First is Skype to announce its Skype phone. Well, I have been using Skype for some time now and indeed it is a robust free, video enabled, VOIP application. But I am not sure, what is the benefit of owning the prebuild Skype phone. As it is possible to have the Skype application installed on any phone which has fast enough internet connection and runs Windows CE OS. Anybody?
Then the Jesus phone - as this is how the iPhone has been named in blogsphere. It always makes people go WOW and ask to keep it touch it etc. I have to admit, like the user experience on offer there. The large touch screen is very well integrated with the applications, what is not the case for other platforms unfortunately. There is a problem though. The phone is expensive, locked to the provider networks and does not give much out to the developers; apparently for sake of stability and security...
And the latest is the Android, which has just published its SDKs and made it available for download. The whole idea is to open up the mobile OS platform to the developers community. There are no Android powered phones on the market at the moment, but prototype preview looks very promising.
Android is being build upon Linux kernel, comes with several applications like web browser based which is a fork of Safari. Its architecture aims at componentization and mashups allowing merging 2D and 3D graphics. There is even a draw published to help with incubating new applications...Thankfully to software developers, it seems there is more and more opportunities to build distributed software services, which can be seamlessly integrated on closer and closer to hand and more powerful devices. BTW: Should we find a new name for those new mobile devices as they are not only just phones but music and video players, cameras, navigation units etc...?
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