The other day I was discussing absolute benefits of mobile business. There are numerous absolute benefits that are associated with this Trillion dollar economy sector. Yes the mobile industry is growing in leaps and bounds and in terms of GDP it has registered astounding increase. We have an edge while we are in this business in several sense of the word.  Let us look at few eye-catching advantages.

It is truly a personal media

It is permanently carried

First always- On mass media

Built-in payment mechanism

Available at creative impulse

Most accurate customer information

Only cellphone captures social context

Let us compare the mobile set numbers with some other widely popular media. There are 1.4 billion internet users, 1.7 billion people have credit cards, 1.2 billion fixed line phones, 1 billion PCs in use, 800 million subscribers to satellite/cable TV and under 500 million for daily newspapers by circulation. Radio has a huge base of 4 billion users the world over. But can u imagine what radio has achieved (4 billion sets), in 90 years, has been achieved by mobile in 30 years. What I mean to say is there is a whopping number of 4 billion mobile subscribers worldwide!  Isn’t that the strong reason to dive into the business?

Gradually and happily the prices of smartphones are dipping low with the time. Apple sold an impressive more than 10 million iPhones in the third quarter, showing strong demand for a high-powered internet-connected device with a rich set of applications. Programmers care deeply about releasing applications on a system that's actually in widespread use, Naturally this trend will attract a lot more users to enter into the marvelous world of smartphones, this will generate the unprecedented boom for smartphone applications. Without applications the phone is confined to remain no more than a talking device. It is mobile applications that enrich the phone and make it the SMARTPHONE in real sense.

Google's considerable clout with developers could be the key to helping Android rise from an open source operating system used on only a tiny fraction of the world's mobile phones into a force to be reckoned with. The company already has given developers millions of dollars in prize money. Android’s vision is to provide more adaptable, free-wheeling, and self-governing system.

Gone are the days when people would hide the secrets of success. Happily we are living in an age where everything is open. There are no strings for those stalwarts, who are willing to put their honest efforts. Android has done the developers a world of good. By letting the developers make the applications with great convenience, it has unleashed opportunities for even a layman to dream of having a bank account bearing a million dollar in against of their names.…………

To take the discussion further I invited Jordan to my house so that we can have a cup of coffee while these females discuss things.

Landscape Everywhere

Portraits are nice, but sprawling landscapes are sometimes more pleasing to the eye. With 3.0, Apple has enabled landscape mode for all of its apps, which is tremendous for heavy Mail and Notes users. Maybe this will act as a cue to Twitter app devs?

MMS Available

No limits! No strings attached! Only freedom! Your iPhone is no longer preventing you from having MMS capabilities, though your service provider might. Twenty-nine of Apple’s telco partners will have full MMS support available for iPhone users when OS 3.0 goes live in a week, but some will be left out in the cold, including AT&T users, until a later (summer, in AT&T’s case) date. Here in Canada, we may be slaves to terrible three-year contracts, but at least we’ll have MMS — for a price.

iTunes: Movie/TV Show/Audiobook/iTunes U Direct Downloads

Buy, download, and view all iTunes video content directly on your device, using Wi-Fi or 3G. Not only that, if you like to read with your ears, audiobooks are now also available directly from the iPhone, as is iTunes U content for those students out there. One step closer to cutting the cord. Now where’s that Bluetooth syncing?

Tethering (Also Selective)

Twenty-seven carriers are backing tethering via the iPhone, including Rogers in my homeland. Guess who’s not? I’ll give you a hint: It rhymes with “Haiti and Tea.” Not exactly clear on whether that situation is temporary or not.

HTML 5, HTTP Streaming A/V, Autofill, Javascript Improvements

Safari is getting a whole whack of improvements which should make the iPhone mobile browsing experience much smoother. HTML 5.0 standards support, 3X faster Javascript rendering, intelligent HTTP audio and video streaming that picks bitrate and data quality based on your connection speed, and autofill for forms and logins are all included in the 3.0 update.

Over 30 Languages Supported

Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Korean and Thai are among the new languages supported in 3.0, extending the iPhone’s international appeal.

There are many interesting aspects to iPhone 3.0. The time will tell the story but let’s continue tomorrow to know more of it.

Let’s continue from where we had left.

Nancy’s sound knowledge has shown us the light to help us arrive at a right decision. We can keep these priceless things in mind while offering something to our boyfriend or girlfriend. This article should surely help you in making the right decision.

Nancy says that when Palm dawned in to market with, its Palm Pre at the Consumer
Electronics Show in January, the company stressed the smartphone’s ability to run myriad applications in the background — Doesn’t that look like a slap in the iPhone’s face.

Then she cites, Ethan Nicholas, coder of the popular iPhone game iShoot to endorse her statement. So far as usability is concerned, the iPhone needs an all too important search feature to make navigating applications easier. For example, currently there is no way to search for keywords in e-mails or text message; instead, you must (unwillingly) manually scroll through your items and find specific messages yourself. The lack of a search function on iPhone is peculiar when compared to Apple’s immaculate Mac operating system, which features a speedy search engine called Spotlight, Nicholas says.

That’s shocking — that a company so focused on usability leaves you with only the option to scroll through 200 e-mails till you find the one you want while Palm Pre has demonstrated a system wide search tool.

This is not to undermine what iPhone has delivered to the public, but these are the humble suggestions she thought right for there is always some room for improvement in every product on the earth and Apple’s can not be an exception to this universal law. Finally, for hardware, developers and analysts concur that not much should be altered about the iPhone’s form factor. That’s because changing the screen size dramatically would require complete rewrites of the 25,000 iPhone applications already available through the App Store.

Has Nancy got any valuable comments about camera? Oh yeah, she has not spared even that aspect! Nancy! I bet your finace must be an apple pie honest or you would not have chosen him for sure. Hahahahaha….Nancy continues to add that in terms of hardware, the iPhone’s major weakness is its camera. The first- and second- generation iPhones both feature a 2.0-megapixel camera, and experts say that the next iPhone’s camera must feature at least a 3.5-megapixel resolution to compete with rivals. Also developers and other pros agreed on the next iPhone’s processor must be beefed-up to boost its gaming powers.

Will Apple deliver on enthusiasts’ demands? We’ll find out Tuesday at Apple’s special media event in Cupertino, We’ll probably have to ask dear Nancy…..
(Courtesy www.wired.com)

The talks between these two young ladies never seemed to come to an end. They continued talking about the salient features.

Cut/Copy/Paste

Everyone felt that iPhone needs this feature. It’s here. Thank heavens, I can text message complicated URLs instead of telling people what keyword to Google and what number link to click on in the results. it’s universal, it should work in all apps since it’s built right into the iPhone’s Cocoa Touch controls. This is big news for a lot of people who’ve been waiting for this ever since the release of the original iPhone two years ago, but BlackBerry users are probably snickering at all of us right now.

Digital Compass (3G S Only)

It was as speculated, the magnetometer made it in. It allows Google Maps to know your orientation, among other things. Developer API access is also included.

Voice Control (3G S Only)

This is real cool feature. I’m not entirely sure why this is limited to the 3G S, since the iPhone 3G has a mic and software, so it should be able to handle a little voice recognition. I guess it looks cool, though, especially with universal iPod commands (”Play my playlist” and “Play songs like this” to activate Genius) and audio track information just like the iPod Shuffle.

Nike+ Support (3G S Only)

Its an amazing addition to already amazing phone. It was supposed to happen, and it did. Not very surprising, but a nice addition.

Shake to Undo

Maybe it’s the lack of a physical keyboard, but I’m always doing the wrong thing with my iPhone and iPod touch. There used to be no easy way to retrace my steps, but now all it takes is a little wrist action to set things right again. Command + Z is the way of the world, and I predict its presence in iPhone 3.0 will be much appreciated. Now, there’s the little matter of Redo. I humbly propose Spin to Redo. Or blow into the iPhone mic. Both would be very stupid-looking.

Spotlight Search your whole phone, not just parts of it. That means music, contacts, email, notes, the works. As someone who’s been using the beta since its release, I can say for sure that this is a great feature. Especially if you’re an app glutton or have a large address book/iTunes library. Just swipe right or double tap from the home screen to access it.
Too much technical details for today...Let’s continue tomorrow.

Nancy is getting married this summer. Nancy used to be the most sought after gal in our university for her stunningly serene beauty. Her charming attraction would lure almost everyone. Despite of possessing such a gift of nature she was down to earth and that was something that helped her stay on top of the things! She studied well and very well at that. To me she is a beauty with brain. Her fiancé has offered her to have a gorgeous gadget. But Nancy, being a techno –savvy gal refuses to buy one now. She is well aware of the current and future market trends. She follows various technical magazines with rapt attention and knows what is coming up in the market and how ht the product is expected to be. Her husband naturally asked her to go with the iPhone. But she had following reservations.

Apple’s third-generation iPhone must adopt several crucial features to outsmart competing smartphones.
It does not take a rocket scientist to make out that aside from the obvious missing features — copy-and-paste and multimedia text messaging — the next iPhone needs features that improve usability, such as search functionality and, most importantly, the ability to run third-party applications in the background. The  company is expected to address some of these shortcomings.

Even Raven Zachary, founder of the iPhone developer conference iPhoneDevCamp says with all humility “The iPhone remains the most compelling smartphone operating system on the market today, but Apple’s competitors are going to continue to innovate," then he adds "And for Apple to remain ahead, it’s really going to need to continue to innovate as well as out-innovate the competitive set."

Apple’s iPhone has drawn severe criticism for ignoring lots of features that an ordinary users rely a lot on. Apple’s phenomenally popular iPhone, which launched June 2007, has generated as much criticism as it has praise. The most controversial omissions from the handset are a video recording capability, a copy-and-paste function and the ability to send photos via text messages  all features most smartphones already have. The good news is that despite these missing elements, the iPhone catapulted Apple to the position of third-largest handset supplier in the world.

But naturally, the iPhone’s booming success has only given birth to fierce competition. Most notably, the Palm Pre smartphone, due for a release the first half of 2009, appears to closely mimic the iPhone operating system — and some analysts view the Pre as the first serious threat to Apple’s handset. In order to stay ahead of the curve, Apple must continue to improve and innovate its popular smartphone, Zachary said.

The major feature the iPhone requires is background application functionality for multi-tasking, Zachary said. The current iPhone operating system doesn’t allow third-party applications to run in the background, meaning if you’re using an instant messaging app, for example, you disconnect from it once you return to the iPhone home screen to do something else, such as check e-mail.

Being a technically sound person Nancy has a lot more to say which we shall see in the next leg of article. (Courtesy www.wired.com)