With the market saying 'no' to Nokia's Ovi Store, what do you think can be done to change this?I’ve been talking to ShoZu and asked them to provide a list of the most popular handsets that they see using their service.
It’s been something that’s been nagging away in my mind. WHAT is the most popular handset?
What does the top-5 or top-10 look like?
I’m thinking, off the top of my head, that the Nokia N95 will be number one. Followed by an array of other Nokias and one or two Sony Ericssons. What d’ya reckon?
When I get the data back from ShoZu, I’ll post the results…
Popular USA mobile phone recycling company ReCellular has just made public their own stats and findings on their recycling of handsets, with some surprising occurrences.
They broke the list down in to 10 of the most frequently seen mobiles to pass through their doors, all to be reused, redistributed, repurposed, recycled. Basically all the best words beginning with ‘re’, in an effort to help the environment more and prevent a landfill full of iPhones.
Six million handsets will head to ReCellular over this year. Out of those figures Motorola heads the list with four models in the running, along with 80 percent of them all still in working order.
Coming in at number 2, 4, 5 and 8 are the Motorola phones RAZR V3, RAZR V3M, C139 and V551 respectively. With the middle two being the most current phones on the list that really only came out in 2006.
Four LG mobiles make the top 10 – VX4500, VX3200, VX5200 and VX3300. These are in positions 3, 6, 9 and 10. The first two came out in 2004 and the remaining 2005.
At number 7 is the Samsung A670, from 2004. Leaving the most popular handset that’s recycled with them, drum roll please, the Nokia 6010 from 2004.
All of which could be totalled up to be seen that the average usefulness of a phone is just four years, if we take these findings as anything to go by.
ReCellular has also made the prediction that in two years time we’re likely to see the iPhone or the Curve making the list. They also go on to say that from their findings the average American replaces their handsets every 18 months.
How many mobile phones have you gone through in that time, or even less?
We got to spend some time with LG and Prada, on the arrival of their new handset the LG Prada.
The press conference was an unusual one for us which threw us a bit, as there were no presentations, no speeches, no agenda, all very very unusual. It came off much like a round table debate than anything else, as for one we were all just sitting around on chairs in a hotel suite.
The two key people were introduced, Chang Ma the vice president of marketing strategy at LG’s mobile communications division and Matteo Sessa Vitali, the licensing director at Prada. Both of which represented their respective companies and could speak knowledgeably on their behalf.
We all expected for them to talk about the phone, its features, its abilities, what it can do, how it differs from the last handset, etc. Instead they just dove straight into the Q&A. All very strange and we weren’t sure what to do, apart from just go with the flow.
There are two ways to approach and act in a Q&A; either to ask all your questions or keep them until the end and get some face time or a briefing with the people there. There’s always a worry if you blurt out your questions, others can make note of the answers and you’ll lose your exclusivity over the points you raised.
Some of the more respectful titles out there will credit you if they use your question and answers. Therefore still giving you somewhat of a thanks which can also be found on the article is properly SEO’d. Most won’t though and therefore you hold your questions until later, when you can ask them in the privacy of a closed session. There were no one to one meetings, or scheduled private briefings after the Q&A.
As this hack has been burnt so many times, I just sat back and let the enjoyment begin on what will be the most unusual press briefing attended in a long long while.
Questions were answered and asked from the likes of CNET, TrustedReviews and Pocket-Lint with responses from the guys at LG and Prada. Often discussions opened up between journalists, which all seemed to bemuse the hosts as to why these were going on.
Points were made, journalists counter them amongst themselves, the hosts weren’t always sure whether to chip in or not. All in all it was confusing, bemusing and a tad unorthodox.
Not a great deal of information was passed along at the event, nothing really on the handset just all about the deal between them both and that’s that. Anything we really wanted to ask but were too afraid to was all left to us and our own deft investigations for later.
But we’re happy to have these little odd meetings, as it just makes life a lot more interesting.
