How will device vendors differentiate themselves?
What is User Experience?
What are the most suitable Open Source licensing models for mobile handset software?
How to succeed in an Open Source world
How to make money with Open Source
The challenges and risks of Open Source
What are the major trends in mobile handset OS?
Which OS platforms will be the most popular in 2009 and in 2013?
What strategies are being adopted by the leading handset vendors? What does this mean?
What is the future for proprietary OS?
What mobile OS strategies are operators adopting?
n 2008, there were almost 162 million Smartphones sold, surpassing notebook sales for the first time. Just over 49% of Smartphones sold in 2008 were based on Symbian OS, a significant drop from a near 65% share it enjoyed one year earlier. While this is in large part due to the relatively poor performance of Nokias Smartphone range, it is also an indication of the popularity enjoyed by competing platforms including Linux, BlackBerry OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, OS X iPhone and new entrant Android.
Openness is a key criterion, says Informa, while all in the mobile telecoms space now see the revenue potential of applications and services.
Informa notes also that as more and more value moves from device hardware to software, and also to content, developers are becoming increasingly central to the mobile handset value chain
Middle East and Africa will have the strongest growth
United Kingdom-based O2 reported that its mobile data traffic
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AT&T has re
Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast,
.6 exabytes per month by 2014, and over 2.3 of those are due to mobile video traffic.
3.6 Exabytes per Month of Mobile Data Traffic by 2014
Video Will Account for 66 Percent of Global Mobile Data Traffic by 2014
Figure 3 shows the devices responsible for mobile data traffic growth.
Smartphones and portables will account for 91 percent of all mobile data traffic by 2014
rimarily due to the much higher usage profile of laptops and the suitability of mobile broadband handsets
Laptops and Smartphones Drive Traffic Growth
ercentage of Install Base of Smartphones over all Mobile Handsets
igh-End Handsets and Laptops Can Multiply Traffic
Much mobile data activity takes place within the user's home. A
Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group
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Mobile Internet Time at Home, at Work and On The Move
Cisco IBSG Connected Life Market Watch
Cisco has estimated the amount of smartphone traffic that can be offloaded through dual-mode devices or femtocells
Traffic Offload
. Mobile-Only Data Users by Country, 2009-2014
social augmented reality
next five years are projected to provide unabated mobile video adoption despite the recen
Global Mobile Data Traffic 2009-2014
Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic
nforma Telecoms and Media, Infonetics, Cahners In-Stat, Datamonitor, Gartner, IDC, Dell'Oro, Synergy, Nielsen, comScore, and the International Telecommunications Union
nited Kingdom(UK) BT Mobile Home GSM T-Mobile
United Kingdom(UK) Dot-Mobile GSM Vodafone Student-focused ESP offering low prices and SMS and minute bundles, or "units".
United Kingdom(UK) Easy Mobile GSM T-Mobile ESP launched in March 2005
United Kingdom(UK) ExtremeMob GSM Vodafone A combination of stylish handsets, value for money tariffs and a 24/7 customer call centre will make ExtremeMob stand out in the mobile sector.
United Kingdom(UK) Fresh GSM T-Mobile Pre-paid MVNO venture of Carphone Warehouse and Value Telecom.
United Kingdom(UK) Intercity Mobile Communications GSM
United Kingdom(UK) Mobile World GSM T-Mobile Pre-paid MVNO venture of Carphone Warehouse launched in April 2005.
United Kingdom(UK) Kingston Communications GSM O2 MVNO launched in 2000
United Kingdom(UK) One.Tel GSM Vodafone
United Kingdom(UK) Project Telecom GSM Vodafone Business service provider, acquired by Vodafone in 2003
United Kingdom(UK) Rok Telecom GSM T-Mobile
United Kingdom(UK) Sainsburys Telecom GSM O2 Service provider, partnership with Carphone Warehouse and O2
United Kingdom(UK) Singlepoint Limited GSM Vodafone Service provider launched in 1997, acquired by Vodafone in 2003
United Kingdom(UK) Tesco Mobile GSM O2 MVNO launched in September 2003
United Kingdom(UK) Toucan Mobile GSM T-Mobile Postpaid MVNO for Toucan, telecoms company IDT Europe's consumer telephony brand - launching later in 2005
United Kingdom(UK) Virgin Mobile GSM T-Mobile Famous MVNO, launched November 1999 and recently announced over 5 million customers.
United Kingdom(UK) Yes Telecom GSM Vodafone
'Intel feels compelled to build out its mobile product suite, including ARM baseband processors for handsets, smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices
RIM's BlackBerry handsets were the best selling smartphones in the UK for 2010
n December 2010, BlackBerry's market share went to a record high of 36 per cent, with a 51.1 per cent share for pre-pay deals and 23.3 per cent for contract free phones
It had sold over 129 million BlackBerry smartphones worldwide