In the world of Smartphones I really love to see the redundancy in applications. Smartphones; there’s basically 3-4 competing operating systems for the Smartphone, and what’s fascinating about it’s the fact that developers are having to write the same code over and over just to put it on each phone.

It’s the PC world all over again, but now in the world of Smartphones.

People are making comparisons on which Smartphone operating system is the best, which one is better, but the fact is- it doesn’t matter everyone is using the same applications.

The applications are the thing that are making the phones attractive in the first place. The applications are in the position to make or break the success of the Smartphone.

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Back in December Nuance gave away, in a surprise move, Dragon NaturallySpeaking free to the iPhone users. I don’t have an iPhone, because I think Apple is walking them selves right out of the smartphone market. But I was automatically eager to have the Dragon NaturallySpeaking application for the Android.

In my early conversations [January 2010] with Nuance, they indicated that while Dragon NaturallySpeaking was not out for the Android yet… ‘’things move fast’ and to stay tuned.

Well, I’ve been trying to keep my ear to the stone, but the simple fact is Nuance has released a Dragon NaturallySpeaking/voice recognition for Android, but it’s integrated with the genius button the new T-Mobile Slide phones [Android].

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I was reading a article last week about the hurdles of having to type in words in to smartphones; yes, I think we all understand how much of a hassle it is to have to find those little keys and type those long words and attempt to make sense from the LOL and the ROTFL acronyms.

But I think there some side effects to this that I think no one is actually contemplating.

The technology they’re using/creating is basically and new language. A new lettering system, I new way of writing. A new alphabet if you will…

It’s not hard to put together the pieces of information that will help you understand what I’m trying to say. I’m not trying to say that there’s anything bad with the technology, but I wonder if technology like this will become more mainstream; not just on entering information- but reading it … as gestures.

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This week in technology has been pretty interesting Google continues its world domination of the smartphone with the android platform. it continues to flex its muscles in its appeal to the public, placing tons of pressure on the iPhone and Microsoft keep generating strong competition.

Apple concedes that ‘we’re not perfect.’… Try to shut down the critics with forum censoring. Ultimately giving up and doing what they should’ve done in the first place, provided the free cases for the iPhone 4.

And for Microsoft, Steve Ballmer comes out and says that Microsoft is hard-core about tablet computers- nobody cares.

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I was browsing through my local circles and saw this article form TechCrunch and it gave me pause, sending me in a different direction altogether.

Because while I read it and I understand the concept of having a video conversation with someone over a portable phone device is new and exotic at this point in time; it’s completely and holistically impractical with the way the ISP’s are modeling their service plans for the future.

With carriers going to tiered service for wireless data services, who can really afford to do this? It’s ludicrous.

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June 30th, Microsoft announced that the their latest release, KIN, had a main stream market coronary. Only 2 months ago the youngling was released to the market; to the wild. The young device just wasn’t able to survive.

I found a bit of entertainment; I was seeing commercials for Microsoft KIN on TV and radio spots- knowing that Microsoft had decided to pull the KIN from the market only 2 months after releasing it to the wild.

At this point, it’s common knowledge that Microsoft is failing/falling in the smartphone market. It’s almost a given that if the new Windows 7 mobile operating system doesn’t have a killer application/use when it releases- it’s not going anywhere.

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I was reading this post about AT&T and their latest offering from Android. And it strikes me funny to think that the bane of Internet service and cell service is AT&T. AT&T has virtually destroyed the reputation of the iPhone,and most likely the iPad as well with it’s spotty service.

The point of difference is Android seems to be doing very well on other networks and it’s the fastest growing smartphone operating system on the market. Every carrier has picked up Android; everyone is selling a Droid phone.

So, the question is, is AT&T going to forced to have a come to Jesus meeting when if AT&T has call drop/connection issues with the new Droid? If AT&T is the only place the Droid is having call drop issues, it’s going to be very most apparent where the communications problem is going to be.

Is AT&T ready to deal with that kind of overwhelming proof?

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In the history of technology and software, Microsoft has always been a motivator to get things done, to push things in a certain direction or to be the ‘de facto’ standard with almost any decision in the technology field, but within the last few years this seems to be changing.

And while everyone is embracing ‘open’ standards and progressing Microsoft seems to be the beast who figures their way is right and they’re too big to fail.

I speculate I would’ve to argue that point right about now.

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