Ben Wood
Ben Wood
Ben Woodis a British visual artist living and working in San Francisco. Over the past decade he has carried out public projects in San Francisco and exhibited in Mexico City, Honolulu and the United Kingdom. Many of his projects use digital media to display images in the built environment...
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The other network operators are starting to get their story together so they can take the fight back to Hutchison and try to take the 3G mindshare back from them. The gloves are off. We're going to see aggressive competition for 3G.
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Nokia's main priority must now be to stabilise its market share by Q3 and hope that it can reverse the current decline in Q4,
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Nokia definitely has to place some bets, and the 770 is one of them.
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When all is said and done, Nokia is primarily a mobile phone company. Any additional activities are largely incremental.
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Vodafone has got serious about 3G now. It is using its size and purchasing power to put together the best portfolio of 3G phones and services.
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The Rokr was kind of a disappointment. You hear a song, go home, find it on iTunes, connect your phone and download. The real goal is to download it directly.
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This certainly ups the ante in the battle between Apple and the phone makers for mobile music.
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Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.
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The model caters to the replacement market where fashion is as much a factor in purchasing decision as function, but it remains to be seen whether European users will adopt it with the vigor that Korean consumers have embraced it.
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You're definitely looking at single digit margins, but Motorola will use the ultra low tier to attract consumers to its brand and eventually sell up more expensive models.
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This is the first year-on-year decline after years of phenomenal growth.
But it's still a very long way away.
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I have a sense that there's hysteria from the operators.
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For a guy like me that's just extraordinary. This is like - I don't want to say it - but it's at architect's dream.