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CONTENTS 05 EXERTIS COMMENT Simon Woodman introduces the autumn edition of Future Mobile

06 NEWS IN BRIEF

20 HAS APPLE LOST ITS SPARKLE? Which competitor has been taking a bite out of Apple

A quick look at what’s happening in the technology market

08 MARKET STATS UPDATE We look at the current technology trends you should be aware of

29 NEW LINX LAUNCHES

12 IT'S TIME FOR VIRTUAL REALITY

PC or smartphone, now’s the time to experience the reality of VR

Introducing two new Linx tablets and the all-in-one display station

31 HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF MOBILE MARKETING: FOLLOW THE TRENDS

16 HAS THE SMARTPHONE JUST BECOME A SMART DEVICE?

Spotlight on video advertising and social e-commerces

How the smartphone has changed our modus of communication

34 MUST HAVE ACCESSORIES 24 HOT PICKS A range of best-selling products designed to make you more margin

23 TARGUS USB-C IS SET TO TAKE OFF Take a look at how the launch of VR can increase your margins

Our top 10 recommended accessory products for business

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WELCOME FROM EXERTIS Welcome to the latest edition of Future Mobile.

September and October always provide us with new product launches, and this year is no exception, with the launch of the Apple iPhone 7. Will this revive Apple’s fortunes or has it lost some of its sparkle? We discuss this in our article on page 20. Of course, the recent VR launches wouldn't have gone unnoticed, and on page 12 we take a look at their likely impact and the smartphone alternatives. In addition, Exertis has some significant product announcements of its own. You can read about the new 8” and 10” Linx tablets and the unique display station that transforms the tablet into a workstation, gaming machine or media hub. The choice is yours.

It wasn’t that long ago that we bought a mobile phone primarily to make telephone calls. The smartphone has certainly changed the way we communicate and we discuss this in our article on page 16 which looks at the many ways we choose to engage with one another brought about by social media platforms.

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Not surprisingly, video content is being widely used to attract consumer interest as it adds excitement and education, leading to increased product sales.

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It is expected that customers will be able to experience the VR in store before making a purchase.

So what do you get for spending that kind of money? Besides the headset itself which has built-in headphones and microphone, it

comes with a sensor, an Xbox One controller for playing games and a remote, designed specifically for VR use to make controls easier without being able to see what’s being pressed. It can also be used to access the Oculus store. Oculus will also have its own controllers - Oculus Touch - later this year which many believe will make the VR gaming experience even more exhilarating.

Of course, to experience VR you need some software. A library of games already exists in the store but to get you started Lucky’s Tale comes free with the Oculus Rift. It’s expected that over 100 titles will be available by the end of the year including Minecraft.

Reviewers have noted that people react differently to an immersive VR experience and an “intensity rating” in the Oculus store for game titles denotes how comfortable an experience that is likely to be.

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Indeed the Samsung Gear VR, which works with a Samsung Galaxy S6 or better, has proved to be popular selling over 100m devices, providing VR at a much more affordable price, at just £80.

It also boasts a growing library of content. Naturally, there are compromises, with Graphics quality versus price, but it’s a great entry point into VR nevertheless.

Professional Services Public Retail Sector Security Accessories Audio Revenue / Finance (VAD) As 2016 is expected to be the year of VR, other so called gateway products have entered the market. Market analysts predict highend VR headsets like Oculus and Hive to sell around 1.7m units in the next year, with lower budget variants expected to top 10m.

There's a good selection of these to choose from now, using your smartphone's hardware and display tech to provide the engine and visuals. LG launched its LG 360 VR, a friend of the LG smartphone some time ago and Zeiss, one of the most respected brands in the fields of optics, recently launched its Zeiss One VR. VR headsets that hold your smartphone don’t tend to have their own onboard sensors like the Samsung Gear VR, instead they rely on the processors and motion sensors of the smartphone, so the better your smartphone, the better your experience. Having QHD or perhaps a 4k display is a plus. There are lots of downloadable 3D experiences available from the app stores.

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Built for business With robust built-in security features and one-click Office 365 set up, the Lumia 650 with Windows 10 and a Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processor works seamlessly with your company’s Microsoft IT platforms. So whether you’re choosing a phone for work or managing an IT department, you get full integration with the Microsoft apps and services that keep you productive, connected and ready for anything2.

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DEVICES? TECHNOLOGY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REVOLUTION IN COMMUNICATION Around 32m smartphones are purchased in the UK every year. Collectively we look at our smartphones over a billion times a day, taking every opportunity to use them from the moment we wake up until we go to bed. Those aged 18 -24 years are the most obsessive, with almost half of them checking their smartphone within 15 minutes of waking up, over 80% using them on public transport and almost half checking their phone unprompted to see if any new messages or updates have occurred or simply to find out some information. Of course, these acts aren’t just confined to that age group, with well over 75% of UK adults owning a smartphone, but certainly they are indicative of how it has become the key personal device of today, overtaking the PC, particularly for those born in the millennials.

Staggering as those statistics from a Deloitte report may be, they really illustrate how technology continues to change how we communicate.

Today, the evolution of communication methods is accelerating at a never-before-seen pace. Clearly, we live in an era where huge changes take place from one generation to the next. We often forget the fact that we use communication methods our grandparents and parents didn't have, take for granted the ones we use today and imagine that inevitably our children will use ones that don't yet exist. Certainly, writing a letter, sending a fax or using a pager are fading into extinction and that’s in less than a generation.

ARE WE LOSING OUR VOICE? However, it seems somewhat surreal to believe that the traditional phone call may well be the next endangered species in terms of communication. Yet Deloitte predicts that 25% of people using smartphones will have stopped making phone calls by the end of 2016 and they aren’t alone in that belief. Not surprisingly, the demographic with the largest proportion of almost data-exclusivity are 18-24 year olds with 29% not making voice calls on a weekly basis according to the analyst. So maybe the smartphone will become a misnomer in future and perhaps be just a smart device. Seems strange that in a relatively short period of just 15 years, the main reason to buy a mobile phone isn’t to make calls.

Clearly things have changed and that change is down to the increasing number of ways communication can take place: e-mails, text messages, instant messaging and social media apps. For those of you who like stats, here are some amazing numbers according to DMR and statista: 1bn people use WhatsApp, 70% use it daily sending 42bn messages; there are 1bn Facebook Messenger users and 313m monthly active Twitter users. These numbers, which continually seem to grow, illustrate the point. It may seem an obvious observation, but a key catalyst for the fall in the proportion of people making fewer voice calls using their smartphone has been the proliferation in options to communicate without speaking, and the fact that an immediate response isn’t always required. Indeed, these communication tools offer the opportunity to communicate one to many, at the same time,

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Deloitte believes that two technologies, Wi-Fi calling and VoLTE (a service specifically for LTE (4G) networks will continue to fuel the move away from traditional calling. With Wi-Fi calling, you don’t need to fire up an app or connect to a service. It can be set as the default method for calling from your smartphone but the call is carried over the Wi-Fi network and uses your existing phone book. The network operator is able to manage elements of the call resulting in superior call quality than VoIP. VoLTE on the other hand promises better voice call quality, fewer dropped calls, faster call connection, the ability to switch from a voice call to a video call and the ability to maintain data connection whilst being on a call. SNS Research forecasts that VoLTE capable smartphones will grow at a CAGR of 33% between 2015 and 2020, accounting for over 950m unit shipments by the end of 2020.

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Of course, voice calls will always be vital in cases of emergency and when an instant response is needed so they won’t disappear entirely.

In reality, many spoken conversations have simply migrated to apps and other forms of operator-managed voice services. The transition of voice calls carried out over a dedicated part of the mobile network to using Wi-Fi and the data network has escalated since Facebook launched Messenger in 2014 adding VoIP video and voice calling to the IM app, quickly followed by WhatsApp mobile VoIP just over a year ago. Indeed millions of users around the world have been subscribing to one or many of the over-the-top (OTT) companies offering mobile VoIP apps and services. Juniper Research believe that the total number of mobile VoIP users is expected to be 1bn by the year 2017. Deloitte reported a surge in VoIP usage in the UK, particularly amongst younger age groups, with 14% of smartphone users using VOIP services in 2015, up from 5% the previous year. That trend has likely continued as consumers take advantage of “free calls”. As Wi-Fi bandwidth improves in the home, then the quality of the call becomes greater and the call is less likely to be dropped caused by someone else on the network.

Quality of calls is of course more vital for business than the consumer, particularly the younger generation that in reality are communicating more often just differently. Talk time doesn’t relate to an actual twoway verbal communication.

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As with IoT devices, consumers will use innovations that add convenience to their lives and the ability to talk whilst showing and sharing a problem with a maintenance engineer, for example, has clear benefits for both the caller and the recipient. Maybe the original intention of the smartphone was to combine voice and data communications on one device and for some that may have changed.

The smartphone has become more capable with bigger screens, faster connectivity, better graphics, improved cameras and more powerful processors. It has been described by Deloitte as the most successful CE device ever, globally outselling all tablets, PCs, televisions and video game consoles combined in terms of value and units. Whilst traditional phone calls may be a thing of the past on the smartphone, communication has just moved to a more affordable platform but using the same device.

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More interestingly and perhaps more pertinent is that the analyst pointed out that Apple had now had three consecutive quarters of slowing demand with sales declining by 7.7%. The chart to the left also shows that Samsung, Huawei and Oppo had all increased their share year on year.

MUCH WILL DEPEND ON REACTION TO THE IPHONE 7 However, product launches clearly have an impact on unit sales and sales of Apple’s iPhone 6 were buoyant in 2015. Samsung has had the upper hand this year with its successful Galaxy 7 launch.

The question is whether the launch of Apple’s iPhone 7 will enable it to return to growth. Many observers believe that there may not be enough new features to stimulate huge interest apart from die-hard iPhone users who want the latest product. Certainly, The Samsung Galaxy 7 is a hard act to follow with many industry reviewers claiming it to be the best smartphone ever. Comparing the Samsung Galaxy 7 to the recent iPhone 7, may not seem fair but verdicts have seemed to favour the Samsung device in terms of processing power, memory, camera, display and battery life. Bringing back some fan favourite features to the new model, such as water resistance and a slot for a MicroSD card to expand memory, also helped. However, Apple users are traditionally loyal so moving them away from a familiar ecosystem is no easy task.

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Although Gartner shows that the smartphone market as a whole was up by 4.3%, over the same period in 2015, with over 344m units shipped, the sales of feature phones declined by 14%. Emerging markets tend to hide what is a static market elsewhere. In the second quarter of this year, Samsung had almost 10% more market share than Apple whose sales declined in its biggest market, North America, as well as Western Europe and more markedly in Greater China and mature Asia Pacific regions reported Gartner. However, it managed significant growth in Euroasia, parts of Africa and Eastern Europe. Both brands remain hot favourites in the UK where they each have a 36% share of sales according to the Kantar World Panel with both accounting for 3 out of every 4 phones sold. Gartner research director Anshul Gupta believes that despite the launch of the iPhone 7 “…it will be difficult to recreate the interest it (Apple) generated with the iPhone 6”. Of course that remains to be seen yet Samsung has also enhanced its eco-system making some successful inroads into the virtual reality market when it launched its Gear VR last year which works with Galaxy smartphones and has already passed the 1m sales mark.

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Of course there is history between Samsung and Apple with some of the rivalry spilling over into the courts relating to various alleged infringements in design, features and technology. They are clearly the main competitors to each other in the mobile market and Samsung remains the biggest threat in terms of operating system with Android to Apple’s proprietary iOS. However, respected consumer analysts Kantar World Panel believe that we should be concerned about other rivals and not just the battle between Samsung and Apple. Anyone still focusing on these two giant competitors, however, is missing the bigger picture. With Huawei aiming to overtake Apple as the second-largest smartphone vendor by 2020, and rumours swirling about Google entering the handset market on its own, Apple and Samsung should stop worrying so much about each other and take a look around them. In the three months ending May 2016, Samsung accounted for 37% of smartphone sales and Apple 29%. However, sales of their respective flagship models reveal a much closer competition, with the Galaxy S7/S7 Edge accounting for 16% of sales and the iPhone 6s/6s Plus at 14.6%.

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As with Apple Pay, Samsung Pay works by storing a digital copy of your credit or debit card on your phone. It doesn’t store the actual credit card details, but a secure unique digital token. Payments can be made at shops and other outlets simply by swiping up from the bottom of the screen to launch the app, authenticating with a fingerprint, and holding the phone near the payment point.

Competition is fierce in this new market with Android Pay also on the scene but it highlights the continued rivalry between the technology giants and their growing eco-systems. Opinions differ on who might eventually turn out to be the winner: ZDnet believes “Mobile users seeking the most innovative spectrum of products that all work together at a lower price need to look to Samsung”.

At the end of the day, if the technology remains similar, it will be down to personal preference but by the time this goes to print we may know a little more about whether Apple has indeed lost some of its sparkle.

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Any new standard takes time to mature but USB-C ports have been appearing in new devices from Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Google and Samsung. That trend is going to continue. So what are the key benefits? The most obvious feature is that the cable is reversible. You no longer need to get the plug or the cable the right way around. USB-C can deliver power, data and video through a single port so using the right adapters it can replace Displayport, HDMI, USB and VGA connections. But it’s the fact that USB-C can support the latest USB 3.1 data transfer and charging speeds that really stands out. USB 3.1 can deliver up to 100W at 20V enabling you to power a huge range of devices from phones and tablets to 4k monitors and printers. It’s also super speedy with data transfer rates of up to 10Gps meaning a 2GB video could take as little as 1 second to transfer.

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Some cables and adapters on the market don’t meet the power delivery specifications set by the “USB Implementors Forum”, a body of well-known IT brands, meaning they aren’t certified. USB-C cables lacking the necessary circuitry and USB power delivery compliance can’t handle electric currents correctly - not only will they damage your device but they can also lead to serious accidents. A suspiciously cheap or unknown brand should be avoided.

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HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF MOBILE MARKETING: FOLLOW THE TRENDS Some trends can’t be ignored if companies want to make the most of mobile marketing. Let’s start with a few well-documented statistics. Last year comScore, an American global media measurement and analytics company, reported that, for the first time, the number of mobile users exceeded the number of desktop users.

Ofcom also reported last year that, for the first time, smartphones were the most popular device for getting online in the UK and KPCB, in their internet trends report, showed that in the US, adults were increasingly spending more time on the internet via their phones at the expense of other devices.

VIDEO ADS IN THE SPOTLIGHT In a previous issue of sister publication, Future Business, we talked about the importance of video in content marketing. Well mobile video is already beyond a trend, thanks to the user increase in 4G, and mobile advertising has mushroomed as a result. This growing trend has been due in part to Facebook enabling autoplay video ads in Newsfeeds and according to Mashable this is about to go one step further by automatically enabling sound. According to a recent survey by Trusted Media Brands, video ad responses have been overwhelming in helping to increase brand awareness and importantly lead generation. Native advertising, which although labelled as “sponsored” or “promoted” has the advantage of not looking like an ad, matching the look and feel of the platform in which it resides and therefore more likely to be read or watched, has been estimated to quadruple in size reaching over $20 billion by 2018. Increases in click through rates are also reported with native ads having the advantage of not being bypassed by ad blockers.

A great example below of a native ad promoting the use of video was posted in a recent Instapage blog.

RISE OF SOCIAL COMMERCE Another trend that is clearly emerging is something termed social commerce. This is coming from two different sources. E-tailers looking to add social features to their e-commerce sites and social media platforms looking to add an e-commerce feature. Business Insider reported on how Taobao, from Alibaba, had added social features within its e-commerce app in order to motivate consumers to visit the app more frequently and for longer periods of time with the objective of converting more visits into sales. It claimed that as a result, it had visitors staying longer, and more frequent visits per day than Amazon with a 39% YOY increase in monthly active users in Q2 2016 and mobile revenue growing to $2.6 billion.

At the same time, social media sites like Facebook have begun to invest in promoting social commerce on their platforms and it seems that shoppers are looking to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter to make an online purchase. Last October, Facebook enabled visitors to buy items from their platform instead of having to be redirected to a retailer’s site. Shop now and buy buttons are appearing. This must be good news for brands as loyalty analytics company Aimia, stated that more than half of consumers who follow brands on social media sites do so to view products. Nearly a third of online shoppers (31%) say they use these channels to browse for new items. Facebook (26%) is the most popular followed by Instagram (8%) and Pinterest (6%) according to the research. Purchasing is the next logical step and the same research indicated that Facebook at 19% is the most popular site for direct purchasing, followed by Twitter (10%). However, Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat followers are also in the spotlight. Already, there is Instagram’s “Shop Now” and Pinterest’s “Buyable Pins”. It seems inevitable that social media and e-commerce will become more integrated enabling browsers to become purchasers more easily. Social commerce looks like being the fastest growing trend in 2016 and that promises to be a significant opportunity for mobile marketing.

Sources and acknowledgements: Instapage, Thinking aloud, Business Intelligence, Marketing week, Visual CapitalistForget

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