Filed in archive Device Evolution
by tom on January 28, 2007
Japanese carrier Softbank has announced a range of new phones, and the one that stands out is the 812SH Pantone series by Sharp, if only because it comes in colours other than Black, Silver or Grey...
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Filed in archive News
by tom on January 28, 2007
Venture Capital firm 3i has decided to withdraw from its investments in the mobile space.Ian Lobley, a senior partner at 3i, told AC Euro that its ivestments in mobile sector have been broad, and not...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on January 28, 2007
Video service YouTube has blocked the company TinyTube from re-encoding videos uploaded to the video sharing site so they can be viewed on mobile handsets. The block comes, conicidentally, after...
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The Mobile Data Association has announced that with the number of SMS messages sent topping 4 billion in December, the UK has seen more than 41.8 billion SMS messages sent during the...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by tom on January 23, 2007
Universal Music has done a deal with Groove Mobile to build an 'off-portal' music store for the publisher. The deal will let UK mobile users purchase and download full music tracks from...
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Filed in archive Blogging
by tom on January 23, 2007
Carnival of the Mobilists number 59 is now available at . The posts this week cover a WIDE range of topics, with of course a vast amount of discussion about the iPhone.......
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Don't worry, little mowbli. Britain's Carphone Warehouse has dropped its sponsorship of reality show Celebriry Big Brother after this week's flair-up of alleged racism shown by housemates...
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Filed in archive New Launches
by Scott on January 18, 2007
So the iPhone has a touch-screen interface, and is sleek and sexy, but it isn't out until later this year. So, what to buy the person in your life who needs a little *zhuzh* in the mobile...
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Filed in archive Design
by tom on January 15, 2007
Akhibara News has posted some pictures of a new handset from Pantech specifically for the Korean mobile operator Sky. The UM-I170 looks incredibly swish, and despite being a flip phone (a style...
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OK, everyone has had a full night's sleep, put on clean underpants, and had several looks at the various iPhone porn posted online (for non-native English speakers, by this I mean the flood of...
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According to livebloggers on the scene, Steve Jobs has just announced the advent of the iPhone after all, at Macworld this morning in San Francisco. More details as they come in, but it looks like a...
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MacWorld starts in San Francisco Monday and was the case with every official Apple product intro event for the past year or more, the iPhone rumor kettle is about to boil off the stove. some days I...
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Filed in archive Forecasts
by tom on January 03, 2007
PocketGamer (via Moconews) have compiled a list of the top 10 reasons why 2007 will be the year for mobile games. Reading through the list throws up some interesting points: 1: Advertising Supported...
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Filed in archive Forecasts
by Scott on January 02, 2007
I have trawled a lot of forecasts in the past week or two and have seen a lot of similar predictions for mobile markets in the new year, but one that struck me as interesting was this one about how......
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