What Can Nokia do to trump Apple’s iPhone

I have been an iPhone user for almost 10 months now and have been thinking about getting a new phone. So when I started looking around for new models, I was amazed to see how none of the available phones would satisfy my requirements. Not even the super Nokia N97.

I am not sure if my usage pattern is unique but I tend to use my iPhone as a music player (podcasts mostly) more than as a communication device. My other iPhone activities would include checking emails, using Google Reader and Twitter (Oh yeah, follow me @acmhatre).

Back in 2005, Sony was the first company to introduce the concept of a walkman phone. Nokia soon followed Sony but both these companies faltered on the software and that’s the secret of iPhone’s success. What makes the iPhone so unique and loveable is not the highly responsive touch screen interface or the good looks - it’s the backbone - the iTunes software.

Unlike the half-baked software developed by Nokia and Sony, iTunes can hold its ground to be used a primary music management software so anything one does in iTunes gets synced to their iPhone. Similarly, iPhoto a great photo management tool and synching with an iPhone is a breeze. Before iPhone was introduced, nobody even talked about updating the firmware on a cell phone because it was just too difficult to be done by an average user.

I am not sure if Sony has the energy to stage a come back but I can see Nokia competing with Apple/ I am not taking about the revenue numbers or number of handsets sold. We all know that Apple is far from even competing on those grounds. I am talking about mindshare and perception based competition.

So what should Nokia do? How about Nokia using SongBird, a free and open source music management software from the Mozilla foundation to do everything that iTunes does for iPhone. It’s being positioned as an iTunes killer anyway.

Nokia, at least for its high end phones, should look into developing plug-ins that’ll allow people to manage and synchronize not only music but videos, photos and as a platform to provide firmware updates to Nokia users. Nokia needs to give its users a single point of interaction with their devices. Nokia should do negative of iPhone and do just exactly opposite. The iPhone App store is a closed environment; Nokia should open up a Symbian Appstore on SongBird and integrate it with Ovi. The solution just seems so obvious but sometimes it just is that obvious!

The writer, Aditya Mhatre, is based in Mumbai and hosts Indicast, a popular audio-video podcast show from India.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Facts

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is a smartphone that is being discussed many people at this time. This product is phenomenal, good, and others. In this article will review of the facts about Sony Ericsson Xperia X1.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Facts :

1. Sony Ericsson deny that there are Rumor HTC parties involved in making Xperia X1. HTC more involvement in the case of manufacturing, not design it. Xperia X1 keyboard design a beautiful, and also the chassis material far better than HTC TouchPro.

2. The final version Xperia X1 will be equipped with 384MB of RAM. Compare that with Omnia only 256MB. Perhaps adding RAM is an effort at the Sony Ericsson for compensation over the release of The Xperia X1.

3. The Sony Ericsson will maintain a 'panel' Menu system that is able to simultaneously run 9 applications running simultaneously, with a vengeance, will not give licenses to any party.

4. The panel will meet you in the Xperia X1 is Sony Ericsson panel (containing tools or shortcuts to get news, weather forecasts, etc.), the Media panel (of the multimedia player for video and audio), Slideshows (so differently, such as name, to slideshowing photo and video), 3D panel Fish (3 tails, fish swim, which will follow the pointer, most of the fish as an indicator of the battery, and that is, if there is a miss call will be changed so yellow, and a small indicator to be active or not silent mode) , And then there are the FM radio panel, the panel Today Microsoft, Google and the last panel.

5. For music lovers, it will be like with this. Unlike Sony's mobile phone Ericsoon the other, Xperia X1 have headphones 3.5 mm.

6. Xperia X1 to be with the Opera browsert, also, support Java and Flash, so video sites such as YouTube and Stuff.tv is not a problem anymore.

7. There is the possibility of further, Xperia X1 does not depend only on Windows Mobile. So there may be improvement in the Operating System.

8. Camera Xperia is' only 3.2 megapixel, also is not equipped with a Xenon flash, but the features' touch autofocus' its users can choose to make a certain part of the picture in vewfinder made to focus on the future.

9. There are two options currently Chasing color: black, and silver metallic. It is you want to select which, he said, but the silver better.

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