Facebook, the dominator of social networking worldwide with over 250 million users worldwide to date - is a very useful service. I spend quite a lot of time on it, and check what my friends are doing, engage in discussions, check pictures of people I normally wouldn’t see for a long time, and I have some time to virtually catch up, which is nice and efficient. I generally like the service.... Read full article

Mobile companies around the world are trying to show us, that their AppStores are the best AppStores. Apple, Google, Nokia, Palm, Microsoft, and many other firms joined the AppStore hunt, and even mobile operators seem to be catching up slowly with preparations on similar launches. Now the question is, is this the future?... Read full article

I have been wanting to write this article for quite some time, but I have waited since I got my hands on the Nokia N97 and got more acquainted with it, to be able to make an educated article about mobile browsers. Everyone is talking about surfing the mobile web, about user experiences, etc. - but are we talking about the key thing in mobile web - which is the best browsing experience?... Read full article

So seriously, can manufacturers handle their AppStores? Lets look at the situation right now at the three main AppStores: Nokia OVI Store, Apple AppStore, and Android Market.... Read full article

I was so excited when I first saw Google Latitude, that words cannot describe the feeling fully. I was thought, finally, when I am picking up a call from someone, I can find him easily. I was thinking this would be the end to those horrible phone calls that you spend trying to navigate a person, who doesn’t even bloody know where they are themselves.... Read full article

What if Google bought Nokia? Thats the question that I asked myself in the hypothetical “WHAT IF” series on Blog HungryMobile. The two largest companies - one in the internet space, and one in the mobile space.... Read full article

iPhone AppStore, Android Market, Nokia Ovi, and thousands of AppStores from third parties are being opened worldwide. That is the no-limit entertainment, that is going to go mass-market in the following 2 years. Mobile applications and services on mobile web are slowly becoming a dominant feature of these platforms, and soon will become a standard of every mobile phone sold. This means that any phone sold in the next quarters will be a browsing and mobile service phone. Subsequently, there is a higher and higher chance that every time a new phone is sold, that a new mobile services user was just born. With the iPhone, it’s definitely like that, and if there is something that we can’t take from Apple it is that they have supported this heavily.... Read full article

It’s time that someone in Nokia really woke up and started doing something with these phone UI’s. I had a chance to view the lovely Nokia N97 in the last week. The phone has a genius construction, it’s practically unbreakable, the designs finally looks nice, fully functional keyboard is awsome. But: The phone UI was just simply horrible. I just hope I was holding the pre-release alfa or so.... Read full article

Last week, Opinions in Mobile had a “real-world” non-virtual panel at the European Mobile Media conference. Thanks to that, we have a new person on board - Mark Linder from WPP, and many interesting responses on this week’s question - What do you think about LTE? Will it be an enabler of new mobile services? So here is a small summary about most controversial upcoming technology in the mobile world - LTE, and what opinion leaders from the mobile industry think.... Read full article

I would say this is the moment we all have waited for, both as industry people, and as customers of mobile operators. The European Parliament has approved new price caps for mobile network roaming within the EU, including voice, data/internet and SMS messaging.... Read full article