Mobile Talk: Nokia World 2010, will it hold?

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Nokia is finally making their move at the #nokiaworld 2010, after management and brushing their mobile to appear "upgrading". Have a look at this review by Gajeto. I've test drive several of Nokia touch screen before and it still feels sluggish, notice whenever you tilt to use the horizontal keyboard the screen goes black first (just don't leave a smooth transition feeling for me). I used to own several Nokia (pre-2004 I believe, if I am not mistaken they were the first to push the antenna-less mobile), but I felt lately their product has not yet make a breakthrough in innovation.

The overall Symbian OS feeling is like copying iPhone, I mean up until iPhone the mobile market has been going round and round in the same circle and pretty much the same model. Post iPhone, everyone was pushed by the full screen usage, still if they copy each mobile producer can't compete with the Apple OS system compressed at the palm of your hand. That combined with their MacBook or iMac system and MobileMe that just push and sync everything ever so smoothly makes our lives easier, no more disintegration. The first iPhone was not only revelation to the phone industry, but opens up a whole new door of app developers, a mobile that ever so changing customized to the users experience and what they want to do with it. Pre iPhone everyone's mobile were always the same, you get the basic, text message, snap photo (still no sharing, you can share via MMS), record video or audio, some basic game and others, but it never changes until you get a new mobile for the "upgrade" features.

The fact is most mobile never bother with an all integrated environment with the computer and cellphone software updates is basically a never... up until now :)

Welcome to the world where it revolves around our integration and our constant demand for upgrade immediately and not waiting (and forking out $$$) for the next "better" product.

iPad launching in China

Here's something for Apple fans in China, iPad is officially entering the market this coming September 17. Though I suspect there are about half a million distributing already in China pulled from other markets. When I was in Hong Kong, everyone had to get into the waiting list just to buy an iPad and the price of iPad just goes through the roof (somewhere between HKD 5000+ the cheapest for 16GB lowest model).

I wonder how much will the Unicom data plan will cost and should I get it to replace my normal one? iPad is really good if you are mobile, weak when your office doesn't have WIFI, like my last two.

Currently a friend of mine has sold her computer in place for iPad, let's see if she can survive without the presence of desktop.

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Social Media: Apple's latest Music Social Networking Ping and How China will Not See It

Looks like the Engineers team from Apple has been quite busy, launching new products - revamped iPod Nano, Shuffle, iPod Touch and their latest software. You can find out all the details of the events here by CNET.com.

I was particularly interested on the Ping, unfortunately China will never see the light of this (not anytime soon anyway, but fear not with the giant photocopy-cat machine shouldn't take long for someone to launch something, any takers?).

Here was the response from Apple "I understand Ping does not appear in your iTunes 10. I know how confusing this can be and am glad to provide you the necessary information.  Ping feature of iTunes is available for the countries which have iTunes music store. In China only App store is available so Ping feature is not included in your iTunes."

Even more interesting was that this particular feature was introduced by iPod rivalry ZUNE on their Wireless feature of social network, sadly Apple will take this feature on leverage more with Facebook and their million of loyal minions. Plus they have the capability to take it further by having a real artist or celebrity populate contents that people will follow, it is just genius to leverage what they have at hand and there is no better platform than this to promote their latest album, concert, tour and backstage feed. I look forward from a distance (literally) on the success of Apple's latest music social networking.

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Peace out and have a great weekend from China!