I had a humbling experience yesterday. I learned what it means to get old. It was a grim realisation.

I’ve always been interested in devices that allow elderly, infirm or disabled people the opportunity to enjoy all the benefits of mobile technology. In 2006 I bought a phone from Emporia, a little-known family-run Austrian firm, after [...]

In our preview of this year’s Mobile World Congress, we predicted there would be 50 Android devices on the show floor. In my spare moments, I’ve been taking pictures of as many of them as I can. The results are shown below. As you can see, the prediction was pretty accurate. There are 48 Android [...]

As someone who regularly changes his primary mobile phone, I’m always having to adapt to new devices. For me, the biggest change has been the shift from a hardware qwerty keyboard to a virtual touch-screen one.

I type a lot of text on phones, whether it’s for e-mail, text messaging or Twitter updates. The growing proportion [...]

I never cease to be amazed by the extraordinary things you come across at trade shows. Although it’s only day two of Mobile World Congress and I’ve not had a lot of time to look around, I think I’ve already seen the product that I’d label as the weirdest.
In the depths of Hall 2, I [...]

Today at Mobile World Congress, Sagem Wireless unveiled its Puma phone, the first results of a licensing deal announced in October last year.
When talking about the launch with colleagues in the industry, I generally got looks of disbelief that I would recommend going to see a product from Sagem Wireless. The company has been out [...]

I recently attended a very interesting debate about whether Google or Rupert Murdoch had more influence in the UK today. Speakers also considered who would have more influence in ten years’ time. During the debate one of the protagonists refrained from calling Google the Antichrist, but only just. Similar things have been said about Mr [...]

The hype about cloud computing services continues relentlessly. Not only could IT architectures revert back to more-centralised systems, but completely new business models may emerge to disrupt the market. Yet I’m sensing the first signs of “cloud fatigue” are creeping in with the clients I’m talking to. I’m sure this is partly caused by the [...]

Just before Christmas we spoke to some of Tieto’s Telecoms and Media group for an update on their mobile strategy. We found them emerging successfully from a transition year. Tieto is an IT services company of around 16,000 people, of which 6,000 are in the Telecoms and Media group. In the past, the focus for [...]

In our predictions for 2010, we suggested that mobile data prices may go up in some markets. We discussed this prediction at length before putting it on our list. Many of us have been in the mobile industry a long time and we’ve never seen prices go up. But the sceptics were convinced and the [...]

We’ve just put the finishing touches on our predictions for next year. The full set is available to our clients here, but I thought I’d share my favourite eight predictions in a blog posting.

Here’s what we think will the next 12 months (and more) will bring the mobile industry.

Motorola will be acquired by Google. Although [...]