J. Gerry Purdy

/images/stories/knowledge_center/analysts_corner.gifVerizon Wireless and MetroPCS recently announced that they had turned on their Long Term Evolution (LTE) version of 4G in a few cities, with plans (along with AT&T) to roll out LTE nationwide over the next two years. In March 2011, the Global Mobile Suppliers Association estimated that 196 operators in 75 countries are currently […]

Research In Motion just announced that it is finally shipping the BlackBerry PlayBook. I hate to tell you, but I’ve got some good news and bad news. Let’s start on a positive note. RIM has announced support for running Android applications on the BlackBerry PlayBook. If you purchase a BlackBerry PlayBook, you will be able […]

Amazon announced its new Cloud Drive music service last week. It seems innocent enough: You create an Amazon Cloud Drive account and then select the music you already own but want to access with your mobile devices. You upload the selected music to the Amazon Cloud Drive server (five gigabytes are free) and then download […]

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen the introduction of the second generation of tablets, the Motorola Xoom and the Apple iPad 2. It’s been just over a year since Apple launched its “magical iPad.” This new, second generation of tablets is clearly beginning to mature into robust, high performing computing and communications devices that […]

Recently, I spoke at a RCR Wireless seminar in Atlanta on trends in wireless broadband-using cellular data communications to provide uploading and downloading of rich media such as photos, music and movies with your mobile devices. The wireless operators are facing a tsunami in the growing demand for wireless data. It’s like they are standing […]

Most people in North America and Europe are buying smartphones and tablets that have rich operating systems, application stores and the ability to run tens, if not hundreds, of applications. The entire smartphone environment has exploded with user-generated photos, multiple applications running at the same time, and synchronization with desktop or corporate servers. The smartphone […]

I remember the day that Apple announced the iPhone back in 2007. That afternoon, a friend came up and told me she was so excited to hear about the iPhone being introduced. She was going to go to her Verizon Wireless store (where she had a family plan) and pick up iPhones for the entire […]

At the start of every year, I have always tried to give readers of Inside Mobile some perspectives on the coming year-trends that will be important and some insights coming around the bend which you can’t yet see. I am really not a prognosticator in that I don’t suggest that I have visions popping in […]

I believe that a major focus in mobile in 2011 will be to better help users find the mobile applications that are best suited to them. Sure, application store providers have created a catalog of applications and can tell you the most popular applications by categories. For example, here are the categories provided by Apple […]

One thing you may not know is how the Web is being re-created all over again. You might sensibly ask, “Why would anyone want to do that?” since it took so much effort to define the standards and create tens of millions of Websites in the first place. The reason that a good part of […]