Archive for May, 2008
This week I looked again at Nokia’s (newly out of beta) Maps 2.0 coupled with a GPS-capable handset.
Continue ReadingHere’s a video I knocked up with the Flip I’ve been using — it’s me and Patrick Smith from SonusPR going for a smoothie in Soho. Hold on to your seats. The excitement might be too shocking…
Continue ReadingThe LG Secret launches today on Vodafone. With MusicStation. Nice.
Continue ReadingThe chaps at Hop-On have launched their $10 Anti-iPhone GSM handset.
First off, this is a cheap-as-chips handset. A disposable GSM phone. But it works. 4 hours talk time, 150 hours standby, dual band and it weighs 77 grams. No display.
An iPhone, it ain’t.
But that’s the point, explains Hop-On CEO Peter Michaels, [...]
This looks like a genius piece of technology — see the video below!
Continue ReadingThis is really smart. TxtAHouse are taking the mobile enablement of real estate to another level — by offering both video and pictures of houses for sale, to view on your mobile. You simply text the shortcode with the property’s unique code and you’re sent to the relevant TextAHouse mobile website. Smart. [...]
Continue ReadingEye-opening stats… it seems the Americans are running away with mobile internet usage whilst Europe is sitting staring at the wall!
Link: PC World - Business Center: Craigslist Tops U.S. Mobile Browsing
U.S. users spent about 1 hour, 39 minutes per month on Craigslist, M:Metrics said. The site has two big factors in its favor as [...]
There’s an interesting piece today in Total Telecom about Microsoft’s perspective on the mobile device industry, RIM, iPhone and Nokia. If this is your bag, take a look… (And standby for the next version of Windows Mobile — it’s finally getting *there*)
“It would be nice to have Nokia… Nokia is a very powerful [...]
The Manila Standard Today reports that the Philippines Government is mulling the concept of demanding operators provide texting for free. Heh. Cat, Pigeons.
Have a read:
ISLAND—The government wants cell phone companies, which move 1.39 billion messages a day, to offer texting for free.
“We are studying this now,” Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza said. “Carriers should only [...]
Remember Jote from mobile services innovator, Anam? I met him back at CTIA to catch up and he mentioned that they were working on a big new client but he couldn’t say anything about it. Turns out it’s Telenor — one of the fastest growing mobile operators on the planet with 143 million [...]
Continue ReadingIf you think America’s a big mobile market, you’re wrong. Way wrong. Look east, mah boy, look east.
Cellular News reports that China’s mobile phone users now number around 583.5 million — adding another 8.9m subscribers in the month of April. Growth did actually slow — with net additions at 9.4m, but.. come on, [...]
For those keen to listen to the podcast live and unedited — before Ben does his smart editing to, er, remove, er, the… er… spaces and, errrrrr, unnecessary pauses — then get subscribed to the SMS Text News Twitter feed — we’ll announce it there first.
Lots of questions to get through. If you’d like [...]
In the US and want free minutes? Time to install a new Facebook application. It’s called Fund My Phone and it’s part of Virgin Mobile USA’s Sugar Mama service, which lets customers rack up free minutes, usually by sitting through advertising.
Fund My Phone works slightly differently: it gives you free minutes if you encourage [...]
Nokia’s Ovi platform has wooed another operator: Orange announced yesterday that it’s struck a new three-year strategic agreement with the handset maker that will see Orange run ten Nokia handsets as part of its Signature range as well as selling Ovi services.
The ten Signature handsets will give users access to the Orange Music Store, both [...]
Femotcells have been given another boost this week with the news that mobile chipmaker and IP giant Qualcomm has decided to invest an undisclosed sum in UK femotcell maker ip.access. It’s not the first to take such a step - T-Mobile put its money into fellow femtocell company Ubiquisys earlier this year, joining Google in [...]
Continue ReadingTo go along with Ewan’s post earlier tonight…I got this email.
(PC Mobile is our equivalent of Tesco Mobile)
Top of the line once again. I just can’t contain my excitement.
Continue ReadingJust got a welcome email from Gabe, founder of Rmbrme. I’ve signed up. I like the concept — but it’s American, so I can’t *actually* use it yet here in the UK. Do check it out!
rmbrME is ‘Social Networking for Real Life’ - it lets you send a digital “business card” using [...]
On the face of it, this looks like a rather nifty offer…
Link: ‘Free’ laptops the latest 3G lure | Australian IT
FIRST it was mobiles for nothing, now it’s laptops for free, as telcos try to lure customers into their often-expensive 3G mobile data plans.
Telstra is offering a zero-dollar laptop to the value of $700 to [...]
So, the Guardian carries a rather positive viewpoint about Orange and Nokia getting into bed to do ’services’ together. One click access. 10 different phones. Blah-bloody-blah.
Here are the first two opening paras:
Orange has signed a three-year deal with Nokia to bring the Finnish phone maker’s mobile maps and games services to its [...]
When the movie and television industry actually shines the light of attention on the ‘third screen’ — properly — it will be fascinating to watch what happens.
It’s been a ridiculous notion — mobisodes are Class-A-Rubbish on your average American mobile handset (RAZR, LG etc). But rather sexy on an iPhone.
As technology improves and as [...]
CNN reports that the FCC in the States is not happy with the ridiculous mobile contract cancellation fees. Good news.
Americans who want to bail out of their mobile phone contracts could be getting a break from those sky-high cancellation fees.
The Associated Press has learned that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is quietly negotiating [...]
Heh. You’re not avoiding them. You’re making’em. Big, big, big time. We’re living through the mistakes right now.
Actually, this article is focusing more on mobile advertising and it’s certainly the right question for the ad industry to be asking.
If you’re into mobile advertising, have a read of this. Unfortunately there’s [...]
I stuck a question mark on the end of that headline because… well… you never know. Gizmodo is reporting that date as confirmed. So I’d say it’s quite possibly, probably, happening. Right on.
3G iPhone Launch ‘Confirmed’ For June 9 - Mobile Blog - InformationWeek
Gizmodo is reporting that inside sources have confirmed that the [...]
Very perceptive this.
Link: Wireless industry going through its AOL phase | One More Thing - CNET News.com
It’s the mid-1990s for the mobile industry: lots of walled gardens, lots of fragmentation, and lots of promise.
The iPhone is leading the way.
It won’t take much for this mobile industry to catch a different wave and before we know [...]
No joke. Not in production yet though…
Link: Longest Mobile Phone Ever » Coolest Gadgets
A small OLED on the device displays all of the basic information, such as time, date, and missed calls, while the extra large display on top is where all of the finger magic happens. When you compare the size of the [...]
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