Tag archive: mobile phone users

While the computing manufacturers and NGOs continue searching for ways to bring connectivity to the developing world, mobile phones have had little problem penetrating the market. Cell towers and phone have made their way to some of the most remote regions of the globe. However, one of the problems is that many callers borrow phones and therefore never have a discernable identity. Movirtu plans to change this by providing over 3 million people… Read More

In a slight departure from conventional wisdom (and backed up by countless surveys and studies) that people don’t want to pay for content on the Web, a new research report from Nielsen claims mobile phone owners are willing to pay for apps. Nielsen announced these findings in a “State of Mobile Apps” report at San Francisco’s AppNation conference. In a survey of 4,000 mobile phone subscribers in August, 59 percent of smartphone users and 9… Read More

New research reports from JupiterResearch and Azuki Systems find that U.S. mobile phone users have been slow to embrace mobile television service offerings, but would happily use more Internet services if they could just do it more easily. A new report from JupiterResearch finds that only one percent of U.S. mobile phone users have embraced mobile television offerings. Although mobile video offerings were all the rage a couple years ago as… Read More

Looking to capitalize on the buzzword-worthiness of anything containing the terms “Internet” and “video,” the world's leading mobile handset maker Nokia announced it has made a deal with video sharing site YouTube to put YouTube videos on Nokia's N-series of Internet-enabled mobile devices. “We are thrilled to be giving users easy access to entertaining YouTube videos anytime and anywhere. By… Read More

A significant research study of more than 420,000 mobile phone users published in the U.K.'s Journal of the National Cancer Institute has found no link between the use of mobile telephones and cancer in mobile phone users. For years researchers have probed the possibility that radiation and electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile telephones might lead to a greater incidence of cancer or other disorders, particularly along heavy… Read More

Leading mobile handset maker Nokia and Internet portal Yahoo have announced that they are extending their mobile Internet partnership to add email, messaging, calendaring, and other capabilities to Nokia's new 6300, 5300 XpressMusic, 5200, and, eventually, to a range of Nokia's Series 40 devices. Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed. “Since the Series 40 platform was introduced in 2002, Nokia has sold… Read More

Verizon Wirless announced today that it would begin offering videos from YouTube to its V CAST video subscribers beginning in early December. The deal is a limited-time exclusive: for a while, anyway, Verizon will be the only mobile service to offer YouTube selections to U.S. mobile phone users—and the company is clearly hoping the deal will create an upswing in subscriptions for its mobile video offerings. Financial terms of the deal… Read More

A new survey from Ireland's Research and Markets finds that while built-in cameras are among the most popular features of mobile phone handsets, comparatively few cameraphone users regularly transmit pictures to other users, or even store the images for later use. The report, Mobile Imaging Services – Focusing on the User Experience, found that while people are initially enthusiastic about the potential uses of a phone's… Read More

“Motorola Inc. postponed plans Thursday to unveil a cell phone that can buy and play songs from Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes download service, a sudden decision that might reflect tensions with cellular companies who also want to sell music to mobile phone users. Motorola spokeswoman Monica Rohleder said in Chicago that the company remains in discussions with a number of wireless carriers regarding the first iTunes phone and… Read More

The Mobile Music Solution resides directly on the user's wireless phone, allowing consumers to quickly and easily shop, preview, purchase/download over the air, and play and store full-length musictracks. “We're thrilled about Melodeo's peer-to-peer functionality, because it is secure and all parties are compensated when music is shared. This makes it a huge win for artists, music publishers, record labels, operators… Read More

MobiTV, developed and operated by Idetic, Inc., delivers live television for mobile phones, providing viewers with a range of news, sports and entertainment channels in real-time. C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 feature unedited, commercial-free event coverage from Washington, D.C. and around the country, including Pentagon briefings, presidential news conferences as well as congressional floor action when the House of Representatives and United States… Read More

The study, undertaken by the international research firm NOP World in nine countries in North America, Europe and Asia, sought to answer what kind of mobile content people prefer, how they would like it delivered (download, streaming or browsing), and how much they would pay for it.  The main body of the study is based on interviews with people who are mobile phone users and have access to the Internet.    The main findings of… Read More

With this handset, Siemens mobile is responding to the strong demand in China for clamshell mobile phones, which accounted for 55 percent of all mobile handsets sold there in September. The CL55 is part of Siemens mobile's strategy of serving regional markets with their own special products. Design-conscious Chinese mobile communication customers can opt for this model in silver, red or blue. 40 polyphonic ringer tones can be assigned… Read More

The new digital rights management (DRM) technology, called the OMA DRM server, was developed by Oslo-based Beep Science AS, the companies said in a statement. It is based on a standard developed by industry trade group the Open Mobile Alliance. The new technology works on the concept of a restricted peer-to-peer network in which owners of mobile phones equipped with multimedia messaging, or MMS, can send and receive pictures and sound… Read More

This introduction builds on Motorola's heritage as a push-to-talk technology leader and marks the delivery of the first CDMA handset to complement the recently announced Motorola CDMA 1X PTTinfrastructure server. The new model V60p leverages the design strength of one of the most popular mobile phones in the country to answer the call from thousands of mobile phone users demanding nationwide communication atthe touch of one button.… Read More