Skyfire, think Opera Mini, but for Windows Mobile and with a lot more spunk, just got $13 million in funding.
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Hope you’ve all had a nice weekend and memorial day, vacation time is over, time to get back to business!
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Google co-founder Larry Page went 2 Washington D.C. to talk about “white space,” unused airwaves, saying that they are critical to blanket the US with internet.
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RIM letting Indian government monitor BlackBerry emails under the sole condition that if data leakage happens they have to take full blame.
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Nokia Sports Tracker fans: Interview with Yka Huhtala and Jussi Kaasinen, creators of the application.
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MagnaChip creates VGA CMOS sensor for camera phones that is 5×5x3 mm large aka F’IN TINY! Noise filtering, color processing, edge enhancement included.
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Nokia users: Snakes Subsonic is finally out on N-Gage!
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Biggest barrier to enterprise deployment, security says Daniel Okubo, Technology Analyst @ Datamonitor. Enterprise spending on mobile 2 hit $17 billion in 2012.
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HTC: In 2007 we sold 100,000 phones in India, this year we’re going to double that.
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Nokia users: Maps 2.0 launched, Google Maps still a better solution.
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Nokia Siemens CFO confirms infrastructure industry in cut throat competition mode, selling at crazy prices to gain market share at any cost.
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French create hydrogen fuel cell as backup battery for mobile phones, designed by STMicroelectronics, to hit market in 2010, no price given.
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Panelists at “Future in Review” conference: Next phase of advertising on mobile worth $1 trillion, fragmentation is shockingly bad, we don’t need another OS!
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Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent win patent case brought upon them by Golden Bridge Technology; patent was about reducing interference.
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Microsoft has not given up on “Live Anywhere,” a useless service that lets you see your XBOX Live gamertag, points, etc, on a mobile phone.
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Sprint Nextel lost a patent case with Enovsys that dealt with protecting the GPS location of mobile users from being discovered. Owe $2.78 million in damages.
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Analysys Mason: Mobile TV and video is possible without 3G, sideloading and femtocells are effective mediums.
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SIM free devices became more popular than prepaid mobiles in Austria in 2007. Interesting stat: there are 236 SIM free models vs operators offering only 209.
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More information about that Japanese mobile phone marketing campaign I mentioned earlier. Check out the video.
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Just noticed, but Thumb Report has broken the 1 week mark! What do you guys think so far? If you wish to be private: stefan[at]intomobile[dot]com
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Miller Brown: 85% of 2500 people surveyed, between the ages of 18 and 70, know what Bluetooth is.
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Samsung merging mobile phone, digital music player, laptop and set-top box businesses together according to their reorganization plan.
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Intel poured $15 million into Malaysian operator Green Packet Berhad to deploy a WiMAX network.
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Sharp released the world’s thinnest 5 MP camera module called RJ63SC100, 9.5×9.5×6.6 mm. It will be commercially available on June 30 2008.
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The internet has flipped out over the news that purchasing an N-Gage game will limit it to only working on one handset. Read the reactions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
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Nokia plans to launch 40 phones in 2008 that will have biodegradable components inside, still emphasizes recycling of old handsets is the key to green.
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EA purchases Hands-On Mobile Korea, plans to rename them to EA Mobile Korea, states Korea is a critical market as well as all of Asia.
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Mobile advertising still years from taking off. T-Mobile blames fragmentation of devices.
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InfoCom: Flat rate voice is currently niche only in the USA, but the price will come down in 2008 and the mass market will adopt it quickly.
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T-Mobile trying to delay the UK auction of the 2.6 GHz spectrum (WiMAX) citing Ofcom has yet to specify how much of the 2G 900 MHz spectrum can be using for 3G.
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New Japanese bra blocks cellphone radiation and removes stress, but best of all it will make everyone in the office laugh, even more so if you’re male.
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HTC thinks that by the end of this year it can push 3 million Touch Diamonds into consumers hands, they changed this number from 2 million.
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HTC Advantage X7510 review by my buddy Matt, ultra niche device, but there are people who want a 5 inch VGA screen and keyboard out there.
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Orange and Nokia sign 3 year agreement to bring games, ads and maps to customers with goal of having 10 million Orange customers using Mobile Maps by 2010.
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President George W. Bush allowing Americans to send mobile phones to their families in Cuba.
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IBM: 80% of consumers want an operator that gives them a wide choice of applications and services. Mobile internet services to reach $80 billion by 2011.
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The Sony Ericsson G702 was leaked by the FCC. This PDF suggests it has a 3.2 MP cam and is the Beibei we’ve known about for a long time.
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Business Week article that covers all the grievances Americans are now having with their operators to which I say being ignorant isn’t an excuse, period.
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Philips 191: dualband, 59.7g, 104.5×45x12.8 mm, 96×64 pixel display, ultra low end, no price.
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The Femto Forum agreed on standards to be used by all femtocell vendors & is working with the 3GPP, 3GPP2, DSL Forum and GSMA to make sure everything works.
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VeriSign: 43 billion message in Q108, up 34% from Q407. The record of 96 billion messages set in 07 to be broken in 08 by the third quarter.
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Chinese handset maker Wingtech to turn into ODM; prepare to see other companies w/ their label these. The company plans to push 50 million devices this year.
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HTC to donate $1.63 million to those impacted by the earthquake in the Sichuan province of China.
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New N-Gage ad, not too funny, a bit stupid actually, how will this increase sales? Video is of 2 guys playing System Rush on an N81 will skydiving indoors.
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Qualcomm invests in picocell and femtocell company ip.access, no details given as to how much was spent.
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Juniper Research: Spending on ads for mobile search will hit $445 million this year, $2 billion in 2012, and will represent 34% of all mobile ad spending.
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Christian Dior will sell a 3500 EUR phone in China and Russia with hopes of selling 10,000 in a year and eventually reach 67,000 units a year. Pass the crack.
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Fliptrack, a company that makes slideshow widgets to embed in your social network profile, changed their name to Moblyng and are now concentrating on mobile.
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Americans with smartphones spend an average of 4.5 hours a month browsing the web on their devices vs 2.5 hours in the UK. USA has flat rate data, UK: nope.
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FCC talking with American operators over their early termination fee policies because people apparently will sign anything without reading it for a free phone.
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First pictures of the Palm Treo 850 leak, nothing too impressive just yet, 400 MHz and 100 MB of RAM.
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AT&T’s HSUPA network is almost done, 6 more markets left, will be first USA operator to offer 500-800 Kbps up, 1.4 Mbps down over HSPA.
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Yahoo! commisioned a study to find out what Americans thought about mobile use on an airplane; 74% do not want to hear someone else talk, SMS is cool tho.
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Tohato (Japanese company, makes junk food) used 2D barcodes on the back of their products to engage them in an online fantasy battle as a form of advertising.
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Philips 198 & 199 launched, both 65 g, 99×42x13.5 mm, 128×128 pixel screen, 800 mAh battery, dualband GSM/GPRS. 198 = 40 EUR, 199 = 198 + FM radio = 45 EUR.
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Nokia to increase their donation to those impacted by the earthquake in China to 4.86 million EUR (7.62 million) total. Up from 5 days ago.
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Mobile-Review reviews Nokia 6600 Fold, verdict: a bit girly, great internal screen, exterior screen stinks outdoors, very well built.
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Robert Scoble has a 30 minute interview with the people behind FlixWagon, a QiK competitor that also does live broadcasting from a mobile.
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New field known as network coding studied by military, 5x greater efficiency of network resources by creating hybrid packets that transmit to multiple nodes.
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Openmoko switching main applications from GTK+ to QT. Important since Nokia is in the process of buying Trolltech, the company that makes Qt.
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Berg Insight: NFC is key to enabling future mobile services … that’s all they say. Fantastic insight guys.
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Berkeley’s Bioengineering department created a microscope that attaches to mobile phones and can zoom in on individual red and white blood cells.
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Microsoft to display bannner ads on their mobile MSN and Live websites to visitors in France, Spain, the UK and US. Plans adsense like service for mobile.
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Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo: Telecommunications spending will be flat this year compared to 2007.
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Motorola and its bankrupt satellite phone unit Iridium have finally stopped battling each other in court after 9 years, Motorla to pay nothing out of pocket.
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If you get a text message asking you to donate some money to help the people suffering in China, chances are it is a scam.
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Even though Google is an investor in the Clearwire WiMAX venture, they will not let the new company use their fiber backbone.
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Opera launches widget SDK that will let you write widgets that run across their desktop browser, mobile phones running Opera Mobile 9.5 and other devices.
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I just posted a preview of the Nokia N78 on Into Mobile. The 160 character version: awesome small size, camera focuses crazy fast, fantastic audio quality.
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Video of Nokia CFO Rick Simonson talking about the role of Linux in future mobile phones.
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English (non translated) version of an article I posted earlier stating Nokia is going to use Linux in future mobile phone models. Watch the Q&A here.
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Nationwide Insurance polled 1503 Americans last month, over 80% have talked on a phone while driving.
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EA Mobile has just earned the European rights to Taito’s library which includes Space Invaders and Arkanoid.
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The Rural Cellular Association plans to ping the FCC about how “unfair” it is for larger operators to have exclusive deals such as the one Apple has with AT&T.
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T-Mobile CEO Hamid Akhavan: We will retain iPhone exclusivity in Germany, even for the 3G version.
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Datang Telecom to re-enter the Chinese handset market due to their extensive TD-SCDMA solutions and patents.
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iSuppli: Shipments of touch screens to double from 2008 to 2012, 833 million units to ship in 2013, 341 million units in 08 will create $3.4 billion in value.
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Motorola, Siemens and GlaxoSmithKline fined $500,000 for polluting the drinking water in Scottsdale, Arizona with trichloroethylene.
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Arthur Little: Mobile advertising spending to have 60% annual growth over the next 4 years, 50% penetration in mobile broadband to be reached in 5 years.
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Interview with RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis: The rise of the smartphone is inevitable, touch isn’t new, the iPhone has helped increase our sales, people want QWERTY.
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$600 Hello Kitty mobile phone to hit the UK and Ireland in July, parents worried their kids will start nagging them.
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Experian Consumer Research: By December 2010 70% of the world’s population will own at least 1 mobile phone.
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Smartphone sales to pass laptop sales in 12-18 months. “The future of the internet and computing applications [...] it’s going to be mobile.” - Symbian CEO.
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Symbian Q1 08: 18.5 million devices shipped, 16.5% increase from Q107, 35% increase in models compared to Q107, 70 unreleased phones in development.
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Nokia has 90% of the smartphone market share in India, but HTC has appeared as a strong #2.
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