Comments on: Nokia vs. Apple: Battleground India!

By: Aditya Singhvi

Aditya Singhvi — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:04:38 +0000

I wrote a piece on the iPhone in India and how it is not going to change the game in the short term. Maybe you could check it out:

http://adityasphones.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/iphone-3g-the-india-story/

I don’t see the iPhone doing much damage to the mobile phone market in India for many reasons.

By: Ed Miller

Ed Miller — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:16:30 +0000

AC:

http://tinyurl.com/5p394x

Here’s the Star’s (sorry) review of Bell’s newest wannabe-Jebus-phone killer, the Samsung Instinct (now plastered all over the subway as part of Bell’s re-branding efforts). It’s supplanted the HTC Touch as Bell’s top smartphone.

A 3-year contract gets you the phone for $129, $479 without contract. You have to cough up for a Fun 15 plan for 1 year, which is $15/month for this:

http://tinyurl.com/6otmp4

Now, the big question is, of course, is this Canada’s Jebus-phone killer? Or slavish knockoff?

By: AC

AC — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:58:34 +0000

Thanks for that!

And for better Toronto news, try here:

http://blogto.com/

By: Ed Miller

Ed Miller — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:21:23 +0000

AC:

with the Toronto Stun and the two “national” papers being the alternative choices, the official organ of the Liberal party is the lesser of 4 evils….

Besides, for my tech news, I read this blog!

By: AC

AC — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:22:02 +0000

Oh Ed,

I don’t know how you can continue to read the Toronto Scar when they publish such boneheaded remarks like “GSM’s emerging global dominance” — with a twenty-year history and over 3 billion subscribers around the world their global dominance is old news!

By: Ed Miller

Ed Miller — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:01:24 +0000

AC:

Interesting — the smartphone is probably in the same place that the PC was when the average person started to buy one.

The Toronto Star had an article about the Canadian cell phone industry today:

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/484799

(Sorry for posting the long link, but the Tiny URL website isn’t working this morning.)

Taking your blog and the Star article together, I’d say that the trend of the wireless industry becoming consumer-driven continues on every continent!