Mobile Phones: Putting the numbers to scale

Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, provided some insides at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California this Monday. Comparing the volume of Apple’s iPhone shipped to Nokia’s shipments of phones he said:



“…Since the launch of iPhone in June, Apple has shipped 5 million to 6 million of the devices, paling in comparison to Nokia’s device shipments…We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday…”

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Africa: Kenya gets world first mobile phone money transfer service

Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest mobile phone operator, has launched a service this week that will use short message services (SMS) to transfer money even from or to customers without bank accounts. The product allows the operator’s 5.8 million subscribers to use their mobile phones to send money within Kenya where often the money earner of a family is working in a city to support family members living in rural areas. “…This service is the first of its kind in the world. We have plans to take it elsewhere…the first international link, between the U.K. and Kenya, will come in the very near future…

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Luxury Dept: Bang & Olufsen - Louis Vuitton mobile phone gadgets bundle

For those who are looking for mobile phones with style and believe that Bling-Bling is better left to others we would suggest the Bang & Olufsen Serene phone together with the Louis Vuitton case and headset cover.

Manufactured together with Samsung, the Bang & Olufsen Serene phone is out for quite a while. It might [...]

Nokia: Ever wanted to see who’s calling you?

Did you ever wanted to know who is just calling you on your mobile phone? With Nokia’s new HS-13W headset you can not only see the number it shows an image with it.
It’s a Bluetooth headset with an ear plug, but the interesting part is the 128 x 128-pixel 4,096-color display you can hang [...]

Japan: Mobile Phone checks for drink-driving

Anew breath analyzer system from DoCoMo that is connected to a mobile phone is becoming popular with bus and transport companies in Japan.
The new system that uses a 3G handset, is considered to be foolproof. Before a driver starts every day or at certain intervals, (s)he makes a video-phone call to the company and [...]

DLink V-Click: Another WLAN - GSM twin hitting the streets

Another WLAN-WiFi enabled GSM phone will become available soon to consumers in Europe and the USA. D-Link is introducing a new unlocked Linux based phone that can be used with normal GSM cell phone networks as well as with wireless WiFi networks. HP, Nokia and Siemens (now BenQ) plus others have all recently introduced [...]

Screaming cell phones

UK based start-up company Remote XT has come up with a new solution to stop mobile phone theft. Currently, on average a mobile phone is stolen every 12 seconds in the UK.

The service offered includes software available for most GPRS handsets that can connect to the Internet. It does not work with Blackberries. [...]