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Cuban operator reports 7,400 new mobile phone accounts
Recently, Cuba's only telephone company reported that 7,400 new mobile phone accounts have been contracted in the 10 days since all Cubans were allowed to sign up for the service. Previously, mobile phones were offered only to foreigners or Cubans in top government positions or jobs with foreigners. However, that haven't stopped many clever Cubans to get mobile phones through contracts foreigners opened for them. According to the Cuban phone company official Maximo Lafuente Vazquez, about 300,000 lines already existed on the island before April 14, when President Raul Castro's new government lifted the restriction on service. Pricing remains the problem, though. A mobile phone contract costs about $120 to activate, which is about half a year's wages on the average state…
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Marchex Enters Mobile Advertising Market
Marchex, a company that delivers local online advertising and local content, announced today that it has extended its advertising strategy to the mobile market. Marchex has entered into agreements with mobile advertising providers AdMob, Ringleader Digital and 4INFO.
Marchex’s VoiceStar subsidiary will deliver call tracking services to all three companies. VoiceStar will enable the advertiser providers to validate the effectiveness and return on investment of their mobile advertising networks and provide their advertisers with analytics to help them optimize their mobile advertising campaigns. Marchex’s call tracking enables mobile advertising providers to: (i) track the calls generated by advertisements on their network, (ii) determine exactly which advertisements…
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GSmart unveiled its newly developed UI
GSmart unveiled its newly developed UI: Smart Touch: Novel, sophisticated & finger-friendly GSmart has announced newly developed UI software – Smart Touch, a new interface that is intuitive, informative and flexible, a more user friendly interface that surely add-value to GSmart products and great benefit to GSmart users when it comes available in April. GSmart, as one of the PDA phone supplier, it has established a sound position in the market when its famous world’s first (and still the only one) DVB-T roaming PDA phone were introduced to the public, and after since, GSmart has been harvesting the market productively and actively, it has introduced several new models, and each with unique features. GSmart’s hard work and ability in continuous innovation are well…
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Podillow - The perfect face-down tanning & massage pillow
Finally, the perfect sun tanning pillow and massage pillow. PODillow’s unique patent pending design allows you to tan in any position you desire, and be totally comfortable. Whether you’re laying facedown, on your side, or flat on your back, PODillow allows you to tan in complete comfort. As if that wasn’t enough, PODillow also has two internal pockets to hold and protect your MP-3 player, cell phone, car keys or any other personal items you want to keep safe. While using your PODillow you can listen to your tunes wearing both earphones in total comfort, no matter what tanning position you choose.
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In Cellphones, Price Gains on Quality
In a recent survey, proportionally fewer cellphone users than in 2006 cited signal quality as their main reason for having switched to their current carrier, according to comScore, a research firm. And a larger proportion than before cited price as the deciding factor; that percentage crept up to 19 percent from 14 percent. In other words, people are beginning to treat cellphone service as a commodity, its providers distinguished only by price. “At the end of the day, they all have pretty decent coverage,” said Serge Matta, a senior vice president at comScore. “It’s really an issue of, ‘What’s the next most important thing?’ And price really is key.” The study, which polled about 2,000 cellphone users from Feb. 29 to March 5, 2008, also found that exactly a third did…
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Texting may become redundant
Recent research by Orange has indicated that texting could soon become a thing of the past. Research by TNS of 17,000 people in 30 countries revealed that once users adopt mobile instant messaging services such as AIM and MSN Messenger on their mobile phones, they reduce their use of text messages. Of every 100 messages - including texts, emails and picture messages - sent by users without mobile instant messaging from their mobile phone or computer, 38 are text messages. Once consumers start using mobile instant messaging, the number of texts falls to 23 per 100. Matthew Kirk, who heads Orange's portals business, pointed out that older people tend to continue to use text messaging, and that currently the format is thriving, with Orange customers sending an average of…
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Giga-Byte GSmart t600 Windows Mobile 6 Professional Smartphone
While the Giga-Byte GSmart t600 design is over one year old already, it's still quite stylish, if you like white "iPodish" mobile devices.
The front is glossy white, with a white surface under a clear paint while the backside is white plastic only. In any case, the surface is quite fingerprint resistant and not a magnet at all. However, the t600 still features the old screen technique with a bezel but the 2.6" touchscreen supports a VGA resolution. In addition to the Windows Mobile smartphone typical call and end button, the device features a huge D-Pad which looks like a scroll wheel but isn't a wheel at all. Furthermore it has the Pocket PC typical Start and OK button as well as two soft-buttons under the screen. On the backside, the device features…
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Australia now has more cell phones than people
Australia has more cell phones than people, according to government statistics revealed Monday. For the first time, there was more than one cell phone for every Australian in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, the Australian Communications and Media Authority reported. There were 21.26 million phones operating _ a 7.6 percent increase on the previous year. Australia's population at Sept. 30, 2007, was 21.1 million, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. The number of public pay phones, meanwhile, dropped in the last fiscal year by 8,368, to 49,862.
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Motorola creating mobile movie store?
Motorola is developing a movie store for its phones, claims UK trade magazine New Media Age (registration required for full article). An alleged source at partner studio Paramount says that Motorola is in the "late stages" of offering a service that would offer full-length movies pre-formatted for Motorola's more media-friendly devices. Paramount is currently the only studio known to be involved, though others are allegedly in talks to add their own catalogs.
The service is labeled as a "breakthrough," but would offer virtually the same means of loading media as for the iPhone; rather than download videos directly to the phone, users first download videos through the computer and sideload (transfer) the content to the phone through sync…
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Philips announces M600 music phone with SRS WOW
Philips on Friday unveiled its latest cellular phone, the dual-band GSM M600. The M600 is meant to appeal to music fans, as it offers SRS Labs' WOW equalizer technology to enhance sound quality and simulate 3D surround sound in the MP3, WAV and AAC format files it supports. Otherwise, the phone is optimized for music listening with dedicated navigation hotkeys, and an included set of in-ear headphones as well as up to 40 hours of music playback.
A Bluetooth 2.0 A2DP connection allows for hands-free headset calling or syncing with other devices. Files are stored on a microSD card. The M600's other features include a 2-inch, 170x220-pixel, 256K color display while a 1.3-megapixel camera can shoot stills as well as MPEG4-video. Java MIDP 2.0 support allows for…
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