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SNAPin - Winner of the Buckley 3GSM Award
02.17.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe star of the 3GSM show for me was a young, US-based start-up called SNAPin, which has developed a brilliant, bit of software that solves so much operator and user pain, it takes a little thought to get your mind around the implications.
SNAPin isn’t a sexy, in-your-face application, but works almost unobtrusively in the background [...] -
3GSM/MWC, Mobile Society
3GSM Impressions #2 - Where Were All the Women?
02.17.06 | Permalink | 6 CommentsAbout 55,000 people attend 3GSM and the exhibition is spread across 8 (that I discovered) massive exhibition halls. It’s HUGE.
But the overwhelming impression is of men in dark suits going about their business. If I had to guess, 95% or so seemed to be men.
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3GSM - What All Those New Smartphones Mean, And It’s A Lot
In my earlier post, I pointed out how smartphones are moving to the mass market. This has significant ramifications for the whole industry, not the least of which mobile application sales.
The application download and sales environment is something of a holdover from the days of the PDA: people, typically professional or prosumer users or early [...]
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3GSM/MWC
3GSM - ShoZu: It’s All About The User Experience
02.16.06 | Permalink | 8 CommentsShoZu is a pretty fine photo-sharing application, and an even more exciting service. It’s a consumer application that’s risen from the operator-licensed Cognima Snap (see our previous posts on it for background), and has been received very enthusiastically — so much so that Cognima has stopped licensing Snap and only servicing existing deployments in order [...]
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3GSM/MWC
3GSM - Smartphones Start Moving To The Mass Market
02.16.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsSmartphone OS developers have for some time been looking to move their products deeply into the mass market, aiming to take smartphones down from the high end and solidly into the midrange of the market. It’s a strategy that looks like it’s quite near to bearing fruit, with a number of developments this week highlighting [...]
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3GSM/MWC
3GSM - Skype Moves To Symbian
02.16.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI know I promised more details about Skype for mobile, but there really aren’t any. Skype’s not adding much nor is 3. But the eagle-eyed Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian spotted a Skype client running on a Nokia S60 phone. it’s not exactly surprising, but at least proves there’s a complete, running version of [...]
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3GSM — Opera: Empowering Operators By Empowering Users
02.14.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAnybody that’s followed my writing for a while knows both my belief that widgets will have a significant impact on the mobile industry as well as my interest in content platforms like Flash Lite that offer content providers and operators relatively easy ways to deploy rich content that can be easily updated. It’s little surprise [...]
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3GSM/MWC
3GSM - Hutchison Testing Skype For Mobiles
02.14.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsHutchison Whampoa’s carrier 3 is testing Skype on mobile phones, with plans to offer the service later this year. It’s unclear exactly how the service will work (more details later), although 3 Sweden offers Skype bundled with a 3G data card and flat-rate data plan. It certainly sounds like they’re using mobile phones, though: “Trials [...]
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3GSM - Motorola: Nothing Going On But The Rent
Despite how long they talked, Motorola’s press release didn’t unveil anything new beyond a handset for emerging markets that includes an FM radio, called — you guessed it — the RDIO. The basic message was that they’re planning to ride the RAZR horse as far as it takes them. RAZR-based designs of every style will [...]
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3GSM/MWC
3GSM - Microsoft Takes Aim At Blackberry
02.13.06 | Permalink | Comments OffIt’s no secret that Research In Motion is at a vulnerable point, with the prospect of an injunction that would shut down its US business hanging over its head. But, as we’ve said many times before, a threat that’s just as serious is the rising level of competition in the push email market. Certainly plenty [...]
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