Comments on: Some of my expectations for Mobile World Congress http://armdevices.net/2012/02/17/some-of-my-expectations-for-mobile-world-congress/ Blog on ARM Powered® devices Tue, 22 May 2012 23:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Charbax http://armdevices.net/2012/02/17/some-of-my-expectations-for-mobile-world-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-12259 Charbax Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:23:00 +0000 http://armdevices.net/?p=54131#comment-12259 I saw about 100 ICS tablets at CES last month. And I expect nearly all smartphones to be shown next week at Mobile World Congress to be shown with ICS on them. 3 months may sound like a lot, but in tech world it's a very short time. They can't all take that ICS source code and do all the chip level optimizations instantly. They can have basic demos in 2 weeks, but for it to be production ready it can take 3-4 months for each of them. Thus I also believe most popular smartphones released in 2011 are going to be upgraded to ICS officially within a month or two. Less popular phones can still get ICS unofficially (something about some of them think it's too much work to officially do all the testing if the phone is too old or not popular enough). I think Mediatek is already a success story. If you go to China, maybe more than 50% of the smartphones sold in that country are running on the MediaTek Processor, running Android smoothly. I think the MT6595 sounds awesome, it's going to be amazing to see ARM Cortex-A9 and HSPA+ on sub-$100 phones, I expect them even to come with decent 4.3" capacitive screens at those sub-$100 prices now. I think all Android makers are doing good. And all will continue to do much better than they would without Android. The only reason HTC may loose market share would be if they are stubborn and don't bring out cheaper phones but only want to focus on high-end. Then it's normal, just as for Apple, that people only focused on high-end will loose market share. HTC must release Cortex-A9 performance 4"-4.3" phones at below $200 if they want to win market share in this exploding worldwide smartphones market. I think it will be very interesting to see what the Japanese Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Fujitsu are going to do with Android these coming months. I think they can easily profit a lot from it. They can be leaders worldwide if they want. But it really depends on them agreeing to sell good cheap phones for pre-paid markets and not only expensive ones. If the Huawei P1S is $299 or cheaper unlocked, I think Huawei can become one of the top selling worldwide smartphone makers. If they mass produce it at full speed, and really target $299 P1S and $249 P1, and $349 or $399 D1Q, Huawei is going to be awesome and probably my top recommended high-end phone maker. I saw about 100 ICS tablets at CES last month. And I expect nearly all smartphones to be shown next week at Mobile World Congress to be shown with ICS on them. 3 months may sound like a lot, but in tech world it’s a very short time. They can’t all take that ICS source code and do all the chip level optimizations instantly. They can have basic demos in 2 weeks, but for it to be production ready it can take 3-4 months for each of them. Thus I also believe most popular smartphones released in 2011 are going to be upgraded to ICS officially within a month or two. Less popular phones can still get ICS unofficially (something about some of them think it’s too much work to officially do all the testing if the phone is too old or not popular enough).

I think Mediatek is already a success story. If you go to China, maybe more than 50% of the smartphones sold in that country are running on the MediaTek Processor, running Android smoothly. I think the MT6595 sounds awesome, it’s going to be amazing to see ARM Cortex-A9 and HSPA+ on sub-$100 phones, I expect them even to come with decent 4.3″ capacitive screens at those sub-$100 prices now.

I think all Android makers are doing good. And all will continue to do much better than they would without Android. The only reason HTC may loose market share would be if they are stubborn and don’t bring out cheaper phones but only want to focus on high-end. Then it’s normal, just as for Apple, that people only focused on high-end will loose market share. HTC must release Cortex-A9 performance 4″-4.3″ phones at below $200 if they want to win market share in this exploding worldwide smartphones market.

I think it will be very interesting to see what the Japanese Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Fujitsu are going to do with Android these coming months. I think they can easily profit a lot from it. They can be leaders worldwide if they want. But it really depends on them agreeing to sell good cheap phones for pre-paid markets and not only expensive ones.

If the Huawei P1S is $299 or cheaper unlocked, I think Huawei can become one of the top selling worldwide smartphone makers. If they mass produce it at full speed, and really target $299 P1S and $249 P1, and $349 or $399 D1Q, Huawei is going to be awesome and probably my top recommended high-end phone maker.

]]> By: Pug_ster http://armdevices.net/2012/02/17/some-of-my-expectations-for-mobile-world-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-12258 Pug_ster Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:43:00 +0000 http://armdevices.net/?p=54131#comment-12258 Here's what I think.  Chinese phone manufacturers ZTE and Huawei will start selling more and more handesets.  ZTE will have their seat at the android table  with the Mimosa X and Huawei with their P1S.  Sony, Panasonic, LG, Fujitsu, and HTC will won't do very well.  Samsung and Motorola will do well. TI will continaually do very well this year at Qualcomm's expense.  Yes Mediatek, St Errisson, and Nvidia Icera have their SOC's, but I you don't see any widespread adoption yet at least until 2nd half of this year. I still think that Windows on ARM is the dark horse.  Let's face it, 3 months after Android's ICS come out, you don't see much ICS phones coming out.  Why?  Google would only work with only a few select phones.  You see software updates and android and iphone, but not much OS updates from android.  If Microsoft can streamline OS and driver updates for phones just like what they can do for pc's, they can easily capture the Android and IOS markets. Here’s what I think.  Chinese phone manufacturers ZTE and Huawei will start selling more and more handesets.  ZTE will have their seat at the android table  with the Mimosa X and Huawei with their P1S.  Sony, Panasonic, LG, Fujitsu, and HTC will won’t do very well.  Samsung and Motorola will do well.

TI will continaually do very well this year at Qualcomm’s expense.  Yes Mediatek, St Errisson, and Nvidia Icera have their SOC’s, but I you don’t see any widespread adoption yet at least until 2nd half of this year.

I still think that Windows on ARM is the dark horse.  Let’s face it, 3 months after Android’s ICS come out, you don’t see much ICS phones coming out.  Why?  Google would only work with only a few select phones.  You see software updates and android and iphone, but not much OS updates from android.  If Microsoft can streamline OS and driver updates for phones just like what they can do for pc’s, they can easily capture the Android and IOS markets.

]]> By: Maventwo http://armdevices.net/2012/02/17/some-of-my-expectations-for-mobile-world-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-12249 Maventwo Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:32:00 +0000 http://armdevices.net/?p=54131#comment-12249 Why not any expectations about massive launching of LTE Smartphones? It should be time for massive launch of LTE phones,now! Why not any expectations about massive launching of LTE Smartphones?

It should be time for massive launch of LTE phones,now!

]]> By: Anonymous http://armdevices.net/2012/02/17/some-of-my-expectations-for-mobile-world-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-12222 Anonymous Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:50:00 +0000 http://armdevices.net/?p=54131#comment-12222 I like your idea of an ARM powered laptop/smartbook :) I like your idea of an ARM powered laptop/smartbook :)

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