Ben Wood is chief of research at CCS Insight, a technology consultancy specialising in mobile devices.
The uncertainty over the division is very damaging to the group, says Ben Wood at Gartner, a consultancy.
This may be just as well, in the view of Ben Wood of CCS Insight, a market-research firm.
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Teaming up with Microsoft would indeed have benefits, says Ben Wood of CCS Insight, another market research firm.
"These changes show that Tim Cook is stamping his authority on the business, " Ben Wood, analyst with CCS Insight, said.
The breakthrough is that operators are now talking about services, not technology, says Ben Wood, an analyst at Gartner, a consultancy.
If you think that, says Ben Wood, analyst at CCS insight, then you misunderstand what is going on in the mobile industry.
Ben Wood, a research analyst at CCS Insight said that on the face of it, this was positive for Nokia in isolation.
They want not an immersive experience, but a time filler, akin to doing a crossword, says Ben Wood of Gartner, a consultancy.
That might appear one unlikely new development, but the pattern of mobile phone growth has always bucked the prevailing trends, analyst Ben Wood said.
Ben Wood, senior analyst at the technology consultancy Gartner Group, says the mobile phone operators have a real opportunity to make their connection with the customer count.
Nokia really faces three distinct problems, argues Ben Wood of Gartner.
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Nokia also faces the task of getting the word out and convincing people to sign up, argues Ben Wood of CCS Insight, another market-research firm.
"The Note 8 marks Samsung's relentless charge to grab a slice of the tablet market from Apple, but also to defend itself from the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7, " Ben Wood, head of research at CCS Insight, told the BBC.
Third, it is unlikely that one firm will ever dominate the mobile industry as much as Microsoft did in PCs because the most powerful companies will do almost anything to keep this from happening, says Ben Wood of CCS Insight, another research firm.
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It is hard to analyse how the likes of Ben Youngs, Chris Ashton, Ben Foden, Alex Corbisiero, Matt Banahan and Tom Wood will cope with the occasion.
Liam Botham, son of England cricket legend Ian, will wear an England shirt for the first time and is joined by the uncapped centres Leon Lloyd and Ben Johnston, fly-half Ali Hepher, scrum-half Martyn Wood, flanker Paul Volley, lock Steve Borthwick and loosehead prop David Flatman.
Ben Westwood put Wolves back in front against their long-time bogey side, while Paul Wood and Brett Hodgson, who kicked five goals, added two more.
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