Monthly Archives: October 2008
iPhone – Platform for the Masses?
Conventional wisdom is that iPhone users are a gadget-loving, tech-savvy and well-off bunch. In fact, results from a quantitative study of US 2G iPhone US users conducted by Rubicon in March 2008 revealed that the former have a median annual … Continue reading
Filed under iPhone, mobile broadband, mobile Internet
USB Dongle – Fashion Accessory?
You know USB dongles have become mainstream when operators start selling different color skins to go with them. H3G in Sweden (also called Tre) is positioning their mobile broadband as the “most stylish broadband” in addition to being the fastest! … Continue reading
Filed under mobile broadband
Revisiting iPhone’s Browsing Market Share – Part Deux
Back in September, I reported that according to Admob, a mobile advertising marketplace, iPhone seemed to trail Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Palm handsets in both worldwide and US share of smartphone traffic. This was in direct contrast to other … Continue reading
Filed under mobile Internet
Carnival of the Mobilists #146
If it is Monday, it must be COTM! Scoot over to Carnival of the Mobilists at Andrew Grill’s London Calling to get the latest news and insights in the mobile industry. I found Chetan Sharma’s report on the 3G Americas … Continue reading
Filed under Carnival of the Mobilists, fixed broadband, mobile broadband
3G Routers – Will It Accelerate Fixed Broadband Replacement?
I have been commenting quite regularly in this blog about how mobile broadband (based on USB dongles and modems) is increasingly being used by mobile-only operators (those without fixed assets) to accelerate the replacement of fixed broadband, primarily in Europe. The … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Mobilists @ Xellular Identity
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is over at Xellular Identity which includes a fascinating post on the South Korean mobile market. There is also a post that discusses the US mobile internet penetration – I was surprised to learn that several off-deck … Continue reading
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