Comments on: Nokia N90: The Ferrari of Cellphones http://saunderslog.com/2005/10/16/nokia-n90-the-ferrari-of-cellphones/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:59:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nokia’s evolving product strategy — Alec Saunders .LOG http://saunderslog.com/2005/10/16/nokia-n90-the-ferrari-of-cellphones/#comment-592513 Nokia’s evolving product strategy — Alec Saunders .LOG Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:15:40 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1954#comment-592513 [...] crop of devices is that it really shows how far Nokia’s strategy has progressed.  When I first wrote about the N90 in 2005, state of the art was a 2 megapixel camera.  Its music capabilities were good, but the [...] [...] crop of devices is that it really shows how far Nokia’s strategy has progressed.  When I first wrote about the N90 in 2005, state of the art was a 2 megapixel camera.  Its music capabilities were good, but the [...]

]]> By: Search Engine Tips » 9-11 Investigation: Key 9-11 Facts And Assumptions Challenged By Prof. David Ray Griffin Video - 9-11: Myth Or Reality? http://saunderslog.com/2005/10/16/nokia-n90-the-ferrari-of-cellphones/#comment-83556 Search Engine Tips » 9-11 Investigation: Key 9-11 Facts And Assumptions Challenged By Prof. David Ray Griffin Video - 9-11: Myth Or Reality? Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:04:11 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1954#comment-83556 [...] IP Telephony Marries The Web: Voice 2.0 - A Manifesto For The FutureWe?re witnessing the beginnings of a titanic clash between the Internet and the telecommunications industry. My hope is that clash will be the, albeit painful, evolution of Voice into a full blow internet application - the birth of Voice 2.0. Voice 2.0 is the next step from where we are today. DVD Cover - Clash of the Titans Amazon DVDIn today?s world, VoIP “carriers” like Vonage, Packet8, and the cable offerings, are migrations of thelegacy PSTN onto a VoIP foundation. Voice 2.0 ? true VoIP ? is the marriage of IP Telephony to the Web.It?s already begun. The arrival (and mass adoption) of technologies like Skype, Peerio, and PhoneGnome are one indicator. Another is the accelerating loss of landline business amongst incumbent carriers. In the first quarter of this year, North American landline attrition doubled. As I write this today, landline cancellations have reached 10,000 per day, as customers opt for cable, mobile, or VoIP solutions over services from traditional providers.What will that world look like? Who will be the winners, the losers, the moneymakers? What will the consumer experience be?Follow along with me, and let?s have a closer look. This essay is part fiction, and part reality. It?s a whole lot of what I would like to see in the communications platform of the future, which I have dubbed Voice 2.0. Voice 2.0: A Manifesto for the FutureTalk is the BaselineIn a typically Scandinavian understatement, Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom?s rationale for why Skype is so successful was this: “People like to talk“. People do like to talk. As communications services have become ever cheaper, the explosion of usage has been remarkable. For instance, according to the FCC, between 1994 and 2001, average minutes of wireless usage per month climbed from 140 minutes per month per user, to 427 minutes per month per user. Over the same period of time, annual US land line usage grew from 2.8 trillion to 4.8 trillion minutes. Prices fell, usage skyrocketed.The merger of talk with the web is the foundation of Voice 2.0. When Skype launched, and the price of minutes dropped to zero, social barriers to calling strangers disappeared, driving voice usage higher again. The merger of talk and the web is leading to web-based conferencing, push to talk, application sharing, voice enabled e-commerce, and a multitude of other applications, all of which are driving voice usage higher. In the process this merger is redefining the staples of business ? customer service, sales, andmarketing ? and impacting all of our lives as we move from the standard work day to 24/7 availability.Talk is the baseline, but that baseline will be combined with text / IM messaging, and video. Today?s networks can support the technologies. The evolution to full blown, multimedia, real-time communications is just a matter of time. Some products, like the Nokia N90 cellular telephone, are already providing this capability. Nokia?s E Series telephones will also have built in SIP clients, facilitating a seamlessly mobile VoIP world.As speculative fiction writer William Gibson said, “The future is already here, it?s just unevenly distributed.” It begins with talk.The Meter is OffPhoto credit: Zoom ZoomVoice will be free, as the Skypers contend, and the Stupid Network model implies. Short term, all you can eat models, like Vonage, will exist, but long term it?s clear that the metered model is dead. The point-to-point technology called VoIP neither requires, nor facilitates the metering of traffic. Metered access to mediated access networks, like the PSTN, will continue only so long as customers require access to those networks to talk. Currently, the only widespread metered model in VoIP is metered access from the IP network to the PSTN. But how long before the majority of customers are on the IP network, and the model reverses? When will we see PSTN customers pay a premium to contacttheir friends on VoIP networks?In the Voice 2.0 world, there will be three billable entities: connectivity [...] [...] IP Telephony Marries The Web: Voice 2.0 - A Manifesto For The FutureWe?re witnessing the beginnings of a titanic clash between the Internet and the telecommunications industry. My hope is that clash will be the, albeit painful, evolution of Voice into a full blow internet application - the birth of Voice 2.0. Voice 2.0 is the next step from where we are today. DVD Cover - Clash of the Titans Amazon DVDIn today?s world, VoIP “carriers” like Vonage, Packet8, and the cable offerings, are migrations of thelegacy PSTN onto a VoIP foundation. Voice 2.0 ? true VoIP ? is the marriage of IP Telephony to the Web.It?s already begun. The arrival (and mass adoption) of technologies like Skype, Peerio, and PhoneGnome are one indicator. Another is the accelerating loss of landline business amongst incumbent carriers. In the first quarter of this year, North American landline attrition doubled. As I write this today, landline cancellations have reached 10,000 per day, as customers opt for cable, mobile, or VoIP solutions over services from traditional providers.What will that world look like? Who will be the winners, the losers, the moneymakers? What will the consumer experience be?Follow along with me, and let?s have a closer look. This essay is part fiction, and part reality. It?s a whole lot of what I would like to see in the communications platform of the future, which I have dubbed Voice 2.0. Voice 2.0: A Manifesto for the FutureTalk is the BaselineIn a typically Scandinavian understatement, Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom?s rationale for why Skype is so successful was this: “People like to talk“. People do like to talk. As communications services have become ever cheaper, the explosion of usage has been remarkable. For instance, according to the FCC, between 1994 and 2001, average minutes of wireless usage per month climbed from 140 minutes per month per user, to 427 minutes per month per user. Over the same period of time, annual US land line usage grew from 2.8 trillion to 4.8 trillion minutes. Prices fell, usage skyrocketed.The merger of talk with the web is the foundation of Voice 2.0. When Skype launched, and the price of minutes dropped to zero, social barriers to calling strangers disappeared, driving voice usage higher again. The merger of talk and the web is leading to web-based conferencing, push to talk, application sharing, voice enabled e-commerce, and a multitude of other applications, all of which are driving voice usage higher. In the process this merger is redefining the staples of business ? customer service, sales, andmarketing ? and impacting all of our lives as we move from the standard work day to 24/7 availability.Talk is the baseline, but that baseline will be combined with text / IM messaging, and video. Today?s networks can support the technologies. The evolution to full blown, multimedia, real-time communications is just a matter of time. Some products, like the Nokia N90 cellular telephone, are already providing this capability. Nokia?s E Series telephones will also have built in SIP clients, facilitating a seamlessly mobile VoIP world.As speculative fiction writer William Gibson said, “The future is already here, it?s just unevenly distributed.” It begins with talk.The Meter is OffPhoto credit: Zoom ZoomVoice will be free, as the Skypers contend, and the Stupid Network model implies. Short term, all you can eat models, like Vonage, will exist, but long term it?s clear that the metered model is dead. The point-to-point technology called VoIP neither requires, nor facilitates the metering of traffic. Metered access to mediated access networks, like the PSTN, will continue only so long as customers require access to those networks to talk. Currently, the only widespread metered model in VoIP is metered access from the IP network to the PSTN. But how long before the majority of customers are on the IP network, and the model reverses? When will we see PSTN customers pay a premium to contacttheir friends on VoIP networks?In the Voice 2.0 world, there will be three billable entities: connectivity [...]

]]> By: Alec http://saunderslog.com/2005/10/16/nokia-n90-the-ferrari-of-cellphones/#comment-75496 Alec Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:46:11 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1954#comment-75496 Best spot to look would be EBay. Nobody carries any of the N series phones in Canada. Best spot to look would be EBay. Nobody carries any of the N series phones in Canada.

]]> By: Jon Husband http://saunderslog.com/2005/10/16/nokia-n90-the-ferrari-of-cellphones/#comment-75436 Jon Husband Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:31:08 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1954#comment-75436 Alec .. do you kniow the easiest way to find a Nokia N90 in Canada ? Any retailers carry them now, or online ? Jon Alec .. do you kniow the easiest way to find a Nokia N90 in Canada ? Any retailers carry them now, or online ?

Jon

]]> By: Nokia N70 -- Alec Saunders .LOG http://saunderslog.com/2005/10/16/nokia-n90-the-ferrari-of-cellphones/#comment-3400 Nokia N70 -- Alec Saunders .LOG Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:13:18 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1954#comment-3400 [...] I came back from DEMO to find a Nokia N70 cameraphone waiting on my doorstep, courtesy of the folks at Comunicano, who run the North American Nokia Blogger Relations program.  This is another phone in the Nokia N series, which includes series 60 symbian OS, and high quality optics, as well as a superb phone.  I have previously written about the N90, and there’s also a substantial blog devoted to the N90, especially, and the Nokia N Series products, if you want more information. [...] [...] I came back from DEMO to find a Nokia N70 cameraphone waiting on my doorstep, courtesy of the folks at Comunicano, who run the North American Nokia Blogger Relations program.  This is another phone in the Nokia N series, which includes series 60 symbian OS, and high quality optics, as well as a superb phone.  I have previously written about the N90, and there’s also a substantial blog devoted to the N90, especially, and the Nokia N Series products, if you want more information. [...]

]]> By: raja http://saunderslog.com/2005/10/16/nokia-n90-the-ferrari-of-cellphones/#comment-3143 raja Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:54:16 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1954#comment-3143 Alec What can i say that i am part of the Nokia N90 club and have to agree that the abcense of the vibrator along with the absece of a radio really really sucks. You are right heads do turn on seeing the Nokia . cheers Alec

What can i say that i am part of the Nokia N90 club and have to agree that the abcense of the vibrator along with the absece of a radio really really sucks. You are right heads do turn on seeing the Nokia .

cheers

]]> By: Crackberry Detox -- Alec Saunders .LOG http://saunderslog.com/2005/10/16/nokia-n90-the-ferrari-of-cellphones/#comment-3043 Crackberry Detox -- Alec Saunders .LOG Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:07:44 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1954#comment-3043 [...] Luckily I had my Nokia N90 with me.  A quick swap of the SIM to the N90 and I had at least phone service.  But no Blackberry Email.  And I won’t be back in Canada until January 28th which will be the earliest I can fix the issue.  [...] [...] Luckily I had my Nokia N90 with me.  A quick swap of the SIM to the N90 and I had at least phone service.  But no Blackberry Email.  And I won’t be back in Canada until January 28th which will be the earliest I can fix the issue.  [...]

]]> By: Nokia N90 Now Has a Blog -- Alec Saunders .LOG http://saunderslog.com/2005/10/16/nokia-n90-the-ferrari-of-cellphones/#comment-2178 Nokia N90 Now Has a Blog -- Alec Saunders .LOG Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:48:40 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1954#comment-2178 [...] Andy Abramson has set up a blog to track traffic about the Nokia N90 cell phone.  There is some major buzz in the blogosphere about this phone.  [...] [...] Andy Abramson has set up a blog to track traffic about the Nokia N90 cell phone.  There is some major buzz in the blogosphere about this phone.  [...]

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