There’s great news for O2’s 21 million strong customer base who can now all benefit from the industries fastest single-click Payforit payment experience – thanks to Bango. This includes the wide range of smartphones and significant number of Apple iPhone, Windows Phone and Palm Pre users connecting over O2’s internet gateways. Customers with smartphones that [...]
Selling your mobile app could not be simpler, you just send it over to your favourite App Store and it gets published to millions of eager consumers – it’s all part of the App Stores 30% revenue share. They take care of all the complex stuff such as secure app delivery and rights management etc. [...]
The popularity of Smartphones and high end mobile devices, such as Blackberries, the Apple iPhone, Nokia Series, means that Wi-Fi is appearing more frequently as a user connection method accross a range of handsets. In fact Bango has recently released some stats showing that over 20% of people visiting web sites to purchase content using [...]
It comes as no surprise that Nokia will not have operator billing when it launches its Ovi App Store next month to a potential market of 50 million users on 25 devices (read the story in The Washington Post). Nokia had originally said that it would offer operator billing in nine countries including the US. [...]
There were some great questions posed by content providers wanting to understand the US mobile opportunity at the Bango webinar last week and we thought it would be great to share these with everyone. Questions – The US Opportunity webinar, 21 April (Watch a recording here) Q: Does AT&T allow payment via credit card through Bango? A: [...]
App Stores for mobile phones do seem to be flavor of the month, judging by the announcements at Mobile World Congress this month. Along came Apple and launched a highly successful iPhone App Store and now nearly all the major handset vendors – Nokia, RIM, Google to name a few – have or are jumping [...]
If you are looking for a mobile billing solution and think that Premium SMS is the obvious choice for selling your mobile content then it’s probably worth taking a closer look at what other options you have. There are two things to bear in mind: What’s the user experience going to be? A poor experience [...]
Gartner research reveals that in Q2 2008, 10.5% of all phones sold worldwide was a Smartphone. While it’s great to see functionality rich browsers on mobile devices along with big screens and fast connections, the problem with emulating PC browsing is that it dumbs down the potential for mobile commerce. On the mobile web today [...]
Verizon has been hiitting the news a lot recently. This past week , the US’s No. 2 mobile operator has been the subject of a “will they, won’t they?” question on charging their subscribers for sending text messages. The plan was to charge $0.03 each, something that caused wide consternation in the mobile industry, particularly [...]
Vive La France! Well as long as you are happy with the French “Gallery”. France has a unique structure for mobile content with the Walled Gardens of their operator portals surrounded by a Fortified Field called “Gallery”. This is not true off-portal as there is a strict approval procedure which is run by the mobile operators. [...]
