September 15, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for September 15:

• Alistair Hill at comScore M:Metrics about Mobile Search Grew 68 Percent in the U.S. and 38 Percent in Western Europe During Past Year
• Thomas Husson at JupiterResearch about Keitai shosetsu
• Thomas Husson at JupiterResearch about My 'Fun' Blackberry - part 2
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Only about 2% of this blog's visitors using mobile devices
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about A Theory of Convergence?
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Tethering...another approach to mobile broadband computing (MBC)
• Daniel Taylor at Yankee Group about Replacement Rates for Mobile Advertising
• Daniel Taylor at Yankee Group about Mobile Marketing and Willingness To Pay
• Philippe Winthrop at Strategy Analytics about Is the Palm Treo Pro Ready For the Enterprise?

September 12, 2008 Roundup

Sorry for the long delay between posts. Work at my day job has been extremely busy. Analysts in the news for September 12:

• Julie Ask at JupiterResearch about My "Fun" Blackberry
• Julie Ask at JupiterResearch about What's Hot at CTIA? Social Networking for Starters
• David Card at JupiterResearch about New iPods: Solid Refresh but Nothing Much New
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about How many people use PC in conjunction with their phones?
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Full web browsing on a phone? Not yet
• Thomas Menguy at VisionMobile about Capuchin: Sony Ericsson strikes back in the Application Environment…is it a strike? What does it mean for the development platforms fragmentation?
• Mark Beccue at ABI Research about Quiet CTIA show -- less hype, better consumer focus
• Danny Kim at iSuppli about These Navs are Made for Walking
• Geoff Blaber at CCS Insight about Prepaid Market Set to Be the Fourth Quarter’s Battleground
• Joshua Martin at Yankee Group about The Core of Apple’s Problem

August 28, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for August 28:

• Ian Fogg at JupiterResearch about 3g Mobile Phone Battery Life
• Ian Fogg at JupiterResearch about Swisscom Markets a Naked DSL Fixed-Mobile Bundle
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Nokia removing VoIP capability from N-Series phones?
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about US elections and innovative mobile apps
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about GSMA toning down rhetoric towards reality
• Tom Byrd at CCS Insight about Samsung Takes a Corny Approach to Going Green
• Joshua Martin at Yankee Group about Navigating on the Anywhere Network
• Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi via Reuters about Weak economy to sap handset market growth
• Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray & Co via Bloomberg.com about Apple Working on IPhone Update to Fix Security Flaw

August 26, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for August 26:

• Thomas Husson at JupiterResearch about GPS Phones
• Mark Mulligan at JupiterResearch about You Say You Want A Revolution...
• Mark Mulligan at JupiterResearch about What I Want From Apple
• Thomas Husson at JupiterResearch about Digital Politics
• Ed Kountz at JupiterResearch about More mobile...FDC's GoTag study and a Visa U.S. Update
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about When is mobile VoIP not really mobile VoIP?
• Gerhard Fasol at eurotechnology.japan about 75% of mobile phones in Japan ship with digital mobile TV
• Gerhard Fasol at eurotechnology.japan about Last 2G phone shipped 8 months ago in Japan
• Andreas Constantinou at VisionMobile about Application Environments: Order from Chaos

August 20, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for August 20:

• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about So what's up with the 3G performance in the iPhone?
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Highlights from Ofcom's 2008 report on the UK Communications Market
• Dale Vile at Freeform Dynamics about iPhone: First impressions of a Blackberry user
• Robert Caunt at CCS Insight about Finding a Standard for Mobile Barcodes
• Philippe Winthrop at Strategy Analytics about The iPhone 3G Is Now Ready for Enterprise Mobility: So Says Gartner

August 14, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for August 14:

• Chris Jones and Caroline Chow at Canalys about US PND market doubles in Q2
• David Card at JupiterResearch about Play Ball!
• Gerhard Fasol at eurotechnology japan about How many iPhones were sold in July in Japan?
• Jake Saunders at ABI Research about The Gloves Just Came off the Chinese 3G Operators
• Ross Rubin at NPD Group about iPhone 3G will go head-to-head with rivals at Best Buy Mobile
• Ross Rubin at NPD Group about iPod looks that won’t stop a clock dock
• Howard Wilcox at Juniper Research about Mobile Money Transfers Opportunity for Service Providers to exceed $5bn by 2013
• Joshua Martin at Yankee Group about Want a best buy on the iPhone?
• Joshua Martin at Yankee Group about Today, I was not the very model of the Anywhere Consumer

Is AT&T in Cahoots with Text Messaging Spammers?

Sorry for not posting the past two weeks but I was away for work and then took a short family vacation.

Since switching to the iPhone 3G last month, I've noticed an huge increase in text message spam. Before on my Samsung Blackjack I only received a few text spam per month but now with the iPhone 3G I'm getting at least 4-5 per day!

Given I was an AT&T customer with the same mobile number and a bundled Medianet data/text plan prior to the iPhone 3G, I can only surmise that AT&T somehow notified text spammers when I switched to their 3G data plan and added on 200 text messages for $5 a month.

Anyone else experiencing this?

July 31, 2008 Roundup

Analysts in the news for July 31:

• John Fletcher and Sharon Armbrust at SNL Kagan about Wireless Data Revenue To Increase At A 16% Annual Rate Over The Next Decade
• Julie Ask at JupiterResearch about T-Mobile Hits Market with New Services Targeted Towards Parents
• Thomas Husson at JupiterResearch about Declining prices for mobile banner ads
• Thomas Husson at JupiterResearch about EA/Gameloft mobile revenues
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Why the obsession with monthly billing for mobile services?
• Dean Bubley at Disruptive Analysis about Latency in mobile - more needs to be done
• Andreas Constantinou at VisionMobile about Announcing the Mobile Industry Atlas
• Ross Rubin at NPD Group about There are 2m Centros out there and they’re going online
• Joshua Martin at Yankee Group about Dude, You’re Getting a Dell DJ!
• Rick Doherty at Envisioneering Group and Rob Enderle at the Enderle Group via WSJ.com about Dell Tests Player to Renew iPod Battle
• Geoff Blaber and Ben Woods at CCS Insight, Caroline Milanesi at Gartner and Ed Snyder at Charter Equity Research via Times Online about Nokia fights for market share with 10% cuts
• Phillip Redman at Gartner, Craig Mathias at Farpoint Group and independent analyst Jeffrey Kagan via Computerworld about Motorola shows drop in mobile phone sales, recommits to mobile unit spin-off
• Pablo Perez-Fernandez at Global Crown Capital LLC, Michael Walkley at Piper Jaffray & Co., Raimundo Archibold at Kaufman Brothers LP and Morgan Keegan & Co. analyst Tavis McCourt via Bloomberg.com about Motorola May Be No. 4 in Phones After Losing to LG
• Yankee Group analyst Linda Barrabee via Los Angeles Times about Watch the X Games on your phone! Available on six handsets nationwide
• David Hallden at Cheuvreux and Ben Wood at CCS Insight via InformationWeek about Nokia Cuts Phone Prices, Pressuring Rivals

July 28, 2008 Roundup

Just realized that Mobile Analyst Watch has been around for three years now. Scary. Analysts in the news for July 28:

• Michael Gartenberg at JupiterResearch about Taking a peek at Peek
• Julie Ask at JupiterResearch about Facebook Connect - Simplifying Mobile Use Cases
• Philippe Winthrop at Strategy Analytics about Crack and Enterprise Mobility Just Don't Mix
• RBC Capital’s Mike Abramsky and Morgan Keegan’s Tavis McCourt via Barron’s Online Tech Trader Daily about Palm: Could FY Q1 Hold An Upside Surprise?

First week with the iPhone 3G

Picked up my 16GB white iPhone 3G last Saturday after waiting a week and my anger towards AT&T is now a faint memory. I've retired my Samsung Blackjack to emergency standby status and here's a quick take on my likes, dislikes and the apps I'm currently rocking on the new handset:

LIKES/COOL

• Exchange sync - I can now easily access my company's global address book and all my email folders. Managing email is easier too.
  
• App Store/iTunes ecosystem
  
• Ease of use
• Wi-Fi
• Internet Browsing
• Pandora - works well even over EDGE network
  
• Auto correct keyboard - I type faster than on the Blackjack's QWERTY keyboard
  
• VPN although having trouble accessing company SharePoint site with Safari
  

DISLIKES

• Can't make calls from Calendar
• Can't customize which email folders sync (currently syncs all)
• Battery life - increased functionality/usability= more use and battery drain
  
• No App Store demos to try before buy

APPS I LIKE

• AIM
• Pandora
• Bloomberg
• HoldEm
• eBay
• Remote
• Facebook
• Google

WAITING FOR

• Turn by turn navigation
• Ilium eWallet - app is available but waiting for PC desktop and/or Mac version so I can sync my records from Blackjack
• Exchange sync enhancements
• More apps