Nick Jones

Our Q3 mobile handset market numbers have been released and there are few surprises. Smartphone sales are growing, over 12% up on the same period last year despite the recession, with Apple overtaking RIM in Western Europe. That’s impressive, but it will be more of a shock to RIM when Apple overtake them in the [...]

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I spent several hours roaming around the London Symbian show SEE 2009 yesterday. SEE is a rather unfocussed event, the exhibitors range from companies selling mobile virtualisation and low level touch screen IP through testing tools all the way up to consultancies wanting to build high level applications. SEE really needs to decide whether it’s [...]

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If you’re thinking about developing a customer-facing mobile application running on your favourite platform, maybe iPhone or RIM, I have one question for you. Do you actually know how many of your customers are using that platform?
Looking at the client meetings already scheduled in my diary for Symposium week I see a fair number are [...]

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Android is riding the hype cycle roller coaster at the moment and I think it’s right at the top of a hill and heading into a dip. Not in terms of the platform itself, it’s a great mobile OS and there are lots of nice devices in the pipeline. We’re optimistic about Android, we expect [...]

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I’m encouraged by the suggestions that ASUS may release a low cost two screen e-book reader in Europe. However, despite this I’m still not going to sell all my bookcases and go electronic. One reason is I just worked out that I can’t afford it. Let’s do some sums here…..
First the cost of e-books. A [...]

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I was sitting listening to a presentation at Nokia World yesterday thinking that one of the most interesting aspects of the mobile universe at the moment is that it’s in a land-grab phase. Land-grabs occur when something new is emerging, which involves some degree of lock-in and critical mass. Land-grabs in a market are interesting [...]

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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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Today Microsoft announced they’ll work with Nokia to bring key communication and collaboration tools to the E series devices and later other Nokia Symbian handsets. This includes Office mobile, (Word, Powerpoint, Excel and OneNote), OCS IM and presence, mobile access to Sharepoint portals and SystemCentre device management. My colleagues will be writing a more detailed [...]

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