Chetan Sharma has a great recent post on carrier strategy. He advises that over 50% of the market comes with partnering with just 10 worldwide operators. However, trying to partner with smaller operators is more likely to be successful and provide a proof of concept for the larger operators.
Wanting to partner with a number of […]

Over the last year I have been doing several Android feasibility studies for companies. I have also published a few freeware Android applications.
I have wanted to post my insights here but conversely didn’t want to overload this site with Android content. I have previously had some great comments from people saying they liked the […]

It’s time to wrap up my short series on mobile success factors.  I started with ‘It’s Who You Know’ and wrote about working with large organisations such as network operators that have too much inertia. Next, I noted my experiences of projects having ‘Too Many Partners’. I moved on to ‘Feasibility’ and how this is […]

This final instalment of my observations of ‘Success Factors’ in the mobile industry is on timing. Timing is something that’s usually only fully appreciated in hindsight. Nevertheless, there a few timing factors that can be managed and manipulated.
I see many mobile products arrive ‘before their time’. One topical example is UIQ which was ahead of […]

Today is Red Nose Day in the UK. So what has that to do with mobile? Well, today is the first time I have seen a short code used for charity donations where the network operators have waived their typical 50 to 60% charges…
"The following mobile network operators have waived their charges in order to […]

It was sad to hear about EMCC’s demise today. I have previously worked with several EMCC people on previous projects. I hope you find new jobs quickly. If you have been caught up in this you might like to browse Harvey Nash’s Symbian Foundation micro site. They are recruiting many Symbian positions in the UK, […]

Gartner has just released their smartphone sales statistics for 2008. The world smartphone market continued to grow, despite economic problems. Of all the data, developers will be most interested in the sales listed by operating system…
 
Regionally, in North America growth was driven by operators aggressively pushing data plans. In Asia/Pacific, touch-based devices continued to attract […]