Apple with iPhone (running iOS) is the highly vertically integrated establishment that brings just a few types of smartphones to market. Google’s Android is the establishment that works with multiple handset manufacturers to bring an unending list of smartphones to market. In the last year or so, Android phones have become very popular and sometimes [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Wireless category.
3G Tablets losing out to WiFi Tablets
Recently the NPD group reported that 65% of tablet users have a Wi-Fi tablet (as opposed to a cellular tablet). This couldn’t be music to the cellular carriers’ ears. Here are some reasons why WiFi tablet Sales far outstrip Cellular Tablet sales: The High Cost of cellular data plans & lock-in Availability of Wi-Fi in [...]
The Tablet market will continue to boom – Android still behind Apple
According to Gartner, worldwide tablet sales will skyrocket to 326 million units. Apple or iOS will still lead the way, followed by an up and coming Android OS tablets. The following chart shows the leading OSs, namely, iOS, Android, Microsoft, and QNX The following table shows the forecast for all major (and minor) OSs. Table [...]
Bump my iPhone and I’ll call you
Imagine meeting someone new or a friend a colleague after a long time and you decide to exchange phone numbers with that person. Exchanging a phone number the usual way would mean asking the other person for his/her contact information, typing in his/her name and phone number, storing it in the phone’s address book, calling [...]
When its awkward to talk to someone……just leave a voicemail
A Boston-based company called MobileSphere has just announced a service called Slydial to send a voicemail to any mobile phone in the U.S. without having the risk of the called party answering the call. Anyone can send a voicemail by calling 267-SLYDIAL (267-759-3425) and entering the phone number of any U.S. mobile subscriber. The service [...]
Ericsson’s self-serving prediction
Ericsson Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl is predicting that as Mobile Broadband takes off (and it is growing faster than mobile or fixed telephony ever did), Wi-Fi hotspots will become as obsolete as telephone booths. The reasoning is simple – As more and more cellular subscribers start using wireless broadband otherwise known as Wireless WAN [...]
Vonage watch out! T-Mobile Extends Cellphone Service to Home Phones
T-Mobile USA has launched a wired phone service for $10 a month, plus taxes and fees, to its wireless subscribers in the Seattle and Dallas-Fort Worth areas. The service, called “Talk Forever Home Phone”, comes with unlimited local and domestic long distance calls. This is a VoIP service that runs over a broadband connection, and [...]
Price plan is no Game Winner
Verizon Wireless introduced an unlimited calling plan for $99.99 a month on last week. Verizon Wireless is the first major carrier to make an “unlimited” plan available nationwide with no domestic roaming or long-distance fees. At that time, it must have seemed like a good plan to upsell subscribers to “move up” to the unlimited [...]
India to become the 2nd largest cellular market in 2008
The cellular market in India is growing rapidly. In 2007 alone the Indian cellular added more than 80 million cellular subscriptions. By end of 2008, India will have more than 300 million cellular customers, according to estimates by Wireless Intelligence. In comparison, the USA is expected to have 270 million customers by the end of [...]
AT&T to complete high-speed 3G wireless network buildout by 2009
AT&T Mobility says it will step up its 3G buildout, expanding its high-speed mobile service to more than 80 additional cities in 2008. The planned expansion will provide AT&T 3rd generation (3G) high-speed data services to nearly 350 leading U.S. markets by the end of 2008, including all of the top 100 U.S. cities. The [...]
