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There Will Be No Such Thing As A “SMARTPHONE”

That’s a harsh conclusion, I couldn’t agree more. But this conclusion is the result of my observation during my trip to several cities around the island, and it’s good to see how technology adopted in areas outside of the big cities.

You can see everyone’s using the so-called “smartphones” in big cities like Jakarta, Bandung and Jogjakarta and the rest of the smaller cities surrounding it are filled with the so-called “feature phones”. The smartphone category is filled with iPhone, Samsung/LG/Sony Ericsson Android-based phones and high-end Nokia while the feature phone category consists Nexian, Skybee, Huawei and other cheap devices.

So I tried really hard to make a sense of this separation, and I find it to be very shallow.

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Telah Tersedia: Skype di Ovi Store Nokia

Demam app store memang sudah diprediksi, jika dahulu di dominasi oleh satu atau beberapa saja kini berbagai app store muncul dan akan terus bertambah, salah satu app store yang terus bertumbuh adalah Nokia dengan Ovi Store-nya.

Sebagai salah satu vendor mobile device paling populer Nokia memang layak untuk memiliki app store untuk melayani penggunanya yang tersebar luas, menurut situs Nokia sudah ada 200 million pengguna Nokia smartphones yang tersebar di seluruh dunia.

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