Niall’s Blog

Everybody is talking about the new Apple iPhone and feeds/news sites across the Internet are littered with pictures of this next generation phone.

However, after working in the handset industry for a number of years bets are that this will be another low – medium seller in the market. Why ?

1) No matter how quick the interface is text messaging is going to be quite difficult.

2) O2/vodafone are going to have this handset in testing for months before its released on a contract … and theres talk about only 1 major operator getting the contract for the iPhone .. in Europe this would be a disastrous approach.

3) Its huge !!!

4) Lets take the customer who wants their iPod/phone. Why not just buy a Nokia, it does the same job and with current subsidies will work around around 300-400 euro cheaper than the predicted iphone price !!