September 18th, 2009 | by Juan Tejeda | published in Mobile Apps, Mobile Communities, Mobile Devices, Mobile Services
o everything started this last summer. My bike was basically dead and I wanted to go biking with my son, so I opened an account with “Call a Bike” the renting bike service from the Deutsche Bahn (trains) here in Germany. I used it and though – “this service needs an app to boost their business and make life easier for everyone”.
August 23rd, 2009 | by Juan Tejeda | published in Mobile Devices
The UK-based ashortwalk has come up with a nice application called Mobiletide for those surfing and windsurfing fans. The application can calculate and display the state of the tide at just about any location around the world.
June 22nd, 2009 | by Juan Tejeda | published in Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices, Mobile Services
About a year ago Garmin (GPS Navigation System guys) announced their Nuvifone, the natural evolution of their navigation system, featuring local based services way before any other device at the time. In addition it was possible to play mp3 audio and video files. By far the best of its class. The anticipated iPhone killer… So what happened?
June 7th, 2009 | by Juan Tejeda | published in Mobile Apps, Mobile Communities, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Services
Mobile Sports is the topic for the next event at Mobile Monday Munich chapter. If you are in Munich and want to attend just register at: http://www.mobile-monday.de/events/mobile-sports
should be interesting.
May 26th, 2009 | by Juan Tejeda | published in Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices, Mobile Marketing, Statistics on Mobile Devices
Click-to-Call or CTC is a model that started first on the internet and then evolved into a more literal use of its name, meaning click to make a call. While browsing the net on your mobile phone you can see how phone numbers are higlighted (like a link), upon clicking the number will be automatically dialed.
May 24th, 2009 | by Juan Tejeda | published in Mobile Devices, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Services
In an industry dominated by SMS campaigns, MMS, shrunken banners mimicking the ones on internet, ring tones and some other primitive forms of marketing gave the mobile phone the reputation of been the underachiever of the media world. Undeniably, the introduction of the iPhone changed the way we think about mobile phones, the way we interact with them and what we expect from our devices. We are now living what is been called by some the “Post iPhone era” and every new smartphone that comes out in the market is expected to be better or at least have the same functionalities. While innovative and cool, advertisers are worried that an offer that can’t be streamlined and sold by the pound is unlikely to happen with this current innovative climate. Just like the early days of the internet a lot of experimenting is going on, but defined formats are not well established yet.
May 21st, 2009 | by Juan Tejeda | published in Mobile Communities, Mobile Devices, Mobile Services
In August of 2008 Harvind Samra and David A. Burgess successfully tested 120 phones to what is now officially the first open source GSM in the world.
