Vodafone offers bundling 3G services as an unlimitted usage option to its subscribers. Vodafone has introduced what it says is Australia's biggest mobile TV and music offering on Vodafone live! with 3G. In all there are 21 live and made for mobile TV channels to watch. Vodafone live! with 3G customers can now get access to 6 live channels (Sky News Business, Sky News UK, BBC World, Fashion TV, ABC and SBS) another 15 made for mobile channels (including MTV, E!, Rage, VidZone TV, ABC Kids and Chilli TV) as well as a bunch of exclusive Vodafone content. Available only on Vodafone live! You can watch Team TV which takes you behind the scenes with Australia's top sporting talent and ...

Posted by Budi Putra on December 8th, 2006 No Comments »

Geekzone reported a very interesting statictic on cellular industry milestones. Mobile phone industry has become a spectacular industry: it took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in a period of just over two years. According to estimates from Wireless Intelligence, a venture between market intelligence firm Ovum and the GSM Association, the total number of cellular connections in the world will reach 2.5 billion, having passed through the 2 billion mark just 12 months ago, "The cellular industry took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in ...

Posted by Budi Putra on September 10th, 2006 No Comments »

This is another new handset challenger in 3G market... Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced its first UMTS-capable handhelds, the BlackBerry 8707g and 8707v, in Singapore. Both models, which essentially offer the same features but with slight differentiation in exterior casing, will be carried by all three local mobile operators. The 8707g will be available from SingTel and StarHub, while the 8707v will be offered by M1. One of the key features of the new BlackBerry handhelds is their ability to multitask. According to RIM, the 8707g and 8707v allow simultaneous voice and data usage while being used as a modem for a PC. Each handheld will come with a 16-bit QVGA screen, 64MB flash memory, onboard BlackBerry ...

Posted by Budi Putra on August 23rd, 2006 2 Comments »

Smackall, a leading mobile entertainment solution provider announces the release of massively multi-player online game (MMOG) available on selected Java-enabled mobile phones through the SMNA Technology. The game is played on a board with 7 columns and 6 rows, which is placed in a vertical position. The players have 21 discs each, distinguished by color. The players take turns in dropping discs in one of the non-full columns. The disc then occupies the lowest unoccupied square on that column. A player wins by placing four of their own discs consecutively in a line (row, column or diagonal), which ends the game. The game ends in a draw if the board is filled completely without any player winning. Strategy ...

Posted by Budi Putra on July 14th, 2006 No Comments »

Nokia Indonesia announced its participation in the Indonesia Cellular Show 2006 (ICS 2006) in the Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta, 5-9 Juli 2006. This event is the biggest mobile telecommunication industry exhibition in Indonesia aiming at accommodating demands and needs of all parties in this industry, particularly mobile phone users in Indonesia. In ICS 2006, Nokia Indonesia introduces Mobile TV, the latest technology offered by Nokia N92 phone, which enables users to watch digital TV broadcast, with the support of DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast – Handheld) technology. As a player in the mobile telecommunication industry in Indonesia with a commitment to always provide the best for its users, Nokia Indonesia welcomes this Indonesia Cellular Show 2006. "We see the people have a ...

Posted by Budi Putra on July 6th, 2006 1 Comment »

Indonesia, which has five 3G operators already, will be the third ASEAN country after Singapore and Malaysia to have WCDMA-based 3G services. We will be joining around fifty million people who already have access to this service around the world. But it's not clear what services the operators will offer. When the operators did 3G trials last years, they indicated that their services would be video conferences, video telephony and internet broadband connection only. According to an Ericsson Consumer Lab survey in Indonesia, video telephony -- being able to see the person you are talking with -- ranked only fifth in the list of services that users were interested in. Topping the list was radio entertainment, ...

Posted by Budi Putra on July 6th, 2006 No Comments »

Nokia recently announced a new commercial DVB-H pilot in Stockholm with Teracom in Sweden. Nokia is supplying the Nokia Mobile Broadcast System 3.0 and Nokia N92 mobile TV devices to the pilot which will last from October to December 2006 and includes 400 consumers. The project is a co-operation between ATG, Boxer, Nokia, Sveriges Radio, Sveriges Television/UR, Telenor and Teracom. The pilot participants will be able to watch fourteen TV channels and listen to four radio channels in the Stockholm city region, where a network has been built for high quality indoor and outdoor coverage. The objective is to evaluate what Swedish consumers think about commercial broadcast mobile TV. We strongly believe in the capability of the DVB-H technology as ...

Posted by Budi Putra on June 30th, 2006 No Comments »

As the market evolves with new phones arriving weekly, Whoscallingme.com is poised to support over 600 of them, delivering ring tones to all on-comers. The vast chasm of mobile functionality is rapidly being bridged by a weekly influx of new mobile devices. This causes more than enough headaches for those hoping to get in on the latest multimedia craze; games, pictures or the most popular…ring tones. Now, a California Ring Tone company has re-designed their web site to support over 600 devices, and the list grows with the market. Motorola commands over 28% of the new sales market, selling their Razr phone to millions, while the rest of the market including Nokia, Samsung, LG, Kyocera and Sanyo all are delivering new devices ...

Posted by Budi Putra on June 23rd, 2006 No Comments »

Publicly listed cellular phone provider PT Bakrie Telecom, which operates the CDMA-based esia mobile phone service, plans to expand its coverage to 15 cities in Banten and West Java next month in a bid to carve itself out a bigger share of the mobile phone market. With coverage confined to only two cities -- Indonesian capital city Jakarta and Bandung -- at present, the firm hopes the expansion will increase its subscriber base to 1.3 million by the end of this year from about one million at present. The company, a subsidiary of the widely diversified Bakrie & Brothers, is still waiting for the results of its feasibility studies and the outcome of the ...

Posted by Budi Putra on June 22nd, 2006 No Comments »

Millions can now explore, find and connect with Mobile Search as coverage extends to Denmark, France, Italy, Norway and Spain Nokia recently announced the expansion of Mobile Search, a free software solution for the high-performing Nokia Nseries multimedia computers and other Nokia devices based on the S60 platform. Mobile Search provides people with an easy, fast and direct way to find what they want, when they want it. The Mobile Search application fast-tracks the user directly to the desired contact number, with just one click. Users of this online search tool in select countries across Europe will have access to decisive local search capabilities from their Nokia mobile devices, including the Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N80, Nokia N90, Nokia 6630, Nokia ...

Posted by Budi Putra on June 4th, 2006 No Comments »