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MWC Report 1. App bunfight – Cream horns at the ready

It seems the big bun fight at MWC this year was the war of the application store. Not, as in previous years, the scrap for platform or handset supremacy, but the realisation that handset manufacturers and network operators need to consider how to create a unified development environment and experience for applications across all devices [...]

The smut is back on the table

So, Apple are allowing naughtiness back on their App Store, hey? What a turn up for the books. At We Love Mobile Towers we are delighted with this fine move. Because we are part of the dirty mac brigade? Well, not publicly. The issue here is that, when Apple made that epoch defining move into [...]

iPhone S plays catchup to G2

Good grief. Despite trying hard not to look, I grudgingly watched the usual fluff around the iPhone S. And, after last year’s happy approval of their ‘development’ approach, I am a little disappointed with this year. OK, I was waiting for the Nano, I’ll admit. I stand by Nokia’s principle that no device that requires [...]

Is the App Store the saviour of J2ME?

The Apple App Store opened earlier this year to a fanfare of hype as part of the “iPhone The Sequel” Summer blockbuster. Again I was sceptical until I plugged in through my trusty Touch, and I saw how, 7 years ago, a few at Hutchison Telecom dreamed the 3G world would be. Ah, the integration, [...]

Spurning the iPhone

That lower-price, better-connected iPhone idea seems to have done the trick for Apple. According to The Telegraph, interest in the 3G iPhone is almost four times more than the interest in its 2G predecessor. 02 claim that more than 130,000 people have registered interest, where as only 35,000 people pre-registered their interest before. It’s worth [...]

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