Euro Mobile Media is a conference this April in Prague, and HungryMobile is on board as 1. the media partner, and 2. the Opinions in Mobile panel will be present. We put together an all-stars-team program, which is a must-see in the mobile industry. We have mobile operators, we have handset manufacturers, we have service providers, we even have agencies on board - so it’s a great combination of people to meet up and chat with.... Read full article

One of my most read articles, to my suprise, was the article - How do blind people use mobile phones?. If you haven’t read it, I definitely suggest on reading it. In the article, I focus on vision-impaired people, who don’t have the ability to see, or have such limited seeing abilities that they have to use a talking mobile phone.... Read full article

Mobile phones have had lousy batteries for quite some time and you could say that it is actually getting worse and worse. If you look at the phone timeline, the first phones started off with a few hours of talk time, and say a day of non-active mode, then came stronger monochrome devices, with up to a week of charge time, or even two weeks in extreme cases, even though you used the phone and called a lot.... Read full article

We just got an e-mail over from the people at Google Android Market. So the UK now supports paid applications, also via credit card and Google checkout. Next in line are Germany and Austria. I guess other markets like Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, France, and Singapore will have to wait (even though its just credit card billing anyway). Also Google informs us that the HTC Dream will be available in Orange starting March 15.... Read full article

From July, browsing mobile internet and downloading e-mails will be a lot cheaper. The European Parlament has accepted the vote on capping mobile data charges. ”Todays vote in the EU Parlament is very good for the end customer,” says EU Telecommunication Commisioner Viviane Reding, who drafted the regulation, which got accepted 21-8. 21 for the proposal. Ms Viviane Reding is a well known person to the mobile regulations industry. It was she who drew war against mobile operator prices, and it was also she, who has regulated them dramatically back in June 2007, capping their call prices.... Read full article

On Mobile Games Forum almost 2 months ago, there were big talks on things like mobile game rental, pay per play, paying for games normally - what is the best method, and what will stay on the market as the leader? Will it hurt the revenues? What about refunding policies of so called AppStores, where Google announced in their Android Market a 24 hour return policy for games? Where is this all leading?... Read full article

I was thinking for quite some time on what the next What if series would be. For those of you who haven’t followed the What if Facebook merged with Nokia, I suggest you read the first of this new series of articles. The what if series is supposed to bring an answer and vision to a possibility that two companies would merge, or if some particular set of events would happen. I chose GOOGLE this time as buyer, and AOL as the seller in this case.... Read full article

iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm, and now even Nokia with its OVI. If you say AppStore, then most operators content revenues and moods probably start shivering. Why is that? They are afraid that the “AppStore”s, lets call them, will hit their mobile content, primarily mobile game revenues - a lot. And yes, it’s true - they wil.... Read full article