Vodafone Mobile Coverage in Australia
28 May 2009, 10:57 amOne in every four mobile users on the planet is connected with Vodafone. That’s a lot of mobiles and a lot of mobile experience. Vodafone were part of the original team that developed GSM technology (now used by 860 networks in 220 countries and regions). Their experience and expertise goes along way in Australia too.
BlackBerry Curve 8900
17 Apr 2009, 2:50 pm
There is no word yet on general availability in Australia, but reports coming in on the new BlackBerry Curve 8900 indicate another great email device from RIM.
Mobile World Congress 2009 Wrap
6 Mar 2009, 12:25 pm
The Mobile World Congress is held each year in Barcelona and is the largest mobile phone and technology exhibition in the world. Now the dust has settled and the reports are in, what were the highlights, and what do we have to look forward to in the year ahead?
Android to Launch in Australia
6 Feb 2009, 12:07 pmThe first Android-powered mobile phone – HTC’s Dream – will go on sale in Australia on Optus post-paid plans from mid February.
Android Update
19 Jan 2009, 1:17 pmThe first phone to use the Android operating system was launched by T-Mobile in the USA and UK in October 2008, and it is proving quite popular at this stage.
Nokia N97 Announced
3 Dec 2008, 3:13 pmWith all the hype surrounding the launch and market success Apple’s iPhone 3G, and RIM’s prolification of
new models – BlackBerry Bold, Pearl Flip and Storm, not to mention HTC rattling a few cages with both Windows Mobile and Google Android based smartphones, it was only a matter of time before the world’s number 1 manufacture of mobile phones, Nokia, started to blow it’s own trumpet in an effort to slow down the rate of it’s diminishing market share.
A Brief History of BlackBerry
2 Dec 2008, 10:26 amBlackBerry devices have been around since 1999, but they remained somewhat obscure until well after the new millenium. BlackBerry’s global popularity really started to surge around 2004. In November of 2004, Research In Motion announced that there were over two million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide. This was up from one million earlier in the year. It took five years to get the first million, and then 10 months to get the second. The third came just six months after that, in May of 2005. Less than a year later, subscribers totaled 5 million. However, in the past two years, RIM has added another 9 million subscribers, and now boast 14 million subscribers. In less than three-and-a-half years, 13 million people have purchased a BlackBerry.
Mega Megapixel Camera Phones
19 Nov 2008, 2:10 pmIf you thought the compact digital camera market had developed rapidly with it’s megapixel count, t
aking about 7 years to evolve from 3 megapixels to todays 12 megapixels, it is nothing compated to pace in camera phones.
iPhone 3G Now Best Seller in US
18 Nov 2008, 10:34 amAccording to a new study by market research firm The NPD Group, Apple’s iPhone has now surpassed the Motorola RAZR as the best selling mobile handset purchased by US based adults in the third-quarter of 2008.
Smartphones – Nokia, Apple & RIM
10 Nov 2008, 4:23 pmFor many years Nokia has dominated both the Australian and worldwide mobile market, including the high-end smartphone market.
Recently RIM (manufacturer of BlackBerry) and Apple (manufacturer of iPhone) have made their presence felt and are taking a significant cut of Nokia’s smartphone market share, leading to the first drop in smartphone sales for Nokia.
