News on all the latest Mobile devices
News
ME Awards 2008
Jul 15th
ME Awards 2008 will take place in thursday, September 25th 2008 in Palace Suite, at Kensington Royal Garden Hotel, London.
It is the biggest night in the content industry calendar, with over 400 execs from all over the world arriving in London to celebrate industry excellence.
There will be 19 awards across three categories comprising Development & Publishing, Services, and Handsets & Operators. There will be also a Special Award for the outstanding contribution to mobile content.
For details of table sales and sponsorship opportunities contact Jodie.holdway@bhpr.co.uk or +44 (0) 1462 456 780.
Ad network offers promise of revenue for free App Store apps
Jul 15th
Just because you’re scooping up a free app or three on Apple’s App Store doesn’t mean that the developers behind them need to starve. Media……
Full content at Engadget
Apple says turn-by-turn GPS coming to iPhone, copy / paste not a high priority
Jul 15th
There’s been a lot of random misinformation about the iPhone 3G floating around out there, like David Pogue’s baffling comment that the device’s GPS antenna is “too small” to suppor……
Full content at Engadget
Nokia jumps on location-based mobile social networking bandwagon with Nokia Chat
Jul 15th
Services like Loopt and Whrrl are trying to break the door down on a potentially huge new market by convincing phone users that it’s totally cool for your friends to kno……
Full content at Engadget
Handsets look smart
Jul 14th
Smartphone sales hit 32.2 million units in 1Q 2008, that’s a 29 per cent years-on-year rise, said Gartner. The total equates to 11 per cent of the global mobile device market, with Nokia grabbing a 14 per cent share and its own sales up a quarter thanks to its popular Nseries range. RIM followed with a 13.4 percents share driven by more consumer-friendly devices such as the Curve and the Pearl.
The new f-series of Sony Ericsson
Jul 14th
SONY Ericsson has created a new family of devices built around mobile entertainment, the F series.
The first device to launch will be the F305, which comprises gaming controls and features a built-in accelerometer that lets users control games with the flick of a wrist. It offers three preloaded motion games: Bowling, Bass Fishing and Jockey from Gameloft and links to 50 more 2D and 3D games available at SE’s Play Now download service.
David Hilton, head of marketing at Sony Ericsson UK, told ME: “We wanted to introduce a new entry-level range for consumers who want fun, whether that’s gaming or music or Bluetooth sharing or something else. We are already working on more F series handsets”.
The “F” stands for fun, and this reflects a further streamlining of Sony Ericsson’s device naming strategy.
It used to be confusing, but now it is much more clear the W range for Walkman device, C for Cyber-shot and K for lower-range “Kamera” phones.
Sony Ericsson also unveiled its most advanced camera phone yet, the C905 8.1 megapixel Cyber-shot. The first Cyber-shot slider comes with face detection auto-focus, smart contrast, image stabiliser, a 2GB Memory Stick Micro and the option to send photos wirelessly to a TV via Wi-Fi or using the TV-Out cable.
Apple's business model
Jul 14th
The iPhone 3G may have been the least surprising news story of the year, but what’s got the biz talking is Apple’s move into content retailing.
Loads of developers have been telling ME how much they like Apple’s business model. The Californian firm says content providers can choose price points between free and £9.99 (and receive a 70 per cents rev share.
At the launch of iPhone 3G in May, Sega, Digital Legends and Loopt were among those to show what they have done with the iPhone SDK.
Now, analysts predict the store could become a $1.2 billion business by 2009. Investment bank Piper Jaffray said the store could add up to three per cent to Apple’s operating income by the end of 2009. It assumes users will buy at least two apps a year.
Apple’s new 3G iPhone will roll out in 22 countries on July 11th, with 48 more countries to follow before year-end.
Movies on Motorola.
Jul 14th
Motorola will position itself as the “movie phone” company following the launch of a film download store with Paramoumt.
It has created a video centre that lets users download full feature films direct to a PC and then sideload them to mobile. The UK website launches first, followed by Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Prices range from £5.99 to £8.99, with titles including “The Indian Job”, “Jackass” and the complete back catalogue of “Star Trek” films.
Saffron Digital will power the store. Its platform encodes and delivers the films to users in a format optimised for their device. The service was designed for the MOTO Z10, but other OMA DRM handsets will be compatible.
Saffron CEO Shashi Fernando said:”This is a breakthrough service that provides a superior viewing experience for users , while providing peace of mind to contents owners around the protection of their IP rights”.
Motorola has launched its ROKR E8 music phone in the UK. The handset comes with a 2-megapixel camera, 2GB of internal storage and a crescent-shaped scroll bar for music navigation. Moto will promote the device with a “music you” campaign.
LG Secret unboxed over at Engadget Spanish!
Jul 8th
One of the great joys of unboxings is being able to appreciate a product from afar that — let’s be honest — you have no business buying yourself. Take,……
Full content at Engadget
Comments