An introduction to smartphone industry

For those interested in smartphone production cycle it is worth to read "Symbian for Software Leaders" by David Wood, co-founder of Symbian. I've bought the book at Symbian Smartphone Show 2005, and the first time I've read it I didn't appreciate how it leverages on fundamental aspects of production cycle which now, being in Freescale, have become clear. The perspective is software oriented so little space is given to hardware design and development which takes as well a huge effort because of its extremely early placement in timeline.

Even it's targeted for software leaders, developers will appreciate too.

The key points for me are :

• top quality communications inside and among teams. Emails and unclassified docs are poor means for a hundreds people team. Forum and mailing list makes knowledge widespread and learning curve for newcomers (as I am) less steep.
• learn on your own mistake and to not reinvent the wheel! It's hard to achieve a top quality product at first attempt but time spent on design and development must be reused otherwise team members become frustrated to see their efforts be vain.

Two principles easy to say not so easy to apply in daily life.

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