Situated within Informa Telecoms & Media’s Industry Research division, Gavin’s role in the Handsets & Devices team leads him to examine developments across the mobile handset value chain. He addresses issues including hardware and software components, operating systems, vendor strategy and segmentation, business models, technology and feature forecasts.

Gavin’s current research agenda sees him examining the attachments, e-reader and connected Consumer Electronics markets, as well as contributing to work on smartbooks and embedded netbooks and notebooks.

With over eight years’ experience in research, competitive intelligence and benchmarking within the telecoms and IT sectors, Gavin regularly provides comment to industry leading publications and contributes to a number of analytical newsletters and research. He holds a BA (Hons.) in European Business Administration from Middlesex University and CESEM, Reims, France.

Recent Research

Who wins, who loses from the CDMA iPhone 4?

On Tuesday, Verizon Wireless' CEO, Lowell McAdam, announced that Big Red will start selling the iPhone 4 from Feb. 10. Given the iPhone's habit of consuming operator device subsidy and marketing bud…More >>

Google's momentum is growing in the mobile handset market

Eric Schmidt, Google's Chairman and CEO, last week revealed that the company's "partners are shipping about 65,000 Android handsets per day". Assuming Google's hard working partners keep going at week…More >>

Smartphone showdown to be decided by mobile operators

Three of this year's high-profile smartphone launches have coincided in the past few weeks. The Nokia N97, the Palm Pre and two new Apple iPhones are fighting over a similar segment of the smartphone …More >>

Handset industry becoming more environmentally friendly

The strong growth experienced by the mobile handset industry until late 2008 encouraged it to become more sensitive to environmental concerns. Some progress has been made, thanks to legislation on iss…More >>

Segmentation: more important than ever in the maturing mobile handset market

Worldwide mobile handsets sales will fall by almost 10% this year, the first drop since 2001. Although much of this contraction is caused by global economic conditions, recovery will be more challengi…More >>

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