The criteria of choosing a cellphone model varies from one person to another depending on their needs and preferences. Some of the most important factors to be considered are pricing, features and usage and prevalence within a country. As of year 2006, survey reports shows that there are more mobile phone subscription compared to number of people. On the average monthly service cost, United States appears as being the highest with $53 as compared to Finland and Sweden which are only for $11 a month. There are also a lot of carriers that cater to millions of subscribers. According to the survey made, Vodaphone stands on the top and Verizon on the bottom for the number of subscribers all over the world.
Hilariously funny new iPhone commercial where they showcase just about the most needed apps for relationships gone wrong. We’ll like to see if any other iPhone wannabe’s has the bottle to copy and make this one. Look at the full video here.
Lately, we have been hearing a lot of issues about iPhones but the most disturbing ones are the news about consumers getting injured from their exploding iPhones. On one of our previous articles, we have mentioned that France is planning to set an investigation for these incidences to know what causes this. Finally, Apple faces an official investigation over the the possible risks that consumers may suffer from their famous smartphone. All in all, there had been about half a dozen claims from consumers in France alone. Recent ones involve an 80 year-old Rolland Caufman who claims that his iPhone started vibrating and the screen suddenly cracked while he was shopping and a 26 year-old security guard, Yassine Bouhadi who suffered an eye injury when his iPhone suddenly shattered. Apple on the other hand remains silent and stated “Until we have the full details, we don’t have anything further to add.” Oh well…
Any of you out there that wants to steer away from itunes? Dont want to be downloading and wasting space on your phone filling it up with songs and not enough for pictures? Well Spotify could just be the answer to your mobile music jukebox problems. This cool new app for the iPhone is an streaming application where you can just search for your favourite songs in real time. However, what happens when there is no cellular data transfer in range or no WiFi? Well fear not radio heads, Spotify downloads a playlist ahead of time so that you can listen to it even when there is no network coverage. Now normally you’d think that an app like this would never get past Apples filtering system of what apps gets the seal of approval. But this has, and at the cost of £9.99 ($16.20) per month subscription. But the catch is that its only available to certain countries in Europe at the moment, with America in the pipeline for later in the year.
China, being the world’s biggest mobile market catering to 687 million customers is now getting ready to launch its no WiFi version of iPhone. Apple and China Unicom have reached an agreement on issues such as price and order volume and are expected to finalize the deal by the end of the week. The selling price would be 3,000 yuan equivalent to $440 although to avail these, customers are required to purchase 3,000 yuan worth of prepaid calls. The negotiation started shortly after the government issued 3G phone licenses in January
According to the recent survey made among 600 British white-collar workers, people using Blackberry handsets tend to carry their work at home and basically anywhere they go since they are able to reply on urgent e-mails adding another 15 hours of extra work a week. This can be considered as an advantage for those who are always on-the-go but on the other hand, it could have an impact on your health due to stress caused by less hours of rest. According to Employment Law firm Peninsula, working week was now extended to around 5 hours to avoid breaching working time regulations.
Mobile banking has become a common thing for some countries especially in Europe but unfortunately not in the United States. Luckily, Nokia announced that Nokia Money will be available to U.S. consumers next year. Imagine paying your bills and sending money to other users with just one text message. What could be more convenient than that? Nokia Money will be presented for the first time this September and is expected to hit the market by 2010.
Following the recent release for the iPhone version of the TomTom Navigation application on the iPhone. Navigon has just gone and released their own navigation application which has seen many improvements over its predecessors. In this new addition to mobile navigation, you will see the added features of POI (point of interest) where the application will show you things like best buys, with the closest locations and at the same time displaying their contact details and address. It can also navigate you to your friends from your contact list (ones which you have addresses added of course) making this on par with the feature that the TomTom Application give you with your iPhone’s in built features.
Recently Bell has released a new advert for the much anticipated Palm Pre. However on first look it reminds us of our good old friend the Apple iPhone advert. Just when we thought Sprints desperate dig at iPhone was bad enough. Shame on you Bell!!
Next in line for Nokia’s touchscreen venture in the express music line up is the newly announced Nokia 5230. It is said to have the benefit of 3G and GPS Navigation. The look is somehow inspired by Nokia 5800 although in terms of picture quality, its camera is only 2 megapixels as opposed to its counterpart, the Nokia 5800 which has a 3.2 megapixel camera. Another downside is it doesn’t have the WiFi capability which could most probably drop its price considerably. Some of its other features include a support for 3G, FM, a 3.5mm jack, microSD slot and a 3.2 inch touchscreen. Another set of features of the 5230 that most people might get hookep up to are Ovi Maps and social networking such as facebook, myspace and youtube. One can choose from its many colors such as red, pink, blue, yellow, silver and dark silver.
