The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Not only do
they have a presence in Hong Kong, Russia and Thailand, which are
actually not the first countries you’d think they’d have presences in,
but they have a pretty diverse and impressive customer base.
These
customers include ASUSTeK, BenQ Siemens, E-TEN, Fly, Fujitsu Siemens
Computers, Gigabyte, HTC, O2, Optimus, Palm, SingTel, Swisscom Mobile,
Toshiba, T-Mobile, and VimpelCom.
No doubt Spb Software House hopes to add a few Australian telcos to that list.
Now,
the iPhone 2.0 software experience doesn't really seem, based on the
preview from Steve Jobs so far, to add terribly much to the existing
iPhone experience, but then the iPhone experience is still leaps and
bounds ahead of anything else, although Spb's mobile shell is the
closest competitor thus far.
Windows Mobile devices still have things that the iPhone doesn't, like
basic copy and paste, and has had things such as calendar and contact
search for years.
While iPhone 2.0 software is said to offer calendar and contact search,
it'll still be lacking in some of the things Windows Mobile offers,
while Microsoft itself is supposedly working on making Windows Mobile 7
a great competitor.
The world of mobile device interface design is finally going through
some quantum leaps in usability and usefulness, helped enormously by
the fact that wireless data is ever more common, and ever cheaper.
The fight between all the mobile phone manufacturers is only getting
hotter, while operators fight tooth and nail to ensure they get much
more just than basic voice and data revenue.
The iPhone certainly was - and still is - very, very cool. But compared
to what's coming in the future, I can only imagine that we ain't seen
nothin' yet!
David Bass
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