April 23rd, 2008
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Thinking about entertainment business? Mobile music sales is gonna get crazy.
Analysis, a telecom and mobile business analyst had reported revenue from mobile media and entertainment (MME) in USA. This Cambridge-UK based company showed to us that US MME services (excluding messaging, mobile browsing and data charges) are able to generate US$3.1 billion in 2007. That’s [...]
April 22nd, 2008
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I think J-pop (Japanese pop) has frequently enjoyed in mobile phones in Japan since the mobile devices are becoming more popular in the country.
According to the latest statistics:
Total music sales for 2007 in Japan came to JPY 466 billion (US $4.66 billion). While CD/DVD sales declined 4% from the previous year, digital downloads jumped up [...]
April 22nd, 2008
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When I searched about 3G technology this morning, I found that one of my favorite sites, 3GToday.com has been closed. This is the only message on the site:
Thank you for visiting 3G Today. As 3G mobile technology is now a well established global reality with more than 550 million subscribers worldwide at the end of [...]
April 21st, 2008
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Visual search from ER will available in iPhone on June.
Human is always hungry, just like what Steve Jobs used to say; Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. A company from Pasadena California called Evolution Robotics Inc. with their ViPR (visual pattern recognition) technology want to proof this I guess. In April 17, 2008 this company in cooperation [...]
April 21st, 2008
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Too pricey, Chinese manufacturer should have created the cheaper one.
If having GSM and CDMA mobile phones at once is your necessity, then this stuff is a right option for you. Otherwise, don’t think too much since it will come with $640 price tag. Ughhhhh …..
Samsung is clever enough, they had planned to release it in [...]
April 21st, 2008
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Here some important highlights on Taiwan’s telecommununications industry issued by Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry:
3G subscriptions reached 6.91 million at the end of 2007.
2G subscriptions fell by 4.2 % to 15.9 million.
Subscriptions will top 10 million by the end of this year.
Text messaging volumes rose by 26% to 1,256 billion in the fourth quarter of [...]
April 17th, 2008
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On LG Iron Man: good news for American, not Asian.
For our 3GWeek readers, especially who want to get the free LG Iron Man 18 karats mobile phone, I want to say sorry today.
The insidethesuit.com, site which become the gate for us to get the phone and I blamed two days ago as an unfinished site [...]
April 17th, 2008
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No more illegal iPhone in India, at least till September.
Business Standard, a leading business daily in India reported yesterday that the Apple’s most anticipated little gadget, iPhone will comes on the first week of September.
Indian will then could have their own legal 8 GB iPhone at Rs 27,200 and Rs 28,000 ($680.68), instead of the [...]
April 16th, 2008
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The LG’s Voyager iPhone contender is good to boost LG’s profit
The report plus review by AP’s contributor Kelly Olsen can be read anywhere on da web. Here, as usual, I’m going to short list it. For the sake of simplicity and readability.
$427 million (422 billion won) in revenue for the three months ended March 31. [...]
April 15th, 2008
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Welcome, the Nokia 6212 Classic with NFC
Nokia 6212 comes with NFC or Near Field Communication, a technology which could connect its device to others NFC device in a short distance i.e. four centimeters apart (according to NFC Forum) or 10 cm (according to Wikipedia). Well, I respect people on Wikipedia too.
Technically, NFC is operating at [...]