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Wednesday 11 January 2012

Motorola To Release Fewer Smartphones [ 11-01-2012 22:56 ]

Author: Oleg Kononosov Source: All Things D Translation by: Paul Smith

Following the 'less is more' school of though Motorola will be releasing fewer smartphones in the future as it tries to find some focus and gravity in the marketplace. That's the news from the company's CEO Sanjay Jha who made the announcement at a roundtable event held at CES. The reduction in product numbers would also better help Motorla direct its ad dollars to promoting those products it does release.

Motorola has been pretty quick off the mark in releasing products in the past so this represents a fairly big shift for the company. There had been criticism in the past over its release cycle, with the Droid BIONIC being released just two months before the Droid RAZR. To be fair the release of the BIONIC so close to the RAZR was because of delays to the BIONIC according to Jha, but that really only underscores the relevance of this change in strategy.

Doing less, but doing it better has served other companies well in the past, probably most famously in the case of Apple when Steve Jobs came back in 1997. Google too has recently been learning the value of less as it seeks to shed some of the copious side projects it has accumulated over the years.

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Siri Dictation Service Coming To The iPad? [ 11-01-2012 22:50 ]

Author: Oleg Kononosov Source: 9to5Mac Translation by: Paul Smith

The latest iOS 5 beta build continues to throw up interesting nuggets of what may come to pass. This time we get an inkling of a possible Siri implementation for the iPad. It's perhaps a little curious that the iPad 2, running with the same A5 chip as the iPhone 4S, hasn't been given the blessings of Siri, but rooting around in the recent beta builds suggests that that may change soon.

In this particular case the excitement hinges around the possibility of using Siri for dictation on the iPad. That's a long way from the full blown Siri service as seen on the iPhone, but nevertheless would be an important addition to the iPad given the fact that the iPad has a propoensity to be used for more typing than the iPhone. The iPad's onscreen keyboard isn't bad, but if you build up a decent pace of typing it doesn't really hold up well and mistakes start to creep in. A dictation service might just solve that little problem.

The reference to this feature comes in a Siri privacy agreement embdeed within the keyboard functionality. This is important to point out because Siri's privacy policy is contained within a separate Siri setting on the iPhone. Ther fact that it is contained within the keyboard settings for the iPad suggests that what we may see won't be Siri as we know it on the iPhone, but simply a dictation service.

Annoyingly too there is no mention, or even hints, at whether this sort of functionality will make it to the iPad 2 or be destined for the iPad 3. The iPad 2 should, in theory at least, be capable, from Apple's perspective anyway, of running Siri so let's hope Apple helps those of us with iPad 2s out.

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Video: Interview With Nokia CEO Hints At More Of The Same From Nokia [ 11-01-2012 22:42 ]

Author: Oleg Kononosov Source: Engadget Translation by: Paul Smith

Engagdet today posted up an interview they conducted with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop. The interview touches all the usual bases when a company has just announced a new product, in this case the Lumia 900. There is a lot said about Nokia re-entering the North American market and some general points made about the handset itself. It's all pretty much par for the course, but actually that's what's so interesting about this interview. Its sameness.

Listening to Elop speak the impression that I came away with was that of a company that, for all the talk of a new beginning, is going down the same road it has always walked. The whole idea of Windows Phone being a focus for the company just brought to mind Symbian and how that was Nokia's focus in the past. Listen to Elop speak and mentally replace the term 'Windows Phone' with 'Symbian' and see what you think for yourself.