Google, Apple in high-tech battle
The relationship between Google Inc. and Apple Inc. is now transforming into a power struggle as both the ambitions and ideas of the technology trendsetters increasingly collide with each other!
As both giants, Google and Apple are in a race to tap the mobile market, realizing it as key to success and sales, the high-powered phones for web-surfing has become the centre point of their brewing battle.
And not only this, the rivalry is fast spilling into other products, including web browsers, computer operating systems and digital music amongst others.
With Google announcing its plans on Tuesday to sell its own cell phone, the rivalry has been refueled.
Google, with its newly launched phone called Nexus One, is aiming to woo the audience providing them an advanced phone than the iPhone and Blackberry.
Google launches Nexus One phone
As per the speculations, internet search giant, Google Inc, revealed its very own smart phone on Wednesday. With this, the internet giant is aiming to boost its position in the emerging mobile Internet market by exerting greater control over the new generation of Web-surfing devices.
This smartphone, dubbed as Nexus One, will be sold directly to consumers.
The sleek touchscreen phone is Google’s boldest venture outside its traditional Internet business. This will also be the first time that an 11-year-old company will sell a consumer electronics device bearing its well-known brand.
However, despite a positive response to Google’s new phone, analysts say the phone is not as revolutionary in design as Apple Inc’s iPhone was at its time. Despite various favorable reviews from across the globe, experts also noted that the phone doesn’t have any major revolutionary features different from others in the market that run Google’s Android software.
The Nexus One ships immediately and exclusively from Google’s online store for $179 with a two-year contract from Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA, or $529 without a service plan.
Google plans to launch its own phone
According to the latest press reports, the internet search giant Google is aiming to strengthen its presence in the world of mobile telephony with its plans to introduce its very first high-tech phone sometime soon with the dawn of the New Year.
According to the Wall Street Journal reports and other sources close to Google, the Mountain View, California, based giant is expected to release a phone called ‘Nexus One’ that runs Google’s Android operating system.
It also added that the company is aiming to sell the phone directly to consumers, skipping mobile service providers.
Until now, Google has always been dependent on other companies, like HTC, Samsung or Motorola, to provide network support and hardware.
According to the reports, the new phones will be manufactured by Taiwanese phone maker HTC. Incidently, this company has already produced a lot of phones that use Android.
Google plans Android event in January
Amid wide spread speculation that Google plans to release its own smartphone, the internet giant announced its plans on Tuesday to hold a press event next month about its Android mobile phone operating system.
The Mountain view, California based internet giant Google has sent invites to the press, asking them to attend an “Android press gathering” on January 5 at the company’s headquarters.
The invitation said, “With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we’ve seen how a powerful, open platform can spur mobile product innovation. And this is just the beginning of what’s possible.” However, it did not provide any further details about the event.
This invite, however, comes amid all the speculations that Google is prepared to release its own brand smartphone called “Nexus One”. This phone is expected to be sold directly to the customers without any tie-up with any of the telecom carriers.
The device is also being tested by the Google employees internally.
Sony Ericsson launches 3 smartphones
One of the top mobile maker companies, Sony Ericsson has launched three new smartphones in the Indian market, priced between Rs16,950 and Rs35,950.
With the new trensy handsets, namely, Satio, Aino and Yari, the company aims to set the trend for the new age smartphones, the president of Sony Ericsson Mobile India, Anil Sethi said.
He added that the company now aims to focus on the smart phone category for the next two-three years to boost its sales. “Once the 3G spectrum allocation happens, we can roll out more features with better network,” Sethi said.
Built on Sony Ericsson’s strengths in music, imaging, gaming, applications and content services, the new phones aim to rejuvenate the entertainment aspect for its users, the company declared.
The Satio, priced at Rs 35,950, comes with a 3.5-inch screen and offers a 16:9 widescreen format with 12.1 megapixel camera. The Aino offers services to access content stored on a PlayStation 3 from anywhere in the world through a Wi-Fi connection. In addition, this also offers remote play access to videos, television shows and photos. The mobile has an eight megapixel camera and is priced at Rs 28,950.
Yari enables users to make the moves in front of the screen and play games without even touching the phone. The Phone comes with a five megapixel camera and is priced at Rs 16,950.
BlackBerry posts $643 million profit
BlackBerry’s makers Research In Motion (RIM) have reported a net profit of $643 million for the first quarter of the current financial year. However, the company’s quarterly revenue figures slipped from $3.46 billion to $3.42 billion from the previous quarter.
The profit figures are up from $518.3 million as reported during the previous quarter and the revenue of the company has grown by almost 53% from $2.24 billion as compared to the figures last year.
During this time, BlackBerry has reportedly added about 3.8 million net new subscribers’ accounts, taking the total to a staggering 28.5 million users.
According to figures released, the company has sold over 7.8 million smart phones during the past quarter. These sales have accounted for 81% of RIM’s revenue.
The Waterloo based wireless communications giant also forecast the second quarter revenue to be in the range of $3.45 to $3.70 billion, adding new 4.1 million subscribers in the next quarter.
According to RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, “The industry leading BlackBerry product portfolio is driving strong customer demand around the world and our penetration of new market segments continues to expand.”
Android expected to overtake iPhone by 2012 : Study
Acoording to the new report published by market researcher Informa Telecoms and Media, the sales of Google’s Android smartphones are expected to exceed the sales of Apple’s iPhone by the year 2012.
Web giant Google released the first beta developers’ kit for its Android Operating System platform in August last year. The first handset, the G1 smartphone was launched the following month, September. Their second handset, the Magic, is expected to arrive next month.
On the other hand, Apple’s iPhone was first launched in the U.S. in June 2007. The iPhone 3G phones hit stores last July, barely a few months before the launch of its Google rival.
However, both of the two smart phones are faring far better than the Symbian OS. In fact the two, along with BlackBerry OS, Linux and Windows Mobile are gaining huge popularity in the market over the oldest in the field.
According to Informa, last year’s smart phone sales were as high as 162 million units and for the first time the figures surpassed the annual laptop sales. The analyst forecasts smartphone penetration is expected to reach 13.5 percent of new handsets sold this year.
According to Gavin Byrne, a research analyst at Informa, “The smartphone segment is not as simple as it was a few years ago. In 2008 there were almost 162 million smartphones sold, surpassing notebook sales for the first time. The decision to move the Symbian platform to open source is crucial in maintaining its leadership over Android, Linux and Microsoft.”
He further added, “While demand in the mid tier will fall away during 2009, sales of new smartphones will grow by over 30 per cent to 211.2 million units, driven by innovative new devices and operator subsidies designed to promote mobile data consumption.”
The research also suggests that the smartphone sales will continue to be immune to the global economic downturn, maintaining “robust growth” of 35.3 percent, year-on-years; however the total handset sales will not be so resilient and are set to fall 10.1 per cent.
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