Symella

The feature article in November 05’s Wired Magazine is an analysis of the
Apple’s path into mobile phones – a very important read and reflects a few of the points Piers made in ‘Battle For The Bulge‘. The article highlights Symella – an
application that may give iTunes a run for its money. Symella is a P2P
file sharing program for phones – a kinda Gnutella for your cell phone. Imagine a huge group of MP3 enabled
phones sharing the music files in their hard-drives via the gtelecom
network.

While the software may be seen to encourage illicit downloading, because it creates traffic on the networks (and therefore revenue),
the telecom carriers may turn a blind eye. Although it will not be
available on the new Nokia N91 music super-phone, the magazine reports
that many of the Nokia engineers have already installed the program
onto their N91 phones.

Will Symella break iTunes stranglehold over the download market? Let’s wait and see, but it should give the rather mighty cell phone companies a serious way to compete with Apple.

Symella