GLG News by Handset Evaluators

The RIM versus Apple battle is the current smartphone battlefield (unless Nokia can enter the fray), with Microsoft and Palm bowing out due to an inability to innovate and deliver products that capitalize on the shifting pro-sumer or business / consumer market.  Now that Apple is making a move...

Beyond employee preferences, the Apple iPhone business upgrades will test how business managers and IT professionals can agree on mobile devices in standardization, management, and costs. 

Microsoft is in the middle of a tremendous browser battle.  Their share has been eroding, and the web masses are getting restless.  Internet Explorer 8 is an attempt to fight back Firefox and Safari, but it also appears to be a change in approach for Microsoft.

Google Gears delivers interactive applications that run offline to a place where these applications will certainly excel, on a mobile device.  However, the users most likely to use it, iPhone users, aren’t on the list and neither are Nokia users.  Are they just seeding for the Android launch?...

AT&T’s $2.5 million penalties and $10 million refunds in Florida could constrain the launch of mobile advertising and coupons as well as overall mobile content and commerce.

Apple’s CFO statements about unlocked iPhones being an indicator of demand challenges future carrier contracts for revenue sharing as well as recurring compensation from existing contracts.

Nokia is protecting its 40% global market share with a product mix across three areas: 1) Exclusive handsets to carriers; 2) Emerging markets; 3) Ovi platform with partner alliances.

With Acer acquiring mobile device manufacturer E-Ten, Dell’s future acquisitions might have to consider how to compete for ultra mobile devices.

With the decreasing value of voice through both mobile and landline phones, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile are all entering into a price war that places a decreasing value on voice.  They are also adding data onto their plans, and services such as Sprint TV, in the hopes of getting consumers...

Time Warner Cable’s release of Business Class along with the SMB products of Comcast and Cox threatens the recurring revenues of telcos in access and usage from fixed line services.