Comments on: The Mobile Handset Market … Actors and Interactions (part I)

By: Nokia stops using ODMs â€¦ Where the ODM market is going? | Everything and the Mobile Software Universe...

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:20:05 +0000

[...] long (see my article about the industry ecosystem) OEM have heavily relied on ODM for production and many times design of their phonesâ€¦except Nokia [...]

By: Nokia stops using ODMs … Where the ODM market is going? | Everything and the Mobile Software Universe...

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:16:37 +0000

[...] long (see my article about the industry ecosystem) OEM have heavily relied on ODM for production and many times design of their phonesâ€¦except Nokia [...]

By: jou smith

jou smith — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:41:07 +0000

Excellent article! Part II available? where? Thanks!!

By: Thomas Menguy

Thomas Menguy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:42:10 +0000

Sorry …no info about packaging

By: Lyuba

Lyuba — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:09:03 +0000

Oh, and where is this “email me” link you speak of? I don’t see it at the bottom of the page.

By: Lyuba

Lyuba — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:07:23 +0000

Thomas,

Thank you so much for this post – it saved me hours of searching for the same information on the Internet. There’s only one more detail that I really need to know, and I’m not sure if you might know the answer to this as well.

Once a headset is manufactured, it has to be packaged. Do you happen to know which of the players you mentioned in your post makes the decision of what kind of packaging to buy and where to buy it?

If you can answer this, I will owe you big-time!

Lyuba from China

By: Mobile Opportunity - News And Views from Google MO » Blog Archive » Carnival of the Mobilists #49

Sat, 24 May 2008 11:37:31 +0000

[...] to the Carnival this week is Everything and the Mobile Software Universe. Thomas submitted an article that explains the whole ecosystem for building a mobile phone. It’s surprisingly complex. If [...]

By: tmenguy

tmenguy — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:17:58 +0000

Thanks Anshu,

If you need more precision feel free to look here in my blog, or many other great ones.
Check at the bottom of the page their is an “Email me” link
Thomas

By: Anshu Bathla

Anshu Bathla — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:05:34 +0000

Hey, Brilliant work!
Who’s the author of this blog? I need more information on this industry, being involved in a related research project.
Thus, would appreciate if you can just drop a line at: ab1906@soton.ac.uk

Cheers!!!
@nshu…

By: sum

sum — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:04:07 +0000

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By: Jonn

Jonn — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:58:52 +0000

Thank you for your site. I have found here much useful information.

By: tmenguy

tmenguy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:46:55 +0000

Hi Alex,
Thanks for your comment.

Hum this comparison is not so easy to be done, because the information for each framework is really difficult to get …or when I have it, I’ll be under NDA of course I can comment much more about Open-Plug that the other ones, but making a good “head to head” comparison would be a very biased task

Thomas

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:41:26 +0000

Excellent Article.

Can we have Mobile App framework comparison of the key players like Sky Mobile , Sasken, Open-plug, AJAR, iWoW etc.. ?

By: tmenguy

tmenguy — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:14:48 +0000

Moto uses TI also

By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:03:35 +0000

My kinda story! Couldn’t agree more, also to your last comment (knowing both VF and Moto inside out, hehehe). But, doesn’t Moto normally use Freescale (used to be part of Moto) as chipset and not TI????

By: tmenguy

tmenguy — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:25:16 +0000

In fact at the end of the day, I’m not sure the operators are the good one to specify a phone … look at a Vodaphone UI , or worse some Linux/Moto phones in the US… It’s not by locking/adding some non user friendly application that they will force users to use their services. Let the market, and the real service providers found the application and services that people will want!

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:01:48 +0000

no wonder all of our devices are so archaic, the carriers would rather name call instead of innovate and there isnt a standard anywhere to be found.

we really needa global company to take all of this in house and make some waves for the dinosaurs of bad business.

thanks for the run down !

By: Thomas Menguy

Thomas Menguy — Sun, 21 May 2006 16:19:49 +0000

Thanks for the comment, I hope it was usefull to you.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2006 14:38:03 +0000

Good synthesis, thanks

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:49:11 +0000

…I think they are trying, but the market seems not so mature and too fragmented for them … and Big Guys are still the master of this market and don’t wan’t to see their hardware commoditized.
Plus in this area, nobody (consummer perspective) care about the OS their phone is using, they only care about function, form factor … and above all cost! I think it’s why we don’t see a big software player emerging…