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2013 MOBILITY AWARDS

2013 MOBILITY AWARDS ANNOUNCED

The 2013 Mobility Awards were announced at a banquet which was held at The Bellagio Hotel on January 9, 2013, as part of the 2013 International CES event in Las Vegas (January 8-11, 2013).

Follow this link to see a list of the winners.

Follow this link to see photos of the Banquet.

NEWS

Affiliated Analysts Join MobileTrax

My sons, Bryan Purdy and Jason Purdy, became Affiliated Analysts on June 11th. They are alternating writing columns which will be distributed to Inside Mobile readers on Mondays and posted to the MobileTrax web site - click here. Both Bryan and Jason work in the mobile and wireless industry, and each enjoys writing about mobile. Their contributions will provide additional insights on the mobile and wireless industry.

Inside Mobile is written by J. Gerry Purdy, Principal Analyst of MobileTrax, and is published each Wednesday.

“Why LG Buying webOS from HP is Important”

by J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., on March 13, 2013

When Palm developed webOS, it was generally accepted that it was one of the best mobile operating systems ever created even if it was developed too late to help save Palm from the onslaught of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.

HP scooped up webOS in April 2010 for $1.2 billion in what seemed like a smart acquisition at the time: HP could use it as its core device OS and build a wide range of products based on it from printers to handhelds to tablets. But, a little thing like the CEO of HP wanting to divest the company of the PC Division got in the way. webOS was facing a slow death by lack of focus at HP.

But, a funny thing has happened in the three years since HP acquired webOS: major device vendors are looking for ways to differentiate themselves in the mobile market. Building smartphone products based on Android was at least an initial blessing for major vendors trying to counter the iPhone love fest. The vendor could focus on building new device hardware, incorporating Android (which Google was continually enhancing) and building applications and services on top of Android to provide a differentiated product.

Lately, however, smartphone device makers want to control the entire user experience from hardware to operating system to software and services to better control their destiny. Google purchased Motorola Mobility in part for that reason which sent a message to other Android partners: Google realized that it’s important to control the hardware as well as the software environment in smartphones and tablets.

LG has been slowly improving their position in the mobile space over the past few years by focusing in advanced technology in their smartphone line. They have been using Android but, with the possible exception of the Optimus G “superphone”, LG still has not been able to have a huge winner in the market against Samsung and HTC.

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Inside Mobile is written by J. Gerry Purdy, Principal Analyst of MobileTrax, and is published each Wednesday.

"2013 Mobility Awards Banquet"

by J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D. on January 16, 2013

The 2013 Mobility Awards banquet was held at the famous Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening, January 9th, as part of International CES®. Approximately 90 attended the gala including many members of the press.

Each year, we define the major categories and sub-categories that best represent the current status of the mobile and wireless industry. We then let vendors and their PR representatives nominate their products or services in up to two different sub-categories. We had over 600 nominations in 16 major categories and 70 sub-categories. We turned off the nomination process the first week in December.

During the fall, we recruited 61 members of the press and analysts to vote on the products and services they felt were the best in each sub-category. The voting started just before Christmas and was completed just after the New Year. We compiled the winners and announced them at the banquet on January 9th.

A number of the winning companies sent representatives to the 2013 Mobility Awards banquet which was held at the Bellagio. Las Vegas is a big place with each hotel having a major conference center – all in addition to the Las Vegas Convention Center where companies had small to gigantic booths. I’ll report next week on some interesting things I saw during the show.

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Disclosure Statement: From time to time, I may have an equity position in a company that is mentioned in this column. Also, vendors occasionally provide mobile and wireless products & services via editorial loan so that I may gain some personal experience with them. However, I am never obligated nor do I guarantee saying positive things about such products or services. I always try to give a fair and honest appraisal of all mobile and wireless products & services that are covered in this web site.