Introduction: the United States, "San Jose Mercury News" Web site today that the author pointed out that the global smart mobile phone industry is shifting the focus of Silicon Valley, the Silicon Valley companies are changing the way people use handheld digital devices to talk, send messages and surf the web way.
The passage of time
However, 5 years ago, the most stylish smartphone also comes from RIM headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada as well as Nokia's headquarters city of Espoo, Finland, etc... However, since 2007, Apple's revolutionary iPhone, this situation no longer exists. iPhone will be touch screen, music library, and a flood of applications to download a perfect blend in together to make the user wonder impressed.
Since then, Google Android operating system by phone, Internet access and flat in this sought after computer makers, Microsoft and Nokia now has thousands of employees in Silicon Valley, in smart phones, and a large number of Silicon Valley start-up companies and independent application developers are building a few years does not have former existence of subsidiary industries. Some analysts pointed out that HP spend 1.2 billion U.S. dollars acquisition of Palm's move is likely to further promote the Silicon Valley area of innovation in the smart phone, HP said it would increase the adoption of the latest Palm OS handset R & D and marketing inputs.
Before the iPhone launched, the market research firm Altimeter Group analyst Michael Gartenberg has been that the vast majority of smartphone users as business users and technology-obsessed users, but in 2007, he added that the : "Apple changed all that, but Apple says that their target audience for the mass market." Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle said: "Apple is breaking new ground, and now Silicon Valley is still leading in that direction." Market research firm iSuppli said, Nokia and RIM is still the leading mobile phone manufacturers, two companies in the fourth quarter of 2009 smart mobile phone sales account for a nearly 60%, but market research firm Gartner Research data show that Nokia Symbian OS mobile phones or Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system, the overall proportion of mobile phone sales are declining, while Apple's iPhone OS and Google Android phone operating system share but had on the rise.
Forefront of the industry
Technology market research firm Canalys analyst Chris Jones said: "with three or four years ago, on the phone browsing experience has been different. Handset market is already heading for the direction around the full browsing experience, and Apple and Google are all in this area have a distinct advantage. "Silicon Valley to become due in part to a concentration of the mobile phone industry, focusing on the mobile phone industry, Jones has offices in San Francisco from England moving to the United States annex of Palo Alto. A similar initiative is not a special case, the Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson CTO Eriksson said recently that he has placed his office to the United States San Jose; the main reason is that U.S. companies stand in the forefront of new trends in mobile communications.
Google executive Andy Rubin Andy Rubin that includes a faster processor, touch screen, etc., have been a series of technical innovation is the key advantage of smart phone, but he believes that only when some large companies in Silicon Valley started strongly with these advantage, and develop a similar iPhone and Google Nexus One other excellent new phone, the mobile phone market will have a major change. Rubin said: "I have seen change is that Silicon Valley is beginning to enter the mobile space, which means that the industry and the networks are ready, the entire industry for the upcoming innovations is ready. This is like 4 5 years ago the scene. "
While Google has launched its own brand of smart phone, but Rubin said that Google's main objective is to develop new technology to "meet customer demand" and to Google advertising has accumulated in the mobile audience. Rubin is a former Palo Alto start-up companies Danger executives, the company primarily for T-Mobile Sidekick smartphone popular software development, Microsoft acquired in 2008, Danger, and its engineers into its Mobile development division, the department last month in San Francisco launched a series of new phones. Microsoft said about 200 employees engaged in smart phones in Palo Alto R & D, operations and marketing.
At the same time, Nokia also said that Silicon Valley has become a recognized and independent software developers and business development of smart phone applications, after concentrated, last summer the developers moved from Finland to the United States Mountain View. Nokia had a long-term R & D center has moved to Palo Alto, recently the company and Intel alliance, launched in smart phones, tablet PCs and other mobile devices running on open source software MeeGo, to compete with Google Android.
Until this year, Palo Alto's HP in the smart phone industry has been second-class manufacturers, the company's products for the commercial market and is not known iPad. But many analysts believe, the world's largest PC maker Hewlett-Packard has the ability to WebOS Palm operating system to create a new smart phone industry's major products. Investment Company Edward Jones analyst Bill Kreher said: "We believe HP's size and strong financial strength and Palm's WebOS will become a powerful platform."
HP executives have said will increase cell phone use WebOS new R & D and marketing investment, and may be introduced by the operating system netbook and tablet PCs, the company's vice president of Jimuboen (Jim Burns) said: "We will invest heavily in the business."
PS: the development of the mobile phone industry in Silicon Valley Events
Since Apple's iPhone has been launched in 2007, Silicon Valley company Apple, Google, Palm and mobile phone technology, HP has become the major vendors, Microsoft has also made several important areas of mobile phone acquisition.
- January 9, 2007: Apple introduces the iPhone.
- March 2007: Microsoft acquired TellMe, which develops applications used in many smart phones’ voice recognition technology.
- February 2008: Microsoft buys mobile software company Danger.
- October 22, 2008: the first use of Google G1 Android mobile phone operating system available.
- June 2009: Palm launches Palm Pre Challenge iPhone.
- November 9, 2009: Google announced the acquisition of 750 million U.S. dollars of mobile advertising technology company AdMob.
- January 5, 2010: Google launches own-brand touch-screen smart phone Nexus One, the same day, Apple spent 275 million U.S. dollars acquisition of mobile advertising Quattro Wireless.
- February 2010: Nokia and Intel announced an alliance to develop can be used in smart phones, tablet PCs and other mobile devices, open source software.
- April 3, 2010: Apple iPad.
- April 28, 2010: HP to spend 1.2 billion acquisition of Palm.
