Distilling market noise into market sense
The VisionMobile blog is a space where VisionMobile analysts and industry insiders exchange views on the fast-changing mobile market and the trends that define the future direction of telecoms.
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8/05/2013
The Mediatek Phenomenon: the new smartphone disruption
Jonathan Goldberg -
27/12/2012
Top 10 VisionMobile articles for 2012
Matos Kapetanakis -
19/12/2012
The changing landscape of app discovery
Andreas Pappas -
31/10/2012
Fashion Tech: how retailers are accelerating the app phenomenon
Elizabetta Camilleri -
15/10/2012
The need to unbundle voice – challenging century-old assumptions about telephony
Stijn Schuermans -
9/07/2012
Mobile platform wars: Winners and losers in 2012
Andreas Pappas -
28/06/2012
Why some publishers are abandoning apps and betting on the Web
Andreas Pappas -
8/06/2012
Beyond Siri: Breaking down the Virtual Assistant market
Marlène Sellebråten -
28/12/2011
2011 Roundup: Top-10 articles from the VisionMobile blog
Matos Kapetanakis -
30/11/2011
[Survey] Which are the best cross-platform tools?
Seth Jones -
2/11/2011
The elusive long-tail of mobile shipments
Matos Kapetanakis -
13/09/2011
A game of ecosystems: Crashing the Android party
Andreas Constantinou -
7/09/2011
The post-Motorola dilemma: Same old-Google or the new Apple?
Andreas Constantinou -
29/07/2011
[Report] A new way of measuring Openness, from Android to WebKit: The Open Governance Index [Updated]
Liz Laffan -
19/07/2011
[Infographic] The Mobile Platform Race – How do mobile platforms stack up?
Matos Kapetanakis -
13/07/2011
The Guide to Building Developer Communities
Gyanee Dewnarain -
26/06/2011
Platform X: How cross-platform tools can end the OS wars
Jonas Lind -
14/06/2011
Developer Economics 2011 – Why app stores are a one-way street
Matos Kapetanakis -
29/05/2011
[Report] The Netphone: behind the first WAC phone
Andreas Constantinou -
15/05/2011
Business model polarity: a win-win proposition for telcos and developers
Jose Valles -
27/04/2011
The Future of Voice
Dean Bubley -
17/04/2011
The mobile services landscape: Can OEMs compete with platform vendors?
Michael Vakulenko -
21/03/2011
[Infographic] Top 5 Handset OEMs 2001-2010
Matos Kapetanakis -
15/03/2011
The Open Source trials: hanging in the legal balance of copyright and copyleft
Åse Stiller -
24/02/2011
Is Microsoft buying Nokia? An analysis of the acquisition endgame
Andreas Constantinou -
15/02/2011
One cuckoo, two turkeys and three horses; how the mobile race has changed
Delius Observer -
10/02/2011
Mobile Megatrends 2011
Andreas Constantinou -
30/01/2011
Haptics and Sensors: The new toolset for handset differentiation?
Peter Crocker -
9/01/2011
RIM: a leap ahead in user experience, but can it execute?
Andreas Constantinou -
5/01/2011
Open Source community building: a guide to getting it right
David Neary -
27/12/2010
VisionMobile’s top 10+1 blog articles for 2010
Matos Kapetanakis -
13/12/2010
Connect, Interact, Transact: How mobile operators can bridge the communications gap
Peggy Anne Salz -
5/12/2010
Bringing the ‘social’ out of the operator walled gardens
Avner Mor -
23/11/2010
Apps is the new Web: sowing the seeds for Web 3.0
Andreas Constantinou -
15/11/2010
BlackBerry: A Dual Personality Disorder?
Michael Vakulenko -
7/11/2010
The MeeGo Progress Report: A+ or D-?
David Neary -
3/11/2010
[Infographic] The Mobile Developer Journey
Matos Kapetanakis -
31/10/2010
The Android UI Dilemma: Unify or Differentiate?
Ben Hookway -
24/10/2010
The Tortoise and the Hare: The tale of Android evolution
Tsahi Levent-Levi -
23/10/2010
Symbian is dead. Long live Symbian
Andreas Constantinou -
13/10/2010
The Snowball Effect of Mobile Application Analytics
Andreas Constantinou -
6/10/2010
30 Tablets in Q4 2010: packed train arriving at empty station
Jonathan Goldberg -
27/09/2010
Windows Phone 7: Tipping the Scales of the Smartphone Market
Michael Vakulenko -
22/09/2010
The Flash vs. HTML5 Endgame
Guilhem Ensuque -
12/09/2010
Waking the Dragon: The Rise of Android in China
Hong Wu -
6/09/2010
The recipe for a successful mobile strategy for your brand
Guillaume Arth -
29/08/2010
Enter the Cloud Phone
Vish Nandlall -
2/08/2010
How to save Nokia (from itself)
Thucydides Sigs -
26/07/2010
Remapping the handset OEM landscape: squeezed in between a rock and a hard place
Vinay Kapoor -
20/07/2010
Developer Economics 2010: The Role of Networks in a Developer World
James Parton -
16/07/2010
Mobile Developer Economics: The Building Blocks of Mobile Applications
Tor Björn Minde -
13/07/2010
Mobile Developer Economics: Taking Applications to Market
Andreas Constantinou -
5/07/2010
Mobile Developer Economics 2010: The migration of developer mindshare
Andreas Constantinou -
27/06/2010
Mapping the mobile ecosystem: top-20 most connected companies
Matos Kapetanakis -
14/06/2010
Mobile Virtualization – Coming to a Smartphone Near You
Steve Subar -
8/06/2010
The past, present and future of Mobile Video Telephony
Tsahi Levent-Levi -
3/06/2010
Lead, innovate or assemble: three choices for handset OEMs as mobile starts to look like the PC industry
Andreas Constantinou -
26/05/2010
The many faces of Android fragmentation
Andreas Constantinou -
17/05/2010
An X-ray of Mobile Software: The 11 vital organs of mobile
Morten Grauballe -
30/04/2010
Palm: $1.2B Down the Shredder
Michael Vakulenko -
25/04/2010
Wholesale Applications Community: The Operator Love Affair with Developers
Simone Cicero -
16/04/2010
Is Android Evil?
Andreas Constantinou -
8/04/2010
Why handset OEMs shouldn’t mess with UX and other lessons from the automotive industry
Thucydides Sigs -
30/03/2010
Why Mobile Operators have a crucial role to play in the second wave of “smart” apps
James Parton -
30/03/2010
Adobe defends its mobile strategy
Mark Doherty -
13/03/2010
Why Adobe Should Change its Mobile Strategy (again)
Guilhem Ensuque -
8/03/2010
The Wintel future for mobile: a wake up call for network operators
Andreas Constantinou -
26/02/2010
Demolition Derby in Devices: The roller-coaster ride is on
Richard Kramer -
22/02/2010
2010 in review: Under-the-radar trends at Mobile World Congress
Andreas Constantinou -
16/02/2010
MeeGo: Two (M)onkeys don’t make a (G)orilla. But they sure make a lot of noise
Thucydides Sigs -
14/02/2010
Location 101: breaking down the market for location-based apps
Jane Sales -
7/02/2010
Low cost Android: crossing the $100 barrier
Ben Hookway -
1/02/2010
[Survey] Calling all developers: Making sense of a fragmented world
Matos Kapetanakis -
24/01/2010
Behind the Smartphone Craze: redrawing the map of mobile platforms
Guy Agin -
18/01/2010
The Mobile App Store Landscape 5 years Ai (After the iPhone)*
Francisco Kattan -
13/01/2010
Mobile Megatrends 2010
Andreas Constantinou -
31/12/2009
Roundup: Top 10 blog articles for 2009
Matos Kapetanakis -
23/12/2009
Making Sense of Samsung’s Bada
Antony Edwards -
17/12/2009
Is Proprietary the new Standard in the Mobile Industry?
Elad Granot -
13/12/2009
Mobile recommendations: market overview and outlook
Andreas Constantinou -
3/12/2009
100 million insights on mobile software
Matos Kapetanakis -
12/11/2009
Who Can Save Palm?
Michael Vakulenko -
5/11/2009
What future for the mobile phone in a multi-platform world?
Andreas Constantinou -
30/10/2009
Mobile App Stores: The Next Two Years
Andreas Constantinou -
13/10/2009
Who’s behind the VisionMobile Community? We‘ve got results!
Jana Moravkova -
7/10/2009
Why mobile can bring back the value to the Internet
Andreas Constantinou -
18/09/2009
Augmented Economics: Making Money at the Edge of Reality
Andreas Constantinou -
6/09/2009
Socializing the mobile address book: market overview and trends
Florent Stroppa -
28/08/2009
Who is behind the VisionMobile Community?
Vanessa Measom -
23/08/2009
Will Legacy Smartphone Platforms Keep-up with iPhone and Android?
Michael Vakulenko -
7/08/2009
Open is the New Closed
Andreas Constantinou -
24/07/2009
Who will own the screen? an analysis of the Active Idle Screen market 2009-2011
Andreas Constantinou -
8/07/2009
Feature phones and the RTOS – the ignored 85% of the market
Ben Hookway -
3/07/2009
Android and the threat of fragmentation
Gabor Torok -
24/06/2009
The 100 million club: some surprising facts about mobile software
Andreas Constantinou -
12/06/2009
Hardware is the future of mobile software, and vice versa. What Intel’s acquisition of WindRiver really means.
Andy V. O' Lay -
9/06/2009
The Amazon Kindle: More revolutionary for the mobile telecoms industry than the iPhone ever was
Stefan Constantinescu -
31/05/2009
Google beats mobile operators at the customer care game
Wouter Deelman -
26/05/2009
The Mechanics Behind the Mobile User Interface
Andreas Constantinou -
12/05/2009
Repeat Webinar: An Introduction to Mobile Open Source
Vanessa Measom -
8/05/2009
Mobile widgets: market review and commercial reality
Andreas Constantinou -
20/04/2009
800+ Companies, 47 Market Sectors, One Atlas
Vanessa Measom -
10/04/2009
Beware of Android bearing gifts
Andreas Constantinou -
25/03/2009
Webinar: An introduction to Mobile Open Source
Vanessa Measom -
18/03/2009
Why the LiMo Foundation needs to go back to the drawing board
Andreas Constantinou -
17/03/2009
Carnival of the Mobilists #165
Vanessa Measom -
10/03/2009
Voice, a new platform for innovation
Andreas Constantinou -
5/03/2009
Open Source in the mobile supply chain: Introducing community KPIs
Åse Stiller -
26/02/2009
Mobile Megatrends 2009
Andreas Constantinou -
18/02/2009
Nokia: ST-Ericsson, Qualcomm, Broadcom…bye bye Texas Instrument, and hello to the new Nokia!
Thomas Menguy -
11/02/2009
Inventory Convergence: Mobile Ads, PC Ads or Both?
Raj Singh -
10/02/2009
Looking for Bright Minds
Vanessa Measom -
2/02/2009
Cloud Computing anyone?
Thomas Menguy -
23/01/2009
OpenSource World 2009: open to contributions
Andreas Constantinou -
21/01/2009
UI Personalities: a new premium content market on the radar
Andreas Constantinou -
14/12/2008
Adobe Mobile Packager: are runtimes still important or are development environments and tools taking over?
Thomas Menguy -
1/12/2008
Mapping open source into mobile: who, where and how
Andreas Constantinou -
19/11/2008
The 100 million club: the bigger picture of mobile software
Andreas Constantinou -
14/11/2008
The Mobile Application Store phenomenon
Andreas Constantinou -
3/11/2008
Electronics Weekly Blog Awards
Andreas Constantinou -
3/11/2008
Mobile software is dead. Long live.. mobile software
Andreas Constantinou -
20/10/2008
Who will win the race of mobile application runtimes?
Andreas Constantinou -
9/10/2008
Why did Nokia really acquire Symbian ?
Andreas Constantinou -
29/09/2008
Symbian’s open source challenge
Roger Nolan -
24/09/2008
The darker side of Android
Andreas Constantinou -
10/09/2008
Capuchin: Sony Ericsson strikes back in the Application Environment…is it a strike? What does it mean for the development platforms fragmentation?
Thomas Menguy -
29/08/2008
Intel buying OpenedHand: Yet another platform? Or the rise of a credible mobile alternative?
Thomas Menguy -
26/08/2008
Application Environments: Order from Chaos
Andreas Constantinou -
30/07/2008
Announcing the Mobile Industry Atlas
Andreas Constantinou -
21/07/2008
Carnival of the Mobilists #133
Andreas Constantinou -
21/07/2008
The 7 centres of gravity in mobile
Andreas Constantinou -
1/07/2008
Purple Labs + Openwave: the open source battleground intensifies
Andreas Constantinou -
24/06/2008
Nokia and Symbian to become one; royalty-free, open source roadmap
Andreas Constantinou -
6/06/2008
Revenue models in open source: a guide
Andreas Constantinou -
2/06/2008
Mobile Developer Survey – live
Andreas Constantinou -
27/05/2008
How different is the iPhone 3G revenue model?
Dimitris Mavrakis -
20/05/2008
Value Quadrants: understanding value creation in mobile
Andreas Constantinou -
4/05/2008
Community dynamics in mobile open source
Andreas Constantinou -
18/04/2008
Watchlist: The 100 million club
Andreas Constantinou -
14/04/2008
Making money on the last mile: Introducing Channel ARPU
Andreas Constantinou -
30/03/2008
UI Technologies are trendy…but what are they really good for?
Thomas Menguy -
27/03/2008
The perils of managing 3rd party software: do’s and don’ts
Åse Stiller -
19/03/2008
The SIM card evolution: finally, a breakthrough?
Andreas Constantinou -
8/03/2008
Learnings from the Mobile World Congress: 10 predictions for MWC 2009 (part 2)
Andreas Constantinou -
6/03/2008
Website redesign!
Andreas Constantinou -
23/02/2008
VisionMobile Blog – Print Edition 2008
Andreas Constantinou -
19/02/2008
Carnival of the Mobilists 111
Andreas Constantinou -
19/02/2008
Learnings from the Mobile World Congress: 10 predictions for MWC 2009 (part 1)
Andreas Constantinou -
4/02/2008
Nokia does Trolltech: preparing the ground for Ovi
Andreas Constantinou -
28/01/2008
Nokia to acquire Trolltech! Trying to guess why….
Thomas Menguy -
28/01/2008
While you were out.. the mobile internet took off
Thomas Menguy -
14/01/2008
Channel ARPU: a new source of revenue (mobile megatrend series)
Andreas Constantinou -
28/12/2007
The inner secrets of the 100 million unit club
Morten Grauballe -
21/12/2007
Boosting internet in mobile: the return of the browser proxies (mobile megatrend series)
Fredrik Ademar -
18/12/2007
Execution engines: understanding the alphabet soup of ARM, .NET, Java, Flash …
Thomas Menguy -
9/12/2007
Nokia’s Ovi equals S60 squared
Andreas Constantinou -
1/12/2007
Do we really need femto cells?
Dimitris Mavrakis -
25/11/2007
The significance of Google’s Android
Andreas Constantinou -
10/11/2007
Prepaid roaming: an underhyped opportunity
Dimitris Mavrakis -
10/11/2007
Managing software as lego bricks: the industry side of mobile software management
Andreas Constantinou -
6/11/2007
Google’s Android: boring, exciting or breakthrough ?
Andreas Constantinou -
4/11/2007
What if handset features could shape and evolve with the user? the user side of mobile software management
Andreas Constantinou -
29/10/2007
Carnival of the Mobilists #97
Andreas Constantinou -
24/10/2007
Motorola s UIQ: Diversion or U-Turn ?
Andreas Constantinou -
10/10/2007
Three reasons for a Google-phone
Andreas Constantinou -
17/09/2007
GPLv2 and GPLv3: licensing dynasty or end of the road?
Liz Laffan -
17/09/2007
Sun’s open source Java policy will mean very little for the mobile industry
Andreas Constantinou -
13/09/2007
How open source is shaking up the mobile browser market
Andreas Constantinou -
11/09/2007
Mobile Linux is not about free software
Andreas Constantinou -
8/09/2007
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Amobee CMO Talks Up New Models For Selling Mobile Content; Is The Pay-Off Bigger Than Mobile Search?
Peggy Anne Salz -
5/09/2007
Turning corporate software development on its head
Andreas Constantinou -
3/09/2007
What on earth is open source ?
Andreas Constantinou -
31/08/2007
Interview: AdMob CEO Reveals Stats & Plans For An “Ad Lab” With Apple; Provides Sure-Fire Cheat Sheet For Novice Publishers
Peggy Anne Salz -
30/08/2007
EXCLUSIVE: Where’s The “M” In CPM? Millennial Media VP Talks About Targeting, Reach & Mobile Search
Peggy Anne Salz -
28/08/2007
i-mode: the beginning of the end
Andreas Constantinou -
26/07/2007
GPLv3: is anti-Tivoisation flawed?
Liz Laffan -
21/07/2007
Flash-Inside (R)
Andreas Constantinou -
6/07/2007
How iPhone is impacting the mobile industry
Andreas Constantinou -
24/06/2007
Five upsell strategies for mobile ISVs
Andreas Constantinou -
14/06/2007
Activating the Idle Screen
Andreas Constantinou -
2/06/2007
Container projects: The next chapter in handset customisation
Andreas Constantinou -
28/05/2007
Carnival of the Mobilists 75
Andreas Constantinou -
11/05/2007
Flash Lite: Facts and Figures
Andreas Constantinou -
29/04/2007
Prague or Berlin ? Behind the scenes of the SIM industry
Andreas Constantinou -
12/04/2007
The headaches of being a handset OEM
Hampus Jakobsson -
7/04/2007
Bye Bye Browser
Andreas Constantinou -
29/03/2007
To Build or to buy? To Patent or not to?
Liz Laffan -
14/03/2007
Rethinking application environments
Andreas Constantinou -
27/02/2007
On-device portals: Sardines in a can
Andreas Constantinou -
21/02/2007
Reversing Mobile TV
Andreas Constantinou -
5/02/2007
Get real: Focus on Voice not Data
Andreas Constantinou -
4/02/2007
SIMs and Conference Politics
Andreas Constantinou -
30/01/2007
The carrousel of mobile blogging
Andreas Constantinou -
24/01/2007
Read my mind: adding recommendation to the mobile search mix
Peggy Anne Salz -
18/01/2007
Mapping mobile Linux: from Lego bricks to castles
Andreas Constantinou -
15/01/2007
iPhone delivers a genuinely disruptive UI
Francis Djabri -
5/01/2007
Retail idea #3: Selling hardware features
Andreas Constantinou -
15/12/2006
Make it – then break it: the UI-paradigm of converged devices
Hampus Jakobsson -
10/12/2006
Making a difference at Retail: The mobile phone health index
Andreas Constantinou -
2/12/2006
Open Source making waves in the mobile industry
Andreas Constantinou -
15/11/2006
Motorola’s AJAR set to follow in Nokia’s S60 footsteps
Andreas Constantinou -
13/11/2006
Qualcomm an inch closer to Europe
Andreas Constantinou -
8/11/2006
Operators: service-pipes or bit-pipes ?
Andreas Constantinou -
1/11/2006
Prioritize: Take over the world or Enjoy good margins
Hampus Jakobsson -
22/10/2006
Customisation vs Personalisation: Setting the record straight
Andreas Constantinou -
12/10/2006
Bang & Olufsen and ELLE pick up where Xelibri failed
Andreas Constantinou -
25/09/2006
User interfaces and soft walled gardens of tomorrow
Hampus Jakobsson -
21/09/2006
Customised Design Manufacturers are Here
Andreas Constantinou -
13/09/2006
The Twelve Stages of Handset Commercialisation
Andreas Constantinou -
9/09/2006
The retail environment as a point of service discovery
Andreas Constantinou -
19/07/2006
A Peek into Radio Spectrum Economics
George Sarmonikas -
18/07/2006
The Industrial Design Platform
Andreas Constantinou -
12/07/2006
On-Device Portals: Here to Stay
Andreas Constantinou -
12/07/2006
Super 3G: Competition for Mobile WiMax
George Sarmonikas -
13/06/2006
Not-so-simple facts about Vodafone Simply
Andreas Constantinou -
18/05/2006
Googling for the future of mobile search
Andreas Constantinou -
21/04/2006
The Brand Vector
Andreas Constantinou -
6/04/2006
Nokia must U-turn on its Symbian strategy
Andreas Constantinou -
20/03/2006
On-Device Portals: A Space to Watch
Andreas Constantinou -
13/02/2006
3GSM: The busiest week of the year
Andreas Constantinou -
12/02/2006
On DoCoMo, Microsoft and Platform Strategy
Andreas Constantinou -
5/01/2006
The Rise of Customised Design Manufacturers
Andreas Constantinou -
16/06/2005
Not betting on the OMTP
Andreas Constantinou -
20/01/2005
Symbian: only one way to go
Andreas Constantinou
