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What’s your favorite? Nokia N97 vs. E75.

Monty Metzger — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:44:45 +0000

At the MWC’09 I have met Mark Selby, VP industry Collaborations, and Benjamin Lampe, Manager Communication Devices, at NOKIA. We have discussed the Pro’s and Con’s of the new “Bad Boy” N97 and the E75.
I liked the NOKIA Messaging Client where you can manage several email accounts, blog and use social networking services.

What do you think about the two new phones?

Will the netbook play an essential part for mobile media in the future?

Monty Metzger — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:25:33 +0000

In this decade the mega-trend “Cloud Computing” will lead to a new era of the internet. Consumers will save their information, documents and content (fotos, videos, etc.) online, share it with others or publish it on the web. There are already many examples today to understand this major change of usability and consumer behaviour.

Besides mobile phones there is a huge potential for cheap and simple “terminals” to enter the “Cloud” online. Last year the first products in this niche-market had been launched: the Netbooks. Netbooks are often sold including a SIM-card and a data-plan for high-speed mobile connections.

Forbes.com wrote an interesting article why Apple is facing dramatic problems in the future due to this emerging trend: “Apple’s Real Problem: Netbooks”.

Furthermore the basic idea for a low-cost “Cloud Computer” can close the information gap on a global level. Nicolas Negroponte understood the potential of this idea and founded the non-profit organisation “one laptop per child” (http://www.laptop.org/en/) and started the developement of the 100 Dollar Laptop.

In combination with a smart “Cloud Computing Operation System” like David Liu’s gOS or Tariq Krim’s Jolicloud, low-tech Netbooks can become a very powerful device and shape the future of mobile media. “Cloud Computing Operation System” might be a “disruptive innovation”.

Wikipedia: A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation that improves a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by being lower priced or designed for a different set of consumers.

Last week I had the chance to discuss this question with one of the best-known experts on Netbooks: Sascha Pallenberg, aka the “Netbook King” (via Robert Scoble). Sascha is founder of Netbook News.

Here you can see what Sascha answered on my question:
Will the netbook play an essential part for mobile media in the future?

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A Conversation with Charlie Schick, Nokia

Monty Metzger — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:25:59 +0000

During a Conversation with Charlie Schick, Chief-Editor NOKIA Conversation, he explains what will be different when we reach 4 billion mobile subscribers and that we might reach this milestone in 2010 already.

Furthermore I asked him: “Google is dominating the web right now, who will be dominating the mobile web in the future?” He thinks that the variety of mobile software and new forms of mobile devices, like netbooks, will be a major driver for the mobile web. Each company doing business in mobile media will need to find a way to co-exist and develop the mobile future together.

See the full video-interview: