That’s what the analysts say, anyway. Juniper Research has predicted that us mucky mobile users will spend $1.4 billion on mobile adult content this year, with a stiff sharp rise to $3.3 billion by 2011. And it’s us Europeans who are consuming the most top-shelf content on our phones right now.
Juniper’s Bruce Gibson says it’s not being used how you think, though. “Mobile is about fun and instant gratification,” he says. “I think the biggest opportunity is at the casual and softer end of the adult market, such as lads in pubs sharing a video clip after a few pints.”
Insert your own ’softer end after a few pints’ joke here, etc etc…
First Apple was at it, now Sony Ericsson has opened its own store in London. It’s on Kensington High Street, and has over 3,500 square feet of mobile goodness, including a central bar (no, not that kind) that runs the length of the shop, letting you try out all of Sony Ericsson’s handsets.
The staff have been trained to help you get to grips with everything, and you can buy stuff too. Well, that is the idea, obviously. More shops are apparently on the way elsewhere in the UK too.
(Via Tech Digest)
So far, Crazy Frog is the only ringtone that’s become an actual record. Thankfully, Levi’s have come up with a more credible rival. Habibur Rohman’s ‘Open Your Soul’ ringtone was created using Levi’s’ MAX mobile application, and when it won a competition run by the jeans firm, was then remixed by top dance bods Atlantic Conveyor. The remix has been doing the rounds as a white label, and was released last week as a digital download. And not a Ding Ding in sight! If you have iTunes, click on the link below to check it out.
(Open Your Soul)
That’s the question being posed by The Register today, which says you’ll break the law if you plug your X-Series phone into the mains at an address and use its SlingPlayer Mobile to watch your home TV, if that address doesn’t have a TV licence. And what’s more, slinging TV from your Sky set-top box to your phone may be illegal, full stop.
Their story has the full details. I’m not sure how big a deal this will be in practice: are Sky likely to send the heavies round because you’ve been watching their Premiership footy coverage on the bus? We’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime, check our Beginner’s Guide to X-Series.
(via The Register)
Over on Pocket Gamer, it’s a trivia fest this week. They’ve picked out five quiz games for your mobile, which will have your brain ticking over while out on the go.
And they’re all familiar brands too, with four TV shows (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, , Strike It Lucky, Deal Or No Deal and The Weakest Link 2nd Edition) and one board game (Trivial Pursuit: 20th Anniversary Edition). Click the link below to read all about them, as well as find links to buy several of the games. Or else just read about Roboros 2.
(Pocket Gamer Quiz feature)
It’s Friday, so it must be time for another video clip of The Kids inexplicably miming along to the Crazy Frog song. Don’t worry, this won’t be a weekly thing. Honest. Click below to see why the government should be doling out MORE ASBOs, not less.
(via Holy Moly)
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Mobiles aren’t just for taking sneaky photos at gigs, y’know. You can wave them in the air like lighters during the slow songs too. Oh, and you can use them as tickets. Virgin Mobile is giving away 300 free tickets to this Sunday’s gig by The Automatic at the Carling Academy in Islington.
They’re only for Virgin customers, obviously, who need to text the number of tickets they want to 26666. If they’re lucky, they’ll be sent a mobile ticket which will be scanned at the venue to let them in. What’s that coming over the hill, is it a mobile, is it a mobile?
Did you know your mobile phone can keep you fit? Well, it can if it has the FitFone Exercise Physiology System on it. The application, which was developed in Ireland, calculates how much exercise you need to be doing based on your age, weight and height, and then measures your activity by tracking your movements via a GPS chip.
Okay, so it’s designed more for athletes and their coaches, rather than couch potatoes like you and me. But as more phones are released with GPS inside, it shows how fitness and health could benefit just as much as the current hot features like navigation and mapping.
(Fitfone website)
They’ve already set up a mobile handset company together – Sony Ericsson – but Sony and Ericsson have also announced plans to co-operate more closely on mobile TV. “We will work to develop software that connects the gadgets in the homes with the outer world,” Ericsson’s Per Nordlof told a press conference. What this means, hopefully, is making it more easy to transfer recorded programmes from, say, your Sony DVD/ HD recorder, to your Sony Ericsson mobile phone. That would be a simple, good way to start, anyhow.
Bottom trawling is bad news. Steady at the back there, I’m talking about ecology. When fishing boats bottom trawl the ocean, they can destroy ancient coral forests and other delicate ecosystems. Greenpeace isn’t too impressed, and since Canada and Spain are the main culprits, the charity has released a South Park satirical sketch, and turned it into free downloadable ringtones. Including a Cartman guitar solo. Check out the sketch here, and download the ringtones here.
(via 160Characters)
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