I’ve just found this JupiterResearch’s release, which suggests that mobile consumers are not that likely to buy a mobile video content. With 11% of mobile phones which will be sold this year sporting video playback capabilities, it’s logical to expect that companies will compete to sell this kind of content to consumers. However, Jupiter’s paper…
Archives for September 2006
Bluetooth enabled watches from Fossil and Sony Ericsson
Fossil, Inc., a leading innovator of watches and fashion accessories and Sony Ericsson are partnering to roll out several lines of Bluetooth enabled watches. In that sense, Fossil will introduce the ABACUS MobileWear and FOSSIL Caller ID watches and Sony Ericsson will be introducing its own line of jointly developed products. All watches will seamlessly…
Shopqwik.com's free travel software
The new mobile travel software from Shopqwik.com allows you to save time by booking a holiday in a traffic jam, or paying the London congestion charge over breakfast. Shopqwik.com’s service means the user can book flights, hotels, car hire, beach resorts and pay the London congestion charge, all at the press of a button. For…
Mobile dating is growing
A new report from visiongain indicates that 13% of US users currently access dating services from their mobile phone. The non-mobile Internet dating still leads with the remaining 87% of users. These figures show that dating services and other community based websites are starting to make the transition to mobile and are now being more…
Sony Ericsson W958c announced
The W958c Walkman phone is a GSM/GPRS variant of the stylish W950, and has been developed specifically for Chinese market. It is equipped with a large 2.6″ touch screen for simple navigation through music genres, playlists, individual songs or music albums. The W958c is Sony Ericsson’s second Symbian v9.1, UIQ 3.0 based handset for the…
Nokia N95 for developers
With its new powerful features, Nokia N95 brought many things for the developers as well. First of all, unlike any previous Nokia device, N95 use Symbian OS v9.2 S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (FP1). Oren Levine from S60 Multimedia Blog compiled a short list of the most important additions of N95 for S60 developers.…
S-Tris 2, a free Tetris-like game
Introducing S-Tris 2, a freeware Tetris-like game powered by Clickgamer’s mobile game engine Edge. As the follow-up of their highly popular S-Tris title, this new game features an additional “maniac” game mode, submittable highscores and customizable options and key mappings. The game can be downloaded for free. All Symbian OS platforms are supported, including S60…
Digg Java Mobile
Users of the popular Digg site would be happy to know that they can now access Digg from their cellphone. Digg Java Mobile is a free extension of the popular social news site. Highlights: Story filtering based on Digg categories. It’s fast – stories are compressed before being sent to the device, reducing traffic cost…
Sony Ericsson's Developer Pub @ Symbian Smartphone Show
Take this chance to meet other prominent developers, down a beer or two and have a good time celebrating UIQ 3’s first birthday. As space is limited, only the first 100 members to register can attend. You’ll also be able to listen and talk to some of the driving people behind Sony Ericsson’s position in…
Nokia N73 comes to Japan as SoftBank 705NK
Nokia announced today that the (recently further adjusted for music) Nokia N73, a 3G (WCDMA) multimedia computer with the features of a digital camera, has been selected for Softbank Mobile Corp.’s 3G handset line-up. The Nokia N73 belongs to the Nokia Nseries family, and is the second model (N71 was the first) in the series…