In a startling reposte to the recent Paypal report, The Mobile Data Association claims that British mobile phone users accessed the internet via their handsets around 15.9 million times throughout December. Analysts hassled by the BBC to comment on the report suggested that mobile internet use will increase due to the larger installed base of internet-capable handsets. An astonishing piece of insight there.
Pundits also agreed that, through 2007, a growing interest in location-based applications like mapping and direction services will drive data traffic - hopefully in the right direction and not down inappropriately narrow country roads.
(Via BBC)
Internet banking service Paypal has published a report on UK mobile phone users which claims that 61% only ever use four basic functions: voice calls, texting, alarm clock and camera. Even worse, 40% apparently don’t even know if their handset has a camera or not.
Tired of being constantly promised but never delivered its elusive 3G network, the Chinese government in Shanghai in an ultimate sign of one up-man-ship has trumpeted the local mobile operators and announced that it has now managed to get world’s first 4G network up and running. Among the promised benefits from China’s own home grown is high speed internet access as well as High-Definition TV access through your mobile.
With MMOGs becoming an ever-expanding market, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that one has finally decided to venture onto your mobile. Thankfully it is likely to be one that is worth playing, with the mystery game rumoured to be a smaller version of the massively successful Habbo Hotel. We just have one burning question… how long before the likes of YTMND raid this new MMO?
Our sister site Pocket Gamer has some breaking news about the upcoming next gen N-Gage platform, revealing that behind the scenes activity is ramping up, following a top-secret workshop for publishers and developers, held in Santa Monica last week. The two-day event saw Nokia fully unveil the new platform for the first time, with a series of technical and business presentations to fill attendees in on the specifics.
This one’s a beauty. The F703i has a white LED that shows through the back of its clamshell handest, displaying the time (and three pretty lights) even when closed. Better still, you can play music from a microSD and watch as the (closed) F703i handset performs a relaxing lightshow in sync with your tunes. And as if all that wasn’t a sufficient turn-on, this phone is also… waterproof. (Hey, why not?) The F703i goes on sale in Japan next week.
Japan seems to have a completely different perception of political correctness from the Western world: the press release for NTT’s new P703i describes it as “a phone for women who send many emails”. Beautiful simplicity there, so let’s applaud NTT for its honesty.
Motorola has announced a new handset developed in conjunction with Ferrari - or more accurately, it’s a standard Motorola phone smothered in Ferrari ephemera. The catchily-titled 
Is this the Porsche of Japanese phones? Its name seems to imply as much, and its spec is certainly comparable with Stuttgart’s finest. Softbank’s new 911T has a lovely 3-inch VGA display (perfect for watching digital terrestrial TV in Japan, which is facilitated by the 911T’s One-Seg compatibility) and it has 1GB of memory (useful for saving all those J-pop ringtones).
That’s according to a report by 
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