According to Telstra, their Mobile customer have watched 80,000+ hours of Mobile TV during April. This apparently is due to Telstra’s close relationship with Foxtel, which supplies the content to the telco’s mobile users. Foxtel by Mobile takes snippets of pay television programming and packages it across the Telstra Next G mobile platform. Interestingly, Telstra…
Archives for June 2008
Blyk launches new website for advertisers
Blyk, the ad-funded MVNO for 16-24 yr olds, has launched a new website (http://media.blyk.co.uk) to explain the concept to advertisers and agencies. The site contains detailed info, and is constantly being updated with new insights and case studies: Over 100K subs have already joined Blyk in the UK, which is quite an impressive feat for…
Comedy break: Top 10 places to lose your cellphone…
Actually this story isn’t very new at all, but I stumbled across it whilst looking at other info on the ever-wonderful Interweb. Cell phones etc wrote up a list of the top 10 places to lose your cellphone – rather than replicate the entire list here (you can read that by clicking the link at…
F706i does Mobile TV underwater?
Now and again at IntoMobile Towers, we do get the odd random story in – the one below is right up there with them, and is about underwater Mobile TV viewing – yes, you heard it right…. Apparently Japanese manufacturer Fujitsu has created the Fujitsu F706i, which is a waterproof mobile that can receive digital…
SoftBank brings iPhone to Japan
Apple’s iPhone partner in Japan has been announced – it’s SoftBank. The short release states: SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Japan later this year. Engadget notes that it’s interesting to see whether they’ll get a 3G iPhone. SoftBank is a W-CDMA (UMTS 3G),…
HTC Raphael officially announced as HTC Touch Pro
Ladies and gentlemen, HTC Raphael has been officially announced. It’s new name is HTC Touch Pro! The Windows Mobile 6.1 super-phone will be getting its power from Qualcomm’s MSM7201A 528 MHz CPU, and will also boast virtually every possible acronym you can imagine — including HSDPA, GPS, WiFi. Rest of the specs involve a 3.2…
E-TEN all official with four Glofiish smartphones at Computex 2008
E-TEN has launched new phones at this year’s Computex. Let’s briefly go through each of the devices, shall we. First comes the Glofiish DX900 which we saw back in May and then we knew it will be unveiled during Computex. The “Best Choice of Computex” award-winning device is the first dual-SIM and dual-standby Windows Mobile…
Google Maps for Mobile 2.1 for S60 released
Google has updated its Google Maps for Mobile application for S60 smartphones. There were no official announcement or a blog post about the version 2.1 (or at least I haven’t found one), but eagle-eyed Steve Litchfield along with its readers noticed several improvements, including: Several speed improvements Zooming in/out is slicker/clearer Favorites sharing with other…
Digia brings webkit-based finger touch web browser to Symbian UIQ platform
Digia, former SysOpen Digia which is known for its 48-inch tall Symbian S60 phone, announced their web browser for Symbian UIQ platform – Digia @Web. The soon-to-be-released application is the first full finger touch web browser for UIQ platform and is based on the same core Nokia’s S60 browser and Apple’s Safari use – Webkit.…
Motorola Adventure V750 coming to Verizon
This summer, Verizon will be introducing the ruggedly designed Motorola Adventure V750 alongside its push-to-talk service. The RAZR2-ish device meets military specifications for usage in extreme conditions — meaning that the device can handle such things as shock, vibration, solar radiation, high temperature storage, altitude, high and low temperature operation, and blowing dust. In addition,…