Henry Hagnäs

A Bloodbath for 2010: the Smartphone market preview

The big battle this year in mobile will be in smartphones. Not because of reasons many pundits and analysts now suggest, that somehow this is that everybody caught the iPhone fever or that Google somehow energized the field with its Nexus phone. No, those are overhyped views with an overly US-centric view. Remember that differing from most high tech and media industries like computers, TVs, air travel, advertising, military spending, music, movies, rocket science etc, where the US tends to reflect about half of global spending of the given industry. That is not so in mobile telecoms. US cellphone users (about 285 million subscriptions) represent only 7% of the global subscriber base of 4.6 Billion.
via communities-dominate.blogs.com

Also by Tomi Ahonen, an excellent write-up on what to expect from 2010 in regards to mobile phones and the companies that build them.

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Posted February 1, 2010
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Video: The Next 4 Billion with Tomi Ahonen

via fora.tv

Excellent presentation by Tomi Ahonen about the state of mobile usage and where it is going. Eye-opener especially for those staring themselves blind on how mobile phones are used in the western world.

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Posted February 1, 2010
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Millions of phones blocked in India

Nokialle tuli Intiasta hyviä uutisia. Olen blogissa jo pariin kertaan kirjoittanut että Intiassa aiotaan blokata IMEI-koodittomat luurit tai ns. kloonipuhelimet pois markkinoilta. Turvallisuussyyt ovat yksi vahva syy tähän sillä noissa taannoisissa terrori-iskuissa kloonipuhelimet olivat isossa osassa. No nyt se vihdoin sitten tapahtui eikä hommaa peruttu kuten jo kaksi kertaa aiemmin. Yli 25 miljoonaa luuria meni tai menee ihan näillä näppäimillä mykiksi eivätkä ne enää toimi. Siinä on sitten 20 miljoonan luurin vajaus yhtäkkiä markkinoilla ja Nokia 60% markkinaosuudellaan on selvä hyötyjä tästä.
via laimeasilli.wordpress.com

Above text is obviously in finnish but very interesting nonetheless (first link is to english news-story). Basically, Indian phone-networks have decided to block 20-25 million fake/cloned mobile phones that lack an IMEI-code for security reasons. This means there is suddenly a market for 20 million new mobile phones in India, a market where Nokia (NOK) has a 60% marketshare.

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Posted December 2, 2009
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