The US smartphone landscape in the US has, for the most part, been dominated by two kinds of devices — Treos and BlackBerrys — sold to a narrow group of enterprise users and prosumers. Certainly other devices have been sold to other types of users, but not in very high numbers. But I spoke to [...]
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CTIA – Just A Quiet Week In LA…
As I wrote last week, Russell and I were in LA for the fall CTIA show, which they pitch as “Wireless IT and Entertainment”, as opposed to the bigger, more general spring event. I don’t know if it’s this supposedly narrower focus, a lack of interest in traveling to LA, bad timing or what — [...]
MobHappy @ CTIA
Posting might be light this week as Russell and I are both at the annual fall CTIA confab in Los Angeles this week. But we’ll have plenty to report, whether we get to it this week or next, so be sure to check back. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
CTIA – DoCoMo In The “Lifestyle Infrastructure” Business
NTT DoCoMo CEO Masao Nakamura’s keynote address at CTIA didn’t hold anything too groundbreaking, apart from a segment on how the company views itself. While it’s partly some flowery corporate-speak, it also does give a little insight into how the mobile market is changing, particularly in maturing markets. He characterized DoCoMo as starting out in [...]
CTIA – Is Motorola Anything More Than A One-Trick Pony?
It’s been a busy few days here in Vegas with a lot going on, but there’s a few things that have leapt out. First was the announcement from Motorola on Tuesday of their latest phones — some new colors for the RAZR and an “upgraded” version that can take memory cards and supports stereo headphones. [...]
MobHappy @ CTIA
Russell and I will be in Las Vegas this week for CTIA, so stick around for plenty of coverage from the CTIA show, the US wireless industry’s biggest confab. Drop us a line if there’s anything in particular we should check out, or with any questions you’ve got. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and [...]
@ CTIA — Kyocera Gets My Best Product Award
CTIA was pretty quiet in terms of product annoucements, with most of them front-loaded at the beginning of the year at shows like CES, 3GSM and the Spring CTIA show. But Kyocera was showing off a new product that was very, very cool nonetheless, its KR1 EV-DO Router. It’s pretty straightforward: you take an EV-DO [...]
@ CTIA — Yes, Trip Hawkins Gets It
I wrote about Trip Hawkins and Digital Chocolate last week, when the company released some casual multiplayer games. I noted then that Digital Chocolate’s releases highlighted his understanding of the mass market for video games. While the games aren’t anything with fancy graphics or deep gameplay, they’re much more likely to resonate with a wide [...]
@ CTIA — Bronfman Wants Your Mobile Phone and Glaser Says You’ll Pay
Edgar Bronfman, ever the consumer’s friend and CEO of Warner Music, gave one of the keynotes this morning, and he’s definitely bullish on mobile music — mostly because he thinks it’s a way to stop piracy (which doesn’t really make sense, but then neither does much of what he says about piracy, copy protection and [...]
@ CTIA — SK Earthlink Is Coming For You, Too
It was interesting meeting with Amp’d yesterday, then having a chat with another MVNO that will be launching soon, SK Earthlink. The two are targeting the same age group (roughly 18- to 30-year-olds), but whereas Amp’d sees itself as an entertainment company, SK Earthlink is all about the technology. The SK in the company’s name [...]
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