Smart phone sales up but overall handset sales down

According to Gartner Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 8.6 Per Cent and Smartphones Grew 12.7 PerCent in First Quarter of 2009.

Few key points: Nokia's sales declining but interestingly Blackberry and Apple is growing very fast.

Now again Motorola is trying to catchup with others and trying to regain the lost glowry!

>80 and going strong

Yesterday I watched two old man, one on TV and another one live performing in Bangalore.

First one is LK Advani, BJP's prime ministerial candidate, he is 81 years old and the way he was giving his speech at the NDA rally in Punjab, it was great. Almost from last 2 months he is traveling expensively across India, giving multiple speeches, taking flights and reaching to the new destination.

Second one is Manna Dey, the great Bollywood  singer, he is in his 91st years. He was giving live performance in Bangalore and almost sang for more than 2 hours, his team was much younger than him (must be in their 30s or 40s) but they asked for a break in between not him. Amazing stuff.

How do they get this kind of energy and enthusiasm in whatever they do? If i just look around with people in their 20s and 30s, i don't find the same zeal to get going. Where is the vigor or spark? Can we take 2hrs flight in the morning, attend one meeting, again take a flight for another place, attend one more meeting, return to your home and come back fresh the next morning to office?

Are we just doing something because we have to do it to earn our livelihood? Where is the creativity? Where is the emotional connection with what we are doing?

Smart phone OS-Continue

Smart phone OS list:

Symbian, IPhone, Blackberry, Android, BMP (BREW Mobile Platform from Qualcomm), Win Mobile, QT, LIMO.....

Nokia is desperately searching next killer thing for the emerging market, recently they started testing Nokia Life Tools, which is nothing but few pre-embedded apps with services flavour.

Where is the industry moving?

Are we becoming more and more fragmented in the mobile phone software world?

People started consolidating towards 1 or 2 smart phone OS world and there you get IPhone and Android and complicated the whole world with their differentiated offerings. We used to think that all smart phone development would move towards Symbian but looks like Nokia's acquition has changed the game here.

Apple has shown that good usable phone and option to user so they can choose what they need on their personal phone.

I was thinking and discussing with guys in my organization that what could be interesting for end users, developers and telcos to add in to the low cost device?

Various things came during the discussion localized UI, location based apps, local search, gaming, news, dynamic idle screen, advertising, mobile banking etc. but all of these things are making things more complicated. 

Innovative UI and option to user so they can choose what they want. That could be the killer on your low cost device.

What is the defination of an innovative UI? Will try to discover more as my discussion progresses.