{"id":7291,"date":"2008-09-23T17:38:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T17:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/big_mobile_week.html"},"modified":"2008-09-23T17:38:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T17:38:39","slug":"big-mobile-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/big-mobile-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Mobile Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy has there been tremendous mobile news this week. A few of the more interesting news announcements I have seen are the release of the Google T-Mobile G1<\/a> Phone which is based on Android\/OHA. What is really interesting about this story in particular is that Android looks like it will find its way into many devices<\/a> beyond phones.<\/p>\n

This phone could be very interesting and it remains to be seen how Google competes with Apple in the UI game. While Apple has a simple but elegant design to its solutions, Google’s solutions are simple and plain. Do consumers want plain when they can have fancy? Maybe — if the price is right. This of course explains why T-Mobile has more attractive prices than AT&T — allowing free Gmail service — which will not require a data plan. On AT&T you need to drop $50\/month for a data plan in order to check email. Then again, what do you do in Gmail when you get an email with an important link and don’t have a data plan? I guess you wait till you get to a hotspot.<\/p>\n

Another bit of interesting news is the new format called slotMusic for purchasing physical music from the likes of SanDisk, EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group and others.<\/p>\n

In both cases the news items are late to the game and one wonders how they may change markets. For example the Google phone is way behind Apple — does this disadvantage help them because they had a chance to improve on the iPhone.<\/p>\n

In the case of slotMusic — who knows — does anyone buy music that doesn’t come from a network somewhere? We will see but certainly this new format will make it easier to sell music in retail locations as the packaging is a fraction of what a CD takes. At least in theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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