Comments on: Is mobile really a sure thing for Google?

Adapting Google's successful Web offerings for use on cell phones is an important work in progress--and unlikely to be easy.

[lpricci]

Android ? so what?

Google will learn a lot from the Android program. For example, they will learn the license cost for all the media codecs required to deliver the ?rich experience? everyone talks about. And they will learn lots about power management- how to make a device that will run a few days off a tiny battery.

What nobody is talking about is Windows Mobile. Microsoft is ibn the mobile space now. Using Windows Mobile, or perhaps just Windows CE, everything promised by Android is available today, carrier certified. Windows Mobile has a great, location aware search tool- no not just a search tool, an integrated location aware application that does everything you need to do on a mobile device.

With an open API to facebook and other social networking sites, and open programming environment on the phone,- who knows where this will go

Lawrence Ricci
www.EmbeddedInsider.com

[cbazza]

Windows Mobile has everything Android has ???

You are severely mistaken. Windows Mobile is proprietary, has been around forever and it is carrier certified for sure but it doesn't come even close to the disrupted potential of Android.

Android will be open sourced, includes some of the most popular software modules out there from web browsing and database to powerful graphics engine.

Android can deliver iPhone like software but open sourced. Windows Mobile can not even compete with iPhone, so I don't see how it already provides everything Android has as you state it.


Carlos.

[pugster]

hardware requirement for Windows Mobile...

Windows Mobile also have higher hardware requirement. I have yet seen a phone of a size of a razr which can use Windows Mobile. Microsoft always have one size fits all solution. Maybe not everybody wants to see a word document in a phone.

The problems with phones nowadays is that once a phone has been released to market, nobody really bother to update the software anymore unless there is a major software bug in the phone. Hopefully Android will address that issue.

[Quemannn]

Google's dominance will shift to mobile world?

All told, Google's mobile endeavors are midstream intiatives, aimed at apps developers, carriers, content providers and hadset makers. On the contrary, Nokia seems to have taken upstream initiatives a couple of steps ahead of Google.
Nokia owns Navteq, the digital map service provider, and owns over 40% of Symbian. Over 40% share of handset market.
If Google won C Block of the 700MHz spectrum, it could gain some edge in competition with Nokia.
LBS will be the core part of the next generation mobile technology, with location-findiing technlogy likely to branch out into GPS, cellular trilateration and long-range WiMAX hotzone portals.

Carriers are considered 'obtrusive' gatekeepers to the eye of mobile content providers, and digital map service will be an extra burden on them. Is there going to any disruptive technology to get around all these?

[Manhattan2]

The future of search is GPS Advertising

If Google is not careful they could lose market share in location based search before the industry even takes off. GPS advertising and GPSads.com will be the driving force for this industry.

[ryeter]

DotMobi Platform Status

The .MOBI web extension, managed by http://mtld.mobi and backed by Google, Microsoft, Nokia and many others, was to provide the development platform for the Mobile Web. Yet theere is no mention of it in this article. Anybody know what's going on with .MOBI?