The Walt Disney Company, most well known for its Disney World theme parks and countless feature-length animated films, has officially launched a new mobile portal in the U.K. All of the available content is obviously linked to a Disney movie, but the Disney Arcade is a notable area of interest, with 60 free, ad-supported mobile [...]
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Ericsson Unveils Its Presence-Enhanced System, Says ‘Me Too!’
Closing out the Mobile World Congress, Ericsson has unveiled its Multimedia Communication Suite, which will be integrated into newer devices such as the W760. The suite is part of the address book and allows users to control the flow of information to friends, including presence with avatars, photos, and will even allow users to share [...]
T-Mobile U.S. Is A Hard ROKR
Motorola only recently announced the ROKR E8, an admittedly hot little candybar sporting a pathetic 2 megapixel camera, though also toting 2GB of internal memory and quad-band GSM. The cool part of the phone is the haptic touchpad that also changes keys depending on what menu is currently being used. Ewan was quite taken with [...]
Australia’s Telstra Gets The iMate Hookup
iMate just announced two hot devices at the Mobile World Congress, the 8502 and 9502 smartphones. One looks like a beefed up Sidekick and the other is the now-standard full QWERTY candybar form factor. Australia-based Telstra has announced an exclusive (for the continent) on both of these bad boys, and will also be the first [...]
W.A.S.P. Puts The Sting On Bicycle Thieves
The U.K. government has been backing more initiatives lately to encourage its population to adopt a more active lifestyle, with bicycles being touted as an excellent alternative to driving to work. However, according to Home Office statistics, nearly every minute, a bike is being stolen. Central London, Kingston-upon Thames, and Cambridge are the hotspots, too, [...]
Vodaphone Offering Self-Help On Your Handset
Here’s a cool idea, though I’m skeptical of how it might be implemented. IntoMobile is reporting that it looks like Vodaphone is going to be using SNAPin Software to setup self-help channels on subscriber’s handsets. Starting out with smartphones, the system will offer customer care and billing, but also step-by-step walkthroughs for things like using [...]
Google Updates Android SDK
After several companies showed off hardware running Google’s Android OS, the search giant has also gone ahead and updated the SDK. Changes include an updated UI and several smaller tweaks here and there. I’ve chatted with several people who were at the Mobile World Congress and had a bit of a play with the officially [...]
Light Is The Most Underused Feature On Mobile Phones
Why don’t mobile phone manufacturers use lighting for more things? A multicolored LED can’t cost that much more to implement, and could easily notify you of so many glanceable things: 1. When charging, why isn’t there a light *somewhere* on the phone that gradually changes color to let you know how full the battery is? [...]
Japanese Reeling in Fish On Their Mobiles
This is absurd, completely, but if you can look past it, there’s a killer idea here. First, let me lay this out for you. There’s a new fishing game going around western Japan that allows mobile phone gamers to boat around and catch fish. Sounds interesting, but what’s special? The fact that the developer has [...]
Why Nokia’s S60 Touch Demo Sucked
If you’ve not seen it, here’s the video on YouTube of Nokia’s S60 Touch UI, as demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress. Thus far, everyone I’ve read were appalled that it was so poorly demo’d. Personally, I’m more excited about S60 Touch now than I have been in the past. I’ve noticed four major complaints [...]
MMCast Optimizes Content Download Times With Ads
I think this is completely brilliant. MMCast, who specialise in delivering rich mobile content and targeted ads, have come up with a way to insert ads in the time between when a user clicks on mobile content, and the time which that content actually shows up. Also known as the ‘buffering’ time, this is the [...]
Is Video Better Locally Stored or Served From The Cloud?
With Orb running up to 5 million users, I wanted to give you an idea of why so many are starting to realize the value in media being served from the cloud, such as Orb does, versus locally stored data. I’ve been an Orb, er, member for a long time, but never quite got it [...]
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