If you’re a happening mobile user about town, your handset stuffed with contacts, music and vaguely incriminating photos of Michelle from accounts, you’d natually be gutted if your phone got nicked and you lost it all. Mobyko is a new online service that promises to store your address book as well as all your images, [...]
80% of Brits embarrassed by their ringtone
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Leave a Comment
According to research out today, an astonishing 80 per cent of British mobile phone users are ashamed of their mobile’s ringtone. Okay, so it isn’t really that surprising – some of the ringtones we hear on the way into the office are truly appalling. Those people who are embarrassed about their ringtone may have good [...]
Yahoo! launches mobile bookmark service in Australia
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Leave a Comment
Yahoo! Australia has launched an interesting application for my fellow countrymen and women who aren’t lucky enough to have a service such as 3’s X-Series or T-Mobile’s Web’n’Walk. The basic idea behind the application is that you bookmark the websites via your Yahoo user account and then Yahoo will send those web pages via WAP. [...]
The first Apple iPhone?
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Leave a Comment
OK, so maybe not but this really is the first phone Apple filed a patent for and while it is unclear whether it was designed to be a mobile or a landline, we can’t deny how funny it would have been to see people talking into something so ridiculous as the Apple phone would have [...]
Enterprise Ireland relies on the luck of the Irish
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Leave a Comment
Mobile TV may be on the way for the Irish after Enterprise Ireland announced its intention to fund a test into the viability of the service. Mobile TV Pilot Network is a project being ran in conjunction with several other companies who have an interest in the sector. The test is specifically being designed to [...]
T-Mobile to make magazines go mobile?
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Leave a Comment
T-Mobile users will soon be able to read their favourite magazines via the company’s T-Zones service if reports from MediaBuyerPlanner are to believed. According to the news story, T-Mobile will be using MoMac’s GoMedia publishing platform.
Rumoured titles to be part of the initial line up include Vogue, FHM, Glamour, GQ, Heat, NME, and Nuts. MoMac [...]
Mobile games nothing more than a marketing tool – THQ
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Leave a Comment
James Scalpello, THQ Wireless’s marketing director, has gone on record with MobileIndustry.biz and stated that he believes that poor mobile versions of larger console games don’t damage the brand because consumers are “not stupid, they know it’s pretty much a different product.” Indeed he later on goes to claim that he sees mobile games as [...]
Casio W51CA
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2 Comments
While Japanese keitai (mobile) owners have been able to watch digital terrestrial TV via One-Seg since last April, only now are Japan’s phone makers and service providers really at ease with the service.
It shows in this, Casio’s W51CA for au KDDI, which enables viewers to access email and other applications while watching One-Seg broadcasts — [...]
Panasonic W51P
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1 Comment
Panasonic’s W51P is the first phone in five years that it has made for Japanese provider au KDDI. The W51P is “aimed at women in their 20s” and therefore features a “flowery motif” next to its sub-display and camera lens.
The main display is a pretty QVGA (240×400) TFT, although this model isn’t compatible with Japan’s [...]
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