IDC has some interesting figures that show smartphone sales in Western Europe have reached a tipping point. Q2Q11 was the first qurater where smartphones sales exceeded feature phone sales.

The press release says "mobile operators stopped subsidizing feature phones in Europe". It would be nice to know why. Maybe smartphones have reached the stage (features and […]

I have just come back from an evening UK Hutchison 3 blogger event in London. 3 have decided to move their social media efforts in-house with the help of Brando. Expect to see new twitter channels for 3 news and support in the near future.
From a developer viewpoint, I learnt about a […]

Canalys have an interesting press release on their research into social networking phones.
Their survey showed that…
"Music, instant messaging and web browsing are a must for the youth segment" "90% of those aged 16 to 25 access social networking services (SNSs)." "31% of this group do so via both mobile phones […]

The paper version of Mobile Today has a Future Trends article by CSS Insight showing global platform market share over time…  It’s great to see the data over 2 years because it gives an indication of the share of devices currently in the market rather than those sold last quarter or last year. i.e. Assuming a […]

There’s an interesting feature in the paper version of Mobile Today that says, according to GfK, touch screens represented over 36% of the total handset market in Q4/09.
While this figure is for the UK, I suspect it’s a similar situation in the rest of Europe and N America. QWERTY devices are also experiencing growth […]

I previously talked about industrial mobiles, asked where are the industrial Symbian phones and commented that open source might stimulate greater device variety.
I am pleased to see SDG’s Bluebird Pidion now supports Android. Up to now, almost all rugged wireless connected devices have been Palm or Windows Mobile-based. It’s great to see Android on a […]

I have been watching the Engadget Interview with Erick Tseng, Senior Product Manager of Android. Erick says that purchasing devices via Google is a new sales channel for ‘all’. It will be possible for carriers and handset manufacturers to also sell phones and plans (tariffs) via this channel.
What Erik describes as […]