Mobile Industry Review covers the mobile industry, phones, carriers and startups, with opinionated commentary from a UK-based author.
HN links it for mobile business analysis, such as the Moto G strategy piece, Apple's Regent Street store sales figures and the ZumoDrive post.
It's a side note at most, but the history of technology at the end of the article is a little bit misleading as it lacks the dates for the technologies. It seems to list the most notable devices for each category. Some of them appeared several years after a technology became mainstream.
Examples:
The Nokia 3310 is from the end of 2000 but 2G mobile phones were already in everybody's hands by then, at least here in Italy. The boom started in 1997. I resisted until 1999, then my boss gave one to me because "I don't want to call [another guy with a mobile] to talk with you" :-) It was the Nokia 8110 (Neo's phone in The Matrix.)
3G/UMTS was launched in Europe in 2003, much before the first 3G capable iPhone (2008). The marketing word in 2003 for UMTS was UMTS. The first device was the NEC 606 [1], from the 3 mobile operator (Italy, UK and a number of other countries.) There were a number of popular 3G phones in the 5 years before the iPhone 3G.
By the way, the NEC 6060 did video calls too. The screen was low resolution (not by the standards of the time) and the price was outrageous (4 times the voice calls?) Not a very popular feature and yet it was there.
[1] https://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2015/04/classic-handsets-nec-e606.html
According to the author, most of Google's choices seem to be brilliant:
"With the Moto G, Google is executing Nokia’s strategy better than even Nokia themselves"
http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2013/11/moto-g-google-executing-nokias-strategy-better-even-nokia.html
Just before announcing the acquisition he wrote an article:
http://www.intomobile.com/2012/04/17/rumor-google-keep-motorola-and-try-copy-apples-forumla-success/
that while cautious ends with: "What do you think Google should do? We’re fans of them copying Apple’s business model."
But the press release must have been something awful because now he says: "Let’s face it, we all knew this acquisition was a mistake from the moment the press release dropped."
This is the Apple Store on Regent Street, London. It's massive, and it does £60m sales per annum - over £2k per square foot (http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2010/05/apples-regent-street-store-takes-60myear-or-2ksqft.html). It's the single most profitable store per square foot in the UK.
They're pretty efficient.
When you sign up, they ask you what size you want. I haven't gotten an account yet, I just saw an image of it from:
http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/01/zumodrive_is_going_to_change_everything.html