Ben Wood Quotations

But it's still a very long way away.

I have a sense that there's hysteria from the operators.

That would be a sweet deal for Nokia.

Microsoft has realized that, at the end of the day, it can't make much money from selling operating systems for handsets. Instead, it's now looking at an even bigger opportunity.

Why bother with VOIP if the quality isn't good? In particular, when cellular voice calls, with all the bucket plans that are available, are becoming so cheap? I just don't see it happening.

The other network operators are starting to get their story together so they can take the fight back to Hutchison and try to take the 3G mindshare back from them. The gloves are off. We're going to see aggressive competition for 3G.

When all is said and done, Nokia is primarily a mobile phone company. Any additional activities are largely incremental.

Vodafone has got serious about 3G now. It is using its size and purchasing power to put together the best portfolio of 3G phones and services.

The Rokr was kind of a disappointment. You hear a song, go home, find it on iTunes, connect your phone and download. The real goal is to download it directly.

Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.

The model caters to the replacement market where fashion is as much a factor in purchasing decision as function, but it remains to be seen whether European users will adopt it with the vigor that Korean consumers have embraced it.

You're definitely looking at single digit margins, but Motorola will use the ultra low tier to attract consumers to its brand and eventually sell up more expensive models.

This is the first year-on-year decline after years of phenomenal growth.

This certainly ups the ante in the battle between Apple and the phone makers for mobile music.

For a guy like me that's just extraordinary. This is like - I don't want to say it - but it's at architect's dream.

Nokia's main priority must now be to stabilise its market share by Q3 and hope that it can reverse the current decline in Q4,

Nokia definitely has to place some bets, and the 770 is one of them.

If you look at the hype-ometer, music is definitely the hottest. But no one has quite got the right model for the business yet.

In the face of aggressive competition from Motorola, Samsung, LG and Siemens this is going ot be a challenging goal to achieve.

The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.

All of the Linux developments are a disparate set of projects,