the biggest pressure of coming smart phone war is not from iphone nor Balckberry, it's Nokia.

iphone and Blackberry will not come to be the competition relation, the run the smart phone with different technology and clear users differentiation. The biggest impacting is Nokia, since Nokia enter that market too late and still not find out the niche for differentiating iphone and Blackberry.

iphone also make Apple change their business model and profit ways

The launching of ipod make people go more frequent to Apple shop and sell more MAC. The launching of iphone can make the same effect, however, we can see that the traffic of buying the iphone was happening the AT & T shop not Apple shop. Apple cannot use iphone to bring more trafic to their retail shops and sell more MAC. Besides, the low price of the iphone would also impact the price of ipod where sell at around USD499 for ipod touch. Steve Jobs should know about it initially. However, Apple count the different profit after launched iphone.

When sell more iphone, Apple get more digital contents sales and such profit do not need to share with any company. Apple rely more on the digital contents as income. All the hardware products are considered to be the peripherials or for helping to sell more digital contents. Most of the mobile phone will use such option for the profit. For example, gphone or Nokia, they will change the profit center to be the soft products.

Besides, the price of ihpone also keep of dropping, in 2008, a 16G 3G iphone costed at USD299, if the price keep of decreasing, iphone can even sell for more than 20 million pieces in 2009. Then, Apple will be the world's number 5 big mobile phone manufacturers and the biggest mobile phone digital contents supplier.

The biggest attention from iphone is similar as the curse of Motorola Razr. It was ever sell good for few quarters, and even make Nokia and Samsung to clone their ultraslime design. And it was be a failure product afterward due to Motorola cannot continues to innovate the newer design and keep of using the decreasing price to drive the sales of Razr. Currently, iphone seems use the same way, hope the curse of Razr will not happen again.

Why after the AT & T, most of the operators are willing to be the sole distributors of iphone and even sponsor the iphone for the end-users

According to iSuppli research, the iphone use spend around USD90 monthly for their iphone online. And the non-iphone user spend around USD57.00 only. So, AT & T earn even more even they sponsor USD200 per user in buying the iphone. The revenue is from (90- 57) x 24 = 792USD. 792 - 200 = USD592. AT & T earn USD592 per user after sold the iphone for them. So, it clearly show to all operator in the world that the iphone users would allow them to increase their ARPU.

For the commercial traveling users, they spend even more on using the mobile phone email during roaming. And it brings much more revenue for the operator. Since more than half of such travelers are not the technical guy, they do not know how to switch off temporarily for the push mail function and it keeps of IN/OUT email. For 1 - 2 weeks using, it can easily spend for USD400 - USD500 for only push mail.

AT & T willing to do it due to they earned the experience from Motorola Razr before. They took the same way of sponsor the Razr users, and it pushed the sales for double of selling the Razr before on 2005. They clone the same strategy on iphone and gain more.

In that way, we can also see that why Blackberry get welcome a lot from the operator, since the user would spend even more on ARPU than the iphone.

Why the Taiwan brand, HTC, raise so fast even in the USA market

In few years ago, USA consumer even never hear the brand, HTC. They were the OEM factory before assembling for the big brands. In few years ago, they start to launch the products with their own brands and even enter north American market to fight with their old OEM customers. HTC landed the mobile phone in USA market from selling via BestBuy untill 2008 co-operated with the American local operators Sprint and T-Mobile USA.

HTC got famous from a war fighting with iphone. It was the war never existed win, lost or break even. Since HTC use the chips from Qualcomm 7201A 528MHz processor, TouchFLO 3D interface and 7.2M HSDPA. Such Qualcomm chip exist the 3D accelerating engine as compare with iphone's Infineon which supports only 2D, the TouchFLO 3D can provide more precis experience for the consumers. And HTC make also with 2.8 inches VGA screen too. And iphone come with 3.6Mbps, so, HTC launched with 7.2Mbps. It's all sue to the support from the Qualcomm chip.

In 2008, HTC launched the Touch Pro aka Raphael and Touch Dual Pro aka Titanium with qwerty design after the success of the war with iphone from sitting in an own "blue ocean". HTC is still hard to sell in USA market due to they enter there later than iphone and cannot co-operate with the operators earlier. iphone explored the smart phone market in USA and HTC is one of the brands join to eat the pie too. So, it will be certain hard to fight with iphone there.

The investors from Asia and even China keep of investing heavily on HTC, due to they also develop the new mobile phone fast with the latest technology. Especially in the coming mobile phone online demand, the cycle life of the mobile phone and mobile phone technology would be shorten a lot. The winner will be the one can launch the new models with the nw technology faster than any competitors.

What make iphone so special where the other brands cannot do

I am also the iphone user alternatively. During the time of using iphone, there was a un-talkable experience generated and such experience was completely new and never tasted before from other mobile phone. I makes me bringing it all the time if I need to meet the old friends or the customers, since it always bring me the unstopped topics of talking.

When I try to summarize it, I find that there are 5 points that the other brands cannot do yet.

They are:
1. Too much promotion from the press release especially after Steve Jobs said the price was only USD199, it was almost not possible to believe. And when I buy it with the operator's contract, I still did not have the expensive feeling.

2. The 3G function and unlimited data from the operator. For example in USA, basic voice charge from AT & T is USD39.99, the unlimted data plan need to add USD30, if there is the commercial users, it needs to be USD45.00, it's USD10.00 more as compare with the old plan fro AT & T. It's AT & T to fill their expense hole of sponsor a lot on each iphone. And for the users, there were also almost no complaint about it nor thinking too expensive.

3. Fast internationalize of the phone especially after 11-7-2008 during the iphone 2.0 business innovation, the iphone fastly enter to more than 70 countries ad regions with same price. And almost all the press release from those market are announced only the good side news of iphone.

4. Due to the support of iTune, iphone move more fast on selling. And due to the partial opening of sourcing code, SDK, it makes a lot of the developers form the world to provide the ad-on software for iphone where even Nokia cannot catch up the development speed of iphone from developing the add-on software. And the more important is that if there is installed a lot of the add-on software, it would not hang the phone even during running for few softwares, i performs the same fast of the speed nor shutting down. Now, iphone even integrates with YouTube, iTunes, SEGA Game, Google Map etc.

5. Very sexy outlook design, especially show to the "material girls" or "material boys" . I always attract their eye balls without saying anything before the third quarter of 2008. Sometimes my friend even request from me to borrow for them for a party.

The top 5 mobile phone brands performance in North American market

It was an amazing market of North America in 2008. Motorola and Palm lost a lot in 2008, and iphone win a lot in 2008. The new entry, HTC, win also big share from North American market too.

Blackberry is still the best smart phone in north American market, seems in 2009 it will still at the best position especially they have the best representative to advertise their phone, The US president, Obama. After decreased the price to be USD99 for a blackberry Pearl mobile phone or the consumer can rent it with USD10 - USD30, the sales of Balckberry increased to be 46.1%. Before that, the price was more than USD100 and the renting charge was USD35 - USD45.

iphone is the biggest potential star surely. The price of iphone may decrease in the 2009, it can push the market share of iphone to be increased too. If iphone can launch the more new version, it can even increase for more. Now, iphone occupied 18!% of the market share in north America.

Palm was silence for certain time till launched the Centro and work with AT & T and Sprint for the low price promotion in 2008, then, the market share raised from 10% to be 12.1% ranked number 3 in north America market. Such Centro seems can only sell in North American market, in Asia, people even never hear about it. The sales in north American market was ever met 1 million pieces sales within 24 weeks. After the Centro, Palm launched also Treo 800w integrated with WiFi and GPS with Palm's EV-DO Rev.A mobile phone network too. In the coming time, Palm will also launch the GSM/WCDMA/HSDPA with 400MHz processor, Window mobile 6.1 O/S, Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS, Palm temporarily name it Skywriter.

Samsung seems mainly target the low price mobile phone market which is much different than what they are doing in China targeting the above middle grade market ans the main cities. Samsung still occupy around 8.3% of the market share in north American market.

Finally in HTC, they are new in north American market, since their smart phone can bring more APRU revenue for the operators and OEM with the operators for maximizing their revenue. Their partners like Sprint, AT & T and T-Mobile USA channel a lot of their phones to the market.

The trend of the smart phone in 2009: Make the commercial smart phone for the consumer users

We see the success of iphone is based on it. Blackberry is also investing heavily on the digital camera for high pixel and other value-added function likely a professional digital camera. Nokia is also launched the Netbook alike mobile phone for the consumer users too. And most of the international brands or the operator are no longer use the consumer users and commercial users to segment the market. Part of the brands that cannot match up the new demanding are under phasing out of the top 5, for example, Motorola and Palm. The second thing we saw from 2008 was that the smart phone grow for 39% up to 180 million pieces sold.

We also saw in 2008, that most of the profitable phones were for fulfilling such demands. For example, Samsung SPH-M800, HTC Touch Diamond, Blackberry Bold with WCDMA/HSDPA, Sonyericsson Xperia X1, Nokia S60, N95, N96 (up to 16GB memory) and Nokia will launch also a super phone called Tube in 2009 too.

Especially Blackberry, they are under doing a lot of the works for that market whenever from the outlook design, browser, multi-media player, user interface (e.g, sync with iTune), qwerty keypad are all for serving Procumer (professional consumer). The good samples from Blackberry were their Thunder and Storm launched in the end of 2008. Thunder is the first product from RIM where do not use the qwerty and change to be screen touch interface. and also the first one use dual mode for CDMA and GSM. And the Storm is the RIM's series for GSM/WCDMA/HSPA with screen touch design, it will co-operate with AT & T to launch. Those products sold good due to RIM absorbed the problem from the Curve and Pearl before.

How important of the mobile phone online market

In the end of 208, 88% of the wireless board band are run with HSPA technology. And in the coming time, the pie will occupy by LTE and WiMAX, till 2015, the HSPA and HSPA+ may remain only 54% share. It looks decrease a lot, however, the user on 2008 is only 61 million, and on 2015, the users will be up to 1.1 billion. It will still be the main technology. And the 3.5G (HSPA) will still be the main protocol too.

According to IDA, the global mobile online user is around 1.4 billion, and on 2012, it will be around 1.9 billion, which occupied 30% of the population. AN don 2012, the mobile phone online user will also be more than PC online user too. On 2008, there are around 1.5 billion pieces of the mobile online devices in the world, and on 2012, it will be 3 billion. And half of them will be the mobile phone especially the smart phone.

The segmentation of the mobile devices will be MID at around 90 million pieces, Netbook at around 100 million pieces. Especially the Netbook which provides the Full Internet Experience performing the same grade capability as Notebook and PC. And such user experience and device performance is not possible to do by the mobile phone. For the MID, it's even under the strong support from Intel where many developers are investing in it. The main problems blocks the development of the MID is due to the unclear of the 3.5G module and license charge, second is due to the too high f the power consumption.

The product fight down iphone in Taiwan and China


In Taiwan, the mobile phone called HTC Diamond fight down iphone won the number 1 smart phone and love a lot from both consumer and operator due to sell USD200 less than iphone. In China, that model also contribute the same effect as iphone in north America where open the market of letting the consumer love to use the commercial mobile phone. The global mobile phone online user will raise from 550 million on 2008 to be 1.5 billion in 2012 and 2 billion in 2015. And China will be the single biggest market for it especially for the mobile phone online. If plus India, it occupied more than 30% of the global mobile phone online user market.

The rest of market cannot come to be the scale bigger than China and India is not due to they will not use the mobile phone for online. It's because they will use the other options for online, such as MID, ULPC, UMPC, Netbook etc, mobile phone is only one of their options to choose.

In China, it will even turn to be bigger than the forecasting since there are many good policies from the government to support the 3G growth of the mobile phone. For example, mobile phone broadcasting is claimed to be an independent broadcasting channel which do not limited by the existing TV and radio regulation. For example during the 2008 Olympic, the mobile phone broadcasting was taking care by the China Telecom and they take care all the broadcasting for the mobile phone online users from China and the global users too as soon as any clicking into their sites.

There are more than 8 factories from China approved from China government and telecom authority that can sell the 3G mobile phone and export too. If iphone cannot enter China fast, it will be hard to take the market from China, since the spreading speed of the China made products are crazy fast. We see Toshiba, Sharp, LG are hard to occupied China market now, since the China users have shaped the design of the mobile phone they love. For the other design, there are hard to occupied. And China is not shaping its smart phone specification and standard too.

According to Analysys Mason, the global wireless board band users will be 2.1 billion and it brings the economic scale up to 784 billion USD. Which is the opportunity of mobile phone users market too.

Sunday, 25 January 2009

Summary of iphone impacting the smart phone market of North America

Before the third quarter of 2007, smart phone occupied around 5%- 8% of the north America market which is much lower than the 8% - 10% from global market. After the launching of iphone, the smart phone market from north America raised to be more than 10%. In the end of 2007, there were sold 8.32 million pieces of smart phone in north American market with the increasing rate of 196% as compare with 2006. And in 2008 first quarter, there were sold 7.12 million pieces of smart phone in north America market marked the 123% growth. It was all due to iphone open the smart phone market. iphone help the operator increase a lot of the ARPU revenue. Which make all operators from the world love a lot of the smart phone especially the smart phone where the price is around USD200 less than iphone and come with the similar functions.

In Taiwan, before the entering of iphne, HTC (Taiwan local mobile phone manufacturer, the biggest mobile phone manufacturers in Taiwan and China) started to launch their smart phone with 3.5G high speed online function and occupied more than half of the market share and the operator love it a lot due to the HTC brought them much more revenue from ARPU. And in few months ago, when iphone entered Taiwan, the sales could not be as hot as in north America and Europe.

Whenever the global economy are under the crisis and the mobile phone market also marked to be declined, the smart phone market keep of high growth and marked the overall sales of smart phone to be 185 million pieces. In 2008, Nokia launched the N series, E series and 8000 series for the high end market. Nokia did also launch the 6000 series and 5000 series for the middle end market. And all of such markets were for the smart phone.

Else of it, Garmin (the global single biggest GPS manufacturer) have announced to enter the market phone device market too on June 2008 and their product will launch on 2009. Garmin will co-operate with AT & T to sell their mobile device in American market and the device will make with their own EMP 3.5G chip and it's even using their own O/S instead of using Microsoft Windows or Symbian.

Thursday, 25 December 2008

The way of the new brands enter the China market



The main market of the mobile phone in China are occupied by most of the international brands, they ranking are Nokia, Samsung, Sonyericsson, Motorola. Even the domestic brands are hard to fight with them.

For the new brands of entering China market, they can only select the small niche to enter, for example, specifically target the woman market. Such as the hello kitty phone or sime nice outlook design one. Such as LG, Sharp, Toshiba, when they enter China market, they select to use the cyber outlook design one to enter.

Since the outlook design of the China local enterprises are still not well enough. So, in 2008, most of the new brands used the strategy of entering the small niche market to open their market toward China.

The best sales music mobile phone in China 2008






In 2008, music mobile phone is still the best sales and best net profit mobile phone due to the support of many free MP3 music can download online.

And there is a funny situation that all of the hot sales models are the imported brands, all of the China domestic brands are not ranked in the list of the best sales mobile phone. It's due to most of the factories are still under serving the OEM base or serving the small niche market. And most of them are also lacking of the R & D resources to develop what the most consumer expected mobile phone.

In the coming time, the new killer application will be in the area of the add-on aka
plug-in software for the mobile phone, the China mobile phone manufacturers are under facing the more hard competition.

The most bad sales mobile phone from China in 2008





China market is one of the most dynamic mobile phone market in the world, most of the international brands are taking the competition in that market. And there are many kinds of the consumer from that market, it welcome for any of the design even something looks strange. However, there were 4 kinds of the mobile phone got bad result from China market and even almost no body know what's their model number even they invested the advertising for it from TV sand newspaper and Internet.

The first one is Sonyericsson X1
The second one is Nokia N96
The third one is Motorola A1600
The forth one is Dopod Diamond

Their outlook design are not bad, functions are all fine too. And their price is also the right one suit for the market. However, it failed eventually in 2008.

Taiwan China Telecom got the sole distributor of phone in Taiwan, however the finance market do not invest more on them

AT & T got more than 2.5 million users from USA market of using their service of shift to be their user can even reduced the rate of quitting to use their network due to they got the sole distribution of iphone is USA market. The profit may not be as good as AT & T expect, since AT & T need to sponsor a lot of money on each user and they can only got such money back in around 1.5 years later. However the wall street still love what they do. Since such strategy help AT & T to increase a lot of ARPU revenue.

The second winner are the consumer who could buy the iphone in the day 1 of launching. They keep one for themselves and put the next one to eBay to make money. Such story happened again in Europe especially in UK, people got crazy again in buying one and or resell it.

However, in Asia, the iphone is not so crazy. In India, iphone sell at around 10,000 pieces from the market where have around 0.2 billion mobile phone users. And in China, iphone even could not enter due to the sharing of the digital contents problem. In Taiwan, China Telecom got the sole distribution of iphone in Taiwan market. In the next day, the finance market did not love it and made the price of their share chip got lower.

Since the myth of iphone is almost ended. People can by much easier than before. Any people can go to the mobile phone shop to buy a unlocked iphone or trade from the operator from Hong Kong or from App Store or just from eBay. So, Taiwan China Telecom cannot gain their expected ARPU revenue from iphone. And anyone buy of iphone, they need to sponsor around 1 years service charge for the user. Under the current finance crisis, the finance market do not see that's a wise decision of paying expensive to buy the iphone sole distribution since the AT $ T story may not happen in Taiwan.

Sunday, 14 December 2008

Mobile phone industry: the most environmental industry from the world especially Nokia

According to the Green Peace Organization, Nokia rank number 1 from the most environmental industries. Such report conduct from 18 giant multi-national enterprises and mobile phone enterprise are ranking in the top position.
They are:
Nokia
Sonyericsson
Samsung
Motorola

Due the the mobile phone factories use much more environmental materials on the mobile phone and spend much less materials and energy in making the products as compare with the PC factories and game station factories.

One of the main point that Nokia rank number 1 from it is due to Nokia establish their mobile phone recycle mechanism in order to minimize and control the depreciated stuffs.