The Phones Show 159 (CES News, 2012 Predictions)

News summary from CES 2012 in Las Vegas, plus my smartphone world predictions for the year ahead. What will happen to Android, iOS, Symbian, Blackberry and Windows Phone?

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Science & Technology

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• mobile
• smartphone
• ces News
• android
• predictions

[JARN01D]

Hey Steve, don't recall ever seeing a Phones Show review of the Nokia N9. Think we can see an official SL comparison of the N8 & N9 before their collective end of life?

[stevelitchfield]

@JARN01D Can't get hold of them here, short of buying one at £500... 8-( Watch this space, I may have a guest reviewer trying his hand though....

[jamoiholland]

Great CES round-up; is it safe to go back to Google Reader now it's finished?! Only thing of note missed was the Razr Maxx; 3300mAh battery, and whilst Verizon only hopefully a GSM/HSPA variant will come to this side of the pond, and hopefully other manufacturers will follow suit.

Android skins probably won't go in 2012; mostly it's only geeks moaning, not enough to make manufacturers think again, when the skin is something they love differentiating on. Google will need to enforce "no skins".

[stevelitchfield]

@jamoiholland Anything which is CDMA only tends to make my eyes glaze over, since it's completely irrelevant to 95% of the world.... 8-)

[gavrilaeugen]

xperia s will beat the n8 what do u think steve ?

[stevelitchfield]

@gavrilaeugen Doubt that, overall... Might get close in daylight though.

[andylarge2m]

Pretty much agree with your predictions Steve. Like you, I seriously hope 2012 is the year of the Xenon flash on smartphones!

[heinrichbeckmann]

the huaiwaoowui or whatever its called looks a good device new orange phone maybe:?

[okl1970]

@okl1970 Maybe you do one show with your thoughts on the manufacturers - Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Apple, Motorola, LG etc.

[okl1970]

Great show with thoughtful musings for 2012. Symbian will be sadly missed with many fond memories (just like Psion). After Belle update is in, N8 will be with me for more than 1 year. I rarely bring my P&S camera along now with N8 taking over all the work. It is probably the last great Nokia Symbian phone. I've traded in all my phones so far, maybe I'll keep it when I next buy a Nokia WP. Symbian really had no chance once Nokia screw up S60 to S3. If Belle or even Anna had been released in 2010.

[filthyj24]

@jamoiholland Motorola xt910..It's the gsm razr.

[jamoiholland]

@stevelitchfield Yeah true, but my hope is that as the Raxr made it to GSM, so hopefully the Razr Maxx will too. And more importantly if the Razr Maxx does well (even if only on Verizon) that other manufacturers will follow suit, and bump up the mAh up for the extra 1 or 2mm on device thickness!