iGR Weekly Blog Insight and analysis for the changing wireless world In the course of conducting our research, iGR is briefed my many companies, attends numerous trade shows and talks to many executives and engineers. iGR's new Weekly Blog provides a new outlet for this research and opinion and provides a new means for us to keep our clients, prospects and colleagues in the wireless and mobile industry updated.
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Accelerometers and app developers Any reader to this blog knows that we are big fans of the iPhone. The new App Store has opened up a range of new possibilities – let my son loose on the iPhone for ten minutes and you will get five new free games. What is most impressive to me though is
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WiFi on planes As I get ready to jump on yet another flight tomorrow, it continually amazes me how the rules keep changing. Delta announced last week that they would be installing WiFi connections in 133 planes this fall and then an additional 200 aircraft in the first
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Femtocells: Coming to a home near you? One of the big areas of discussion in the wireless industry these days is the femtocells, cellular access points, much like small base stations, that provide mobile coverage within a building by connecting to a mobile operator’s network via a fixed broadb
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Friends and friends on the 3G iPhone I didn’t buy a 3G iPhone. I drove by a few AT&T stores (long lines) and called the Chicagoland Apple stores (longer lines) and decided that 3G and GPS really weren’t worth the effort. Instead, I updated my current iPhone’s firmware – which bricked it for
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Mobile, open source and what consumers want We have been thinking more about open source software at iGR recently. Part of this comes from an internal effort at the company but also from vendor directions. Open source has certainly grabbed the attention of the software industry in the last few ye
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Forget texting Econ 101 tells us that an increase in price tends to decrease demand for a given good/service. The capabilities of a given product (a smartphone) also affect demand, as do user tastes and preferences and the presence of substitutes.
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What’s wrong – and right – with MVNOs? The news last week that Virgin Mobile was buying Helio for a fraction of the millions invested by SK Telecom and Earthlink was for many an indication that the MVNO dream was over. After all, who is left? The answer is ‘a few’ but also a little more comp
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Samsung Instinct from Sprint We have been test driving a new Samsung Instinct for the last few days, courtesy of Sprint. Sprint has an exclusive deal for the new handset and was responsible for much of the user interface design and software.
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3G iPhone: Long live handset subsidies! We have written much on our iPhone experiences over the last year. With the launch of the new 3G version, we have a few more things to discuss. But, of course, that can wait until we actually buy one and start using it.
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Apple iPhone Service & Support Last week, my iPhone broke. Once my fanboy tears dried, I began working on the problem: the bottom quarter of my iPhone’s touch screen had stopped working. I could still slide the phone open, but in an SMS for example, the space bar and other buttons in t
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