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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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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When all is said and done, Nokia is primarily a mobile phone company. Any additional activities are largely incremental.
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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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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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That would be a sweet deal for Nokia.
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Microsoft has realized that, at the end of the day, it can't make much money from selling operating systems for handsets. Instead, it's now looking at an even bigger opportunity.
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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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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Why bother with VOIP if the quality isn't good? In particular, when cellular voice calls, with all the bucket plans that are available, are becoming so cheap? I just don't see it happening.
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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.
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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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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.