CTIA Wireless
CTIA 2010 LAS VEGAS
A VORTEX OF INNOVATION, COMPETITION, CHANGE AND INCREASING DEMAND
by Jim Bennett and Gene Blevins HTC EVO
Smart Phones
What is New
March 24,2010
More details on HTC Sprint Phone download PDF
Trends and Growth
A literal whirlwind of technology, bandwidth, microchips, devices, software ideas, user interfaces, competition and salesmanship have forever changed the global communications sector since the early 1980's.
Editor Jim Bennett with Martin Cooper Inventer of the Cell Phone...
Mobile phone/handset populations exceed 300 million in the U. S. at all demographic levels. Worldwide the segment is around six billion people and rapidly growing in Asia. Wireless equipment and service spending has exceed one trillion dollars and growing rapidly in spite of worldwide economic challenges.
With billions upon billions of dollars already invested, the smart-phone revolution is thrusting forward to more web surfing, social networking, IM'ing, tweeting, music downloading, video downloading, emailing, telecommuting live and direct broadcating, HDTV, etc,etc.
All this is leading to completing the 3G networks, launching G4 and LTE (long-term evolution), femtocells, a tiny low power 3G radio system that plugs into a residential broadband connection to provide a mobile signal directly in the home. The benefits are encouraging adoption of mobile data services at low costs to households and small users.
G4 and WiMax are being launched financied by more billions to hopefully launch trillions of dolloars of new growth.
Top near term trends confirmed include Top Level Netbooks and Smartbooks, Solid-state storage becomes much more affordable, Better Batteries fueled by more public and privat investment, Onlin Everywhere and Smarter Smartphones.
New Devices, Networks, Apps, Content and More
A few Superphone highlights from Tuesday announcements. HTC's EVO and Samsung' Galaxy S have DNA with Google's Android operating system. They both share and have four inch touch-screens that look terrific. Social networking tasks and updates go directly the phones screen with minor differences and no fuss. Both products are thin, light and promise longer battery life.
Differences that are noteworthy include:
HTC EVO ---. Works smoothly between Sprint's 3G and 4G systems. More info on detail--download pdf.
------Works well with streaming media.
---- The phone acquires high definition and transfers it using a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
--------Access to HD video web sites effectively.
--------Promises to work very well with Sprint's new 4G network
Samsung 's Galaxy S----Focuses on broader services
----May have organizational tools
----Could read books and magazines...
