Archive For

February 2019

MWC Day 3 – 5G: No nonsense

No party means no hangover. MWC is almost over and while the stages have seen some confident predictions (eg Cisco: “hype is going to be...

MWC Day 2 – The floor & 5G: Not a Demo pt. II

The floor: software takes a back seat With the 5G cycle in full swing, MWC has gone fully back to its roots as an equipment...

MWC Day 1 – 5G – Not a demo.

ZTE has the best handset demonstration of 5G. Doing a round of the 5G demonstrations revealed a disappointing situation which also did not hold up...

MWC Day 0 – Folding space.

Everybody folds and 5G gets real-ish Folding bandwagon In what has unsurprisingly become a crowded space, there is a lot of variation but I think...

Research Publication – Reality Bytes – AI: Winter is coming

February 22nd 2019: Radio Free Mobile updates its coverage of artificial intelligence with the publication of: Reality Bytes: AI: Winter is coming. RFM research subscribers will receive...

Samsung – A good day.

Samsung relaunches the Nokia Communicator. Samsung has resurrected the Nokia Communicator (Galaxy Fold) and launched a good iteration of the Galaxy series that is different...

Google vs. Amazon – Speaker stats.

Finally, some good news for Google. Smart speaker shipments for Q4 18 show that Google has made up some ground on Amazon, but it has...

5G – Rotten race.

A race not worth winning. With Mobile World Congress just around the corner, the focus for the next week or so will be back on...

Google vs. Amazon – Stuck at 2.

Google fails again to close on Alexa. While Google is rapidly increasing the number of skills available for the assistant, it has failed to materially...

Didi – Unrealised dreams.

From revenue to cost. All is not well at Didi as a restructuring of the company is a sure sign that targets are not being...