MEX readership surges ahead
The readership of www.mobileuserexperience.com and our e-mail newsletter has grown by nearly 300% since the beginning of the year.
The MEX strategy forum provides a wide range of content, including interviews with the industry’s leading fig…
Inside Nokia’s manufacturing process
Andy Reinhardt of BusinessWeek has published a very interesting article examining Nokia’s manufacturing process. It contains a step-by-step photo guide to how Nokia manages its supply chain, assembles and customises handsets. Read it here.
Keys, wallet and..?
The Yankee Group is running a survey to find out what device people expect to be their essential digital companion in 5 years time. While most people are now unable to leave the house without their keys, wallet and phone, this survey aims to disc…
Interview: Juha Christensen, Sonopia
As part of our ongoing series of user experience interviews, we catch-up with Juha Christensen, CEO of Sonopia, a start-up focused on enabling operators to manage user experience across nano-segments. Juha led product management for the Psion ser…
Stat Spot: Photo upload behaviour
47.8%
…of US users equipped with camera phones sporting a resolution in excess of 1.3 megapixels have uploaded photos to an album in the 3 months to May 2006. This compares with 17.7 percent of those with VGA cameras and 25.1% in the 1 – 1….
How to build an MVNO
At our most recent MEX conference we ran a workshop session which brought together 6 experts from across the mobile industry value chain to describe the process of building an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). Each workshop leader examined …
Stat Spot: HSUPA transmission speeds
2 Mb/s
…is the uplink transmission speed achieved by Qualcomm’s MSM 7200 chipset in trials. HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) is coming under operators’ spotlight as they seek to improve the return path to the network for subscribers. …
More on linking with the physical environment
Reuters has this article on a project from appliance manufacturer Whirlpool to link washing machines and dryers with mobile phones. The system will allow remote monitoring and control. Another example of how the mobile handset is becoming an pri…