Last week, at the 3GSM World Congress conference in Barcelona, the CEO of Symbian welcomed the Apple iPhone’s move into the US market. Nigel Clifford, the CEO of Symbian, stated:
“The American marketplace is an underdeveloped marketplace for smartphones. This could educate the American consumer that there is more that you can do with a phone than treat it as an email device.”
This view has also been shared by a Nokia executive in the past. Will the iPhone revolutionize the cell phone market as Apple claims it will? To a certain extent yes it will, especially in the US considering how far behind the US is with cellular technology. Many of my friends know about my disappointments with the services offered by US carriers and the phones offered by carriers here in the US in comparison to what is offered by carriers in Europe and MENA. Hopefully the iPhone will help drive carriers to implement new mobile services here in the US, and will help drive the general US population to start thinking differently about smartphones.
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