The floor: software takes a back seat With the 5G cycle in full swing, MWC has gone fully back to its roots as an equipment show. Boxes with lots of...
ZTE has the best handset demonstration of 5G. Doing a round of the 5G demonstrations revealed a disappointing situation which also did not hold up well to close inspection or...
Everybody folds and 5G gets real-ish Folding bandwagon In what has unsurprisingly become a crowded space, there is a lot of variation but I think the most impressive demonstration is...
Samsung relaunches the Nokia Communicator. Samsung has resurrected the Nokia Communicator (Galaxy Fold) and launched a good iteration of the Galaxy series that is different enough to warrant an upgrade....
A race not worth winning. With Mobile World Congress just around the corner, the focus for the next week or so will be back on 5G as this will be...
The main beneficiaries are Samsung and Ericsson. Just as Huawei is on the edge of casing Samsung real problems, it has a host of troubles that could completely destroy almost...
Xiaomi finally in range. The noise and bustle of CES have distracted many commentators from the dreadful performance at Xiaomi which is now starting to be properly priced into the...
An echo of Nokia between 2003 and 2006. Apple has ensured an exciting start to the year with its first profit warning for more than 10 years that I think...
Better products, not ineffective regulation needed. The regulations being imposed upon Google by a seemingly hapless EU appear to be having the opposite effect to that intended in yet another...
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
MWC Day 3 – 5G: No nonsense
No party means no hangover. MWC is almost over and while the stages have seen some confident predictions (eg Cisco: “hype is going to be reflected in the reality”), the...