Those silly geeks over at PC Magazine have put together an “iPhone Death Watch.” Essentially a countdown timer for your iPhone’s battery, the “watch” ticks off the seconds to the day that your iPhone will die. They say their countdown timer is based on “scientific calculations.” Don’t take this “Death Watch” seriously folks. As we…
Archives for 2007
Amp’d Mobile to shut down on Tuesday
It’s been a long and slow death for Amp’d Mobile. It seems that the inevitable has finally happened – Amp’d will be shutting off service on Tuesday, at midnight. The Amp’d website details the options left to customers still on amp’d dead network. You can port your number, even on prepaid plans, but you only…
Happy birthday, SMS!
Kudos to the Short Message Service Center (SMSC) on their 15th year of operation. The year was 1992. Lycra and shoulder pads were hip. Nirvana topped the charts. Rodney King case sparks LA riots. And, Acision launches their SMSC platform. It’s been 15 years and the SMS phenomenon that started off with a maximum capacity…
Americans are 4 years behind the UK in terms of SMS adoption
Tomi T Ahonen gathers some stats from Telephia which states that in Q12007 63.7% of all mobile phone users in the states use SMS actively; data from CTIA says there is a 93% increase in text message traffic in the 1H 2006 compared to 1H 2005. Verizon is the first operator in the states to…
Nokia reaches 32% market share in Taiwan
A huge congratulations to my favorite company in Northern Europe. Apparently the Taiwanese love your stuff, buying 600,000 units in June versus 580,000 in May. That boosted market share from 30% to 31.8%. Who is number 2 and 3? Motorola and Sony Ericsson with 17.3% and 17.2% of the market. [Via: Digitimes]
$10,000 for a mirror that can display text messages
Trust me, your friends will think you’re much cooler if you spent $10,000 on 10 Nokia E90 Communicators and gave one to each of them. This brilliant idea comes from Robert Stadler of the French design group Radi Designers. They call it the +336+ mirror, but no amount of marketing can make any person think…
Video (French): Unboxing of the Nokia E90
Absolutely beautiful language. You can view the specifications over at Forum Nokia. The video was made by the fine folks over at Symbian France:
Toshiba 908A unboxing photos
With AGPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofucs, QR reading support and stereo speakers, we all wish we could live in Japan and understand the language enough to use these multifunctioning beasts. More pictures at Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
Video: Motorola Z8 review by Shiny Shiny
Shiny Shiny is the Engadget of the UK, except sexier. With no offense to Steve Litchfield’s highly technical review of the Z8 in episode 37 of the Smartphones Show, I can watch Suzy talk about just damn near anything and still enjoy it. Something about the UK accent does it for me. [Via: Tech Digest]…
More people are using their mobile to connect to the internet
According to a report by Fierce Wireless, worldwide revenue from data services excluding SMS reached 11.3 billion dollars last quarter, it was only 8.1 billion last year. SMS traffic rose by 50% which lead to a 23% increase in revenue. This is THE market to be in and I only wish the people in Silicon…