It’s looking like April to June could be the worst quarter ever for the mobile phone industry as demand for the devices continues to stagnate. The blame has been laid partly at the door of the recession but mostly the consensus is that market saturation is behind the decline in demand for mobile phones. It stands to reason, when the world and its five year old daughter find themselves already owning a mobile phone, how are you going to sell many more? (more…)

A study from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has indicated that almost 15 per cent of the households in the US has no land-line in their house, surviving solely on mobile phones. The study found that 14.7 per cent of US citizens are solely reliant on their mobile phone.

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Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners has been quoted as saying that all iPhone users are going to be switching to Palm Pres when their contracts expire. Now, this site has been as complementary as anyone about Palm’s new venture and we really do hope that they can finally compete with Apple. However, claiming that the Pre is so good that every single iPhone user is going to toss their prized possession aside in disgust and embrace the device may be slightly overstating the case. Here’s the quote in full…
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The mobile sector will account for over half of all broadband connections by 2015. That’s according to a report from Analysis Mason. The online analysis company believe that by that point Europe will boast in excess of 148 million mobile broadband connections. The current growth-rate of 46 percent year on year will even see 3G and 4G connections becoming more prevalent than DSL.
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Facebook is redoubling its efforts to make the world’s leading social network available on a range of mobile devices by discussing a partnership with Nokia. Nokia are the world’s biggest handset manufacturer, so any deal with them would represent a massive step into the mobile market for Facebook, maintaining, even possibly extending their current meteoric growth rate.
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Despite the fact that the Smart Phone market is already hugely crowded, the launch of the latest addition, the Palm Pre, really is a highly anticipated event. The pre-release publicity and reviews have been almost uniformly positive and an impressive showing at an otherwise fairly boring CES has left people champing at the bit for a release date.
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The four major US phone networks dealt with massive surges of activity on their wireless networks yesterday without major problems. The massive surge in activity was down to, guess who? Barack Obama.
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