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  Are the mobile networks backing the wrong horse? - Times Online 

  http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article2680101.ece

  With 40 million 3G subscribers, Japan’s NTT DoCoMo network is in a rare position to offer the rest of us a clearer vision of the hits and misses of mobile internet services. It doesn’t make for a pretty ... picture. At a briefing last week with Shuichiro Ichikoshi, one of the principal architects behind DoCoMo’s wildly successful 1999 launch of i-mode, one message became abundantly clear: content is not king. According to Mr Ichikoshi, DoCoMo’s traffic revenue outpaced content revenue yet again in the last fiscal year, this time by a margin of $11 billion to $2 billion (£5.5 billion to £1 billion). This means that eight years after the launch of i-mode, the mobile internet service available with O2 in the UK, the basic functions of talking and texting are still far more compelling to consumers than content-based services such as mobile TV, music downloads and traffic alerts. As Mr Ichikoshi says, most of this can be explained by the Pareto Principle, commonly referred to as the ‘20/80 rule   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 18 October 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  TrustedReviews - Universal Mobile Phone Charger Format Agreed 

  http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-phones/news/2007/09/24/Universal-Mobile-Phone-Charger-Format-Agreed/p1

  Could this be the most sensible development of the year so far...? Delivering a great bitch slap of common sense today is the Open Mobile Terminal Platform - a consortium comprised of manufacturers like ... LG, Nokia, Samsung and prominent rebadgers such as Vodafone, Orange, 3 and T-Mobile - which declared a consensus on a universal mobile phone charging standard: the humble micro USB. Also given backing by the USB Implementers' Forum, the choice of micro USB (above right) is an interesting one since while most handsets opt for mini USB (above left), micro's reduced size has greater future proofing for ultra thin handsets and is still capable of supplying both power and data. On top of this there are the environmental benefits of single cable solutions and even financial rewards since money can be consolidated not having to regularly come up with new connectors (or even bundle one?), a saving which could be passed onto the consumer. On the downside, most smartphones were only just group   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 24 September 2007, by: Kris Sangani  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  mobile phones, consumer electronics, power adaptors, bs, charger , juicing, power, standards, adaptors   [More...] [Less...]