Nick Jones

I’m off to Germany tonight for a few days to attend Nokia World in Stuttgart so I’ll try to post some comments on some of the announcements and devices I see there. In the meantime a few thoughts on events of the last few days.
The EU invests EUR 18M in LTE-A. A few days ago [...]

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Strange happenings at Palm in Asia. Palm appear to be radically shrinking their international presence but trying not to mention it. They closed a lot of EU offices back in January to consolidate their EU presence into the UK. And now we hear from sources in Asia Pacific that they are closing the offices there [...]

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One of the advantages of living in the South of England is that it’s easy to get to the Channel Tunnel. This means the collection of restaurants I can drive to within 2 or 3 hours isn’t limited to ones in the UK. I’m theoretically on vacation this week so yesterday we went to France [...]

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Microsoft just made a really interesting announcement about a new mobile technology / service called OneApp. OneApp comes from Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential (UP) group which looks at the needs of the billions of people who aren’t at the top of the social pyramid earning lots of money in mature markets.
OneApp is both a platform and a [...]

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Nokia just announced a netbook called Booklet 3G. Back in June I blogged about this possibility, and said then that I wasn’t too impressed with the idea. And although I think Nokia are usually a pretty smart company, based on the information released so far I have to say my gut reaction is that this [...]

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This is going to be a fortnight in which we write a lot about Nokia both in blogs and formal research. This week Nokia will announce several things in the run up to Nokia world. And I’m sure they will save a few surprises for Nokia World next week as well. Analysts have already had [...]

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One of the persistent delusions of the mobile industry is the “three screen” vision (or maybe hallucination). This is the assumption that consumers like us will want to watch similar content on our TV, PC and mobile phone. I can see why network operators and media companies love the idea because it would be so [...]

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It’s Monday so it must be Warsaw. I’m off on a business trip to Poland and Germany this week, so blogging may be a bit intermittent. I will be giving a couple of presentations on mobile and wireless trends tomorrow in Warsaw, so if you’re a Gartner client in Poland and haven’t signed up yet, [...]

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My colleague Simon Mingay who leads our green IT and environmental sustainability research sent me this link to yet another article on “green” mobiles. Let me say up front that I totally support the idea of putting less bad stuff into the environment, whether the bad stuff is CO2 or polluting chemicals. But I am [...]

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30 billion mobile ad impressions a month. Mobile advertising is exploding, a mobiThinking blog reports recent estimates that the number of mobile advertisements served every month globally is around 30 billion. That’s several ad impressions per subscriber per month across the world. I’m sure most of us ignore mobile ads because they’re not relevant, and [...]

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