All Posts Tagged With: "handset"
Mobile phones are at the heart of the convergence of communications with multimedia applications like photos, music, GPS and gaming. Increasingly, consumers are buying devices that support multimedia creation and consumption, however many of these devices still seem to be compromises that don’t deliver outstanding functionality across all applications. They do some tasks very well [...]
Continue ReadingYou can’t be too careful.
And, er, since it’s electronic, it’s trackable. So let’s track it!
So goes the thinking behind the latest plans here in the UK to protect the nation.
If you buy a mobile phone on contract, your identity is already confirmed.
If you buy a mobile phone on PAYG — Pay As You Go [...]
I popped out the other night for 10 minutes.
Just 10 minutes. Popped to the shop to get some stuff then back again.
Didn’t take my phone. I was traveling light. Living for now. Frankly I couldn’t be arsed to stick the Nokia E90 into my jeans pocket.
On the way to [...]
We’ve got our hands on a fantastic handset to show you next week. Oh yes. It is definitely not what you are expecting.
That’s a close-up of the box.
If you’ve guessed the identity of the handset, don’t spoil it for the other readers as I’m sure it’s not on everyone’s lips at the moment.
All [...]
Another question, this time prompted by a story I read recently on CNET Australia.
The author of the story reckons that 16GB is far too much. ‘How,’ asks the author, ‘Are you supposed to fill up that space?’
‘I’m sceptical,’ the author continues, ‘That many people need a 16GB mini-SD card for their phone.’
Or a phone that [...]
ZTE Corporation, largely know for being one of the leading providers of telecommunication equipments all around the globe today unveiled the U990, the world’s first HSDPA TD-SCDMA mobile handset. Last week, the company was in the news for having sold 100 million handsets.Â
The U990, is the successor to the previous two TD-SCDMA handsets by ZTE, the U980 [...]
I am having a real problem using all my mobile phone accounts.
I’ve been giving a lot of thought, for example, to upgrading my 3 account with one of their funky E71s. Whilst Ben Smith didn’t rate it, James Whatley in today’s MIR Show was raving about it. I think it would be a [...]
The KC910 is heading this way very quickly. We’ll be there tomorrow night at the LG blogger launch. In fact we’re doing a lot of the filming for next week’s MIR show there.
If you remember at the last LG launch, I was a bit repetitive with the UK Marketing Director about their total [...]
Dan Pullen, our resident new student (lots coming from him over the next few days, by the way) has been peering closely at the Android launch and has this good summary to report:
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Yesterday T-Mobile, Google and HTC officially realised their first mobile device to hit the world market. The HTC Dream [...]
I had a note from Matthäus over at VentureBeat. He pointed me to a post they made yesterday regarding reports that Sprint is working on an Android phone.
Eric, the author, goes on to answer the ‘mass market’ issue we talked about yesterday. Our man at the Google Developer Conference wasn’t entirely sold on [...]
Almost as if the product pages were pushed out together, the official product page on HTC’s site for the upcoming HTC Touch 3G has been noticed by some keen readers right after the HTC Touch HD made its way into the public view.
According to the specifications listed on the site, the phone carries a 2.8″ [...]
Yes, it’s Official. Sony Ericsson has sent an official word out to the media that the most awaited phone from the company, the Xperia X1, will be made available in the countries of UK, Germany and Sweden starting September 30th, 2008. That’s just 20 days away.
Enough has already been speculated and said about the phone, [...]
Something strange is happening with me. It happened over the weekend.
I was in a Vodafone shop and … I don’t know what came over me. I headed over to the other side of the store where they had the ‘work’ phones and I started browsing the small handsets.
We’re doing a lot of [...]
After my call for questions for Mr Operator, I had one in today:
Question:
What does it take for a smaller handset manufacturer to get ‘into’ the operator stores? Aren’t consumers bored of Nokia or SonyEricsson (like you are Ewan)? Or is it all based on size and rebates and not on market innovation?
A bit of [...]
We’ve a guest post today from World of Nokia’s Dan Carter on the manufacturer’s newest additions coming soon — over to you Dan:
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First of all hello everyone from me on my first guest post and thanks to Ewan for the chance to post on the site I have been [...]
A little while ago I got a note from 3.
“Would you like to try out one of our new handsets?” asked the chap.
“Sure!” I said. I’m always interested to see what’s coming next.
The chap wouldn’t be drawn on the identity of the handset. Quite a good idea, if you want to [...]
So you’re in the business of making watches that people buy to make themselves look good, yes?
Your business has had it’s lunch eaten by the mobile phone industry — to the point that almost everyone uses their mobile to tell the time. I don’t bother with a watch for this reason.
What do you do?
Design [...]
Saw this on MoMoLondon and wondered what the answer was:
Does anyone know the approximate commercials around pre-pay retailer sales in the UK
market?
I’m not looking for detail, simply something on the lines of:
“retailer gets around x % of handset sale cost” etc.
Anyone know?
Many thanks
Paul
I’d like to know too.
Helen over at Wireless Disciples writes that our very own Prince Harry had his phone swiped in a South African nightclub by an enterprising youth.? Let’s move swiftly by? the, er, close-protection-officers who, one would assume, should be live to this kind of thing.? If you can steal Prince Harry’s mobile phone, you can, one [...]
Continue ReadingHeh, I got a good lot of hours worth of entertainment from Railroad Tycoon on my PC years ago. Now it turns out that, thanks to Oasys Mobile, you can get it on your mobile! Cool!
Oasys Mobile, Inc., a leading provider of premium mobile entertainment, announces the global launch of the mobile version [...]
Has anyone come across a really smart, comprehensive ‘SMS forwarding’ solution at all? Here’s what I’m looking for.
I’ve got quite a few different numbers. I maintain them for all sorts of reasons, primarily because it’s necessary for me to have an account on different networks for testing purposes.
People forget what my primary phone [...]
The folks over at LG must be popping a few champagne corks right now - according to analysts Gartner, LG phones are now more popular than their Sony Ericsson counterparts: in the analysts’ latest set of quarterly figures, LG has jumped ahead of Sony Ericsson for the first time to take the number four slot [...]
Continue ReadingMore doom and gloom from the handset people. After Nokia said it though the worldwide mobile phone market might shrink next year, Sony Ericsson has reported its profits have nosedived over the last quarter, its market share has dropped (enough to see it slip behind LG to number five in the biggest device makers) and [...]
Continue ReadingAnalysts Gartner have put out a advisory criticising the mobile industry for being too male-centric. According to Gartner, “Sixty-eight percent of the world’s population is women and children who could benefit much from mobile technology, but the majority of mobile devices are designed by men, for men,”, with most mobiles being targeted at western adult [...]
Continue ReadingThe zzzPhone: The first mass-consumer customisable mobile handset.
I can’t tell you how exciting it was, a few months ago, flicking through the zzzPhone order form and choosing the specification of my new handset. GPS or no? How much memory? Size of camera? Did you say 7 megapixel? [...]