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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. -
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. -
“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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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, [...]