I rather suspect that it will be a quiet day today for Mobile Entertainment.
Not because some calamitous, recession-linked development has afflicted the industry and sent everyone into a fresh malaise, but because Mobile Entertainment had a very raucous evening, drank lots of mojitos, wine and champagne, ate rather more than was good for it, and [...]

Mobile Handsets & Devices
Over the last fortnight number of announcements have been made that I think are worth examining in the context of Juniper’s recently-published report on low-cost handsets and how we expect operators and vendors to concentrate on this potentially massive market.
Pakistan has just reduced the mandatory SIM Activation Tax from Rs500 per connection to Rs250, while ‘regulatory [...]
In recent months, I’ve been looking at the flipside of the smartphone phenomenon. Smartphones accounted for 13% of all mobile device shipments in 2008 and, by 2015, such devices will likely represent around one-third of all annual new mobile phone sales, we believe.
Giddying numbers. Especially for pressurised device vendors keen to stabilise their balance sheets and [...]
We’ve seen some significant announcements recently across the industry by people like Verizon, Motorola and Ericsson who have indicated that they are offering products or services that include bundled mobile broadband via embedded modules in netbooks, for example. Technology-wise, of course, we’re seeing this across HSPA, WiMAX and LTE.
Dongles are surely an interim solution [...]
While the age of the mobile ringtone appears to be coming to an end, a flurry of announcements over the past few days would seem to suggest that – taken as a whole – mobile music is doing very nicely, thank you, and poised to do even better for itself.
First up, there’s the deal between [...]
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