Mobile Insight Vol: 10 Issue 401 March 3rd 2008
Soonr provides remote desktop access
How often have you required urgent
access to a document on your office PC? Well, Soonr has come up with a solution
that provides just that sort of remote access – via any kind of portable device...More
Solar power for mobile phones
What could be greener than recharging
your mobile phone using solar power courtesy of the 'Freeloader'? Solar
Technology's latest devicecan power a mobile phone for nearly 44 hours...More
Giga-Byte offers 1st AGPS 3.5G card
Following up on its GPS enabled
range of wireless PDAs and smartphones, Taiwan's Gigabyte Communications is
plotting to show the world’s first 3.5G GPS/AGPS wireless data card...More
CSR adding GPS to Bluetooth expertise
Simultaneously with
announcing a tremendous set of
financial results, the UK's CSR has painted a picture of its diminishing
reliance on Bluetooth-only chipsets...More
Figures show Motorola sales slump
The latest figures from Gartner show that Motorola's
decline from its historic number two slot is continuing and new names are
sneaking into the Top Ten suppliers...More
UK sells off cheap broadband spectrum
Given the vast sums paid for 3G licences, the latest
auction of UK bandwidth by Ofcom hasn't even caused a small ripple. Yet one of
the ten licences even went for a mere £10,000...More
McAfee discovers Chinese PocketPC virus
That all good news stories eventually come true is
a common journalistic maxim. So for McAfee's Avert Labs the discovery of a virus
which is currently spreading across China is timely...More
HTC scores major Japanese handset deal
Taiwan's HTC has scored a notable victory by supplying
new Japanese operator Emobile, with a version of its existing TyTN II handset.
In Japan it will be known as the S11HT Emonster...More
Snippets
Confusion seems to be surrounding 'pre-sale' access to tickets for the Virgin
V Fest music festival. The idea is to repay loyal Virgin Media customers -
including those on Virgin Mobile - but the site wasn't working properly as
we went to press.
www.seetickets.com/vmobile/
Vodafone is trying to get industry support for its opposition to the cost of
implementing fast track number portability. Didn't it raise similar questions of
the original IMEI database? www.vodafone.com
In Site of the Week (by Tony Dennis)
This week
Honda F1 Mobile
For a site described as "One of the most exciting and informative mobile WAP sites in the automotive sector to date", you'd expect something special.
Sadly Honda's F1 WAP site is hugely disappointing.
So what does it offer? Video clips from the last race at Monaco? Results and summary of performance from the Monaco GP?
Predictions for the next race? None of the above. What it does have are three pathetic F1 style ringtones and three wallpapers showing Jenson Button plus Rubens Barrichello.
The best part is probably the chance to win a tour of the Honda F1 factory in
GB.
For a company which offers state of the art technology, you might expect Honda to have tied location based techniques to displaying where the nearest Honda garage is located.
But, no. Surfers find the nearest Honda dealer by typing in their postcode.
Unfortunately the site's provider – the Mobile Interactive Group (MIG)– seems to think the site is industry leading.
This site definitely does nothing for the Honda brand. But at least it wasn't foolish enough to utilise a dotmobi (.mobi) address for the site.
http://mobile.honda.co.uk
