by Phillip Redman | January 17, 2012 | Comments Off
It’s nothing new: everyone wants more choice and that includes what mobile device they want to use also. Mobile handheld devices span both corporate and personal uses so it’s only natural as more choices emerged that individuals would want to bring their own device (BYOD) to work. Apple iPhone has generally been that choice and [...]
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Category: Apple Mobile Device Management Networks mobile phones mobility management wireless carriers Tags: mobile policy
by Phillip Redman | April 28, 2011 | Comments Off
Last week’s broad public disclosure that Apple was keeping a tracking file on iOS 4.0 devices once again points to how apple does business its own way. For many, it was already known that the iPhone was easily tracked, with apps-a-plenty in the Apple App Store to help out on this. Not to mention the [...]
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Category: Android Apple Facebook Google Twitter iPhone mobile phones Tags: privacy, security
by Phillip Redman | April 20, 2011 | Comments Off
RIM has launched its entry into the media tablet storm this week, with the much anticipated PlayBook. But trying to get ahead of the competition, it may have rushed it to the market without finalizing key attributes. First, is this a consumer device or an enterprise? It certainly isn’t both, maybe neither. Enterprise users need [...]
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Category: Android Apple Applications RIM Tablet Tags: Playbook
by Phillip Redman | November 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
Back in 1995, one of my first big wireless research projects was on pricing elasticity. At that time, a wireless voice minute cost about $2.25 and only about 13% of the population had phones. These were mostly business people who could get reimbursed for their use. In the industry, the widely held belief was that [...]
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by Phillip Redman | November 5, 2010 | 5 Comments
We are now fully in the era of the smartphone. At no other time have we had such numerous choices of quality devices from companies like Samsung, Apple, Nokia, Apple, HTC, Motorola and RIM, to name just a few. Adoption of smartphones by both consumers and enterprises is big. This year, more than 70% of [...]
Category: Android Apple Applications HTC Motorola Nokia RIM Samsung cellular iPhone Tags: apps, Smartphone
by Phillip Redman | September 29, 2010 | 9 Comments
It used to be that everyone wanted the smallest. Phone that is. The race to reduce the size and weight was started by the Motorola StarTAC. Everyone wanted (and had) one. Even smaller and lighter phones came out. But that’s ended. Now there’s a race to the biggest. Many of the almost dozen new tablets [...]
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