Mobile Browsers. Worldwide Market Share.

Mai 3rd, 2010 • 1 comment Business, Mobile, Trends
Tags: Browser, Business, Diagram, Mobile, Trends, World

Thank the guys from icrossing.co.uk and Visual Loop for this handy, little overview chart about the mobile browser market share. Personally I would have enjoyed more detailed information about the browser market share in North Korea right now. But you cannot get anything you want at once…

Check out the big map here.

Apps. An Explosion is underway.

Februar 2nd, 2010 • Mobile
Tags: Android, Apps, Business, Diagram, iPhone, Lifestyle, Mobile, Prediction, Smartphones, Strategy, Trends, visual, World

Ooooh! Aaaaaah! 2010 is the year of the mobile, social, social CRM, IPTV App. No matter how realistic that is, check out this lovely piece of info visualization from the Fast company. Because according to Gartner an app explosion is underway. A developement which is closely intertwined with smartphone sales. Word up!

Apple. Inside the App Store’s Rejection Department.

Januar 29th, 2010 • Mobile, Tech
Tags: Apple, Apps, Cool, Funny, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Truth

The unparalleled freedom of Web 2.0 can nowhere be witnessed as fully as in Apple’s App Store. Well, of course there is criteria to become part of this exclusive digital warehouse – clear, transparent criteria to leave no room for speculation how to get in there. And in order to stop everyone with bad or fake ideas to take advantage of them, Apple, and you, the user, Apple has now opened the doors to its App Store Rejection Department. Thanks to Chris for this link.

Nokia. N900 goes Maemo.

November 12th, 2009 • Mobile, Tech
Tags: Ads, Brands, Business, Cool, Lifestyle, Linux, Maemo, Mobile, Strategy, Tech

Today Nokia will bring out its latest handset, the Nokia N900. For the Finish brand it is not just another smartphone. In fact, it’s it first handset with the latest Linux OS. Maemo 5 renders it one of the first smartphones to have true PC-like multitasking and not only lets it run “dozens” of app windows at once but gives it a simple, large dashboard for switching and closing apps. Of course the pretty idiotic term ‘iPhone killer’ was used here again. But whatever the phone does. The first clip to promote it is pretty cool (won’t use the word viral).

NikeID for iPhone. Inspiration is everywhere.

Oktober 22nd, 2009 • 2 comments Ads, Brands, Mobile
Tags: Ads, Apple, Apps, Brands, Cases, Cool, Creativity, Ideas, iPhone, Mobile, Nike, Tools, visual, We like

It’s the second time in 3 weeks that I write about Nike. After having launched the soccer version of it’s Nike+ concept they have now equipped their incredibely useful, inspiring NikeID store with an iPhone app. And this app belongs to the one of the better brand-sponsored pieces of iPhone software I have seen in a while. The app says ‘Inspiration is everywhere’. And that’s why it comes with cool new features such as this: How about taking a photo and receiving a sneaker recommendation defined by the image’s color code? Or taking an in-depth look on the sneakers of your choice, making them rotate all with your fingertips?

Check it out here, it’s free.

(via digitalbuzzblog)

Verizon. Droid does.

Oktober 20th, 2009 • Ads, Mobile
Tags: Ads, Android, Apple, Brands, Cool, Creativity, Funny, iPhone, Mobile, usp, Verizon

Wohoo, Verizon!!! Way to go. Obviously all phone brands whose name is not Apple recently found their surprise love to the open Android OS. Verizon and Motorola have launched this campaign called androiddoes. And here is the TV commercial attached to it: Pretty cool and very aggressive (thx to illegaladvertising) .

Adobe. Photoshop on the iPhone…and you wonder.

Oktober 11th, 2009 • Mobile
Tags: adobe, Apps, flash, iPhone, Mobile, photoshop, Spoof, Tools, visual

Adobe has just launched its Photoshop app. Yes, we are talking about the world’s most successful piece of software for designers now brought to the screens of an iPhone. Actually I expected Adobe to push Flash a little bit further than what they announced last week, instead of bringing this complex, visual monster to the iPhone. But hey, life is sometimes stranger than fiction.

The concept is around for quite some time. Photoshop for iPhone was announced (and laughed about) in 2007 at Adobe’s keynote. And I simply had to repost this hilarious little spoof making John Loiacono, SVP of Adobe Creative Solutions Business Unit, announce the app at the keyote for Photoshop World in Las Vegas. Simply a good LOL about a decision you don’t need to understand.

4 Days. Me and the new T Mobile G2 Touch.

August 27th, 2009 • Mobile
Tags: Android, G2 Touch, Mobile, Touch

One week after I returned from my vacations I found this nice, little suprise on my desk: The new T Mobile G2 Touch. I received it as a trial product for two weeks. And even though I will take a deeper look at it over the next couple of days, I would like to describe my first impressions yet.

Not so paranoid Android

Apart from more ordinary product properties like a 3.2-inch touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel camera, GPS, Bluetooth  and WiFi it also comes with good stuff such as GPS, Compass and Trackball…and the new Android version 1.5 Cupcake. While still too many people confuse the Mobile handset with its google OS, it is the phone’s open architecture which makes it especially interesting. While Apple struggles with its app policy, it’s the Android’s openness to free software developments which makes it interesting in the long run.

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Absolut. Get a drinkspiration.

Juli 12th, 2009 • Brands, Mobile
Tags: Absolut, Apps, Brands, iPhone, Lifestyle, Mobile, TBWA

We all like booze once in a while. And while the all new North Korean Taedonggang rice beer is being promoted ‘to help with stress‘ (and North Korean folks do suffer under a lot of stress lately), TBWA has chose a different communicative way for its client Absolut.

The brand’s new iPhone app “Drinkspiration” recommends drinks based on a set of contexts such as time of day, where you are, drink colour, shape of glass, etc. It also inspires what to order next by offering a constant feed of what drinks are being ordered around the world by other app owners in “real time”. Way to go, TBWA/Absolut. It certainly isn’t the reinvention of social media marketing. But it’s a neat little application which shows how lifestyle brands may intertwine classic ads, apps, social and mobile. (via Madblog)