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Danny Loeb provided his insights on the effect of multicore on SIP servers, but what about video communication clients? Up until today, there is a tendency to either push multi-core hardware as the next best thing (mainly by the relevant chipset vendors) or to dismiss it for most uses. While that has been true up until today, it’s popularity is changing - the latest evidence being Skype version 4.0 beta release, which is video-centric. There is a multitude of other
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 3rd, 2008 | Filed under Clients
Nokia has announced they are going to purchase Symbian and the same time open source it. This is a move that is probably going to change (yet again) the landscape of the mobile market. It began with Apple’s iPhone and continued with Google’s Android OS. Although this move can be attributed to this chain of events, as Ted from Signal to Noise points out, I think it is only the tip of the iceberg. There are other reasons for this
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 26th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
Crunch Gear had an interesting post - somehow, they are expecting mobile IM to go mainstream next year. Somehow, this seems a bit farfetched. Mobile IM will take at least 2-3 years or more to become popular. IM vs SMS IM is usually seen as an SMS competitor. Taking this viewpoint, there is only a single reason why IM will become popular, which is also the reason it won’t. The reason is cost. People are used to paying high prices
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 19th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
Windows Mobile has about 12% market share in the mobile handsets market worldwide. In the past several months a trend has started to show - the strength of Windows Mobile over Linux distributions. The migration to Linux In the past several years, there were two main handset platforms for smart phones: Symbian and Windows Mobile. While Symbian enjoyed a large market share, Windows Mobile was starting to gain ground - especially because it was not owned by a handset
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 16th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
iPhone 3G is not out. As I have predicted, it doesn’t include any video conferencing technology. Instead of starting to analyze and explain what this new version is going to do to the market, I’d like to step back and look at what the first iPhone already did. Simply put, the iPhone has placed the ODMs and the handset vendors in a UI-frenzy.The iPhone came out as an innovative handset. Apple boldly decided not to try and compete in the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 12th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
MobileCrunch recently compared Android OS with LiMo. Both are viewed as Linux-based platforms for handsets. However, I think they missed a crucial point - Android OS is simply not Linux.I’d like to first fix the comparison table on MobileCrunch’s post based on the interesting comments found in that specific post. Here is a list to summarize the differences: An SDK will be available in LiMo “soon”. Probably later on this year. With Android having one, I am sure
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 2nd, 2008 | Filed under Clients
It has been rumored that the new 3G iPhone features a front facing camera. Assuming this is true, the camera will be used for video calling. An important question is what protocol will be used for the video calls? I have written a guest post at Smith on VoIP blog regarding the difference between 3G-324M and SIP regarding mobile video telephony. In that post I explained that currently mobile video telephony (on handsets) is made possible using 3G-324M. SIP, on
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 26th, 2008 | Filed under Clients, Standardization
VoIP clients on mobile handsets are just starting to happen. At the same time, Linux is becoming an interesting mobile platform. The problem is, Linux is quite fragmented: Android, LiMo, Qtopia are just a few of the many flavors of the popular freely available open source OS. This is not just a fragmentation of distributions, which is the case today for the desktop and enterprise Linux markets, but rather a fragmentation of user interface (UI) frameworks. The mobile UI
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 28th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
Can SIP be used for consumer market devices or will it only exist in the enterprise domain? This seems like an easy question to answer - surely it is suitable for consumers as well. I met with a customer last month who is working on a videophone consumer product. Their company is specifically looking for a proprietary signaling protocol. The reason for this is: SIP is good only for the enterprise market I know for a fact that
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 7th, 2008 | Filed under Clients, Technology
There is a growing trend that is placing video conferencing endpoint vendors on a collision course with LCD makers: In recent years, endpoint vendors have started to provide high-end video conferencing clients built into LCD monitors to executives. As technology becomes cheaper, they will start providing these monitors to all employees - not only to executives. On the other end, the LCD vendors are facing fierce competition with ever-shrinking margins. This competition has forced these vendors to search after added
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 13th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
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