For years now I have been saying how all things will become mobile in one way or another, and last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas clearly showed this to be well underway. A very large proportion of those exhibiting or attending were launching mobile initiatives or devices, using mobile operating systems or user [...]
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Back in the day web pages were displayed one at a time after a long loading process. The advent of Flash allowed websites to become live and interactive. Flash enabled animation, motion and video dramatically improving the user experience. Then internet enabled mobile devices exploded in use and issues arose with the poor user experience [...]
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…what the mobile industry can learn from car manufacturers With the coming of quad core CPUs in mobile phones in 2012, are the manufacturers focusing on the right fight or are they in a spiralling battle over engine size? Adam Bunker, over at Electricpig recently wrote an interesting article about this new wave of ever [...]
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It’s been a busy week in mobile, with Samsung and Google announcing the Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), the latest iPhone 5 speculation (did Steve design it?) and rumours of Sony looking to acquire the mobile handset business from Ericsson along with their long overdue announcement to focus entirely on smartphones, I [...]
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Just when you thought that the dominance of the App Store had relegated carriers to little more than a marketing channel for Apple devices, and that SMS as a charging model for wallpapers and ringtones had been regulated into oblivion, carrier billing is on the rebound. Variously dismissed as irrelevant, inconsistent, restrictive, expensive, risky, over-regulated [...]
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This is exactly what the guys at RTL TV in Germany have done, with the creation of their hybrid iPhone application, launched last week. The application, developed by Netbiscuits, is a combination of web site and app that uses the latest HTML5 technologies, as well as the native functions of the device – you can [...]
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It never ceases to amaze me how Nokia excel at providing disappointing user experiences. They clearly don’t do it to irritate their customers on purpose so I have to assume they are just lazy or inept. I received an “Ovi Store Weekly” email today and had a quick look at the apps they are promoting. Usually [...]
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A senior Nokia executive at a recent Mobile 2.0 conference told me that some of their biggest mobile operator customers were concerned that the newest Nokia phones (N97, 5800) will switch automatically to WiFi if they detect a network. Some operators like the idea of users on “all you can eat” mobile web tariffs using [...]
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Some big companies really miss the point of mobile. I often travel to London and one of the simple pleasures on the return train journey is a cup of coffee, a Kit Kat and a seat. (I’m easy to please :-) So I was doubly excited to see the “Win Twenty Quid” offer on the [...]
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