August 2006
Stat Spot: Satisfaction relative to handset price
$300
Customers in the US paying more than USD 300 for their handset are the most likely to be satisfied with their purchase according to data from M:Metrics. PMN asked M:Metrics to rank handset satisfaction on a 10 point scale according to the…
Smarter music search
Telefonica Moviles is working with Musiwave, the mobile music specialist owned by Openwave, to launch an artist-based content service in Spain. Users will have ‘one click’ access to full track downloads, wallpapers, video tones and ringback tones…
Interview: Dave Evans, SurfKitchen
Dave Evans is CTO at SurfKitchen, provider of on-device portals for operators such as Orange, TIM and Telefonica. He joined SurfKitchen from network operator O2, where he was Vice President of Product Platform and Architecture.
Marek Pawlowski…
Stat Spot: Q2 mobile phone shipments
229m
…mobile phones were shipped in Q2 of 2006 according to Gartner. While this was slightly down on Q1, Gartner is still maintaining its forecast of 960m units for calendar 2006, 238m of which will be sold in Q3. Motorola was the biggest m…
Something for the weekend…from Japan
There is a Japanese theme to this edition of ‘Something for the weekend…’
DoCoMo goes faster
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo has announced the availability of its first HSDPA handset – the NEC-manufactured N902iX. It claims speeds on the dow…
Industry moves in favour of embedded feature delivery
There have been a couple of news stories recently which have highlighted the growing importance of OTA (Over The Air) platforms. In Japan, DoCoMo is facing a major public relations blunder after savvy customers realised they could purchase highly…
Download the Stat Spot PDF
In response to the runaway popularity of our Stat Spot feature, we’ve published a special 4 page PDF containing all of the recent figures and graphs. Print it, share it or put it on the office wall – the choice is yours. If you want to recei…
Sony Ericsson’s floating elegance
Sony Ericsson’s latest clamshell handset, the Z610, is a further example of the manufacturer’s commitment to elegant design. The 3G device uses OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology to power a ‘floating’ sub-display on the outside of the…