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.

2009 articles

Android and the threat of fragmentation by Gabor Torok in Jul 2009 (1 comment)

The 100 million club: some surprising facts about mobile software by Andreas Constantinou in Jun 2009 (4 comments)*

Google beats mobile operators at the customer care game by Wouter Deelman in May 2009 (5 comments)*

The Mechanics Behind the Mobile User Interface by Andreas Constantinou in May 2009 (15 comments)*

Repeat Webinar: An Introduction to Mobile Open Source by Vanessa Measom in May 2009 (0 comments)*

Mobile widgets: market review and commercial reality by Andreas Constantinou in May 2009 (21 comments)***

800+ Companies, 47 Market Sectors, One Atlas by Vanessa Measom in Apr 2009 (4 comments)***

Beware of Android bearing gifts by Andreas Constantinou in Apr 2009 (18 comments)***

Webinar: An introduction to Mobile Open Source by Vanessa Measom in Mar 2009 (2 comments)**

Why the LiMo Foundation needs to go back to the drawing board by Andreas Constantinou in Mar 2009 (13 comments)******

Carnival of the Mobilists #165 by Vanessa Measom in Mar 2009 (16 comments)*

Voice, a new platform for innovation by Andreas Constantinou in Mar 2009 (11 comments)***

Mobile Megatrends 2009 by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2009 (17 comments)****

Inventory Convergence: Mobile Ads, PC Ads or Both? by Raj Singh in Feb 2009 (3 comments)*

Looking for Bright Minds by Vanessa Measom in Feb 2009 (0 comments)****

Cloud Computing anyone? by Thomas Menguy in Feb 2009 (8 comments)**

OpenSource World 2009: open to contributions by Andreas Constantinou in Jan 2009 (1 comment)*

UI Personalities: a new premium content market on the radar by Andreas Constantinou in Jan 2009 (12 comments)**

NaaS: Network as a Service, a new business model for network operators by Andreas Constantinou in Jan 2009 (20 comments)***

2008 articles

Mapping open source into mobile: who, where and how by Andreas Constantinou in Dec 2008 (43 comments)*******

The 100 million club: the bigger picture of mobile software by Andreas Constantinou in Nov 2008 (20 comments)********

The Mobile Application Store phenomenon by Andreas Constantinou in Nov 2008 (40 comments)*********

Electronics Weekly Blog Awards by Andreas Constantinou in Nov 2008 (2 comments)*

Mobile software is dead. Long live.. mobile software by Andreas Constantinou in Nov 2008 (24 comments)*****

Who will win the race of mobile application runtimes? by Andreas Constantinou in Oct 2008 (24 comments)**

Why did Nokia really acquire Symbian ? by Andreas Constantinou in Oct 2008 (9 comments)*****

Symbian’s open source challenge by Roger Nolan in Sep 2008 (6 comments)*

The darker side of Android by Andreas Constantinou in Sep 2008 (26 comments)***

Application Environments: Order from Chaos by Andreas Constantinou in Aug 2008 (17 comments)***

Announcing the Mobile Industry Atlas by Andreas Constantinou in Jul 2008 (6 comments)******

Carnival of the Mobilists #133 by Andreas Constantinou in Jul 2008 (11 comments)**

The 7 centres of gravity in mobile by Andreas Constantinou in Jul 2008 (24 comments)*******

Purple Labs + Openwave: the open source battleground intensifies by Andreas Constantinou in Jul 2008 (11 comments)**

Nokia and Symbian to become one; royalty-free, open source roadmap by Andreas Constantinou in Jun 2008 (31 comments)******

Revenue models in open source: a guide by Andreas Constantinou in Jun 2008 (12 comments)***

Mobile Developer Survey - live by Andreas Constantinou in Jun 2008 (12 comments)**

How different is the iPhone 3G revenue model? by Dimitris Mavrakis in May 2008 (9 comments)***

Value Quadrants: understanding value creation in mobile by Andreas Constantinou in May 2008 (9 comments)*****

Community dynamics in mobile open source by Andreas Constantinou in May 2008 (7 comments)***

Watchlist: The 100 million club by Andreas Constantinou in Apr 2008 (10 comments)*****

Making money on the last mile: Introducing Channel ARPU by Andreas Constantinou in Apr 2008 (8 comments)***

UI Technologies are trendy…but what are they really good for? by Thomas Menguy in Mar 2008 (16 comments)*****

The perils of managing 3rd party software: do's and don'ts by Åse Stiller in Mar 2008 (3 comments)**

The SIM card evolution: finally, a breakthrough? by Andreas Constantinou in Mar 2008 (3 comments)**

Learnings from the Mobile World Congress: 10 predictions for MWC 2009 (part 2) by Andreas Constantinou in Mar 2008 (11 comments)**

Website redesign! by Andreas Constantinou in Mar 2008 (1 comment)*

VisionMobile Blog - Print Edition 2008 by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2008 (4 comments)***

Carnival of the Mobilists 111 by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2008 (18 comments)****

Learnings from the Mobile World Congress: 10 predictions for MWC 2009 (part 1) by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2008 (17 comments)***

Nokia does Trolltech: preparing the ground for Ovi by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2008 (21 comments)****

Nokia to acquire Trolltech! Trying to guess why.... by Thomas Menguy in Jan 2008 (8 comments)***

While you were out.. the mobile internet took off by Thomas Menguy in Jan 2008 (11 comments)****

Channel ARPU: a new source of revenue (mobile megatrend series) by Andreas Constantinou in Jan 2008 (6 comments)***

2007 articles

The inner secrets of the 100 million unit club by Morten Grauballe in Dec 2007 (12 comments)****

Nokia's Ovi equals S60 squared by Andreas Constantinou in Dec 2007 (11 comments)***

Do we really need femto cells? by Dimitris Mavrakis in Dec 2007 (10 comments)***

The significance of Google's Android by Andreas Constantinou in Nov 2007 (89 comments)*******************

Prepaid roaming: an underhyped opportunity by Dimitris Mavrakis in Nov 2007 (1 comment)**

Google’s Android: boring, exciting or breakthrough ? by Andreas Constantinou in Nov 2007 (9 comments)****

Carnival of the Mobilists #97 by Andreas Constantinou in Oct 2007 (40 comments)******

Motorola s UIQ: Diversion or U-Turn ? by Andreas Constantinou in Oct 2007 (20 comments)******

Three reasons for a Google-phone by Andreas Constantinou in Oct 2007 (6 comments)**

GPLv2 and GPLv3 licensing dynasty or end of the road? by Liz Laffan in Sep 2007 (10 comments)****

Sun s open source Java policy will mean very little for the mobile industry by Andreas Constantinou in Sep 2007 (1 comment)**

How open source is shaking up the mobile browser market by Andreas Constantinou in Sep 2007 (6 comments)***

Mobile Linux is not about free software by Andreas Constantinou in Sep 2007 (5 comments)***

Turning corporate software development on its head by Andreas Constantinou in Sep 2007 (1 comment)**

What on earth is open source ? by Andreas Constantinou in Sep 2007 (8 comments)***

i-mode: the beginning of the end by Andreas Constantinou in Aug 2007 (4 comments)**

GPLv3: is anti-Tivoisation flawed? by Liz Laffan in Jul 2007 (2 comments)**

Flash-Inside (R) by Andreas Constantinou in Jul 2007 (19 comments)******

How iPhone is impacting the mobile industry by Andreas Constantinou in Jul 2007 (12 comments)***

Five upsell strategies for mobile ISVs by Andreas Constantinou in Jun 2007 (6 comments)**

Activating the Idle Screen by Andreas Constantinou in Jun 2007 (12 comments)*******

Container projects: The next chapter in handset customisation by Andreas Constantinou in Jun 2007 (13 comments)*****

Carnival of the Mobilists 75 by Andreas Constantinou in May 2007 (31 comments)******

Flash Lite: Facts and Figures by Andreas Constantinou in May 2007 (46 comments)*******************

Prague or Berlin ? Behind the scenes of the SIM industry by Andreas Constantinou in Apr 2007 (9 comments)*****

The headaches of being a handset OEM by Hampus Jakobsson in Apr 2007 (14 comments)*****

Bye Bye Browser by Andreas Constantinou in Apr 2007 (25 comments)***********

To Build or to buy? To Patent or not to? by Liz Laffan in Mar 2007 (4 comments)***

Rethinking application environments by Andreas Constantinou in Mar 2007 (12 comments)******

On-device portals: Sardines in a can by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2007 (15 comments)*****

Reversing Mobile TV by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2007 (12 comments)*****

Get real: Focus on Voice not Data by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2007 (8 comments)******

SIMs and Conference Politics by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2007 (2 comments)**

The carrousel of mobile blogging by Andreas Constantinou in Jan 2007 (3 comments)***

Read my mind: adding recommendation to the mobile search mix by Peggy Anne Salz in Jan 2007 (5 comments)*****

Mapping mobile Linux: from Lego bricks to castles by Andreas Constantinou in Jan 2007 (9 comments)****

iPhone delivers a genuinely disruptive UI by Francis Djabri in Jan 2007 (4 comments)**

Retail idea #3: Selling hardware features by Andreas Constantinou in Jan 2007 (2 comments)***

2006 articles

Make it - then break it: the UI-paradigm of converged devices by Hampus Jakobsson in Dec 2006 (5 comments)****

Making a difference at Retail: The mobile phone health index by Andreas Constantinou in Dec 2006 (4 comments)***

Open Source making waves in the mobile industry by Andreas Constantinou in Dec 2006 (3 comments)**

Motorola's AJAR set to follow in Nokia's S60 footsteps by Andreas Constantinou in Nov 2006 (3 comments)*****

Qualcomm an inch closer to Europe by Andreas Constantinou in Nov 2006 (3 comments)****

Operators: service-pipes or bit-pipes ? by Andreas Constantinou in Nov 2006 (28 comments)**********

Prioritize: Take over the world or Enjoy good margins by Hampus Jakobsson in Nov 2006 (6 comments)***

Customisation vs Personalisation: Setting the record straight by Andreas Constantinou in Oct 2006 (9 comments)*********

Bang & Olufsen and ELLE pick up where Xelibri failed by Andreas Constantinou in Oct 2006 (5 comments)**************

User interfaces and soft walled gardens of tomorrow by Hampus Jakobsson in Sep 2006 (14 comments)**********

Customised Design Manufacturers are Here by Andreas Constantinou in Sep 2006 (5 comments)*****

The Twelve Stages of Handset Commercialisation by Andreas Constantinou in Sep 2006 (1 comment)***

The retail environment as a point of service discovery by Andreas Constantinou in Sep 2006 (10 comments)*****

A Peek into Radio Spectrum Economics by George Sarmonikas in Jul 2006 (2 comments)**

The Industrial Design Platform by Andreas Constantinou in Jul 2006 (1 comment)**

On-Device Portals: Here to Stay by Andreas Constantinou in Jul 2006 (1 comment)***

Super 3G: Competition for Mobile WiMax by George Sarmonikas in Jul 2006 (0 comments)**

Not-so-simple facts about Vodafone Simply by Andreas Constantinou in Jun 2006 (10 comments)****

Googling for the future of mobile search by Andreas Constantinou in May 2006 (1 comment)**

The Brand Vector by Andreas Constantinou in Apr 2006 (2 comments)****

Nokia must U-turn on its Symbian strategy by Andreas Constantinou in Apr 2006 (10 comments)*****

On-Device Portals: A Space to Watch by Andreas Constantinou in Mar 2006 (10 comments)*********

3GSM: The busiest week of the year by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2006 (0 comments)*

On DoCoMo, Microsoft and Platform Strategy by Andreas Constantinou in Feb 2006 (0 comments)*

The Rise of Customised Design Manufacturers by Andreas Constantinou in Jan 2006 (1 comment)**

2005 articles

Not betting on the OMTP by Andreas Constantinou in Jun 2005 (0 comments)**

Symbian: only one way to go by Andreas Constantinou in Jan 2005 (1 comment)**