Archive for January, 2007

Digicel Launches Mobile TV in Jamaica

Leading Pan-Caribbean Operator First Provider in the Region to Offer Customers Live Local TV Streamed on Handsets
Digicel, the fastest-growing mobile telecommunications company in the Caribbean and new entrant to the Central American market, has launched in Jamaica the Digicel Mobile TV service, powered by Vimio Plc. Now available to Digicel’s post-paid and pre-paid customers in […]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

XE Mobile Lets Members Rock ‘n Talk with New Sony Ericsson Walkman® Phone

XE Mobile, the nation’s sexy, new pay-as-you-go wireless service designed to meet the needs and lifestyles of the youth and college age market, shipped the first Sony Ericsson Walkman® phone for the pay-as-you-go market last week to select music retailers, supercenter stores and office product places.

“Digital music is everywhere and we now have the ideal […]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet

Nokia’s N800 Internet Tablet is one of those devices that’s fascinating and unique enough to make a mobile geek’s heart go pitter-patter with excitement, but may not fit the needs of a lot of people.
More powerful and refined than its predecessor, Nokia’s 770 Internet Tablet, the N800 is a reasonably small device that’s finely tuned […]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

CDC Mobile Announces Strategic Agreement with Nokia

CDC Mobile, a leading provider of mobile value-added services (”MVAS”) in China and a business unit of CDC Corporation (Nasdaq: CHINA), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Nokia to allow the world’s largest cell phone maker to pre- install CDC Mobile’s proprietary software in selected Nokia cell phones sold in China.
Known […]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Games unit drags Sony Q3 profit down

TOKYO: Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp. posted a 5.3 per cent drop in its third quarter net profit as poor sales and high costs on account of the delayed launch of the company’s flagship PlayStation 3 video gaming console led to substantial losses in the unit.
Sony said net profit for the three months ended 31 […]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Disney Mobile Family phones

Disney puts together family friend mobile phone service
Leave it to Disney to create a family friendly mobile phone solution. Together with LG, Disney Mobile has put together a pretty compelling mobile phone offering targeted at families on the go. While the phone looks like a standard LG model, the services it offers are decidedly family […]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Nokia N70 Music Edition

The N series seems pitched firmly at the business end of the market. The models we’ve seen support a huge number of connectivity options, email, advanced contact and schedule management and a good deal of extras to boot.
They all share a common operating system though, built on top of Symbian OS and called Series 60. […]

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Typhon Mobile Develops Phil Taylor’s Power Darts Mobile Game for Player One

Players can now test their skills against the world’s best in this new darts game developed by Typhon Mobile, based on the world darts champion Phil “The Power” Taylor. This game takes you from local pub championships, onto the regional and finally the world darts showdown with the great champion himself. Unlock the special characters, […]

Monday, January 29th, 2007

New World For Motorola And Nokia: Slowing Handset Sales

The good news for Motorola (MOT) and Nokia (NOK) is that both picked up market share in 2006. Nokia’s global share of the handset market rose to 35.2% from 34.1% in 2005. Motorola’s piece of the market rose to 21.8% from 18.2%. Sony-Ericsson (SNE)(ERIC) also picked up share while Samsung and LG were thrashed […]

Monday, January 29th, 2007

TV on a cell phone: would you pay $20 a month to watch?

Conventional wisdom says that no one wants to watch video on a cell phone screen for more than a few minutes at a time, but conventional wisdom is notoriously untrustworthy. The reality, according to a new whitepaper from the Mobile DTV Alliance, is that 82 percent of people who can watch television on their phones […]

Monday, January 29th, 2007