I had a look at the Samsung i8000 Omnia II last week. One of the chaps I was with was using it as his primary handset — and when he showed it to me, I was thoroughly, thoroughly impressed. Yes it’s running Windows Mobile (a constant irritation for me) but the fantastic 3.7″ AMOLED display, [...]
Archive | July, 2009
Mobile downloads will hit 20 billion per year by 2014
2014 is sufficiently far enough away for your average analyst to avoid being held to account. That said, I think the figure of 20 billion application downloads per year, per planet, should be pretty accurate. So Apple have done 1.5 billion in about a year, with, what… 40-odd million devices out there (including iPod Touch). [...]
Swap your old iPods and mobiles for tickets from Ticketmaster
I saw this and thought… nice. What’s the current mobile penetration rate in the UK? Something shocking. I reckon most adults in the country have got at least one, if not two or three old mobiles stuck in the sock drawer (or ‘Man drawer’, if you’re a Michael McIntyre fan). Why leave your old mobiles [...]
Verizon’s hosting a developer conference this month
If you’d like to get closer to one of the mobile behemoths of the United States, then I’ve got a piece of news for you. Verizon are hosting a developer conference this month in San Jose. It’s on the 28th of July at The Fairmont there. You should seriously consider going there if you’d like [...]
What’s the definition of a smartphone?
I was asked this question the other day: What’s the definition of a smartphone? I didn’t immediately have an answer. I had the answer in my mind… I could feel the neutrons firing but not giving a distinct summary sentence. Then I formulated this: A smartphone is a handset that enables you to manage your [...]
Accenture buys Nokia’s Symbian professional services unit
I was toying with the idea of making the headline for this post, ‘Accenture buys Nokia’s Symbian‘. It’d have certainly raised a few eyebrows, I reckon. As it happens, this news is reasonably eyebrown-raising itself. Accenture, the seriously expensive, seriously thorough, seriously serious consulting chaps, are getting into mobile. That, I think, is highly significant. [...]
ShoZu break their silence on Android support
After I published my post about ShoZu, Pixelpipe and Android last night, I dropped a note over to ShoZu‘s Jennifer Grenz and asked her if she could give me a response to my burning issue! Here we go… Ewan: ShoZu’s absence from the Android platform has been really frustrating me; when will ShoZu be available [...]
Pixelpipe joins ShoZu as paid-for service
After the vehement discussions I’ve been hearing from quite a few corners of the internet regarding ShoZu‘s decision to introduce a paid-for application (£2.99 in the Apple App Store), I just noticed that Pixelpipe their apparent competitor on the Android platform, has started charging too ($1.99). I was actually searching for a Twitter client on [...]
SocialScope sets Mobilebeat conference alive
Amit of SocialScope got up on stage in the afternoon at the Mobilebeat conference to pitch his application, described as ‘a mobile inbox for your social networks’. The main concept being that you can easily interact across Facebook and Twitter. He showed one or two screenshots and — as one, 300 people in the auditorium [...]
Touchnote win ‘best mobile service’ at MobileBeat
Congratulations are in order for the Touchnote team. The company’s co-founder, Raam Thakrar delivered a solid and direct 2-minute pitch along side 6 other contenders. Raam was presenting Touchnote Mobile — which, in brief — allows consumers to send photographs from their handsets as physical (and beautiful looking) postcard/greetings cards in the mail. Raam focused [...]
What happened to the good old days of buying a mobile phone? (Or, why I’ve stopped being a Nokia customer)
I remember when I was about 17 walking into Comet with my Mum and Dad and picking up one of the first Orange pay as you go handsets, walk up to the counter, pay for it with some credit for calls/texts then walk out. Job done! Roll on 12 months and it was simply I [...]
O2 launch ‘O2 Money’ pre-paid credit cards
Interesting news on O2′s launch of their pre-paid credit cards. They are launching 2 Visa cards in mid August one called the ‘Cash Manager’ and the other ‘Load and Go”. The o2 money site says: “O2 is all about finding the best ways of connecting you to your world. And we know that you’d appreciate [...]
- The merry-go-round continues: We’ll all buy buying an iPad 3, right?
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Use your iPhone to pay for your Starbucks in the UK
- Will ‘superphones’ be the mobile trend of the year?
- Am I the only person in the UK that would pay a concierge fee to an operator?
- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
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