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Tomorrow is H-day September 06, 2006 [General] | By Edward J. R. While the initial D in D-day does not stand for anything, the H in H-day stands for HTC! Tomorrow, on Thursday, September 7, 2006, the HTC corporation will announce several new models of Windows Mobiles phones! A global launch event! What phones? While we don't know the details, we can speculate a bit what these new phones to be announced tomorrow by HTC could be:
* * * * * Regarding HTC's statement that HTC would gladly manufacture also Symbian powered phones - if some mobile operator would order them - we could only say: we couldn't care less. Obviously big corporations have multi-platform strategy, Samsung being one interesting example, where apart from making excellent Windows Mobile phones, Samsung also is developing smartphones powered by Symbian S60 licenced from Nokia. Let us not forget that competition among mobile platforms takes place not only on end user level, but also on the level of integration of mobile operating systems with hardware. In other words: if you are manufacturer of hardware from Taiwan or China, then who would you rather work with: with Microsoft from USA - the biggest software corporation in the world, or with Nokia (that de facto owns and controls Symbian) from Finland in Eastern Europe - company specialized in hardware, where software is just an icing on the cake? What mobile OS would you prefer to put into your hardware: Windows Mobile that is based on industry-strong Windows CE that is used also for industry applications, or Symbian that is designed for consumer market only (is not good enough for industrial applications)? Would you rather licence Symbian and pay licence fees indirectly to your main competitors (Nokia, Sony Ericsson) or rather licence mobile OS and have full tranquility that Microsoft is not in competition with you at all because it is not making mobile phones and has no desire to do it? At the end, from the point of view of Windows Mobile, it doesn't matter whether given company is manufacturing also mobile phones powered by other smartphone platforms, whether it is Symbian, Palm OS, Access Linux Platform (ALP) or other Linux. What matters is what models of mobile phones powered by Windows Mobile it offers. Tomorrow we will see HTC announcing several models of mobile phones powered by Windows Mobile. None of them will be powered by Symbian. Deeds speak louder than words.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 4 Comments ]
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