GLG News by Mobile Phone Handsets Sellers

Apple’s iPhone has set a new standard in smartphones and mobile entertainment devices.  The mobile industry will spend the next few years digesting the new paradigm Apple and others have helped usher in.  The clear winner will be mobile consumers who will benefit from improved mobile devices...

Wireless services have become such an integral part of our everyday lives that the current financial turmoil will not significantly impact the mobile market.

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...

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.

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.  

In this article, I discuss 10 points on why the Apple iPhone has made mobile / mobile Web / mobile commerce the most important opportunity of the coming year.  Whether it is the four "killer apps" on the iPhone, carrier disintermediation in tandem with Google, the speed to 4G, or the way it has...

In general, I think Sprint has made a never-ending flow of tragic mistakes since their merger with Nextel.  But I rarely see a mistake so obviously devoid of consumer misunderstanding that a PTT revival.  These guys need a suitor, fast.