Is this the Future?
Everyone looking at his/hers mobile phone and moblogging 😉 (Picture from Zak’s beta blog)
Category: Mobile
Vodafone Live: not conversational enough
Great article about the Mobile market from IHT: Vodafone pulls ahead in data race “Vodafone Live puts a great message on top of weak services,” she said in a recent research note, while a...
US: 15 Pictures Sent Per Month
Camera phone stats from Business 2.0 column Since January, T-Mobile users have sent more than 1 million photos to one another. Sprint PCS (PCS) president Len Lauer recently said that camera phone owners send...
Megapixel camera phone on sale
Update (2003-06-16): ZDNet Mobile Japan writes about the new J-SH53. See the image samples below. Via Melody: May 23, 2003 Mega-Pixel A image taken with a mega-pixel cell-phone digital camera recently released.http://www.zdnet.co.jp/mobile/0305/22/l_maga1.jpg *** Megapixel...
Beautiful Moblog Example
As we are working towards are new moblog… Appreciate Kurt’s beautiful Moblog in the meantime. and read: Technosocial Situations, Emergent Structurings of Mobile Email Use also found via Easterwood
A MPEG-4 Waterloo?
Via Mobile Media Japan: In a confusing move, US-based MPEG LA, LLC, which manages the collective MPEG related patents for the MPEG-4 visual compression standard, delivered a 47-page agreement (in English) to befuddled Japanese...
Strains of Camera Phone Demand
Via Mobile Media Japan One development Nikkei recently reported is an ongoing shortage of camera phone lenses: “Camera-equipped cell phones, which debuted in late 2000, made up roughly 33.7 percent of total cell phone...
Understanding user demand
Operators must market content that customers want yet the industry lacks a track record in understanding user demand beyond the current voice and SMS-based offerings. Via this
First Million-Pixel Phones
DoCoMo to launch first million-pixel phones The new handsets, with resolution four times sharper than existing models and suitable for making standard-sized prints, are expected to put cellphones in competition with entry-model digital cameras....
Computer illiteracy due to mobile phones
Japan’s Generation of Computer Refuseniks Most teens and young adults in Japan rarely use computers to surf the World Wide Web. Instead they use cell phones to access a scaled-down wireless Web. The result:...
