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October 04, 2005
Blue Book
We announced a new publication today called the Mobile Device Blue Book. It is essentially a listing of all available devices in the US market (on major carriers and the MVNOs), pricing, and features/functionality. We are tracking device availability on all the carriers and MVNOs daily along with their prices, and at the begining of the month we publish the list along with listings of all the devices by carrier, network, data bearer and features. The features we are tracking are Java (MIDP/CLDC version), BREW (Versions), WAP (Versions), Video support, Music support, Camera phones, Bluetooth, Screen dimensions/colors. We are also tracking the smartphones and their OS's.
This grew out of a lot of requests we have received for data about what devices are available on what carriers and what devices have been discontinued. Because we are tracking all the devices availability on all the carriers/MVNOs sites daily, we are also able to provide dates of availability and discontinuation.
The Blue Book is at this point 200+ pages of device info for what is going on with devices monthly.
We are also sending out a CD with the Blue Book that contains all the data and lists in tab delimited files so they can be imported into a spreadsheet.
Here is a link to the press release.
Mobile Device Blue Book Press Release
Posted by David Adams at October 4, 2005 03:11 PM