By Mike on 02 October 2009
GLOBAL – Battery life and phone charging remains one of those intriguing and forever passionate topics of chatter here on Conversations – over the past year we’ve set our brains buzzing with the big phone charger debate and been impressed by environment and sustainability announcements, security shake-ups, and explored how important long-lasting mobile power is for many groups with different unique requirements.
This week’s comment of the week winner responds to the results of our recent business phone reader poll, which saw long-haul battery life come out on top as the most important feature in an enterprise device. Read on to find out who has won a copy of Gravity for Twitter, and to join the discussion and share your thoughts.
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By JBC on 30 September 2009
GLOBAL – Reading an interview with Nokia CEO OPK in India’s Economic Times, a few lines just struck me. Talking about the evolution of the mobile handset, OPK shines a light on the competition for mobile devices – in essence, saying there isn’t any. Specifically, OPK says “I don’t think that it’s the mobile device versus anything else. It’s a question about the convergence space where a lot of opportunities will arise.” Now, I’m not going to read into what OPK is saying here particularly as he’s talking in a much wider business context, but instead I’d like to use it as a base point to think about what it means from a consumer point of view.
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By Mike on 29 September 2009
GLOBAL – Well that’s the verdict according to our most recent reader poll in which we posed you with the question what is the most important feature in a business device? It certainly surprised me that long battery life landed the top slot as the most crucial aspect of an enterprise device (of course I see it as important, but most important?). What’s interesting is that battery life has proved itself a most popular and top ranking feature in each of our recent series of polls, landing first place in the music phone stakes too. Opening the question, do we underestimate the significance of long battery lives, or does it remain true that some devices require it more than others (such as basic devices aimed at rural communities in emerging markets)? Share your thoughts on this topic and read on to find out all the results of our recent business phone reader poll.
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By Mike on 25 September 2009
GLOBAL – A deluge of great debate and comments have flooded a number of stories this week on Conversations, ranging from the soft and cuddly to the fierce and fiery (we’re fans of all varieties). It’s been a tough one to pick, but we’ve got a winner. Read on to find out about the top discussions happening right here on Conversations, and discover who wins this week’s comment of the week award and a copy of the Twitter Gravity app.
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By JBC on 25 September 2009
A pint, yesterday.
LONDON, England – In a couple of hours, busy workers across Great Britain will indulge in the weekly institution that is the Friday lunchtime pint. Frowned upon in some countries, it’s almost (and I stress the almost) actively encouraged in the UK. As such, without any statistical analysis of any kind, I can safely assume that thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of people will today be invited to a riot at lunchtime.
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By Mike on 23 September 2009
GLOBAL – Last week we opened the Conversations polling station to find out how many phones you carry, with a view to discussing why some folk carry multiple devices and exploring the solutions related to this topic. It was great to see so many of you get involved (we counted 825 votes – not by hand, of course), and as is often the case with this sort of poll some fascinating new debates and fresh stories emerged from within the sea of numbers, including some interesting chatter on dual SIM phones. Read on to find out how many devices most of you here reading Conversations carry in your pocket(s).
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By JBC on 23 September 2009
CHINA – I wanted to write that out in a headline, just to see what half a billion actually looked like in numbers. The actual number of subscribers to China Mobile is closer to 502,936,000, but that doesn’t look as good in headlines. China Mobile is the largest mobile phone operator on the planet, when you count subscribers, and it’s just announced the jump in numbers that means it’s broken through the half billion mark. It’s a little less than half the total number of people who use a Nokia device, give or take a hundred million or so, and almost twice the population of the USA. Yes, the entire population, and then some. All subscribed to one mobile phone network. Am I the only one who doesn’t get the scale of this?
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By Charlie on 22 September 2009
BOSTON, USA – When a plane crosses high up in the clear sky, it sometimes leaves behind a trail of conensed vapor, called a contrail. Some days, you can look up and see contrails crisscrossing the sky, revealing patterns for those who know how to look for them.
For a long time now, our mobile devices have been watching us and, in some ways, leaving a contrail of our paths behind us. This contrail could be broadcast by the various radios the devices carry, or by some app communicating continuously (or even intermittently) to some box out in the Cloud.
A recent article (see below) got us wondering how far we want to take this permission we give devices to leave these trails.
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By JBC on 21 September 2009
GLOBAL – If you’ve been wondering just how you can get your N900 to interact with a Speak ‘N’ Spell, View-Master or a rolodex, then fear not, as the folks at Tinker.it have released some more details on how they did it. Okay, so you’ll be short of an N900 until they actually go on sale (soon, we’re told) but at least you can start assembling the required parts in time for your very own hackathon.
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By Mike on 21 September 2009
GLOBAL – A few days ago we posted a reader poll to open up a discussion on how many phones you carry (if you haven’t already, get your vote counted today). We’re only a few days into the voting and already the response has been great, with over 700 of you getting involved. Notably, the current poll figures show that 56% of the Nokia Conversations readership carry two or more phones. Equally as interesting is the fact that the topic of dual SIM phones has somewhat naturally bubbled to the surface in tandem and become the hot topic of debate related to the question how many phones do you carry? This week’s award goes to one of you keenly involved in the debate.
Read on to find out who wins this week’s copy of the Gravity Twitter app, and to join the dual SIM discussion.
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