The full title of the report is “Critical Mass: The worldwide state of the mobile web” (click to download pdf). It may sound a little like a marketing slogan (critical mass etc.), but I have tried to acquaint myself with it without any anticipations.
Report is based on the researches made in 16 countries across America, Europe and Asia. It basically says that growth in the mobile internet usage is constant and now it reached the point where it can start to be used by the marketing on the wide scale. The sources of the growth are new phones that are giving better user experience , faster data transmission offered by carriers, and unlimited data plans. Combination of those three attracts more and more people to surf the web via their mobiles, and that’s how a chain reaction starts…
I couldn’t agree more with those conclusions, but I think, that somehow in the statistics was omitted the very large player. Actually the largest one! I’m thinking about the Korea which in 2002 has 40% active subscribers of data transmission. In this light, US with 15.6% in 2008 seems not as high as authors are stating. According to TelcomsKorea, currently they have 80% use of mobile internet among all mobile users. I don’t have to say that this is a very high number. There are opinions that in that region mobile internet is more often used that on PC. US and Europe will have to wait a long time until they reach such a level. It might be a good lesson to track back the ways of how this was achieved there, and try to take advantage of this knowledge - cause “future of the internet lies with mobile users”*.
* Vinton Gray Cerf
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iPhone 3G is coming, only two days are left to its release.
Some people already put hands on it, un-boxed it and gave their impressions to the public.
It is black, shiny and sleek. Its shining chrome buttons look great.
New iPhone 3G was uboxed in BGR offices. Check the photos in here.
Device was lately displayed in shop in Switzerland.
The first owner of new Apple device will be most probably Jonny Gladwell from Auckland New Zealand who already camped outside of Vodafone NZ store and is waiting to get iPhone as the very first one Vodafone NZ subscriber.
According to Apple statement New Zealand will see the world’s first iPhone launch at 00:01 local time on the 11th. That’s almost a full day before any New York.
So fever is rising as It is coming closer.
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Official début of Series40 6th Edition devices is coming with new fashion phone Nokia-7510 Supernova which is planed to be released in Q4 of this year.
New version of platform will support Flash Lite 3, WMA 10, WMV 9, enhanced browser capabilities as well as loads of other stuff.
Detailed Series40 6th Edition specification for developers is available in this pdf file.
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10 million iPhones
Round 10 million iPhones is supposed to be shipped in Q3 2008 according to component suplires estimation.
Don`t get late on your flight
Air line IT company SITA proposed to use mobiles’ location awareness to track passengers within airports and text them to help to get to their gate on time. Cutting flight delayes can give over $600 million savings during next few years.
… and now get back in time.
Clever but questionable software application will be soon available in the iPhone App Store.
The realistically cumbersome experience of a rotary dialer and its sound effects equally convincing will take user in to the past.
Yeah! Shake that thing …
Orange informed that in cooperation with GotWind new generation of phone recharger was produced.
The only sorce of charging handset battery will be dance - mobile recharger powered by dance energy.
Nokia with arms wide opend
Nokia said that it will make the software that runs its phones available to outside developers.
Main reason of this decision is trying to head of the competition as The New York Times informed.
Half of China population
By the end of May China soared to 592 million mobile phone subscribers which is round half of 1.3 billion China population, China View reported.
To cut charges in Europe
The European Commission is planning to push national regulators to make fees which mobile operators can charge each other to connect calls between their networks lower.
Watch the road and browse.
Chrysler LLC introduced technology which allows to turn their vehicles into rolling hotspots, reported Detroit News.
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Market researches company Informa Telecoms and Media informed lately that European mobile operators went over 100 million with number of 3G networks subscribers. At the very end of may exact number was 101.5 million.
This number is 11% of total number of mobile subscribers which encloses round 911 million. This number is result of adding only devices that were actively used for voice or data services or both.
Informa Telecoms and Media stated:
“A slight slowdown in the growth in WCDMA handset sales in Western Europe in (the first quarter) was counteracted by an acceleration in sales of WCDMA/HSPA data cards and modems, which boosted the size of the total 3G market, particularly in Sweden and Austria”
Mobile operators are developing data services which they do provide to their subscribers over 3G networks.
According to researches results revenues from voice calls started to stagnate or to go down.
Presented information show as well that percentage of 3G subscribers is highest in Sweden, Norway and Italy.
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