The Nokia N95, the first of its devices to truly be dubbed a multimedia computer, may be a link between the handset species and the tablet species, if new images surfacing of possible Nokia product...
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As I was walking through West LA the other day, an ad for the iconic Moto RAZR for $29.99 caught my eye. As I walked, I thought, "hang on, wasn't that a hugely expensive handset a year or two...
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Filed in archive Mobile Technologies
by on October 23, 2006
I encourage you to pop over to the MEX blog and read a recent entry by Marek Pawlowski on how value is slowly draining away from the operators and toward application and handset developers. He...
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Filed in archive Forecasts
by Scott on October 23, 2006
A billion of anything is a lot, but IDC thinks we need to make room for a billion additional mobiles in the near future. It predicts that the billion in question is the number of new handsets that...
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Filed in archive Concepts
by tom on October 23, 2006
There's a deep desire amongst some people for Apple to apply the magic dust they sprinkled on the iPod to a mobile phone - any mobile phone. Whilst there have been some not-quite-successful...
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Filed in archive Mobile Community
by tom on October 23, 2006
The Carnival of the Mobilists has reached it's 50th, returning home after wandering around the mobile blogosphere for the past long while.Welcome back to MobHappy for the jubilee 50th edition of...
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Filed in archive Fun
by tom on October 23, 2006
Vote for us! We're pretty! Well... perhaps the pretty part is stretching it a bit, but the big news is that we've been given the nod as one of the top 20 wireless industry blogs by...
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Filed in archive Design
by Scott on October 20, 2006
Not getting enough fashion-phone action? Well, if you like it acid-washed with a button fly, Levis's has something for you. The company is contracting with Modelabs of France to make Levi's...
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Filed in archive Mobile Culture
by Scott on October 16, 2006
As Darla Mack so kindly pointed to today, I am conducting some visual research into the different cultures of mobility around the world, and doing so using Flickr, as good a place as any to gather...
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Filed in archive Operators
by tom on October 16, 2006
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this potential news. According to a report posted on Cellular News today, analysts Merryl Lynch are speculating that Hutchison 3G may withdraw entirely from...
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Filed in archive Wireless Access
by Scott on October 13, 2006
I reported earlier that Boeing plans to pull the plug on its in-flight broadband service, Connexion. At the time, there were rumors of another provider taking over the service. This morning I got an...
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Filed in archive Mobile Society
by on October 12, 2006
Helen Keegan is hosting Carnival of the Mobilists No. 48 over at Musings of a Mobile Marketer. Yes, I know it's Thursday and this is late, but I just crawled out from under a rock otherwise known...
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Filed in archive Device Evolution
by tom on October 12, 2006
Yes, the headline is correct. Samsung have announced a mobile handset that includes a 10 megapixel camera. The camera also features 2x optical zoom alongside 5x digital zoom and bluetooth for direct...
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Filed in archive Concepts
by tom on October 10, 2006
Vodafone has revealed plans to open its own virtual island in the online virtual world of Second Life. This is certainly an interesting idea, as the ability to link in-game world communication with...
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by tom on October 10, 2006
I get the feeling that the future of mobile phones may well be full virtual, with touch-screens featuring heavily as opposed to physical buttons. Of course, with no mechanical parts, the phone...
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Filed in archive Device Evolution
by tom on October 05, 2006
Despite pulling out of Europe as a marketplace, BenQ-Siemens are still making handsets for the Asian market, leading me to seriously consider importing a handset to use, rather than settling for one...
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Filed in archive Mobile Technologies
by on October 05, 2006
M:Metrics has announced that the almost 30% of mobile subscribers responded to ads that included SMS shortcodes."These numbers are not unlike what we saw in e-mail response during the mid-1990s...
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Filed in archive Operators
by Scott on October 05, 2006
As many weepeing fans have noted, T-Mobile recently dropped their US spokeswoman, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. In a not wholly unrelated move (*chuckle*) the US operator is now about to move faster....
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by Scott on October 04, 2006
Over a year ago I proposed collecting EXIF data (the data on the type of camera, settings, etc, generated by digital cameras for each photo taken) from Flickr, the online image sharing service, as a...
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Filed in archive Mobile Content
by Scott on October 03, 2006
Intrepid researchers and those who just like to tear into shrinkwrap have found that Sling Media's new boxes may support both Symbian and Palm OSs in the near future. Sling, the provider of...
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Filed in archive Mobile Technologies
by on October 02, 2006
Carnival of the Mobilists is live at Communities Dominate Brands, Tomi Ahonen blog. Per Tomi's description of this week's winning entries, No 47 contains discussion of: "media,...
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Filed in archive VoIP
by Scott on October 01, 2006
Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype, has dashed mobile afficianados' hopes for Skype on a handset running something other than Windows Mobile in the near future, notably on the Symbian platform....
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