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GPhone and iPhone: Openness Vs. Sleekness

I find it humorous that everyone on the internet is now just chugging the Apple kool-aid in relation to multi-tasking and not controlling app distribution: Newsflash: every single smartphone mobile platform of any note has those features and has for years.

And it seems odd to call Symbian an "also-ran" when it has a majority of the world's smartphone users... Don't be misled by the fact that Nokia hates the United States.

Google's G1: A Paradigm Shift in Mobile Phones

GOOG has HTC on their side, which is very bad news for Windows Mobile, since HTC is basically providing all of the innovation on the WM platform- even devices like the Sony Ericsson Xperia and the Palm Treo Pro have HTC involved somewhere- they're not well-known in the US market because their devices are usually re-branded by the carriers, but they're big overseas. So if HTC starts shifting away from MSFT and towards GOOG's platform, it's bad news for Windows Mobile.

I don't see why everyone thinks there's going to be a "winner" here who gets a Windows-like share of the phone market... iPhone will have customers, Android will have customers, BlackBerry will maintain its hold on the Business market... the big question is whether Android will supplant Windows Mobile as the platform of choice for manufacturers who don't control their own platform.