It’s WAR! - Nokia and Apple
This has been brewing for some time now.
Nokia announced in August that they would be launching a new music download service geared primarily for their music phones (N81 and the other NSeries). I visited the Nokia headquarters in September and was ushered into their demo-area where they were to do a full-on demo of their [...]
Supply, Demand and why its a great day for all mobile enthusiasts…
Apple slashed prices on their iPhones yesterday and I literally ran to the closest AT&T store to sign myself up for a 2year contract. Signing up to any carrier for 2 years is not something I take lightly and running to the closest store to spend on the latest Apple gizmo isn’t my idea of [...]
Why Carriers need to listen to Application Developers
As much as I am annoyed by the business practices of many wireless carriers in the world - the fact is, that, they are the gatekeepers to the customers. I believe that constant and total collaboration between application developers and strategy types at the Carriers is absolutely necessary to help move the entire industry towards [...]
Don’t ring me - fring me!
I am absolutely excited about the possibilities that fring - a new exciting startup can bring to the mobile industry. VoIP until now has been a PC based bastion apart from the call forwarding services which are not really mobile based VoIP services.
Skype Mobile has been an application I have been using for well over [...]
iPhone sales estimates - preliminary surveys in UK suggest low adoption up front
Election time in the US gives rise to Poll-Data and keeping with the spirit of the times and watching the democratic nominees Poll-it-out made me look at another race that is oh-so-important to all of us mobile-geeks.
The iPhone Blog has undertaken a number of surveys to gauge the level of interest within the market for [...]
Designing for Mobile Devices - Usage Scenarios and Paper Prototyping
Mobile application design and development presents different challenges to developers and designers of mobile systems. The aspect ratio and the smaller display compunded with hardware and software input mechanisms that differ a lot from traditional input mechanisms make designing for mobile devices very tricky.
Here are some aspects of traditional design that I have found extremely [...]
Mobile IM Clients - a pow-wow between Mundu IM and Agile Messenger
I’m a big fan of mobile messaging clients. I have been using a whole bunch of them on my treo 700w for the past year. Out of the whole lot of IM clients on the Windows Mobile platform, 2 stand out in a class of their own.
Here’s how they fared for me:
Agile Messenger has by [...]
Super Secure SMS/MMS
Would you use encrypted SMS technologies if they were a breeze to deploy across your enterprise and equally easy to use and manage?
My guess is that you wouldn’t being a standard user of mobile applications. If however you were in the wealth/assets moving industry or in a highly secretive agency in the government such an [...]
The mobile as a health monitoring device
The 3GSM conference really opened up my eyes as to the various ways in which entrepreneurs are thinking of ways to use the mobile phone as a converged device. My initial brush with the mobile technology started with the Palm introduced to me by my good friend Ashish Gupta, Founder of the Indian Palm Users [...]
3GSM World Congress 2007
I am attending the 3GSM World Congress this year in Barcelona as part of the Mobile Monday crew and ofcourse ThoughtWorks. I had anticipated it to be a really big conference but as far as conferences go this is BIG! and when you consider the Mobile world - this is HUGE.
The statistics for the [...]