iPhone 3G is by far the most hyped phone (or even product) out there today. Everything about it is great - even though you can’t get coverage, have lousy battery life, buggy OS updates and general instability when you call, the party in the Apple AppStore is going on without a stop, with over 30 million dollars of sales in the first month alone. iPhone iPhone really changed the mobile handsets market. Other than making the concept of downloading applications
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 28th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
Another week; another carnival. This time, it’s over at MobHappy. There’s a bunch of great content there without a specific theme this week -iPhoneless at last. I made it to the carnival with my post about going green and VoIP.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 26th, 2008 | Filed under Around the net
IntoMobile reports that Samsung also ditched Linux on one of its planned handsets, that after Asus did the same - this is counterintuitive to my thoughts on Linux on mobile, but I still stand by my conclusions - Windows Mobile is going to lose some ground if it doesn’t do something earth shattering soon. UC is not just about communications and it is also overhyped - I totally agree. Up to the point of there’s no such thing as UC. Skype might have a back door for governments to eavesdrop - there’s no security in proprietary protocols, only in open standards. Some shameless self-promotion - we just released our eVident product, which allows companies to test their networks for video deployment readiness.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 11th, 2008 | Filed under Around the net
Interesting times in the mobile handsets arena. VisionMobile maps the new centers of gravity in this industry. I believe competition will lag behind Apple’s iPhone in their next release as well as copycatting its ideas and designs. Talking about the iPhone - I am thinking of starting a petition to ban iPhone from Google Alerts for 3G video. For the past two weeks I am getting nothing from that service besides iPhone jailbreaks and teardowns. Growing bandwidth and increasing CPU power will change television as we know it. It will also speed up the use of video telephony adoption and quality and this fits well with the trend of multi-core diversification I have written about. You can add to this TiVo’s two new deals with YouTube and Amazon - it’s only the beginning. HD is seen by some as the true promise of VoIP - this is certainly different than the Unified Communications pitch. What happens when you don’t have enough bandwidth though?
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 28th, 2008 | Filed under Around the net
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
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
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
