The FT has published a blog piece with some outrageous interesting speculation from analysts that Apple’s IOS devices could number 100 million in the next 18 months. The piece looks at some of the Wall Street analysts, who seem to be wanting to outdo each other with who can up-chat the iPhone/iPad sales the most.…
Month: June 2010
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Daily Express creates iPad app
The ghost of Princess Diana’s favourite read, The Daily Express has launched an iPad edition. Designed by PageSuite, the app costs £7.99 to download and will give users an initial 30-day subscription to iPad editions of the Daily Express and Sunday Express. Individual editions, pages and videos can be downloaded to view offline. Additional features…
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O2 iPhone 4 pricing announced
Anyone who pre-registered for the iPhone 4 on O2 should be getting an email with the iPhone tariffs – which we knew already – but they’re now updated with the iPhone costs. The cheapest tariff for the iPhone is £25 per month on a 24 month contract which gives 100 minutes, 500Mb of data, unlimited…
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Glastonbury 2010 stage times on mobile – sort of
Glastonbury Festival 2010 celebrates its 40th birthday this year from Wednesday 23 June to Sunday 27 June at Worthy Farm The full line-ups including all the stage times across the 45 different stages have now been released online at the official Glastonbury site http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/lineuptimes/ and they’re all in simple text format, so that the mud-happy…
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Disney first off the block with trending twitters
Disney/Pixar is the first brand to advertise on Twitter’s new sponsored trending topics. In April Twitter finally announced how it was going to repay all their VC funding, and the first part of a multi-stage commercial model, was promoted tweets, which enables brands to feature more prominently in relevant search results and in people’s news…
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iPhone 4 winning in analyst sweepstakes
Mobile analysts have upped their guesstimates for iPhone 4 sales, following the demand for the wunder-phone on its first day of pre-orders. In a research note, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster changed his iPhone sales targets for both the quarters ending in June and September to 9.5 million from 8.5 million. He wrote that Apple…
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Android catching up on iPhone lead
Mobile data analysts Quantcast have released their monthly figures for vendor and operating systems and once again Apple is on top of the vendors, but when it comes to operating systems Google’s Android is starting to fight back. Quantcast’s May figures for operating systems show Apple’s IOS at 72.6% with RIM at 10% and Android…
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Argos app hits 500,000 downloads in three weeks
Argos has revealed today that “strong consumer demand” and above-the-line marketing support – a TV ad and a iPhone press ad – for the Argos iPhone app has resulted in more than 500,000 downloads in just three weeks, and on one day Saturday 28 May 2010 the retailer had over 40,000 downloads. The Argos app…
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Apple takes 600,000 pre-orders on first day
Apple has said that it took more than 600,000 orders yesterday. It’s not apparent if this is Worldwide or just in the US. If it’s in the US then Apple took in something in the order of $150 million (£101 million) in orders – others have speculated Apple’s takings to be over $300 million (£202…
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Orange reveals iPhone 4 pricing
Orange has launched it’s iPhone 4 plans and they’re offering an unlimited browsing capacity of 750Mb per month on both internet and wi-fi through BT. Why don’t they just come clean and say 750Mb per month? This is NOT unlimited in any shape or form. Additionally they also fail to say what the costs will…
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iPhone 4 first batch already sold out
Bad luck if you want to buy a SIM-free version of the iPhone 4 and receive it on the 24 June, they’re all sold out. The Apple pre-order website now gives the delivery date for both the 16 and 32 GB versions of the iPhone 4 as 2 July. The pre-order site went live yesterday…
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Standard app gets 73,000 downloads
The evening standard iPhone app has been downloaded by over 73,000 users since it’s launch and is at the top of apple’s iTunes charts. Additionally the app has also been a success in the US where according to the Standard “it was among the top 10 free news apps”. We suspect this was on launch…
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News and entertainment are the most popular apps
According to a new report by analysts In-Stat news and entertainment smartphone apps are downloaded the most, but productivity smartphone applications generate the most revenues. Productivity applications such as mapping, business and enterprise applications and phone tools and utilities generate 59% of all smartphone application revenue. “The competitiveness of the smartphone app market will intensify…
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Apple launch an iPhone iPhone app
Apple has created a free app that allows you to buy iPhone products and accessories including pre-registering and buying the newest iPhone 4 The dedicated iPhone app lets users buy products and accessories, read customer reviews, find their nearest Apple Store retailer, and make appointments for personal shopping and get help from the genius bar.…
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iPhone 4 now also at Tesco
Tesco have revamped their mobile site and are now offering iPhone 4 on pre-order http://direct.tesco.com/p/inc/specials/iphone/default.asp Tesco are currently the best on price for the 3GS iPhone and are selling the 3GS 8GB for £449 on pay as you go with 12 months unlimited web and wi-fi. It will be interesting to see if they stick…
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Sun iPad application
Rupert Murdoch’s favourite newspaper The Sun has launched an Apple iPad app, and the world has to wonder just how many Sun readers are going to a) have an iPad and b) will fork out £5 a month for the privilege of downloading the paper. The app launched today costs £4.99 ($7.99 in the US)…
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iPhone 4 pricing and pre-order now live
The Apple iPhone 4 is now available to pre-order directly from Apple http://www.apple.com/iphone/pre-order/. An iPhone 4 can be yours for just £499. “When you purchase your iPhone from the Apple Online Store, you’ll get it SIM-free. So you can sign up for service with the carrier of your choice and change your carrier at any…
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Mobiles cause Daily Express headlines
An extensive 30-second study conducted by Business Mobile has found that mobile phone press releases cause front page headlines in the Daily Express. This week the Express found the latest press release on mobile phones that ticked all the right boxes and duly splashed it all over the front page. To help readers identify these…
Events, News
Oldies mobile conference nets Stirling Moss
The Second Senior Market Mobile conference speakers list has been announced and it looks like it’s going to be a great event. The conference is aimed at getting mobile marketeers to understand that it’s not just 20 year olds that carry mobile phones. There is a whole strata of under-served mobile users who are wealthy,…
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WorldLenns augmented reality app for iPhone 3GS
New York and Shanghai tech developers QderoPateo have launched a really interesting app that combines augmented reality, music, the arts, and social networks. 3G users unfortunately aren’t going to be able to use this as it requires the digital compass only available on the 3GS iPhone 4. The free app allows users to take photos…