ABI Research (via an article on Mobile Europe) is saying that memory cards deliver the greatest revenue of all accessories – more so than even chargers and batteries. Of course the reasons are not hard to fathom – most devices are media-centric these days, with media such as images, video and audio filling up peoples’…
HTC hits record monthly profits
HTC has reported record monthly profits of $528.57 million, for the month of November. Apparently that’s just over a 10% increase on month, and over 22% on year! What helped them achieve this? Well, the G1 (The T-Mobile Android phone) and the Touch Diamond are the two contenders suggested to be the main drivers. The…
Handset shipments drop 58% in Japan
According to Forbes, who got their info from Reuters, Mobile phone shipments in Japan dropped 58% (!) in October to what is the lowest monthly total on record. Now for us Mobile-centric bods, that IS worrying news – because Japan is often considered a barometer for the rest of the world, albeit usually ahead of…
Kevin Spacey Headlines MOFILM in Barcelona
Two-time Academy Award-winning actor and director Kevin Spacey will headline at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress (16-19 February 2009) in Barcelona, as host of the MOFILM Mobile Short Film Festival and mobile entertainment keynote speaker. For your chance to meet Kevin Spacey go to the MOFILM stand in Hall 7 C42 or register for the…
GetJar Delivers 10 Million Downloads of Opera Mini
GetJar, the world’s most popular portal for downloading applications and games for non-iPhones, has now hit 10 million downloads of Opera Mini. Apparently, this is significant for a couple of reasons: That’s a lot of mobile phone owners who have decided to upgrade the built-in browser on their phone to a more modern browser. It’s…
Amobee Media Systems delivers advertising for the Apple iPhone and Google GPhone
Amobee Media Systems has released what it is calling it’s “HAPI” (Handset Application Programming Interface) for the iPhone and GPhone (Android). HAPI already includes support for BREW, J2ME, Blackberry and Symbian. What does this mean though, you ask? Well: Operators around the world will now have the ability to serve advertising impressions into applications running…
Star Wars: A Musical Journey is coming to the O2 on Friday 10 April next year!
Let’s face it. A LOT of people in the world like Star Wars. And a lot like Music. Therefore why not combine the two, and do it at the UK’s premier venue? If you managed that equation in your head then there is no need for me to write that Star Wars: A Musical Journey…
3UK delivers special INQ1 Tariff
Mobile Choice UK is reporting on a special tariff available for the new INQ1 handset from 3. As you may know, the INQ has been delivered by an offshoot of Hutchison, essentially a new handset vendor. The INQ1 has been gaining lots of press attention (including ours, here) for the fact it integrates tons of…
Eco: how many mobile devices do you have lying around at home?
I was pondering on what to write up as a post the other day, when looking around my home office, the answer was right in front of me – the stack of Mobile devices that I don’t use regularly now. More than any other piece of CE (consumer electronics) perhaps, Mobiles are seen now almost…
Still no viruses on Mobiles? I am not really surprised…
Any of you working in the Mobile Industry for the last 3-4 years may well have noticed an upsurge in the number of (usually uninformed) people talking about how viruses were coming to attack the world of Mobile. With the advent of Bluetooth, people were going to have their devices infected without knowing, and they…