Comments on: Mobile Social Network - Why Not?

By: Avatar

Avatar — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:01:25 +0000

well, i have seen fon11 too, but i have seen 4 other mobile social network, one by nokia by the way. and 3 for WM, 2 use silverlight 2.0 and one of them was shown at MIX08.

so i think the 3 main camps get them pretty much at the same time.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:04:02 +0000

From some inside info, and the fact that Europe is a Symbian/Nokia dominated region, I think Nokia will score in Europe, rather than iPhone or Blackberry. Of course, Nokia doesn't stand a chance in US. Nokia does have a few tricks up its sleeve, and we cannot rule them out so easily.

As for Motorola, they are just beginning to talk about these stuff and will take a good 3 years to release phones. Motorola is good with innovation, but they lack business strategies. Safely eliminated!

By: Aditya

Aditya — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:02:32 +0000

I meant triangulation, sorry!

Apple will get the mobile social network thing going before any other company, for the simple reason that they’ve anticipated the market well, and steered things around themselves. Once they do, they’ll be working overtime securing deals all over the world, because they will not want to lose momentum and risk losing to WM or Blackberry a section which they created.

Apple’s closest competitor is Blackberry … this isn’t Nokia’s play field, is it? The only smart-phone I’ve seen from Nokia which is worth mentioning is the N95. The E-series is downright rubbish … big and clunky. I think we can safely eliminate Motorola as well (no-offence :P)

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:05:31 +0000

Many companies are moving towards what I heard as Web 3.0 (!), mashing up NFC (Near-field Communication) with Social Networking. I think Apple and Nokia will be the ones to reach there first. In that case, Apple will dominate in US and Nokia in Europe. NTT Docomo already has several such services, but that can be considered equivalent to none, because of the unavailability of their service outside Japan.

PS: Can you tell me the source of your statement that iPhone comes with GPS? I think it has only Cellular BTS Triangulation, a very very coarse alternative for GPS.