GLG News by Handset Evaluators

What is the merit and advantage for Japanese and other leading Asian brands in Korea and Taiwan to play with in the consumer electronics market? How spaciously could be U.S. firms to play in the portable consumer electronics market when Apple has lost its power in driving further cost reduction and...

The AT&T and DirecTV contract indicates the mutual need to: 1) Replace DSL and satellite TV disconnects; 2) Compete against the cable triple play; 3) Acquire higher end customers.

While there is a definite impact on the low-income sector, and cable/telcos are seeing the impact with users canceling subscriptions, wireless/cellular does carry easy access (good for consumers) and higher margins (less susceptible economic low down) and will weather the storm. So yes there will...

Google's Android starts with one big disadvantage -- time -- and one big advantage -- brand name.  But they are competing against another huge brand in Apple who also controlled the hardware and software.  Though this is directly in line with their strategy, they are leaving part of the OS...

AT&T’s CTO tries to reduce the marketing impact of iPhone problems with comments about the ROI on technology improvements from smartphone subsidy costs and network upgrades. 

As was the case years back when ISDN and other carrier technologies first started coming out of the factory, the vendors have always argued, - economy of scale will always bring real returns - there is always a minimum entry price - stay in or work a partnership It would seem that having exited...

How often have those projection display technology providers or developers claimed to bring a brilliant future, with excuses for repetitive delay in productization and market adoption? Pico-projector is just one of them.  .......................... Why has the development of many projection technologies...

Senator Herb Kohl’s inquiry into text-message prices could be the start of evaluating a simple service that impacts the pricing for mobile broadband in the US market. 

Smartphone growth is hindered by the mobile Web’s low frequency-of-use.  The slow economy requires subsidized handset prices, but carriers need the payback of data usage.

The growth of mobile banking in emerging markets is from the payment features of network billing systems, compared to mature markets that are merely complementing the online experience.