Last night I spent three hours in an extremely hot room in the name of research. The research was for a mobile company, who will remain nameless, but I can reveal the research was all about smartphone interfaces and how they compared. Each phone in the research was subjected to the same against the clock…
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iPhone gadget of the week
You’re out and about and your iPhone is about to die and you’ve left the charging cable at home. What do you do? Simple get out your ScoSche flipSYNC cable out and you can plug your iPhone in to any USB port. It’s so small that it fits in to it’s own handy key chain.…
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iPad users 350% hungrier than iPhone users
The iPad may not have yet officially been launched in the UK, but that isn’t stopping the device from performing better for retailers than the iPhone, in fact 350% better. Despite having not being released in the UK yet, an initial like-for-like comparison of conversion rates of visitors to buyers on UK takeaway website Just…
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PayPal adds Android to it’s iPhone developer toolkit
Payments giant PayPal have added Android to their list of devices, with their latest update of their Mobile Payments Library. The library enables Android developers to add a PayPal payments system to their applications with a library of standard functions that can be added quickly and simply. The Mobile Payments Library allows developers to add…
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Twitter official iPhone app now out
What’s new in version 3 of Tweetie? Well it’s now called Twitter and so far it’s been released in New Zealand and is making it’s way around the world, so we’re only hours away from getting it in the UK/US. UPDATE 7pm – The app is now live and ready for download http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8 New features…
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Mobile phone sales grew 17% in first quarter 2010
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17% increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales to end users reached 54.3 million units, an increase of 48.7% from the first quarter of 2009. With Android phones seeing a 707% growth…
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Twitter to launch it’s own iPhone app today
If you’re looking for the Atebits Tweetie 2 app today then don’t bother, it’s been removed to allow for the new official Twitter app If you go to iTunes US and UK Tweetie no longer shows up. Links to Tweetie 2 on itunes also now return error messages. However according to Mobile Entertainment site people…
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Visa confirms iPhone payment service
As we reported a few weeks ago Visa will be launching a NFC (Near Field Communication) add-on for the iPhone to allow iPhone users to simply flash their phone to pay for goods, get into buildings, and travel. The Visa device is an external case that plugs into the bottom of the iPhone via the…
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Would you buy a Google Pad?
It seems that Google has decided to get in to the iPad/slate market, and who can blame them? The Nexus wasn’t exactly a huge seller, but according to Google it has made a positive contribution to their sales, which in our book is a success, and the encouraging sales for the iPad makes a move…
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Android overtakes iPhone
The figures are out for smartphone sales and Android based smartphones are doing incredibly well in the US, while Nokia continues to dominate worldwide. According to analysts NPD Group Android is now number two position in the US on consumer smartphone sales with 28%, behind RIM (36%) and ahead of the iPhone (21%). “As in…
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iPhone is now the number three device for Opera
Opera’s monthly State of the Mobile Web report includes an iPhone preview and in just two weeks iPhone users have moved to the third-most popular handset for Opera Mini users worldwide. The release of the iPhone also looks like it will change the top 10 list, as according to preliminary numbers, the United States may…
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UK leads Europe in Smartphone race
comScore released a study of the smartphone market in Europe showing that smartphone adoption in the EU5 (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy) has grown 32 percent versus a year ago to 51.6 million subscribers. Whilst growth can be seen across the range of monthly subscription fees, the mid to low tier is growing faster than…
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Give your users a choice
According to research from CrowdScience when it comes to smartphones, choice is the best way to create loyal consumers. Unfortunately as CrowdScience points out this also applies to businesses, and the default business phone “the crackberry” may actually be harming the Blackberry brand. Researcher found that 60% of consumers who had some choice in their…
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Yahoo launches Sketch-a-search for iPhone
Yahoo has launched two new search apps for the iPhone Sketch-a-Search http://itunes.com/apps/yahoosketchasearch and Yahoo Search http://itunes.com/apps/yahoosearch Yahoo has partnered with more than 80 leading carriers and original equipment manufacturers around the world to deliver what it calls a “an industry-leading mobile search experience” and Sketch-a-search certainly fits the bill. Here’s Yahoo’s explanation of it Yahoo…
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When will Opera hit the iPhone?
Opera submitted their latest version to iPhone and have set up a counter to the iPhone being released http://my.opera.com/community/countup/ If you guess correctly you can win an iPhone. I for one am very keen to get my hands on it because Opera is quick!! take a look at the demo video here and be astounded…