- Get an SMS… from your lawnmower
- iPhone Web Usage Continues to Rise — Even On T-Mobile’s Network
- Mobile phones turning “surveillance society” on its head?
- RIM CEO on BlackBerry Storm: “nobody gets it perfect out the door”
- This is really, really cool: Nokia Life Tools help Indian farmers get one
- This fits well with the above link: IBM India Creates Voice-Driven Sites Via Mobile Phones
- Nokia Intrigue filtering into Verizon stores, features weird ‘Habitat Mode’
- MetroPCS mimics landline with family `groupline’
- http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/04/apple-stanford.html
- And, finally: Former Gizmondo chief Stefan Eriksson lands back in jail, in Sweden. Thank you, Stefan, you just keep on giving!

Mobile Phones Empowering Stupid Criminals Everywhere, Part XIII

I’d seen this, but thanks to Tomi Ahonen and his reader Steve Epstein for passing it along: Some idiots in Columbus, Ohio carjacked a guy’s BMW with his phone inside. So one of the guy’s friends sends a text to the phone saying he’s got “a bunch of hot chicks, as if I’m texting you, and that we’ve got some drugs, too.” You know where this is going: no hot chicks, no drugs, just a bunch of cops waiting for the stupid criminals to show up. They, of course, duly obliged.

Fantastic T-Mobile Ad:

This is pretty damn cool.

There is more than one mobile context by Tom Hume. Fantastic post and even better comments regarding a move away from the commonly held view that mobile content and internet use is all about “snacking”.

Cometh the hour cometh the man. by Ian Wood. A great call for a mobile industry figurehead that’s not the head of an operator trade group, a handset vendor trade group, or a content group, but somebody who can champion the entire industry for everyone. This paralleled nicely with Dean Bubley’s call a couple of months back for a group to specify end user handset requirements to counter operators and other groups who dictate what ends up in mobile devices. Personally, I nominate Russell, but I imagine he’s busy enough as it is

24% of Apple iPhone users upgraded from a Motorola RAZR – SMS Text News

24% — or, almost a quarter — of those surveyed who upgraded to an iPhone, did so from a stinky Motorola RAZR.

Now I don’t have exact stats — and I can’t be sure how representative the Rubicon Consulting study is. The important bit for me is the mind-blowing difference of experience that those RAZR users will have encountered.

That, or the iPhone’s the current iteration of the RAZR: a fashion piece before a mobile phone.

India Sells 10,000 Phone Per Hour in Q1 ’08 – Cellular-News

Shipments in Q1 2008 stood at more than 22 million handsets, which amounts to around 10,000 mobile phones being shipped every hour during the quarter. In the same quarter a year ago (Q1 ’07), just under 18 million mobile phones were shipped.

Apps on smartphones = Geek. Apps on Facebook = Fun. Why? – Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless

But another speaker made the very insightful point that many people who would recoil in horror at installing smartphone apps are entirely happy to stuff their FaceBook pages with all sorts of random plug-ins. It made me think a bit about what the differences are behind this divergent attitudes.

A couple of posts from Tom Hume on panels from the Mobile Web 2.0 show, one on platform capability and enablement, another on “Mobile Web 2.0: Two Tribes or One World?

MH pal James Whatley has been hard at work combining the talents of his employer, SpinVox with those of MTV and singer Kelly Rowland on StandByWhatYouSay.com, which gives people the chance to call in and anonymously voiceblog about various sexual health and relationship topics. Interesting stuff, well done Whatleydude.

And finally, I’d like to award +10 geek points to another MH pal, Martin Sauter, for his post about using the flatscreen TVs in hotel rooms as a second screen for his laptop. We salute you, sir! Though I must admit I was going to deduct 10 geek points for having a RAZR variant, but since it’s being used as an HSDPA modem, I’ll allow it