Innovation’s what you need, if you want to be a smartphone player

Telecoms.com periodically invites third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Biju Nair, CEO at HYLA Mobile, looks at the current smartphone market and urges OEMs to keep innovating to prevent stagnation, and maintain the current commercial momentum behind pre-owned devices. Industry analysts CCS Insight, very recently gave a global summary of the smartphone market. It made my heart sink. Not least because it revealed what we all feare