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Many thanks to Marek Pawlowski, organizer of the MEX, Mobile User Experience conference, for the opportunity to publish my response to the annual MEX Manifesto on the MEX blog.
“In this article responding to point #5 of the MEX Manifesto (’The developing world is the new frontier for mobile user experience‘), Stephanie Rieger of user experience [...]

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In a few weeks we celebrate one year in the UK. Methinks it was a good move
So for your reading enjoyment, bits and bobs of strange mobile news from Canada.

Fido annouces 3G services: “Of course, the fun seems to end the moment you want to actually use the service as rates are pinned [...]

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Preface: I watched three great presentations about kids over the past few weeks. The first at Fjord’s MobileCamp London; was mobile focused. The second, at Brandlicensing Expo 2007 was about preschoolers and their relationships with branded/licensed toys. The third was Marc Presky’s plenary presentation at Handheld Learning 2007 on kids, technology and learning.
All three [...]

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AdMob has provided the community with some statistics on global, mobile web usage. The handset stats are quite revealing of the market differences between North America, Europe and many of the emerging Asian and African economies.
First a bit of context. AdMob serves ads on mobile web and wap. Judging by the handset models on this [...]

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Preface: I watched three great presentations about kids over the past few weeks. The first at Fjord’s MobileCamp London; was mobile focused. The second, at Brandlicensing Expo 2007 was about preschoolers and their relationships with branded/licensed toys. The third was Marc Presky’s plenary presentation at Handheld Learning 2007 on kids, technology and learning.
All three [...]

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This week, Xellular Identity has an interview with Nick Wright from Wireless World Forum’s Mobile Youth report.
…One of the more interesting findings is that mobiles have come to take the place in youth culture traditionally held by cigarettes. They provide or allow private communication, the activity is carried out largely unsupervised and [...]

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An interesting parallel to my recent post and speculations on the entry level phone market and Nokia market-share in Thailand.
This report from India…

Nokia currently has 38 models available on the retail shelf, of which around 13-25 can be categorised into the low-end segment
This segment has a product at every Rs 200-400 price [...]

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I’m by no means an expert on Thailand’s mobile industry but I do spend quite a bit of time here. Since 2000, we’ve spend about 14 months in Thailand—mostly living in Bangkok but also in smaller provincial areas like Krabi and Phuket. Much of that time has been spent observing ICT and mobile use as [...]

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