The Google Nexus One handset has “bombed” after selling just 20,000 handsets in its first week.
Eh? Selling 20,000 devices in a week with no brick-and-mortar outlets (and therefore no chance to test the device before purchase), relatively minimal marketing, from a new seller using a pretty unique (for the US, anyway) sales model is a [...]
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Sounding The Death Knell For The Nexus One Is Probably Just A Little Premature
Mobile Trends for the Next Decade
MH pal Rudy de Waele asked me to participate in an interesting project before the holidays: a collection of predictions for the mobile world over the next decade. He took my contributions and put them together with those from an illustrious list of contributors (see below) into Mobile Trends 2020, the Slideshare presentation below. There’s [...]
Clutching At Straws
I’ve been listening to British radio station Xfm online quite a bit lately. In addition to some great music, they feature some of the most bizarre ads I’ve ever heard, pitching dating sites for people in uniform (or people who like people in uniform) and PSAs telling you to defrost your freezer (which kick off [...]
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‘Tis the Season For Mobile Giving
It’s Christmastime, a season when good cheer gets a lot of people to reach into their wallets and help out charities. Charitable organizations are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for people to donate — even Salvation Army kettles can now take credit cards — so giving people the ability to donate via [...]
Just A Few More Days Til Heroes of the Mobile Screen In London!
In a few short days, on Monday, December 7, Heroes of the Mobile Screen is going down in London — and tickets are going fast, so don’t get left out! It promises to be a great day with lots of great speakers and sessions, and of course all the great attendees for networking and conversation. [...]
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Um, No, You Can’t Spam Our Subscribers, But Thanks
We just got an interesting email in to MobHappy Towers:
Russel & Carlo,
[company we thought was reputable, and which you've definitely heard of]’s partner and developer team is interested in purchasing email lists from MobHappy. Could you please provide me with the following information?
* Number of unique monthly visitors to your [...]
Symbian, Now With Additional DOA-ness For Developers?
Ben Smith over at The Really Mobile Project reports that he was told by some Nokia marketing folks from the Maemo team that Nokia will drop the Symbian OS from its N-Series devices by 2012. Apparently all N-Series devices from that point will use the Maemo Linux OS (like the new N900 does), with Symbian [...]
“If the mobile internet turns into the general internet, then shame on us”
“If the mobile internet turns into the general internet, then shame on us” — says Motricity’s chief strategy and marketing officer, Jim Ryan, in an interview with MocoNews’ Tricia Duryee.
Yeah, I mean, shame on us if the mobile internet actually became something useful, enriching, ubiquitous and valuable, supporting a plethora of business models on an [...]
Congrats Russell and the rest of the AdMob team!
You might have heard that Google’s buying AdMob. My co-blogger Russell was, of course, AdMob’s first employee, and he’s far too modest to bring up the deal here — so I’m going to do it for him!
Congrats to Russell and the rest of the AdMob team, especially its founder, Omar. It’s been exciting watching them [...]
N-Gage: A Eulogy
Pause for a moment and shed a tear for the Nokia N-Gage. This monumental device, which brought sidetalking to the world, as well as a portrait-oriented screen for gaming, evolved into the N-Gage platform (no, we didn’t quite get that, either) — and now it’s being taken behind the shed and put out of its [...]
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