[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett for this link. ]
“The Mobile World Congress is happening in Barcelona, Spain this
week, but as is typical these days a few companies couldn’t wait
for Day 1 of the show to start talking. Samsung, Sony, Huawei and
HTC either held press conferences or spoke privately to the press
yesterday, and I have to tell you, I’m already losing track of the
vast number of handsets and tablets being announced. I’m not in
Barcelona so like you I’m following various gadget blogs who have
reporters on the scene, and scrolling through post after post of
shiny new handsets is just causing my eyes to glaze over. And I’m a
fan!“I don’t know what the solution is (if a solution is even
needed) but I guess it’s going to take the smartphone equivalent of
Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Some heavyweight brand is going to have to
heavily customize Android and put it on a device that can somehow
rise above the noise and get traction. I thought Samsung might be
that company but it doesn’t seem to be happening yet.”