NTT DoCoMo today unveiled its FOMA 904i Series and three out of five of these phones run MOAP on Symbian OS. The D904i (Mitsubishi) features an accelerometer, the F904i (Fujitsu) has a tilting screen for Mobile TV and the the SH904i (Sharp) has a 6 colour filter screen for improved outdoors viewing. Each also supports a comprehensive range of services.
Michael Mace, over at his Mobile Opportunity blog, posts the latest Carnival of The Mobilists- a look round some of the more interesting discussion about the mobile space on the internet in the last week. His main thought while looking at all the news? That the mobile space is so diverse there isn't one main thought.
Podcast 21 is now live, by the way, with the Q&A that followed David Wood's talk at the Future Technologies conference last week. The question about whether smartphones were for the mass market fascinated me though - read on for some relevant photos of the current Nokia N95 marketing in the High Street and some thoughts...
Mobile phones are generally between 50 and 80% recyclable. IntoMobile reports that Nokia plans to extends its phone recycling program as part of the Earth Day celebrations. Read on for the details of the Nokia program and information on more generic recycling programs.
Just to note that Smartphones Show 30 is now live, with a hands-on preview of the Nokia N77 (thanks Rafe), interview snippets with a couple of Forum Oxford speakers (more from these in AAS video podcasts next week), a demo of the Proporta USB Mobile Device Charger and a rant on the subject of touchscreens on smartphones.
Nokia today released their full (and highly detailed) sales figures and financials for Q1 2007. Highlights were almost 8 million Nseries devices sold (a number which should go up for Q2, with the N95 entering the equation) and over one million Eseries communicators. There are lots more stats in the full press release.
The Register reports that VOIP company Truphone is to lodge an official complaint with the UK telecoms regulator OFCOM against phone network operators Orange and Vodafone, over the networks' crippling of the Nokia N95 to remove VOIP functionality. Truphone has a video of the N95's crippling here.
Business Week Online ask the question, what happens when we have a Sell-Phone Revoltion? It's an nice article about the implementations of personal info and location based marketing geared around phones that agencies are looking at to deliver new advertising models. It also looks at the impact this could have on the end user, comparing it to the flood of email spam.
In case you haven't subscribed to the RSS feed yet, make sure you don't miss this one. I was at Forum Oxford's Future Technologies conference last week, where David Wood from Symbian (architect of Psion's EPOC and much of Symbian OS) was speaking on 'Browsers and Beyond'. Here's his talk, in AAS audio podcast 20, even more appropiate in the light of S60's Widgets announcement, of course. See also Tomi's blog post here and Russell's here, for more description of what went on at the conference, and see Smartphones Show 30 (out later this week) for video interviews and footage from the event.
The latest Carnival of the Mobilists has been posted by Troy Norcross over at the Mobile Marketing & Spam website. Head on over for a selection of the week's best articles on topics to do with mobile communications.
We've been seeing several of Nokia's beta projects surfacing recently. Now there's a proper home page for them in the shape of Nokia Beta Labs. Worth a regular visit at least, though we'll buzz you here if something great gets launched. Via Tommi.
Podcast 21 is now live, by the way, with the Q&A that followed David Wood's talk at the Future Technologies conference last week. The question about whether smartphones were for the mass market fascinated me though - read on for some relevant photos of the current Nokia N95 marketing in the High Street and some thoughts...
