GLG News by Mobile Handset Retailers

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...

RIM’s growth aspirations have led the company to expand its offering to include less-popular and unproven solutions like pre-paid and Blackberry Connect, especially in emerging markets like India.

RIM aims to leverage its enterprise and pro-sumer Blackberry success into the consumer market.  The transition will not be easy and comes with risk.

The argument that SMS pricing is not linked to cost has always been true.  There will come a point where SMS pricing is more elastic (either because the price becomes too high or there are messaging alternatives), but we have not reached that point yet.

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 US was not initially a leader in mobile, but the Internet is the great equalizer that will propel the US to the top of mobile innovation.

There is still plenty of growth left in the smartphone market but device manufacturers and operators must continue to innovate to entice customers to keep upgrading.  

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.

With Zi Corporation, Nuance continues its acquisitions to offer mobile solutions that cover four key areas: 1) Texting, 2) Embedded, 3) Web-based, and 4) Monetized.