I’ve been experimenting with the Android Market on a variety of phonesover the last few weeks. In particular I’ve downloaded and used several travel apps - flight trackers, city guides etc.
In almost every case, I have taken advantage of Google’s policy of allowing full refund for apps returned within 24hrs to get my money back [...]
This was the thinking behind Touchnote’s innovative mobile application, which allows people to create and mail cards using their mobiles, from anywhere in the world. The application launched in 2009 after Raam Tahkar, CEO of Touchnote, realized there was a gap in the market and uses in-app billing to charge their customers.
In a recent [...]
…at least five evidently – and you’re right it’s not funny, especially if you are a mobile app developer trying to build and maintain apps for the growing smartphone market. Google recently revealed high levels of fragmentation in their Android platform and has now announced their own Nexus One handset that uses yet another version [...]
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 [...]
If rumours are true, then we can all expect to see more consumers in the USA browsing the web from their smartphone and making purchases soon. According to The Boy Genius Report from September AT&T will provide customers with a suitable data plan for their smartphone.
The high cost of data has long been known to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
