Sony Ericsson has announced its second enterprise smartphone. The London-based mobile-phone maker introduced Wednesday the XPERIA X2, a Windows Mobile 6.5-based smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard, a high-resolution touchscreen, and an 8.2-megapixel camera.
![thinktank’s Robin Boyar on Mobile Gaming [GigaOM]](http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/mobilize-speaker-2.jpg?w=144&h=82 "thinktank’s Robin Boyar on Mobile Gaming [GigaOM]")
Few people understand the video game space the way Robin Boyar does. She boasts 15 years of research experience including online, console and mobile gaming and is the head of thinktank, a Berkeley, Calif.-based research consultancy specializing in gaming, entertainment, new media and young consumers. Before founding thinktank, Boyar led the consumer research department at Electronic Arts, the world’s largest video game publisher, managing efforts for the company’s entire line of offerings. In the edited interview below, Boyar, a speaker at our upcoming conference, Mobilize 09, shares her views about the disappointing early days of wireless gaming, the impact the iPhone has had on the space and the future of mobile apps.
This is pretty interesting even if it doesn’t apply to you (you’re not a T-Mobile G1 owner): apparently since the T-Mobile’s G1 internal flash memory is so puny, any OS updates after Cupcake (1.5) simply won’t fit. That means besides for some possible security updates, little fixes here and there, the T-Mobile G1 is a wrap as far as new software from an operating system perspective is concerned.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Multimedia, Bad Apple, iPhone, MobileMe, App Store, App Review
Qik [iTunes link] is an eagerly awaited free app for the iPhone. Most other video capable phones have a version of it. Qik allows, among other things, live streaming from your phone to the web. How could someone not want that capability? Early on, Qik offered a version for jailbroken phones that worked quite well.
According to Gartner, Inc., a business technology research company, cell phone sales totaled 286.1 million units during the second quarter of this year – a 6.1 percent decrease over the second quarter of last year. But, smart phone sales picked up considerable steam surpassing 40 million units in sales, a 27 percent increase from the second quarter of last year.
