Posted on Jun 7 2011 by Gerry Filed under: acquisitions, RIM, Scoreloop, Mobile Planet
Scoreloop might be new to your ears but they are actually on a lot of the popular games not only for Android mobile phones but for iPhones as well. Game developers like Magma Mobile uses their SDK. What is Scoreloop, you ask. They actually created a set of software that allows mobile game developers to incorporate features like leaderboards, push notifications and social interaction.
The Scoreloop team will be joining the BlackBerry development team. By the looks of things, BlackBerry may be going into a deeper level into mobile games by providing extra features to BlackBerry app developers.
Posted on May 27 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Android, eMoney, Google, NFC, Mobile Planet
Google announces that they are currently field testing a Google Wallet mobile app for Android. The Google Wallet application is being done in partner with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint.
eMoney is not a new concept, Nokia first started experimenting with the concept on their Symbian mobile phones. Today Google is taking a shot at the bring electronic money to the next level in partnership with big credit card organizations which may be a key ingredient. They are also using NFC (near field communication) as an underlying technology.
NFC has been slowing finding it’s way into the next generation phones like Google’s Nexus S (by Samsung). NFC is actually already a major way of payment being used in Japan. By the time the Google Wallet comes out, there will be more Android phones equipped with the NFC chip. The question remains is whether people will find it easy to use it as alternative to hard cash and physical credit cards.
Posted on May 19 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Asia, HTC, Mobile Planet
HTC has such a great past years by investing early on Android. The phenomenal growth of the Android platform will be even bigger in the Asian markets which has been experiencing much growth. Today HTC is announcing the appointment Jack Tong as president of HTC North Asia and Lennard Hoornik as president of HTC South Asia.
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Posted on May 16 2011 by Gerry Filed under: Nokia, Mobile Planet
Nokia is consolidating it’s brand. Today, it is announcing that the Ovi brand will transition into Nokia services. Nokia’s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Jerri DeVard explains that centralizing services identity under one brand reinforce the powerful master brand of Nokia.
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Posted on Jul 21 2010 by Gerry Filed under: Apple, financial, iPad, iPhone, Mobile Planet
Apple continues to hit record numbers. Apple has just announced its financial earnings for its fiscal 2010 third quarter that ended June 26, 2010. In this quarter, Apple has posted a record revenue of $15.7 billion with a net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion. International sales for the company has accounted for 52 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
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Posted on Jul 16 2010 by Gerry Filed under: carrier unlock, iOS, iPhone, jailbreak, Mobile Planet
From the very first generation of the iPhone, Apple has put it protection that makes it hard for people to get unhindered access to the iPhone OS software. In the US, AT&T has exclusive rights to sell the iPhone 4 and these phones have been carrier locked to AT&T (even those being sold without contract).
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Posted on Jul 13 2010 by Gerry Filed under: Fring, Skype, video call, voice call, VOIP, Mobile Planet
Video calling technology has been available for a while already. For example, 3G video calls have been available in the Philippines for several years. But the recent introduction of Apple’s iPhone 4 mobile phone that sports a front-facing camera has made video calls more popular in the US where video calls via mobile phone has just began to enter the mobile mainstream. Fring’s recent release of its iPhone 4 app that enables video calls on the iPhone 4. This has catched fire so much so that Fring is now head to head with Skype.
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Posted on Jul 11 2010 by Gerry Filed under: email, mail, mobile app, Yahoo, Mobile Planet
Yahoo has recently released it’s mobile app for Yahoo Mail. I’ve just installed the Yahoo Mail mobile app for Android on my Samsung Spica to check it out. To sum up my first impressions, it’s quite good actually — better than the mobile web version for Yahoo Mail.
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Posted on Jul 4 2010 by Gerry Filed under: Android, grip of death, iPhone, signal strength, Mobile Planet
What seems to be all around the Internet these days is the issue of the just released iPhone 4 antennae / signal strength problem. Almost every mobile related site has had some discussion about the problem. It has turned in so much buzz that people have named it the “Grip of Death”. Continue reading …
Posted on Jul 2 2010 by Gerry Filed under: Eldar Murtazin, Jan Ole Suhr, mobile platform, Nokia, Symbian, Mobile Planet
Nokia’s performance as a global mobile leader has been going under fire these days. Recently, Rick Cadden, the founder of the Symbian Guru web site has decided to stop updating the site out of frustration. Rick decided to buy an Android based Nexus One. Nokia’s Symbian platform hasn’t been evolving up to speed in comparison to it’s competitors like Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. A Twitter conversation between Eldar Murtazin and Jan Ole Suhr thinks mismanagement may be the reason for Nokia’s problems.
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