Mobile advertising space is heating up, and now we have Gigafone — the company which we’ve already covered before — announcing the launch of its new digital advertising solution – Ochre. So what is Ochre? It’s a vendor agnostic solution designed to provide brands, agencies and mobile operators with a holistic and simplified view of…
Telecom Italia to get 28 Mbps mobile broadband powered by Ericsson
Good news for our readers from Italy. The leading telecom company in the country, Telecom Italia, along with Ericsson have already started deploying a new mobile network technology of 28 Mbps speeds in early 2009. The deployment will include the so called MIMO (Multiple Input and Multiple Output) technology and Milan will be the first…
Jinny Software enters the mobile advertising space
Another company is joining the promising mobile advertising space. It’s called Jinny Software and it used Mobile World Congress to launch its “fully-managed mobile marketing and advertising service.” The main idea here is to provide advertising from the agencies to the operators as a managed service and to share the revenue earned with operators. As…
nuvifone G60 and M20 Video Demo
Gamin-Asus had announced their second nüvifone late last week before Mobile World Congress, and we got some time to play with it here at the show. Although there’s been a saddening lack of new Android devices here at the show, Asus has already confirmed that they’ll be doing something with it this year – the…
Gigabyte GSmart S1200 officially official
We told ya it’s coming, and voila… it’s here. I’m talking about Gigabyte’s GSmart S1200, WVGA touchscreen-equipped Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone. As expected, the new device sports an iPhone-like, all-touchscreen form factor, measuring 105.5x52x11.4 mm. Aside from the large, 3.1-inch touchscreen, the S1200’s specs also include HSPA radio, GPS receiver, WiFi, BLuetooth, 3 megapixel camera…
Samsung’s Booth at Mobile World Congress
Samsung stuck to their usual conference-going ways with a huge and brightly colored booth at the Mobile World Congress’s Fira Barcelona convention center. The Korean cellphone manufacturer, now the second-largest mobile phone maker in the world, announced their Samsung Omnia HD earlier this week. So, it stood the test of reason that Samsung would be…
Hands-on with the HTC Magic Android smartphone
Vodafone might have stolen the world-stage yesterday with the announcement of their Android-powered HTC Magic (G2, if you will), but we couldn’t satisfy our gadget-fix with a measly press conference at Mobile World Congress. So, we set off in search of a real, live HTC Magic to put our greasy fingers on (okay, maybe more…
HTC TouchFLO 3D walkthrough video – New and improved!
Let it never be said that HTC rests on their laurels. With the HTC Touch Pro 2 and HTC Touch Diamond 2’s official announcement earlier this week, HTC is pushing ahead in the Windows Mobile smartphone market that they helped shape over the past several years. But, rather than push out new hardware with the…
Shazam Partners With Samsung for Music ID on New Beat Handsets
Samsung announced two new Beat-series handsets earlier this week, the DJ and Disc, but one feature that we hadn’t heard about was music identification through Shazam. Although the app is available separately on a bunch of platforms now, it will be preloaded on both the DJ M7600 and the Disc M6710. It’s a match that…
Truphone announces Truphone Local Anywhere to make calling cheap worldwide
Truphone is on the rage. At the Mobile World Congress they announced a new offering called Truphone Local Anywhere. The idea is to go beyond VoIP application and offer a single-SIM, multi-country mobile service that will turn any mobile call within the set of supported countries into a local call. Some of the Truphone Local…