Reversing Mobile TV
One of the simplest and most brilliant ideas I ‘ve read in a while comes from Deloitte’s telecommunications predictions for 2007. This...
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Get real: Focus on Voice not Data
With voice ARPU steadily declining and data ARPU undercompensating, network operators should re-examine their data services strategies....
SIMs and Conference Politics
Conferences are becoming a booming business in the mobile industry. Besides the incumbent Informa Telecoms & Media, there at least 10...
The carrousel of mobile blogging
If you haven’t been to the Carnival of the Mobilists before, you should give it a spin. Every week the Carnival is hosting a page-long...
Read my mind: adding recommendation to the mobile search mix
Understanding users can’t buy content if they can’t find it, an increasing number of mobile operators and content providers are...
Mapping mobile Linux: from Lego bricks to castles
Mobile Linux is a fascinating topic. As an operating system for mobile handsets, Linux commands responses ranging across dismissal, FUD...
iPhone delivers a genuinely disruptive UI
As an interaction designer working in the mobile space and as someone who follows Apple’s products with interest, the iPhone announcement...
Retail idea #3: Selling hardware features
Another idea for mobile phone retail stores is selling hardware features – imagine buying a phone and then adding an FM radio capability...
Make it – then break it: the UI-paradigm of converged devices
The jury is still out on whether convergence will continue and mobile phones become the ultimate in-pocket-Swiss-army-knife-machine. I...
Making a difference at Retail: The mobile phone health index
Mobile phone retail shops are under-utilised today. They could be used to sell not only phones, but mobile data services as I argued...
Open Source making waves in the mobile industry
Open source software has existed in mobile phones since Motorola’s Linux-based A760 was launched in early 2003. Open source has come a...
Motorola's AJAR set to follow in Nokia's S60 footsteps
Motorola’s acquisition of TTPCom in June bought the OEM ownership of the AJAR operating system for low-end handsets. In a corporate...
