Friday, August 24, 2012

Google, Apple, and Microsoft 'War' in Asia


Hong Kong - the continent of Asia has to be 'battlefield' for technology companies in the smartphone industry. The importance of Asia is seen when Google and Samsung unveil Galaxy Nexus smartphone flagship in the region, specifically in Hong Kong.

"The Asian market is very important. Especially in some countries that the smartphone market is growing and we are very interested in this opportunity," said Won-Pyo Hong, executive vice president for Samsung's Global Product Strategy.

Google itself has worked closely with various vendors from Asia, especially Samsung. Their goal is the overthrow Apple iPhone relies.

Vendor Asia now plays an important role in the global mobile industry like LG, Samsung, HTC, Huawei or ZTE. In addition to Android, a few vendors above also use other platforms such as Windows Phone from Microsoft, who also expect a lot from the Asian market.

Our quoted by Reuters, Asia Pacific will be a growth center feature phone and smartphone market in the next few years. While Europe and the United States is predicted to stagnate.

On the other hand, Apple is eyeing China and surrounding areas as one of its main markets. CEO Tim Cook said China, Hong Kong and Taiwan will become the second largest revenue contributor for Apple after the United States.

"At the price began to fall, the growing market will be a great opportunity as more people use smartphones," said Andrew Lees, president of Microsoft's Windows Phone Division.

Meanwhile, Windows Mobile Awaits Birth of Nokia ..

The event which took place at the same time it is rumored will present three models of Windows Phone Nokia. And it seems the phone will be ready for the market ahead of the year-end shopping season.

Nokia smartphones that use Windows Phone operating system is ready to be introduced. Almost a year since Nokia to partner with Microsoft Windows mobile phone duet results they are instantly displayed on the Nokia World event in London.

Nokia long been known as an innovator in the mobile world. But their determination using the Symbian OS which is considered outdated, makes a lot of loyal customers akahirnya move to another heart.

Nokia hopes the Windows phone they will be able to compete with Android and iPhone which currently dominate the smartphone universe. "My ambition is to bring Nokia back to its original position in the smartphone" said Conor Pierce, General Manager of Nokia UK Nokia seems to represent ambition.

True, Nokia is still number one in the overall mobile phone market, but that's because their position is still strong in the middle to lower segments. Yet mobile world trend leading to more sophisticated smartphones for consumers and provide greater profit margins for manufacturers.

As we quoted from the Wall Street Journal, Nokia is now behind Apple and Samsung in the smartphone segment. In fact, they've dominated the world of smart posel in very long time.

Pretty soon, the world will know what the Windows mobile phone output Nokia. Can it raise their Windows phone?

"Stephen Elop clearly shows that Nokia World will be introductions of Windows phones and Nokia hope this is the beginning of their recovery in the high end smartphone market," said Geoff Blaber, analyst at CSS Insight.

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