Simon’s Blog

It seems that 2005 will go down in history to be the year when 3G began to take off in a serious way. But, the mobile network operators and handset makers need to step up their games if they want to make 3G a true success in the mass market.
Forget video calls (which are nice […]

Well, it’s taken some time, but in Q2 2005, Nokia took the leadership position in worldwide shipments of 3G handsets, with a 17% market share. That is, it shipped just over 1.5 million of the 9 million 3G handsets that shipped during the quarter.
The market for 3G is still pretty small - around 20% […]

I’ve switched blogging software - I’m now using WordPress. I’ve transferred some recent blog entries from my old blog for a bit of continuity.

Not everyone shares my opinion (including one VC) but I think this could just possibly be a good deal for both eBay and Skype. eBay is currently overvalued (unless you believe its 50% year on year earnings growth is going to continue without innovation in their service offering), so as long as it can use […]

In a word? No. Aside from the fact that the phone doesn’t get some important hygiene factors right; the design as a whole isn’t particularly compelling.
The phone’s strongest point is having an iTunes client built-in. That’s a great idea; there are some good things about how this works - in particular the way the […]

Microsoft’s new, upcoming mobile OS - Windows Mobile 5.0 (aka Magneto) is looking pretty interesting. It’s clearly going to be a big improvement over Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC. It’s really starting to look like Windows-based smart phones might, at last, be ready for prime time, offering compelling values propositions for device makers, wireless network […]

From Reuters…
Consumers should expect punishment for tinkering with their Blu-ray players, as many have done with current DVD players, for instance to remove regional coding. The new, Internet-connected and secure players will report any “hack” and the device can be disabled remotely.
It really does seem that more and more companies selling media-related products and […]