The last few weeks have seen rumours and reportsaplenty (backed up by insider info) on the gradual transition of the UK and European networks to cheaper or flat rate ('unlimited') mobile data. This will all have a big impact on how people use smartphones. Watch this space.
The Motorola Z8 has appeared as available for pre-order in the Motorola UK Shop. Although noted as being subject to change the price is listed as £334.95 SIM Free. Also of Z8 interest is a planned £5 million advertising campaign and details of the contents of the UK retail box.
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.
Those S60 guys love giving away free games each month. This time round it's JumpShot, a basketball game for S60 2nd Edition devices. Go to S60.com, log in and go to 'My Exclusives'. All previous free games for S60 2nd and 3rd Edition devices are also still available, by the way.
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.
Interesting, although perhaps not surprising, to see that the Nokia N95 is now the Carphone Warehouse's top selling device, with over 50,000 sales forecast in the first month alone. Nokia UK say that all channels have had enough stock and that the demand has been met.
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.
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.
