Where are we going? I got a link over Twitter today from a guy that I’ve been following for a while. I don’t know him, but still I like to follow certain people on Twitter. Some twitter about work, other about their live and some about something else. But thanks to him I saw this great video on Youtube. Check it out it’s about the technical evolution.
I’m currently using an old Sony Ericsson K850i since I’ve had a binding subscription with my provider for the last 18 month. But next week I’m free to terminate the contract and can choose a new phone and also carrier. Question is what do I want. I’ve been drewling for an iphone for so long, I can’t really tell you why I didn’t get an iphone 18 months ago instead of the crap brick I have today.
So my main questions is – should I go with an Iphone or maybe a Palm Pre. Palm has been out of the game for a long time when it comes to smart phones. But with their new smart phone Palm Pre they have a good chance to be the new champion again.
Here it is, and sure it’s really beutiful and slick. The phone was presented during the CES 2009 and since then it’s been a lot of writting about it in blogs, forums, news and review sites. The really nice thing with Palm pre is their new webOS that the phone is runing. So the phone handles CSS and HTML which will make it a really webphone and probably a lot of widgets and other programs. It will also have no problem at all with webpages. The Palm Pre also have a touch screen in the same way as the Iphone.
Here’s a video about it
My friend Stefan Svensson have gathered a lot of pictures and video reviews of the Palm Pre on his swedish blog, please check it out.
But what about the Apple Iphone? I’ve heard rumours about a new version of the phone in coming out in June, I guess that the best thing is to way until then before I order a new Iphone if I’m getting one. Or I buy a new Iphone now and when the new version is getting out my girlfriend can have the other one. The reason why I would choose an Iphone is all the widgets you can have. I see a real need of at least three of them that I really want and would make my life easier.
I will continue thinking about this for a while. Send me your comments if you have idéas on other phones that I should get instead of Palm Pre or an Iphone.
I’ve had a Twitter account for about 1.5 years. I also had a Jaiku account that long. I’m not very active on Twitter and even more less active on Jaiku. Since Google a couple a weeks ago announced that they won’t continue developing Jaiku and instead turn it to open source software I’ve started using Twitter again. I must say that Twitter have becomed a lot more mainstream. It seems that more and more people do find their way to the site or system. The other day I was visiting the site for the Grammy Awards this year and I saw the little icon on the web page saying – follow us on Twitter.
In Sweden a competitor called, Bloggy have started up their business and managed to move a lot of the Swedish Jaiku community to Bloggy instead. The guy who funded it is name Jonas Lejon. I don’t really the point in creating yet another one of these sites. Who will win? Twitter haven’t really found a good way to make money on yet. In Japan Twitter are experimenting with this ads (See the Toyota ad below). Perhaps something for Bloggy as well to start with.
So how will these microblogs platforms make money? Why don’t they charge companies for their followers. Say for example that a large company would be on Twitter to communicate with their fans then Twitter could charge them like a buzz marketing company that do Word of mouth marketing. Perhaps this would be something for Bzzagent to use. Does anyone know if they already use a platform like this?
I really need to start posting more things on my blog…