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Five Trends to Watch in Mobile Devices

devices are already field upgradable, operators dont want you to have this capability on the cheap phones. it takes up too much ota bandwidth.

You can already replace themes etc.... on just about every phone on the market.

the big guys can build out ecosystems but they still have to get operators to agree to let them be accessible on operator versions.

Consolidation is happening on platforms, google, symbian!! whats new in the article?

phones are already lifestyle devices ... else why would the refresh rates be so high?

Why Research In Motion Likes UMA

doing what you suggest "allow a UMA device to access corporate network" would provide a huge productivity boost to enterprises. The reason this is not being done is that your Corporate IT decision maker is not comfortable with such access over the wifi part, RIM already provides access to corporate e-mail via 2g.

also which carriers are interested in this? upto now its only T-Mo US, Orange and Rogers. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE?????