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CategoryWill Walkman fly?
On 12th August, Sony Ericsson’s first ‘Walkman’ branded mobile phone – the W800i – will go on sale worldwide amid considerable expectation. The specifications are impressive – including a 2 mega-pixel camera and 512 Mb of memory – but this handse…
Motorola rides the design wave
Try a quick experiment next time you’re sitting in a city cafe: look for the coolest person in the room and check out which mobile handset they’re using – don’t be surprised when you find its a Motorola RAZR.
Flash back just a couple of years a…
SurfKitchen expands support to Windows Mobile devices
SurfKitchen has announced it’s SurfKit Mobile platform will now support Windows Mobile devices, ahead of an expected customer deployment in August with an Asian operator. The company already supports Symbian and Java in its existing operator roll…
The first MVNO to reach maturity
Virgin was the first high profile mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) success story. It has amassed some 4.1m active customers since launching in November 1999, making it the fastest growing network operator in the UK. Today, however, Virgin …
Mobile Innovation on Flash
Mobile Innovation (MI), the user interface specialist best known for its work on Symbian platforms, has published an interesting article on the emergence of Flash as an enabler of the user experience.
You can read it on the MI web-site.
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Multi-function = sub-optimal?
There have been a lot of rumours flying around in recent days about Apple’s ambitions in the mobile space. The most recent speculation is that Apple is poised to launch an MVNO in the US to offer its Motorola iTunes handset as part of an integrat…
From the chipset upwards
Qualcomm announced yesterday that it was sampling its most advanced chipset to-date, the dual-CPU MSM7500. This integrated chipset platform uses both an ARM 9 processor (for the modem) and an ARM 11 (applications processor) to support a range of …
Location dependent or location irrelevant?
Vodafone today announced it would launch a service in Germany providing 1000 minutes of call time for a flat-rate of EUR 20 per month. The catch? The calls must be made within the subscriber’s home zone – an area about 2 Km in diameter, centred …