Orange UK teamed up with Barclaycard back in March of 2009, announcing that they’d be working together to roll out NFC to British consumers. “Today you pay for things by cash or on your credit card” said Tom Alexander, CEO of Orange UK. “Tomorrow, you’ll use your mobile to buy the things you want, whether…
QotD: “8 million customers move nearly half a billion dollars via the M-PESA system every month”
Forget about your stupid thin OLED 240 Hz 3D HDTV, forget about your 1080p streaming, place shifting, mobile video platform, the M-PESA system in Kenya is the type of thing that actually changes lives. Today’s quote of the day belongs to The Christian Science Monitor: “8 million customers move nearly half a billion dollars via…
Orange UK stops selling Nokia N97 Mini due to high return rate; Vodafone cancels XPERIA X2 launch
The Nokia N97 Mini will no longer be offered by UK operator Orange after sources told Mobile Magazine that the return rates of the device were “quite high”. In other operator related news Vodafone said it is no longer going to launch the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 since it was significantly delayed and no it…
LG GW990: 4.8 inch screen, Intel Moorestown inside, vaporware, but a sign of where we’re going
The LG GW990 is the best “tablet like” device you’ll see at CES, and it isn’t even a working prototype. With a 4.8 inch screen (1024 x 480 pixels) it is still a bit too big to put in your pocket, but it isn’t going to be as much of a pain in the ass…
Google Nexus One: Who was right and who was wrong with their predictions?
Now that the Nexus One is official I thought it’d be a wonderful time to see whose predictions were spot on and who was under the influence of psychotropic drugs. Since I’ve been making fun of Ashok Kumar from Northeast Securities for a while, let’s take him first: October 20, 2009: Ashok told The Street…
Leak: Nokia Mystic: Like a Nokia E72, E63 and a fat girl having their DNA merged
Here is the Nokia Mystic courtesy of Vietnamese site iTech. No spec sheet, except for the 5 megapixel label on the rear camera, but man, just look at it. Is this the kind of device that you’d want to buy for you or a loved one? If I had to take a guess I’d say…
Nokia’s Ovi Store coming to the 17 Americans who have an official AT&T subsidized Nokia
The Nokia E71x, Nokia Surge, Nokia Mural, Nokia 6650, Nokia 6555 and Nokia 6350 on AT&T are getting the ability to access Nokia’s Ovi Store today, along with operator billing so you don’t have to fumble around and enter your 16 digit credit card number to get your fix of Hannah Montana wallpapers. Just open…
Orange France: 77% of the phones we sold during the holidays were iPhones, our network rocks too!
Didier Lombard, CEO of France Telecom, otherwise known as Orange, just told Les Echos that 77% of the mobile devices sold with a contract during 2009’s holiday season were iPhones. When asked about the problems AT&T and O2 UK are having with the added network traffic that iPhone users create, he simply replied that Orange…
Marvell: Want 1 GHz, 1080p video recording/decoding and HDMI out? How about quad core?
Marvell, Qualcomm, Freescale, they’re all battling it out to create the fastest ARMv7 compatible processor. You all know the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, inside devices such as the Google/HTC Nexus One and the HTC HD2, well Marvell wants a piece of the action and yesterday they announced the ARMADA 610. It has a 1 GHz powered…
PowerPoint: What are the mobile trends we’ll see during the next decade? [I helped make this]
What better way to start 2010 than with a PowerPoint presentation? OK, admittedly that sounds horrible, but this is different. Towards the tail end of 2009 I got an email from Rudy De Waele informing me that he was working on a project that involves asking various brilliant people in the mobile industry what 5…