What a strange conclusion to Vodafone's triumph in the Indian mobile arena. It's
landed the deal to take over Hutch (Hutchison Essar) but lost the rights to i-mode...More
Mobivox offers Skype from any mobile
A Skype compatible telephony service that's accessible
from any mobile phone has been launched by Mobivox.
There's no downloads or software to install...More
Review: Sony Ericsson P1 is real phone
The latest
P1 from Sony Ericsson is much more of a real mobile
phone than a PDA with wireless communications built in.
Its 25 per cent smaller than the P990 and just feels
like a real handset...More
Skype chatroom risk exposed
A carefully planned sting by a British Sunday newspaper has revealed that
Skype chat rooms can prove a happy hunting ground for paedophilese...More
Virgin Media's fourplay stalls
Selling four services for a mere
£30 per month doesn't seem to be
working for Virgin
Media. Although still the UK's largest MVNO
with 4.7 million customers, Virgin lost 61,300 customers in Q1 2007 ...More
Mobile ticketing triumph at CeBIT Australia
Scanner firm, Bcode, is
claiming CeBIT
Australia
was the
largest
mobile-ticketed
event
ever.
The firm sent a bar code to some 10,000 attendees' mobile phones...More
RTX offers instant wireless network
Danish Wireless specialist, RTX, claims it can fit all the gear you need to
become your own telecoms provider into a suitcase. In essence it offers an
instant 'standalone wireless IP network'...More
Orange E650 displays major bug
A blog
dedicated
to HTC
based
smartphones,
Modaco.com,
is being
bombarded
with
complaints
about
the
latest
SPV from
Orange – the E650...More
Survey shows Brits dislike roaming fees
A survey commissioned by Truphone, has
found that most Brits are unhappy with 'roaming' charges
in the EU. Plus 37 per cent don't even know how much it
costs until they get back home...More
Vodafone/Orange RAN share hitch
Orange and Vodafone plans to share their radio access networks (RANs)
means that as many as 400 jobs might to be shed as the two radio mast
arms come together...More
Snippets
Specialist site Symbian Guru has published the specs for
Nokia's N82 handset. The N82 offers "all the features of the N95, plus a better
flash, and 'hopefully' better battery/memory management in roughly the same size
as the N73.
http://symbianguru.typepad.com/welcome/2007/05/nokia_n82_imagi_1.html
Still on Symbian, Futuremark has issued a public version of its SPMark,
which is a benchmark for smartphones that use the Symbian v9.0 operating system.
The developers version costs a cool US $6,000, though.
www.futuremark.com
In Site of the Week (by Tony Dennis)
This week
Fanerotica
Fanerotica is the creation of a Czech mobile house, Wirenode. To play this
online mobile game you have to certify that you are over 18. It's very
definitely aimed
only at heterosexual males, by-the-way. Indeed, Fanerotica is definitely one
of those games for mobile geeks only. The rules are that players have to chat up a
'virtual' lady by trying out their best pick-up lines. The more
successful you are, the more of her clothes she takes off. The attraction to
this game is, however, that you can watch naughty videos on a regular mobile
phone - not just via streamed video on a 3G connexion. For those with the older
style WAP phones, the system only displays pictures, though. The game is
intended to demonstrate, er, Wirenode's great skills at creating a system
that automatically recognises the characteristics and capabilities of your
mobile phone.
ed
only at heterosexual males, by-the-way. Indeed, Fanerotica is definitely one
of those games for mobile geeks only. The rules are that players have to chat up a
'virtual' lady by trying out their best pick-up lines. The more
successful you are, the more of her clothes she takes off. The attraction to
this game is, however, that you can watch naughty videos on a regular mobile
phone - not just via streamed video on a 3G connexion. For those with the older
style WAP phones, the system only displays pictures, though. The game is
intended to demonstrate, er, Wirenode's great skills at creating a system
that automatically recognises the characteristics and capabilities of your
mobile phone.