2008 is Year of the Cellphone??

So says one of my favorite tech journalists, the New York Times’ David Pogue. “If you think there was a lot of cellphone news this year, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The coming year is going to be the real Year of the Cellphone.” He explains, ‘there are gigantic tidal shifts happening–in three big categories.”

1. Carrier openness. (Thanks to the iPhone, says Pogue.)
2. More openness: Here Pogue points his readers to open source Android. I didn’t know that “over 30 of the industry’s biggest players have either joined Google’s Open Handset Alliance or are considering it.” I can’t argue with Pogue’s conclusion that, “Nobody knows what’s going to happen with Android.”
3. Public pushback. “Evil cellphone-carrier greediness,” has gotten the public’s attention, says Pogue, pointing reader to this month’s Consumer Reports.

Visit David Pogue’s blog on the Web at DavidPogue.com.

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