GLG News by Mobile Phone Handset Evaluators (North America)

Garmin's Nuviphone entrant shows that the incumbent manufacturers and carriers are continuing to lose their stature, in the wake of the Apple's iPhone.  However, Garmin has neither the brand power nor the expertise to pull off an iPhone.  We won't be able to predict success until we have much...

Manufacturers, carriers, and analysts completely underestimated the willingness of consumers to access the Internet over mobile devices and are still nay-saying the iPhone.  They're wrong, and the numbers prove it. 

I'm now excited about Google's Android.  Large-scale apps are being created, Motorola is hiring Android developers, scads of Android downloads are being reported ... and Microsoft is denying any problem.  All the signs for a good 2008 and 2009 and a hefty complement to Apple's iPhone.

RIM and Nextel both faced a limited business-only marketplace and strategized a move into the consumer market.   When Sprint merged with Nextel, they made all the wrong choices to attack this marketplace, losing a huge opportunity to leverage a powerful business brand in Nextel.  RIM Blackberry,...

Sprint is in dire straits, with a rapidly eroding core business.  This article suggests a complete refocus around their business lines and a move to creating a bold new strategy.  A new CEO helps them, as will strategic layoffs, but it is difficult to determine whether they will be able to...

The Sprint-Nextel merger has created an awful mess.  There is no doubt in my mind, unfortunately, that Sprint is completely lost in the wireless experience and needs something absolutely dramatic to shake things up.  Realigning around the customer experience and bucking the other wireless...

The iPhone, and Google applications most directly, has greatly increased my usage of and utility with blogs, maps, and podcasts.  The new Google application, though "buggy," presents a much improved user experience as I interact with these products and Gmail.  However, search is still weak....

Google's Orkut, a complete failure in the States, has experienced tremendous success in Brazil and in some Asian countries, as has the social shopping sites like OSOYU and ShopStyle in the UK.  Facebook and MySpace can create an international "network effect" as well, but, to do so, they will have...

Social networks, and the contribution of user-generated content and interaction that is at the heart of Web 2.0, will morph over the years as it becomes more embedded into the Web.  Vertical networks will become more prominent, replacing the kaleidescope that MySpace and Facebook often portray. ...

American double-standards are at their height in China, as critics condemn Yahoo and Google's inability to perpetuate the freedoms that we take for granted in the Western world.  But Yahoo, Google, Alibaba, and Baidu offer the best opportunity to open up China for new freedoms.  Perpetuating...