links for 2009-12-04

The bookstore and newsstand in the palm of your hand.

The Ambience mall is a huge new mall that recently opened in Gurgaon which must be a kilometer long and has five+ floors in places. The store was not yet open on my last visit there.

"Located at Ambience Mall, Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, the Nokia Concept Store is spread across 2000 sq. ft. with a designated area for each service. Nokia said the futuristic and high-tech ambience serves as a perfect backdrop for visitors to experience the latest mobile applications and solutions across domains."

Samsung is headed full stream ahead to a touch world. By when may almost all of their phones be touch? Perhaps there are only a few segments where "touch" won't predominate. Thus what is the outlook re Nokia. I wonder when these companies will be shipping 70+ of their range as touch. Have touch… gain share. No touch… lose share. Very cheap all touch phones… gain massive share? That's really the engineering question and when is it feasable? Interesting data on "retention rates" too.

Samsungs has succesfully started bringing touch screen devices to the mid market.