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Weekly Roundup: Nokia Releases New Phones, Nobody Sleeps Overnight on 5th Avenue to Get Them | Blog | NextBillion.net | Development through Enterprise

  • In the past two weeks, Nokia dropped several new hardware and software products that we noted in passing in the Newsroom section - a new line of inexpensive phones, expansion of its Life Tools service from India to Indonesia, and the upcoming rollout of Nokia Money. 
  • I say this because I'm pretty confident that these price drops in handsets alone - an almost 40% reduction from Nokia's least expensive phones two years ago - will reach more people, faster, than any of the innovative approaches profiled elsewhere on NextBillion.net.  For better or worse if I had to choose the single organization driving the most market development at the base of the pyramid globally, it wouldn't be the Gates Foundation or Grameen, it would be Nokia.  While the company is losing out in the smartphone market it's shipping almost half a billion handsets a year, accounting for their 60% market share in India and 45% market share in China.  They intend for Nokia Money to reach 300 million people by 2011.  As a benchmark, the global microfinance industry has something shy of 150 million clients.
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31 Oct 09

The boom in smart-phones: Cleverly simple | The Economist

  • The market for smart-phones is expected to grow so quickly in part because they are changing. Expensive pocket computers such as the iPhone and BlackBerry, which let users watch videos and download whatever applications they want, are giving way to new models that come with popular services built in, but are less versatile or run on open-source operating systems, and are often cheaper. All this reflects a broader trend in the industry, where value is migrating from firms that run networks and make hardware to those that make software and offer service
  • New handsets from Motorola, an industry veteran, and INQ, a rising star, illustrate these changes. They both feature built-in support for online services, including popular social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. On the iPhone, in contrast, the necessary software has to be downloaded and installed. What is more, both phones can automatically add contacts from such sites to their address books.
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Foursquare, a Social Network Site, Puts Users Face to Face - NYTimes.com

  • But for many urbanites in their 20s and 30s, two other questions are just as important: Where are you, and can I come join you?
  • “On Twitter, there are more than 3,000 people that follow me, and Facebook is more of a business community now,” said Annie Heckenberger, 36, who works at an advertising agency in Philadelphia. “Foursquare is more of the people that I actually hang out with and want to socialize with.”
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