Back at the end of 2004 PMN and Alloy collaborated on a project entitled ‘Design for reality’. The objective was to highlight the long-term goal of designing mobile devices which the user feels have been created for them as an individual.

We f…

I’ve been thinking about segmentation recently and was asked to provide some comments on the issue for an article.

Most mobile services are still not structured in a way which reflects customer’s behavioural patterns. One of the biggest challe…

European mobile operators are facing a storm over roaming charges which has been brewing for years. The situation is simple: operators charge excessively for roaming services because there is little competitive pressure to do otherwise.

One of…

Japan is one of Symbian’s key markets. 27 Symbian OS handsets have been released in Japan, primarily through operator NTT DoCoMo, which specified Symbian and Linux as its OS requirements for FOMA devices. DoCoMo also took the unusual step of li…

The growth prospects for off-portal content, and mobile music services in particular, are inextricably linked to operators’ data charges: the consumer may be able to purchase a track for GBP 1.50 from a third party, but it costs several times that…

Several ideas have recently started me thinking about the role of pen input in the growth of mobile data services. First, there was the announcement by Sony Ericson of its W950i handset, among the first pen-based handsets from a major manufacture…

The substantial majority of mobile entertainment launches to-date, particularly those with major marketing campaigns behind them, have focused on bringing existing brands into the wireless business. This is a logical and prudent approach from the…