I’ve been in San Diego for Qualcomm’s BREW 2008 event, and yesterday in the expo, I saw some neat stuff from a company called GestureTek. It’s a company that’s been around for a while doing motion-sensing technology, and they’re putting it into mobile phones now. However, they use a handset’s camera instead of an accelerometer [...]
Archive | May, 2008
Hits Just Keep On Coming From Motorola
Regular readers will know we don’t really talk about handsets much here on MH, except for the occasional shiny-object lust, but I wanted to point out this post I just saw over at IntoMobile about some forthcoming Motorola cameraphone. Moto has been working on devices with Kodak-branded cameras in an attempt to reinvigorate its ailing [...]
Free Market Data
Portio Reseach have just published a free downloadable PDF, which contains tons of market data on the state of mobile. It’s a taster for the whole report that they want you to buy (fair enough), but there’s loads of facts to get your mind around in the free version. Earlier this week, I wrote about [...]
85% Aware of Bluetooth
A new survey by Millward Brown, admittedly commissioned by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group themselves, has found that 85% of people are now aware of Bluetooth as a technology and an impressive 68% even recognising the Bluetooth logo itself. This seems pretty high on first consideration. But the survey methodology was to poll 2,500 consumers [...]
Mobile Will be Big (Official!)
I meant to post about this last week, but a hectic schedule prevented me. So, sorry if you’ve read about it already. The Churchill Club, is a prestigious Silicon Valley tech forum, well known (among other things) for its Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate. This year, the panel consisted of VC luminaries Steve Jurvetson, [...]
Kooaba Wins MuMoMo
I’m behind on the blogging front this week – too much work and travel. But on Monday, I went to my third Mobile Monday in a month. This time I was playing at home, in Munich, which I co-founded. This was really well-attended, with about 200 people, all turning out for the ever popular Demo [...]
Some Cool Mobile Marketing From Japan
MH pal Tomi Ahonen writes in to share a post about some very cool mobile marketing from Japan. Snack food maker Tohato launched a couple of spicy snacks called “Tyrant Habanero Burning Hell Hot” and “Satan Jorquia Bazooka Deadly Hot”, and to promote them, set up a mobile multiplayer online game. Users bought a packet [...]
Hooray For DRM Once Again: Those N-Gage Games Are All Locked Up UPDATED
Update: Nokia has apparently changed its mind and says it will allow users to transfer their games to their new devices. That’s nice of them, well done Nokia. I do have to take issue with their statement, though We have noticed a number of media stories about N-Gage game transfers and wanted to clarify the [...]
US Handset Sales Drop — Are Consumers Tired Of Crap Phones?
New Cellphone Purchases Decline in U.S. – WSJ.com: U.S. purchases of new cellphones declined in the first quarter for the first time in several years, signaling that worries about an economic slowdown are hurting the handset market, according to two new studies. The drop was concentrated among poorer customers using prepaid plans and among households [...]
They’re Tracking You — Around The Mall
Mobiles help UK malls track shoppers’ every move | The Register (via JimH): Mobile phone tracking technology is being put to good use watching how punters migrate around a shopping centre, thanks to gear from Portsmouth-based Path Technologies. By installing receivers around a shopping centre the company can pick up communication between handsets and base [...]
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