The Insight series

The Insight series is a regular look at the smartphone industry, present and future, by Symbian's David Wood.

Insight 13: Beyond the browser

In his latest Insight article, David Wood discusses the trends that are in progress which are busily reshaping the worlds of networked intelligence and communications.

Insight 12: Unexpected convergence

One way you can tell the health of a product platform is via the number of happy product surprises it gives you.

Insight 11: The personal gateway to unbounded diversity

It’s a popular pastime at mobile industry events to ask a set of panellists what they think will be the next “killer app” for smartphones.

Insight 10: New momentum for digital organizers

David Wood looks at how smartphones can improve the way we organize our lives.

Insight 9: The keystone of security

Do smartphones pose a danger to corporate security and well-being? To believe some recent analysts and commentators, smartphones carry an unseen threat of chaos, disruption, and financial loss into any company naive enough to tolerate their employees using them.

Insight 8: Convergence comes of age

David Wood discusses convergence and Symbian's central role in the future of the mobile lifestyle.

Insight 7: The hidden value of the mobile operating system

The hidden value of the mobile operating system David Wood steps in to qualify the growing Mobile OS debate with a hard look under the bonnets of Linux, Microsoft and Symbian OS and asks which is truly delivering a product purely for the mobile environment and who will ultimately bring smartphones to the mass market?

Insight 6: 3GSM, a celebration of incremental improvement

With the advantage of hindsight, it’s clear that many technology forecasts have overemphasized technological possibility and under-estimated the complications of wider system effects.

Insight 5 3GSM preview: this time it’s (almost) obvious

Join David Wood as he looks forward to the 2006 3GSM event and takes us through a brief recap on how a vision for smarter phones became a global reality.

Insight 4: Smartphone programming goes mainstream

In his latest article David Wood addresses the developer community and reveals the secret to rapid realization of applications and services for Symbian OS-based devices.

Insight 3: Compound interest: Getting more than you expected from your smartphone

Conventional wisdom says that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. You can’t get something for nothing. In this thinking, if you benefit from an add-on application that you install on your smartphone, then you’ll have to pay an extra fee for that application. Right? Wrong!

Insight 2: Inside out. David Wood on platformization

David Wood talks us through smartphone platformization and how the maxim of 'developing once and using often' is driving down costs and driving up choice for the industry.

Insight 1: Smartphones and the mass market

David Wood's Insight series kicks off with a visionary look at the benefits and lifestyle changes that smartphones will bring to a wider mobile audience.

The Insight series