Apps. An Explosion is underway.

Februar 2nd, 2010 • Comments 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!

Foursquare. Seven days in Frankfurt.

November 27th, 2009 • Comments Allgemein
Tags: Android, Apps, Cool, Foursquare, Germany, Gowalla, GPS, Ideas, iPhone, Local, Location, Mobile, Social Influence Marketing, Social Networks, Tool

Today’s topic may not be completely new for my American readers but probably for some of those from Germany. On November 19th the third wave of cities for Foursquare has launched. Among them now my hometown Frankfurt in Germany as well as about 50 new cities worldwide. It’s been around in a lot of bigger cities for quite some time. In Germany it’s now live in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Frankfurt. Zurich and Vienna are Foursquare cities in Switzerland and Austria.

So what is Foursquare? Basically it’s a local location based social network (I will use this word in the presence of my granny in the next couple of days). That means: You download a client to your iPhone or Android phone, connect with some friends and start your day in the city.

The big difference to…let’s say Facebook…is, it only works in specific cities (well…yet)  and it’s all about exploring and recommending locations and events. Let’s say for example, you know this fantastic little bar around the corner and you think the White Russian there deserves a little more attention – then you simply locate your favourite nightly hangout via GPS (or start a new venue) and leave a shout to all other Foursquare users in the area to make them try the White Russian here.

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Verizon. Droid does.

Oktober 20th, 2009 • Comments 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) .

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

August 27th, 2009 • Comments 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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