Comments on: If You are a Mobile Developer.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:27:54 +0000

Vinay: Have some faith sir. The “ecosystem” is coming up much faster than you’d anticipate. It takes effort to get there anyways – nobody had it straight from day one.

By: Vinay

Vinay — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:15:57 +0000

Hi Vijay
Just happened to pass. It is great to hear that mobile phones will finally get developed and Manufactured within one of the world’s largest markets.

My fear is that these phones will come with the same UI and applications as other phones. I’m not sure we’d like the same ‘experience’ as say, someone in Europe or in China.

But why Luxury handsets? Because the only prior attempt at mobile phones in India (BPL) did not work at the bottom end of the market?

I’m not holding my breath waiting for these devices to hit the market. In my experience, it takes a strong ecosystem and much more than whim and fancy to release some ground breaking devices.

By: Lalit

Lalit — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:44:40 +0000

Hey Vijay,
Thanks for the mention of Mobisy !
Cheers,
Lalit.

By: K. Srikrishna

K. Srikrishna — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:06:19 +0000

Dare I say it, guess HTC is showing even WinMobile can be done in a fashion that can be nearly "cool" Check out this review in PCWorld.

By: K. Srikrishna

K. Srikrishna — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:29:57 +0000

Vijay,
Great & quick capture of stuff that’s happening – good news – at least one company that I am aware of dMobili, startup out of Bangalore by ex-Sasken and some cool design folks, will leverage one or more existing platforms (all these you mention are promising but still in front of the horizon) to bring some very interesting phones (I certainly hope). They are trying to raise money just now that their protos have come in.
Bad (maybe not so bad, but Darwinian principles etc) news, is folks such as BlueMug, who had done kicka** work in this space (and in a very small way at Impulsesoft we discovered) that channel and value chain alas matters a heck of a lot, than the cool tech or immense possibilities. Earlier the attempt to do open CPU cores never got the traction that SW openSource did; lets hope these mobile platforms (even if not fully OPEN, at least more Open than the proprietary phones will take off.