MOTOCAST, a new mobile application for the phone’s “home screen” has been announced by Motorola. The idea is to provide customers with a “zero-click” easy access to information, content and services of interest to them. The new solution continuously pushes content and services towards users through multiple channels. Initially, Motorola will make available Reuters news…
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3 million iPhones to be available for launch?
With June 29 rapidly approaching, iPhone fever is as strong as ever. Next thing to speculate about is the number of units available at launch. According to two sources, Apple and AT&T will make 3 million iPhones available initially. Naturally, Apple denied to comment, but we can safely bet that the two companies won’t play…
Nokia adds Mac support
In order to grab the Mac users’ hearts and minds, Nokia recently launched the dedicated part of the site for Mac fans, as well as the set of software tools that will make pairing a Mac and a Nokia handset a more convenient experience. First of all Nokia has added appropriate iSync plugins, which will…
China’s mobile content market to top $21bn by 2012
Chinese market for Wireless Value Added Services (W-VAS) will expand from $15bn in 2008 to $21bn in 2012 boosted by the launch of 3G services. According to Juniper Research, currently W-VAS revenues in China are primarily being generated from SMS and ring-back tone services operating on 2G and 2.5G platforms.
ALK’s CoPilot Live gives Nokia N95 some built-in GPS maps
ALK has announced their CoPilot Live system to augment the Nokia N95’s GPS receiver. While the N95 already comes ready serve up GPS positional data, the location maps need to be downloaded through the phone’s wireless data connection. ALK hopes to give N95 users a break on data transfers – and saving them money in…
Microsoft press conference reveals the iPhone-like device
What’s this? An iPhone-like Windows Mobile based smartphone… 🙂 Thanks to a Microsoft press conference on the other side of the Pacific, Engadget got the image above. As you can see for yourself, the device on the right looks quite familiar, and it’s not the Meizu miniOne. We’re still not aware when will this hot…
Vodafone Mobile Internet announced in Britain
It’s good to see a major carrier getting behind the whole mobile Internet idea. Yeah, they all do it in some sense, but then later we find out that they’ve disabled VoIP function on their handsets (this doesn’t excludes Vodafone). Is this a shift, or what? Anyway, Vodafone has announced 3 important things: New Vodafone…
Nokia S60 team wants your feedback; S60 Agents pilot program launched in New York
Nokia’s S60 division launched S60 Agents pilot program in New York. The idea behind this is to gather as much as possible feedback from the people living in Big Apple, and to increase the awareness about S60 ecosystem.
EA to release the new Harry Potter mobile game this summer
Electronic Arts and Warner Bros Digital Distribution have partnered to release Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix game and other mobile content — including ringtones, wallpapers and voicetones — this summer. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix mobile game finds Harry returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, where…
Wha? King of Superman phone?
Forget about Ferrari and Mercedes phones. We want something better, something out of this planet… a Superman phone. No, that’s easy… we want the “King of Superman” phone! 🙂