What a wild roller coaster ride this year has been. When we started 2009, we only had one phone running Google’s Android mobile operating system : the T-Mobile G1. Now we have a few from Motorola, HTC, Acer and soon (maybe?) even the mighty Google itself will have the “Google Phone” aka Google Nexus One.
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Palm certainly made a bold move when they decided that the development of applications for the new webOS platform was going to be all standards-based HTML. That means that if you can develop for the web, you can develop for webOS. However, Palm has not been tremendously successful in getting more apps into the Palm community.
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The “summer of smartphones” is over, but the smartphones keep on coming.
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Just a few years ago, Motorola had the hottest phone (the RAZR) and everything went well for them. Unfortunately they never followed the RAZR with another industry-leading phone, and subsequently they suffered a gradual decline in their fortune. Just as the Pre is the comeback phone for Palm, the Cliq may well be the comeback phone for Motorola.
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