Mobile Insight Vol: 10 Issue 400 February 28th 2008
Kingston offers memory reader/stick combo
Kingston Technology took
advantage of the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona to launch a combined
Flash drive and reader catering for the latest mobile phone memory card formats...More
M:Metrics says games mobile sales are flat
A big opportunity to sell games to mobile phone users is being lost, says mobile data gatherer - M:metrics.
In a year, the total number of subscribers playing a game has only risen from
8.8%...More
Review: Huawei E220 HSPDA USB modem
The product on review here is classified as the Vodafone's Mobile Connect Modem. However, the same piece of kit is, in effect, the E220 HSPDA
USB modem produced by Huawei...More
GSMA defends Barcelona as a venue
Responding to criticism of Barcelona as the venue for the prestigious Mobile World Congress here, a GSMA spokesman has told Mobile Software Insight
it will stay in the city for the foreseeable future....More
Phone review: Alcatel OT-S120 low cost
Many have laid claim to
launching a budget handset but few can have taken the subject so seriously as
Alcatel Mobile Phones with the OT-S120. It's got a black and white screen plus
no browser...More
China Mobile may become UK MVNO
Speculation has mounted that China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier, could set up operations in the UK and other European markets as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...More
Vodafone/Orange JV becomes cell sharing
Following the leak of a new deal between UK operators, Vodafone and Orange, the pair have finally admitted that their proposed joint venture is dead.
It's believed that France Telecom got cold feet...More
China may create three mobile operators
Almost exactly three years after Mobile Software Insight printed the first rumours of a reshuffle amongst China's telecoms companies, the same speculation has resurfaced once
again...More
Snippets
Now it's the turn of RIM and Motorola to slug it out in a Dallas court over
alleged patent infringements. Motorola told RIM to stop breaching its patents
and RIM responded that Motorola has reneged on a 2003 agreement to licence on
fair and reasonable terms. It all sounds so familiar.
www.researchinmotion.com
RIM recently predicted the number of new subscribers it expects to gain in Q1
2008 will be higher than expected. Still, it will only bring the total number of
Blackberry users to 14 million. Tough work selling smartphones, isn't it?
www.rim.com
In Site of the Week (by Tony Dennis)
This week
Honda F1 Mobile
For a site described as "One of the most exciting and informative mobile WAP sites in the automotive sector to date", you'd expect something special.
Sadly Honda's F1 WAP site is hugely disappointing.
So what does it offer? Video clips from the last race at Monaco? Results and summary of performance from the Monaco GP?
Predictions for the next race? None of the above. What it does have are three pathetic F1 style ringtones and three wallpapers showing Jenson Button plus Rubens Barrichello.
The best part is probably the chance to win a tour of the Honda F1 factory in
GB.
For a company which offers state of the art technology, you might expect Honda to have tied location based techniques to displaying where the nearest Honda garage is located.
But, no. Surfers find the nearest Honda dealer by typing in their postcode.
Unfortunately the site's provider – the Mobile Interactive Group (MIG)– seems to think the site is industry leading.
This site definitely does nothing for the Honda brand. But at least it wasn't foolish enough to utilise a dotmobi (.mobi) address for the site.
http://mobile.honda.co.uk
