67.4%

…of RIM users surveyed by M:Metrics in the US awarded their handsets the 3 highest satisfaction ratings on a 10 point scale, making it the most popular of the major brands on the market. Siemens was lowest with 47%, while Motorola (58….

CUE: The contextual user environment

Mike Short, Vice President of Research & Development at O2 and Chairman of the Mobile Data Association, stresses the importance of understanding how the user’s physical environment influences their mobile technology needs.

User experience needs…

Interview: Charlie Dawson, The Foundation

As part of our ongoing series of MEX interviews, we talk to Charlie Dawson, founder and partner of The Foundation, a consultancy which helps companies understand customer experience by immersing executives in customer situations. The Foundation’s…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Fosfor Gadgets has an pictoral entitled ‘Top 10 Most Beautiful Cellphones’. They’ve picked some interesting handsets, including some of the limited edition models produced for Japanese carriers by individual designers. See the full piece here.

Interview: Mitch Brisebois, TrueContext

Mitch Brisebois is Chief Scientist at TrueContext, a provider of mobile enterprise services. It’s mExperience platform is deployed by operators such as Rogers Wireless to provide hosted forms, content and device management to corporate customers….

Something for the weekend…

Handset fashions

Matt Lewis of ARCchart provides an interesting insight into the growing similarity between the fashion industry and the mobile handset business:

He writes: “The hottest selling dress in the UK this summer is a polka dot dres…

A vision for the retail environment

I’m sitting in a comfortable armchair. In my left-hand is a cup of coffee, while my right is navigating the screen in front of me. The computer is asking me about my favourite colours. In the corner of the display I can see the home-screen of m…

Stat spot: Windows Mobile license growth

90%

…growth in Windows Mobile licenses shipped during Microsoft’s fiscal 2006 period. While still a relatively small part of the software giant’s USD 44 billion revenue stream, it is one of the company’s fastest growing businesses and this y…