iPhone Sightings

I have read a lot of blog posts about iPhone sightings in the United States and, in some cases, those are presented as exceptional events. I run a quick Technorati search a few minutes before and got 117 result for the search iphone+sighthings. Quite funny. I have to say that working for a mobile operator […]

Do You Still Make Voice Calls?

Interesting article today on Telecoms Korea: “Pantech Handsets Cause Stress“. Well, that’s quite funny. Don’t have anything to say about Pantech mobile phones. Their penetration in the Italian market is not really remarkable at the mobile but the interesting thing here is another. Korean mobile phone users, among with Japanese people, are the most advanced […]

The Fight for the Idle Screen

In the past few years all operators have started populating their mobile phone with branded applications in order to boost their data ARPU. In the last few months they seem to be focusing on the mobile phone idle screen. It’s quite easy to think at the mobile phone idle screen as the personal computer desktop. […]

GSM Association and Mobile Advertising

On May 22nd a press release from GSM Association states that it will push for a “common standard, measurement, and code of conduct for Mobile Advertisement”. You may want to read the original press release by following this link. The first thing I was wondering about while reading the Press Release is why the GSMA […]

Camera Phones vs. Cameras

I always read Michael Gartenberg blog with great interest and I find myself agreeing on his views most of the times. In his last take (that you can read by clicking on this link) Michael makes a comparison between a high end camera phone (Nokia N95) and a DSL camera (Canon DS800). As you can […]

How hard is to push innovation?

This morning I was flying from Milan to Rome and, as always, I was looking at which mobile phones people were using and at what they were doing with their mobiles. I always do this kind of exercise while I found myself in a crowdy place. You will always learn something. I was in an […]

Listen to my Voce

Sorry about the joke. Voce is the italian translations for voice so the title of this post would translate to “Listen to my Voice” Voce is a company funded by Faith, Inc. that is taking advantage of the problems that most of high spender mobile customer are facing with current wireless carrier. They identified a […]

Control your home from your mobile phone

It seems that in the near future NTT-Neomeit, a subsidiary of NTT will launch a service that will allow customers to remote control devices in their houses via their mobile phone. From what I can read from Pink Tentacle here are the main features of the system: Customers will control remote devices using a web […]

The mobile phone as a vending machine

When you come to mobile content you can find two different types of usage: You don’t want to miss you favorite TV show or soccer game while you are on the move or, sure it happens, if someone has taken ownership of your television set at home. You have some time to spend while commuting, […]

Please, run what I want!

As mobile phone technology evolves over time we see that a lot of high end phones are similar to personal computers in terms of functionality and applications. You can run a media player, look at your office documents, send and receive e-mail messages with attachments. Open Operating Systems allow the user to choose additional applications […]

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