J. Gerry Purdy

Recently, I spoke at a RCR Wireless seminar in Atlanta on trends in wireless broadband-using cellular data communications to provide uploading and downloading of rich media such as photos, music and movies with your mobile devices. The wireless operators are facing a tsunami in the growing demand for wireless data. It’s like they are standing […]

Most people in North America and Europe are buying smartphones and tablets that have rich operating systems, application stores and the ability to run tens, if not hundreds, of applications. The entire smartphone environment has exploded with user-generated photos, multiple applications running at the same time, and synchronization with desktop or corporate servers. The smartphone […]

I remember the day that Apple announced the iPhone back in 2007. That afternoon, a friend came up and told me she was so excited to hear about the iPhone being introduced. She was going to go to her Verizon Wireless store (where she had a family plan) and pick up iPhones for the entire […]

At the start of every year, I have always tried to give readers of Inside Mobile some perspectives on the coming year-trends that will be important and some insights coming around the bend which you can’t yet see. I am really not a prognosticator in that I don’t suggest that I have visions popping in […]

I believe that a major focus in mobile in 2011 will be to better help users find the mobile applications that are best suited to them. Sure, application store providers have created a catalog of applications and can tell you the most popular applications by categories. For example, here are the categories provided by Apple […]

One thing you may not know is how the Web is being re-created all over again. You might sensibly ask, “Why would anyone want to do that?” since it took so much effort to define the standards and create tens of millions of Websites in the first place. The reason that a good part of […]

I’ve had a number of friends and relatives ask me, “What tablet should you buy for the upcoming holidays?” The question is a good one to consider because there are so many choices this year. Remember that, just a year ago, the only “tablet” in high-volume production was the Kindle e-reader. Now, the tablets on […]

I was fortunate to be asked by the Atlanta Wireless Technology Forum to moderate an interesting evening with some mobile and wireless industry veterans on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at the Ravinia Club in Atlanta. The event was held to discuss their vision for what mobile and wireless will look like in 2011. We enjoyed […]

Companies such as Nuance, Vlingo, Yap and others have developed some sophisticated technology to process spoken commands and convert speech to text in your mobile phone. The following seven statements are the kind of commands that new mobile voice recognition applications can do, or will soon be able to do, in your smartphone: 1. “Call […]

Here’s a question I frequently get from young entrepreneurs: “How do I fund my new mobile startup business?” After all, you might have an excellent idea and, perhaps, a small team who would love to create a business out of the idea. But you don’t have the funds to build the product and bring it […]

You have to love those Apple iPhone FaceTime ads on TV. They set up how mobile video conferencing can be so emotionally appealing: the grandparents get to see the new grandbaby from afar, the husband in the military gets to sweet talk and see his wife while on active duty, and the female shows off […]

I have been thinking for quite some time about writing a column on why I hate mobile e-mail. I feel almost like a traitor for suggesting that I-a mobile analyst whose livelihood depends on promoting mobile and wireless technologies and services-would suggest that I have any other feeling than “love” when writing about mobile e-mail. […]