Mobile Business Magazine - Nokia planning to take on iTunes?: "Nokia planning to take on iTunes? PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 10 August 2006
Nokia Logo - Mobile Business MagazineNokia and Loudeye have announced that they have signed an agreement for Nokia to acquire Loudeye for approximately $60 million.
'Music is a key experience for Nokia and Nokia Nseries multimedia computers and we want to be able to offer the best fully integrated mobile music experience to our customers. Loudeye brings a number of key assets to Nokia, including a great team of people, a substantial content catalogue and a robust service platform that will help us to achieve this objective,' said Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president and general manager, Multimedia, Nokia. 'People should be able to access all the music they want, anywhere, anytime and at a reasonable cost. With this acquisition, we aim to deliver that vision and a comprehensive music experience to Nokia device owners during 2007.'
I don't think Nokia have a chance in hell of competing with i-tunes. For one, memory on phones is still expensive for the majority of un web savvy bargain hunters. Sony E leads the way with walkman phones. Sounds repro on a Nokia is a far cry from Sony's K and M range devices IMHO.
The major stumbling block is getting the music to the phone. If you're smart, you'll throw on the tune from a CD. What you need is a player that plays more compression encoding's. What SUX about MP3 is that if you own the tune or an album you cannot trade up to a proper recording. MP3 is the place to be now. In 5 years with better quality compression or more than likely more storage, you'll listen to your ripped MP3 collection and wonder how bad it was reproduced. Those who had a sony walkman casette player will testify how they used to hear the tape hissing in the background.
Nokia's best at making cool interfaces and quality smartphones. This diversification only complicates the buying process and as such, the over hyped multimedia pastiche is just that - hype. Nokia should really IMHO, concentrate on making quality 1st version OSes for phones. Rather than alledgedly shaky ones that are rushed.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Mobile Business Magazine - All you can eat internet for £1 a day
Mobile Business Magazine - All you can eat internet for £1 a day: "All you can eat internet for £1 a day PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 10 August 2006
T-Mobile - Mobile Business MagazineT-Mobile UK announces that pay-as-you-go mobile phone customers can enjoy the best web experience on a mobile with web’n’walk.
The announcement, designed to open up the mobile Internet to everyone, will give T-Mobile pay-as-you-go customers the freedom to email and surf the web whenever and with complete control on costs.
web’n’walk offers the ultimate mobile Internet experience available on a handset and is unlike other operators’ services which only allow the customer to interact with a very limited and cut-down version of the Internet. So, if you want to check out a friend’s blog while you’re waiting for your train, or book that last minute flight on lastminute.com, web’n’walk will give you the freedom to do it. Pay-as-you-go web’n’walk combines economy with absolute cost control.
Customers can browse as little or as much as they like.. so with pay-as-you-go web’n’walk, even if a customer has browsed extensively on a particular day, they will know that their costs will never get out of control. That’s because as soon as the costs hit £1, their spending is capped and they can browse for the rest of the day at no extra cost. "
Excellent idea for a marketing plan. I know how T-mobile's very good offers work. You offer X much free content / service for an X period of time. People make it a habit and then have to pay. I think it's a good way of introducing technology. Hey in the UK, especially London, without WAP more often than not I could not get home coz of train delays. WAP warned me of this well in advance so I could plan another route. Handsets using email - I think not. If t-mobile offered a messaging service that worked then this would complete with Sony's new MYLO gadget. Thing is, MYLO in the UK will criminalise a lot of people without them necessarily understanding what's a hotpot and what's jacking someone's router. Anyway.. good play t-mobile!
Thursday, 10 August 2006
T-Mobile - Mobile Business MagazineT-Mobile UK announces that pay-as-you-go mobile phone customers can enjoy the best web experience on a mobile with web’n’walk.
The announcement, designed to open up the mobile Internet to everyone, will give T-Mobile pay-as-you-go customers the freedom to email and surf the web whenever and with complete control on costs.
web’n’walk offers the ultimate mobile Internet experience available on a handset and is unlike other operators’ services which only allow the customer to interact with a very limited and cut-down version of the Internet. So, if you want to check out a friend’s blog while you’re waiting for your train, or book that last minute flight on lastminute.com, web’n’walk will give you the freedom to do it. Pay-as-you-go web’n’walk combines economy with absolute cost control.
Customers can browse as little or as much as they like.. so with pay-as-you-go web’n’walk, even if a customer has browsed extensively on a particular day, they will know that their costs will never get out of control. That’s because as soon as the costs hit £1, their spending is capped and they can browse for the rest of the day at no extra cost. "
Excellent idea for a marketing plan. I know how T-mobile's very good offers work. You offer X much free content / service for an X period of time. People make it a habit and then have to pay. I think it's a good way of introducing technology. Hey in the UK, especially London, without WAP more often than not I could not get home coz of train delays. WAP warned me of this well in advance so I could plan another route. Handsets using email - I think not. If t-mobile offered a messaging service that worked then this would complete with Sony's new MYLO gadget. Thing is, MYLO in the UK will criminalise a lot of people without them necessarily understanding what's a hotpot and what's jacking someone's router. Anyway.. good play t-mobile!
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