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Avi Greengart is the Research Director for Consumer Devices at Current Analysis (Mobile Phones, Connected Devices, and Digital Home). He also regularly writes for Slashgear, sporadically blogs at Home Theater View and Tweets far too often as @greengart. Avi's expertise lies in understanding consumer electronics marketing, consumer behavior, and technology adoption patterns: where new technologies meet the mass market.

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September, 2008

9/29/08 - I'm getting ready to shut down for Rosh Hashanah and will be offline Tuesday and Wednesday, but I will be up bright and early Eastern time on Thursday to cover Nokia's big news out of London. I have been pre-briefed by Nokia, so I'll be ready to hit the ground running. However, due to the holiday, my report won't be up until Friday afternoon - if I'm lucky.

9/24/08 - My G1 report is now up. The report follows most of the traditional template (a summary/industry impact section, perspective, pros, cons, and recommendations for Google/HTC/T-Mobile, its competitors, and end users), however I deviated a bit from the usual format in the main "perspective" analysis and split it into the following sections: Google’s Motivation, HTC's Hardware, T-Mobile's Need, How the G1 Compares to the BlackBerry, and How the G1 Compares to the iPhone.

9/23/08 - I was at the T-Mobile/HTC/Google G1 launch this morning; I'll have a full report up tomorrow including industry impact, pros, cons, and next steps for the triumvirate, its competitors, and end users.

New reports that were posted earlier include my take on SanDisk's slotMusic initiative, an Apple's "Let's Rock" and CTIA Wrap-Up report, and Show Updates on two announcements from CTIA: RIM's BlackBerry Pearl Flip and Nokia's Exchange on S60.

The updated Company Assessment on Sony Ericsson is now live; updated reports on Samsung and Motorola went live earlier in the month while I was on the road. I'm finishing up updates on two more (LG and Nokia) and then I'll start on all new reports on Apple, HTC, and Kyocera Sanyo in October and November.

Odds and ends:

	I've been testing new high end Bluetooth headsets from BlueAnt, Motorola, and Aliph (Jawbone); all are better than cheap headsets, but none are the holy grail for both caller clarity, listener clarity, and comfort.
	Logitech sent over Z-5 Omnidirectional notebook speakers. They're not going to put my Klipsch THX speakers of business, but given that they're powered entirely via USB and don't take up too much desk space, they play loud and sound extraordinary.
	Logitech also sent over triple.fi 10 pro's from their recent Ultimate Ears acquisition, and I had them on hand at the Apple event, where I pitted them up against Apple's upcoming $79 in-ear headphones. More on this topic at Home Theater View.

9/8/08 - I'll be at both Apple's event and CTIA this week; journalists looking for comments should give me a call at 703-788-3788 or email me at agreengart (at) currentanalysis (dot) com.