There was a lot of excitement and speculation surrounding the Motorola au Box recently, and as a result, I made an appointment to sit down with one of the product marketing managers, Matthias Trygg, for an update. Matthias handles set-tops based on the Motorola KreaTV platform, which are deployed primarily in Europe and Asia. In [...]
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I’ve heard many people say that CES 2009 was evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The follow-on is that with no break-out products, the latest gadget extravaganza was rather dull. While I agree with the first premise, I heartily disagree with the second.
When I think back to CES 2008, netbooks were barely on the radar, only road [...]
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With a backlog of CES content to post, I thought I’d start with some new details and exclusive pics of the Motorola-created au Box launched by Japan’s KDDI last November. The idea behind the KDDI au service is to make content transferable between au set-tops and au mobile phones. The last information I had suggested [...]
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Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOM has a post up today on the need for cable to focus on its core competency – video – in the wireless space.
If they can unify both the wired and wireless worlds in a way that makes it easy for consumers to manage, buy and watch content on a PC, [...]
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Motorola has taken femtocell innovation to the next level with a new CDMA femtocell prototype which integrates a CDMA femtocell with a digital touchscreen picture frame and VOIP soft phone to enhance end-user experience and improve overall radio performance. This form factor allows a consumer to deploy a femtocell in a central location [...]
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An article up at Unstrung this week (via Broadband Reports) quotes new research from Heavy Reading on commercial femtocell services. The HR study results jive with some of what I heard back in the spring on femtocell deployments, but not all. I’m curious about the results because they are not broken out by region, leaving [...]
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Motorola has a European study due out this week on consumer mindsets around femtocell service. With results from an online survey of 1,800 consumers across six European countries, the final report from the study tracks some obvious and some surprising conclusions. For example, more than three quarters of respondents had never heard of femtocells, which [...]
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There’s a lot going on this week and next. Both NXTcomm and the WiMAX Forum Global Congress are taking place now, with SCTE following next week. Expect some heavy posting here as I do my best to keep up with all that’s going on.
Before addressing the flood of news, here’s a quick primer with Motorola’s [...]
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As referenced yesterday, I sat down with a Motorola exec recently to get an update on the femtocell market. One of my big takeaways from the conversation was that the market varies widely from region to region. That shouldn’t be a surprise given the landscape of the mobile industry, but still the differences were far [...]
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Remember when I said we were about to hear a lot more about femtocells? Well In-Stat predicts there will be 101.5 million end-users worldwide within five years. You know once the analyst firms start putting out statistics that it’s just the start of the hype cycle.
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