Mobiles reviews - business

Samsung overtakes Motorola in India

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:10:15 +0000

Q1 2008 has delivered a shake-up in the rankings of Mobile Handset Vendors in India. Nokia continues to dominate, follow by Sony Ericsson. However, Samsung have now passed Motorola to take 3rd position (echoing changes that we have seen occurring in other countries). If you want some stats, and I'm sure you do, Nokia are around the [...]

ROK Entertainment acquires Jalipo

Fri, 09 May 2008 19:47:09 +0000

ROK Entertainment has bought online TV provider Jalipo in shares, equivalent to a 16.8mn USD value. ROK are stating that this has been a strategic purchase, and that Jalipo's product offering will be incorporated in the ROK portfolio. Jalipo appeared about a year ago with it's "online marketplace" concept - the idea being that credits are [...]

Big retailer news: Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy join forces!

Fri, 09 May 2008 19:38:07 +0000

Best Buy has announced a joint venture with Carphone Warehouse (CW), by investing 1.1bn GBP! The 50/50 JV will include the CW's 2400 stores in 9 European countries, and the assets will include the CW share of an existing venture with Best Buy (which we reported on here). Starting next year, Best Buy will open stores [...]

UK: O2 goes for SMEs with it's broadband offering

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:18:32 +0000

O2 UK has announced it is launching Business Broadband, along with making their home broadband truly nationwide. As you might know, O2 were later to market with their BBand offering, but, I take that as a sign of making sure things were tested fully, and dare I say it, working consistently (unlike some other notable [...]

Is Motorola exiting the mobile phone business?

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:04:26 +0000

Well, maybe. Following recent buy-out rumors , Nomura International analyst, Richard Windsor, issued a note to clients that Motorola could be considering dumping their mobile phone business to concentrate on evolving into an “enterprise and government company.” Windsor also speculated that Chinese investors might buy-out the troubled handset manufacturing once-giant. However, this end-game is “unlikely as those [Chinese] vendors don’t have much of an idea how to fix Motorola’s problems.” Is Motorola really in that much trouble that they’re seriously thinking about folding-up their handset division and redirecting resources to the enterprise and government business that got them started all those years ago? If the recent downturn in Motorola’s stock and their piss-poor financial statements are any indicator, they very well could be in a heap of trouble. It would be a shame if the company that revolutionized mobile phone design with the RAZR didn’t see it through to the next decade. Especially after garnering all that acclaim at CES 2008. Of course, this is all speculation. Motorola might do well to trim down its handset business and refocus on improving the user experience. As they stand, Motorola has a huge lineup of mobile phones, and most of them suck from a UI perspective. Hey Moto, refocus your resources on making phones that are more intuitive rather than spending them on producing a huge range of products. You know what they say - “when the going gets tough, the tough concentrate on making more intuitive handset.” At least that’s how we think it goes. [Via: MarketWatch ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Motorola Gets 'Higher' Than Anyone Else - Phone Call From Top Of EverestMotorola updates MC70 EDA with GPSMotorola's MC35 Has More Brain Than BeautyIs This The Motorola LAZR?Motorola Announces Moto Q Amp'd Edition

Apple looking to bring full Microsoft Exchange support to the iPhone

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:51:13 +0000

If Apple’s newest job listing is any indicator, the techies at Cupertino are looking to bring on a new employee to finally bring Microsoft Exchange functionality to the iPhone. Apple is apparently looking for a “motivated, highly-technical Exchange test/sync engineer with excellent problem solving and communication skills,” who will be joining “a dynamic team responsible for qualifying the latest iPhone products…Your focus will be testing Exchange and Outlook functionality with Apple’s innovative new phone.” Apple has been pushing to break into the enterprise environment with the iPhone, but the lack of support for the Microsoft Exchange email system that hive-minded corporations love so much has kept the iPhone largely a favorite of the consumer crowd. With support for the email syncing capabilities of MS Exchange, however, Apple could successfully make the iPhone a business contender that may give the BlackBerry a serious run for its money. As it stands today, the iPhone is only capable of limited MS Exchange support through third-party offerings and supports IMAP email synchronization in certain situations. A recent survey found that 98% of respondents would be much more likely to pick up an iPhone if it had support for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft ActiveSync. While ActiveSync is pretty much the arch-rival of Apple’s iTunes-based sync strategy, it might make prudent business sense for Apple to give in and finally support it. After all, Apple’s support for MS software applications like the MS Office suite and even virtualization of Windows has brought Apple to the competitive foreground in recent years. If Apple does rollout support for Microsoft Exchange email synchronization, you can bet that we’ll be setting up our own MS Exchange servers. [Via: Apple Insider ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Apple may be licensing Microsoft Exchange Active Sync for Direct Push email on iPhone!Microsoft Exchange email on your Apple iPhone with IceWEB's IceMAILiPhone syncs with Microsoft Exchange via Synchronica's Mobile Gateway 3.0Apple iPhone does Enterprise - will have standard OSX VPN-client and Quick Look for Word and Excel FilesSynchronica Mobile Gateway 3.0 [...]

Helio brings business-class power to the Helio Ocean

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:50:16 +0000

The Helio Ocean has traditionally been marketed towards the younger, hipper set , but it looks like Helio is turning up the enterprise appeal on the Helio Ocean. In an effort to make the Helio Ocean an enterprise-class handset, Helio has made available a couple new software packages that should help mobilize office duties. The new Helio File Viewer allows any Helio Ocean user to view Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files - giving them the option of zooming around within the document, switch between landscape and portrait views, and sort by file type. Helio File Viewer also supports an expanded number of image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF). Helio has also released an upgraded Mail for Microsoft Exchange application . The new Mail for Microsoft Exchange gets bumped up to v1.2 and improves the calendar, alert, and sync-ing capabilities of the Helio Ocean. “Ocean’s unique dual-slide design and comprehensive messaging suite lets members communicate with friends, family and business associates in unique ways,” said Darshan Patel, Director of Email Communications at Helio. “The addition of Helio File Viewer makes staying in touch easier and more effective for business users with the ability to view documents wherever members take their Oceans.” Now you can grab a refreshed (read: refurbished), lower-priced Helio Ocean to help you with your daily office tasks. We’re not sure if the Helio Ocean is the best handset for smartphone-ing, but at just $ 99 , it’s at least a damn good deal. Full press release . ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Helio Ocean coming on May 21?Helio Ocean now availableHelio adds MS Exchange support and new file viewer to OceanHelio offering refreshed Ocean for $99!Helio Ocean gets jiggy with Exchange ActiveSync