| The revolution began with the birth of Apple's iPhone. IPhone opened the era of touch screen mobile phones. This year, both Samsung and Blackberry launched their own touch screen phones. And finally, google fans get the literal T-mobile G1. This is the first portable phone google has ever launched. Up to now G1 has been on the market for two month. Lots of posts and videos of customers reviewing G1 can be found online.
The phone is equipped with convenient touch screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and a full QWERTY keyboard. As a google product, G1 offers its users easy access to google applications, gmail, google chat and YouTube, etc. However, the Android system inside G1 is the most standing out feature. It's simply fast!
G1 naturally reminds us of iPhone. Priced at $599, a 8GB iPhone's output cost is only $265.83. It means the phone brings a profit margin of over 55%. But an ordinary cell phone's profit margin is less than 10%. The online service iPhone offers is all that makes real differences.
Google's aim is of course not selling traditional cell phones. Mobile internet service is what this search engine lead wants to do. Google wants people to keep it in their pockets so that ultimately google will have his pocket full of money brought by putting up ads on websites. However, this G1 is only a beginning of Google's phone business. It will give Google valuable feedbacks for Google to better his phone products.
Talking about mobile phones, Nokia is always in the spotlight. What's Nokia's role in this revolution? It seems Nokia passively followed the foot steps of iPhone and G1. The truth is that Nokia remains calm and ambitious as ever. He appreciates the change iPhone has brought about. From the emergence of G1, he also spotted the importance of a good open operating system and the opportunity in mobile internet service.
This Dec. Nokia 5800 Xpress Music will be released. Its name shows its most prominent business is to offer music download service for its customers. This service of Nokia 5800 is named Come with Music.
IPhone's advantage is its operating system; G1's various google applications are attractive; Nokia 5800 tries to catch ears by offering free online music download. Who can offer buyers a satisfactory cyberised mobile phone? Perhaps there will be no ultimate winner in this benign competition, but rather these mobile phone producers will have their own kingdom of pursuers and purchasers.
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