Sony’s PS Vita roars back to life
Sony’s (SNE) PlayStation Vita, a powerful but pricey portable console, had an awful year in 2012. In its home market, the Vita has often dipped …
Tero Kuittinen
After launching mobile game company SpringToys tragically early in 2000, Tero Kuittinen spent eight years doing equity research at firms including Alliance Capital and Opstock. He is currently an analyst and VP of North American sales at mobile diagnostics and expense management Alekstra, and has contributed to TheStreet.com, Forbes and Business 2.0 Magazine in addition to BGR.
Articles by Tero Kuittinen
At the end of 2011, Samsung started morphing Apple into a follower
Up until mid-2011, the entire smartphone market was slavishly copying Apple’s (AAPL) moves. Apple wrested the control of phone industry trends from Nokia (NOK) and …
SimCity PR nightmare escalates
Over the past couple of days, “SimCity” has eclipsed “Pope” in global search volume. Electronic Arts has finally created something that has captivated the world …
HTC’s March production problems may carry a dreadful cost
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Indian smartphone vendors could crush Nokia in emerging markets
The first wave of Asian smartphone vendors launched LG (066570) and Samsung (005930), the latter of which ended 2012 as the No. 1 vendor in the world. …
Why is BlackBerry’s CEO being so weird about the low-end market?
BlackBerry (BBRY) executives have a history of making condescending comments to analysts, but this time, Thorsten Heins has really broke new ground in haughtiness. At …
How the industry shift from miniaturization to display quality blindsided Motorola
Now that another major lay-off wave is about to hit Motorola, it’s perhaps time to contemplate how the dominant company in a major industry sometimes …
What’s behind Nokia’s odd refusal to reveal the length of its Windows licensing deal?
Nokia (NOK) this week revealed that it will end up paying €500 million — about $650 million — in net Windows Phone licensing fees to Microsoft (MSFT) …
Sony’s surprising smartphone comeback
Over the past few months, much ink has been spilled over whether Nokia (NOK) or BlackBerry (BBRY) have a chance to stage a strong recovery. …
How can Microsoft’s smartphone market share be shrinking in America?
The new comScore smartphone market share numbers are out and the weirdest number by far is the Windows Phone market share shift between October and …
HTC’s dreadful February shocks even cynics
HTC’s (2498) share price dove 6% yesterday as investors fretted over whether February revenue might drop below NT$12 billion. Well, it did. In fact, it …
Early BlackBerry Z10 price cuts could be ominous sign
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Amazon: The second most desirable tablet vendor
Amazon (AMZN) has had a hell of a ride in the tablet market. The first Kindle tablet rode on the wave of Kindle eBook readers’ …
Nokia may soon regret rejecting QWERTY
One of the surprises from last week’s Mobile World Congress trade show was Nokia’s (NOK) confirmation that it has no plans to add QWERTY models …
Former Apple marketing guru brought in to save Motorola as Google’s panic grows
There is no end to the humiliation the old Motorola guard is being forced to endure. Google’s (GOOG) top executives keep making disparaging comments about …
T-Mobile’s spectacularly weird pricing strategy
Another quarter, another half a million contract subscribers gone. T-Mobile USA’s contract customer losses and revenue decline create headlines, but the really interesting number in …
Coming this summer: Plummeting phablet prices
Samsung (005930) stared down an army of critics when it launched the Galaxy Note in 2011. The 5.3-inch screen was viewed with deep suspicion by …
Has Samsung started slipping?
Samsung’s (005930) global market share surge in the past few years was underpinned by its remarkable success in key emerging markets like India, China and …
Amazon could see huge boost from long-form video consumption trend on tablets
The new Ooyala study on video consumption patterns highlights just how much tablets are now outperforming the PC, smartphone and video game console platforms when …
New study reveals some surprising demographic data for tablet owners
There are some clear signs that the iPad owner base os older than the iPhone owner base, such as the stronger popularity of bingo and …
Nokia finally ready to attack Samsung
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Did Barnes & Noble just kill off Nook?
Barnes & Noble (BKS) issued two devastating warnings about Nook revenue performance over the past two months. On Sunday night, a New York Times article …
The end of unlimited BBM could erode BlackBerry’s standing in emerging markets
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The insane pricing of the new HTC One
HTC’s (2498) new One will be priced higher than the 16GB iPhone 5 in the United Kingdom. Which is nothing short of nutty. Vodafone is …
BlackBerry and Nokia struggle with radically shrinking maps
Perhaps the most fascinating feature of Google Trends is the Regional Interest map, which shows relative search volumes across the world. For current key models …
Shocker: Mobile games now generate more revenue than games for portable consoles
Games for the Sony (SNE) PSP, PS Vita and Nintendo (NTDOY) 3DS consoles have one distinct revenue generation advantage: They are hellishly expensive. Mario Kart …
Nokia production follies still hindering Lumia 920, Lumia 620 sales
It was cute when Nokia’s (NOK) Lumia 920 sold out in less than an hour in China in several different instances in December. What’s not …
European upstarts give Sprint a model for tearing down the Verizon-AT&T powerhouse
Even as AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) sail confidently ahead with rising average revenues per user (ARPU) and subscriber levels, several major European mobile carriers …
Lawyers lick their chops as new study links cell phones to lower brain cancer survival rates
For the past 10 years, a diverse group of epidemiologists has tried to nail down an association between mobile phone use and brain cancer. This …
Nook’s death spiral and Kindle’s triumph
Companies very rarely warn twice in 40 days about the same problem. When it happens, it usually indicates that something so unexpected is taking place …
