Top people get it off their chests Consumers are more willing to dial a number with the keyboard than they are to do it with a touchscreen. Also, the point about a touchscreen is that it affects battery time. You need a powerful battery because to use the touchscreen means it remains on all the time Gilles Oriol, product marketing manager for Western Europe at Sony Ericsson, declining to comment about the iPhone
We love music, whether it’s launching new music
or new talent
John Penberthy-Smith, recently installed marketing director at 3, gets on message at the Music Week Awards

Becoming an equipment manufacturer is pretty far from our business model …On the other hand, we’re very interested in the platforms that other people are building. We are quite eager to be part of the mobile revolution
Google’s chief internet evangelist, Vinton Cerf