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Archive for September, 2009
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Cutting Tune, Cutting Edge
The mobile media market has reached its peak, analysts say, and while it’s not hard to see why – the cell phone has transcended its former image as a business item and cultivated a new one as a cultural and social extension of one’s personality – it’s important to consider various avenues that keep the experience fresh and unique. Customizing and tailor-making features, wallpaper, apps and ringtones to suit one’s personality continues to be a big part of the cell phone experience, but matters like price and convenience are starting to make their presence felt as factors affecting sales and user loyalty. -
Apple’s iTunes 9: Now with Ringtones
Mobiles and music go hand in hand. At least that’s what many mobile media providers have been banking on for the last decade or so, ever since the cell phone exploded onto the mass market and went straight into its meteoric rise, transcending its “business-class necessity” status and going straight for the title of “trendy gadget that everyone should have.” Along with customization options that allow users to tailor-make their cell phone’s visual and physical features, such as plastic housing panels and themed wallpaper, the personalization afforded by musical cues for cell ringing – ringtones, in short – have brought music and mobiles together in a match made in marketing heaven. -
A Pixi In Your Palm
Earlier this month, Palm announced the possible holiday-season release of a new webOS-based smartphone: their new Palm Pixi stands to live up to its name’s light and breezy connotations while delivering solid quality. Much like the Palm Pre, the Pixi will be exclusive to Sprint and feature Palm’s signature webOS software with Synergy-bound LinkedIn and Yahoo integration. Also sporting an exposed QWERTY keyboard instead of its Pre cousin’s hidden slide-reveal QWERTY, the Pixi is loaded with a flash-equipped 2-megapixel camera, 3.5mm headphone jack, 8GB of internal storage, and a 2.63-inch multi-touch screen. -
Cellfish – Free Ringtones from Cellfish.com
Cellfish.com is a mobile media center online for your cell phones’ content which includes images, ringtones, and videos. You can download free images, videos and free ringtones as well as other media. -
Reasons to Make Yours Tonemine
While some reports suggest that the mobile media market has reached its peak and is starting to level off and even spiral, such a situation is more a symptom of a new phase than an indication of the end. Mobile media has consistently been a solid and profitable commodity, even as newer and newer phone models hit the market and revolutionize the landscape anew by allowing for new offerings and new formats for mobile media such as ringtones and wallpaper. User desires for personalization and customization are catered to in different ways by providers who have developed aggressive marketing campaigns and user-friendly interfaces to best deliver the mobile content to the mobile generation. -
“Makeownringtone.com” is What it Promises
Mobile media has emerged as a very solid, viable and marketable commodity, even as technological advancements help companies make newer and newer phone models to accommodate more and more aspects of user convenience, personalization and customization. One of the most profitable offerings in this regard is also one of the simplest: the ringtone, which has evolved from monotone to polytone to realtone in the last ten or so years to provide users with interesting sound clips to herald a call or message – from approximations of songs to clips of the actual songs themselves, or sound effects or voice cuts, there’s a ringtone for every user and every user’s personality. -
One More Reason to Pick Apple
The mobile market and the music market have been intertwined for a long time, a union marked by speedy advancement and constant turnover in catering to customer satisfaction and matching demand. Mobile media has proven to be a more or less evergreen commodity, although its constantly transforming landscape has brought its users and producers to various formats of distribution and arenas of marketing. Aiding this is the continual flux of trends in the music industry and the continued development of newer and better phone models, providing more customization options and more room for the use of mobile media such as ringtones. -
“Best Ever Downloads” at Mobile17
Mobile media has grown into quite the solid commodity, with a rich marketing environment full of available options and strategies for highlighting the pleasant aspects of the mobile content for consumers to pick up. The consumers themselves form a very profitable market base, who respond positively to marketing strategies that focus on the way mobile media provides venues for self-expression and individuality. Along with others, these factors have come together over the last few years to transform cell phones from basic work-related necessities into personal items important for reasons beyond the mere “making calls” aspect. One such strong category of mobile media is ringtones, which have in turn progressed from indicators of incoming calls and messages to extensions of the phone owner’s personality. -
Ring + Single = Ringle?
The music industry has always been an interesting place. From the way it accommodates various shifting trends in music and style, to the way it interacts with fashion and popular culture to create new identities for new generations, it has always been as influential as it is interesting. The current wave of transformations prompted by the advent of digital media and online formats has also wrought considerable change upon the music industry, the way it does business, and the way it reaches its public. Fortunately, music and media have also always gone hand in hand. One such venue of intertwined formats that has become a force to be reckoned with is mobile media, specifically the ringtone. -
MyMojo – Free Ringtones & Music from MyMojo.com
MyMojo is a Mobile Social Network site that offers a large selection of mobile content on the net. By joining this online community they promise to keep your mobile phones updated with the latest craze in ringtones, images, videos, games and all sorts of applications. -
DadaMobile and the Ringtone Revolution
The provision of mobile content has long been proven to be a viable business, ever since the former absolute-necessity-only cell phone metamorphosed into a popular, good-for-everyone personal item that served as much for self-expression and individuality as for practicality and sensible use. Customizable wallpaper, applications, widgets, and ringtones top the lists of content that provide cell phone users with various means to tweak and personalize their ever-evolving mobile phone units, and the options increase almost by the day, with each new iteration of the mobile phone expanding and improving its features and allowing for more and more unique touches to be installed. -
Sprint Moves Forward as iPCS WiMax Lawsuit is Dismissed
ILLINOIS – A local wireless company moves forward with a lawsuit which seeks access to Sprint Nextel’s WiMax technology, but the judge dismissed the pursuit of the case for monetary damages. The Circuit Court of Cook County preserved some portions of the legal challenge that iPCS Incorporated filed against Sprint Nextel but dismissed several key parts in the case. -
Thumbs Up for Thumbplay
Strong businesses are built on the banks of freely-flowing market forces, and one must harness and damn the market up reasonably well so as to make the most of the opportunity. Wisely, mobile content providers have taken advantage of the continually strong pop music market and that of mobile media as well – cell phones have undergone a swift and continuous transformation from business tool to personal item over the last few years – and the combination of markets both music and mobile has been a match made in heaven. -
Mobango – Get Free Ringtones from Mobango.com
Mobango is one of the popularly known websites which provides mobile phone users a venue for file sharing. What you have to do to be able to share files is register. After registering you can upload ringtones, wallpapers, apps and videos to from your Personal Computers to Mobango. -
T-Mobile USA Gets First Android Phone of Motorola
SAN FRANCISCO - T-Mobile’s CTO Cole Brodman teamed up with Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha yesterday at the GigaOM Mobilize conference debuting the first Android-based device of Motorola: the Motorola Cliq. T-Mobile USA gets exclusive rights to sell the Android phone in the U.S. -
Jamba Pumps up the Jamster
Mobile media is said to have hit its peak, and is allegedly simply coasting as a commodity. Indeed, if taking the recent market trends into account this is one of the clear possibilities. Ringtones, apps and wallpaper, while once kings of the mobile content arena for providing infinite customization potential for cell phones, have begun to wane in selling power as users craft their own files for use. However, services like Thumbplay and Glu Mobile have continued to enjoy support and even growth, as has a nine-year-old veteran player in the biz, Jamba – known to United States-based users as Jamster. -
BongoTones.com – Download Free Ringtones Easily
Courtesy of a professional redesign from a Denver firm, the Bongotones.com website has since been perfected to the creators’ satisfaction and the fans’ excitement. It offers free ringtones of popular songs, which are downloadable for free. These tones work on almost all mobile phone models, which has enabled users of all kinds of mobile phones to enjoy the mobile music service. -
Apple and Spotify to Work Together
Consumers, techies and music fans alike follow the moves of Apple Corporation with eager anticipation and receive them with either celebration or consternation. The strong-running company, father to such technological advancements as the Macintosh and the iPod, has managed to parlay its resources into further and further simplification and miniaturization of hardware and software, on platforms such as the new Mac computers and the iPhone. -
Sprint vs. Mystery Company: Bidding War on Virgin Mobile Acquisition
“Company X” puts itself in a very strategic position in attempting to snap up Virgin Mobile USA deal just a couple of moments before Sprint announced the $483 million acquisition of the prepaid carrier last July. Details of this acquisition are filed in the US SEC detailing the deal. Company X withdrew its offer only four days before Sprint and Virgin announced their deal. This raises the possibility that Sprint could have paid more in the Virgin Mobile acquisition. -
OneTone: New Ringtone Source
RingtoneFeeder has consistently delivered original ringtones created specifically to sound best on the iPhone. Ringtone maestro Geoff Smith, who has written, performed and recorded the majority of RingtoneFeeder’s offered ringtones, has been producing and playing music for most of his life – becoming popular for his original jingles on “Geekbrief”, Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code Podcast and various other programs. -
Android to Offer Motorola Means to ‘Accelerate Products’
Motorola is preparing to release its first Android device next week in San Francisco. Motorola's vice president of software applications and ecosystem Christy Wyatt was instrumental in choosing Android as one Motorola’s main software platforms. In addition, Wyatt also oversees the company's MotoDev developer program. Wyatt did not disclose full details regarding any specifics about next week's big Android announcement. -
AT&T Smartphone Customers Required to Subscribe to Data Plans Starting this Month
On top of the monthly subscription of an AT&T Mobility cell phone subscriber, the company is requiring customers who are going to purchase smartphones or upgrading their handsets to smartphones to subscribe to a monthly data plan. This would add $30 on top of their voice plan. The Telco has set September 6 to be the date for it to take effect. This requirement won't be impacting existing customers until though unless they upgrade their handset or their plan. -
Pittsburgh Getting “Locally Tuned”
Ringtones have long been a staple of mobile media, with transitions from monotone to polytone to true tone creating quite a stir in how consumers can individualize their phones and content. Whether using midi-type sequences of tones or full-quality audio clips of songs, ringtones have formed a notable segment of mobile content commerce. Music trade publication Billboard even tracks US ringtone choices on a chart much in the same way as it follows hit songs. This year, however, ringtones are becoming a local fixture more than ever – in Pittsburgh. -
A Dazzling Display of your Ringtone? Pay up!
Pioneering mobile phone network companies give their patrons more than just wireless communication services but also the audio thrill. Ringtones have been wowing mobile phone users since the advent of monotones, ringtones that are monophonic in nature. It was then followed shortly by polyphonic ringtones. Consisting of several notes that can play at a time, [...] -
Google Voice app Still Under Evaluation According to Apple
FCC’s inquiry regarding Apple’s Google voice app took a turn late Friday as Apple issued a response to FCC regarding Google's submission of Google Voice app into the Apple App Store. The response explained that the app was not banned but was still under review.