Vnunet.com is reporting that European wireless operators are unwilling to bow to Apple’s demands for the right to carry the iPhone. Avi Greengart, principal analyst at Current Analysis, said that “Operators consistently told us, not for attribution, of course, that they had spoken to Apple and found the company ‘unbelievably arrogant’, making demands that ‘simply…
M:Metrics: Apple iPhone has significant demand overseas
We would never have though that anyone could not want an iPhone, but there are people that are speculating otherwise. Apparently, there is some doubt as to the iPhone’s demand outside the US. However, M:Metrics senior analyst, Paul Goode, says that there is a significant demand for Apple’s iPhone overseas. Apparently, there are 7 million…
Low-light filter for cameraphones promises crisp pictures in the dark!
Eastman Kodak Co. promises to take those barely decent cameraphones to the next level. With their new low-light filter technology – essentially a color-filter – Kodak says that they can double sensitivity to light by any digital camera’s image sensor. This is especially important to cameraphones – which have always suffered in low lighting conditions,…
Men chat more on mobile phones than women
You read it right. Apparently, men are yakking it up a bit more, on average, than women – at least on mobile phones. The survey, conducted by International Communications Research for AT&T, was completed in May 2007 and comprised of 1,006 respondents (half male, half female). Men averaged 458 wireless minutes per month, while women…
88% of Serbians use mobile phones – Serbia mobile phone usage on the up and up!
Serbia has really been burning rubber when it comes to market penetration for mobile phone usage! In the past year, 1.8 million Serbians has started using mobile phones – amounting to a 22% increase over the previous year. As of May 2007, Serbia has reached mobile market penetration of 88% – quite an impressive number…
Chart: iPhone buyer profile
Cellular-News received a series of graphics from Solutions Research Group, illustrating the profile of people who are interested in buying the 4GB version of the Apple iPhone. The information comes from SRG’s independent syndicated trend study called Digital Life America, and the results are based on an online survey of 1,230 American consumers during the…
Mobile ad spending to reach $14.4B by 2011
According to the new Strategy Analytics report “Global Mobile Advertising Update: Outlook Bright as Inventory Expands”, advertisers will spend $1.4 billion on mobile media this year. However, with the wider adoption of mobile technology among both businesses and consumers, that number will rise to $14.4 billion, accounting for a fifth of global spending on Internet…
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.
Japan to reach 107 million subscribers by 2010
Latest research by ROA Group suggests that the number of mobile phone users in Japan will increase to 107.3 million by the end of 2010, up from 96.7 million in the first quarter of this year. According to the report, during the period between 2003 and 2010 the number of mobile phone users will grow…
UK: 855,000 phones dropped in toilets every year
It’s time for some weird stats. According to Britain’s price comparison site SimplySwitch, 855,000 phones are flushed down the toilet every year in the UK. To put it in the other words, 1.5% of the total UK population is apparently doing this. It’s kind a weird. Maybe it’s the result of their usage — few…