Mobile

MTN answers #Neknomination by giving users free Wikipedia access

The pupils of Sinenjongo High School in Cape Town have been lobbying for South Africa’s mobile operators to provide the country with free Wikipedia…

5 things we now know about smartphones and the ‘second screen’

The smartphone has changed the way we do a lot of things, from consuming online content to communicating and taking photos on the fly….

At what point does HTC stop making phones, shut down and return money to shareholders?

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC believes the middle-market will help it return to profitability this year. But the signs aren’t pretty. Sales have fallen year-on-year…

Flappy Bird’s indie developer has taken his crazy popular game down. Seriously

It was a story that made headlines around the world: an indie developer from Vietnam somehow cooked up the latest smash hit mobile game,…

MTN’s $50 Steppa smartphone changes (almost) everything

It’s been astonishing to see how quickly mobile operator MTN’s Steppa smartphone has been written off, when the devices have hardly made it to…

India’s massive online population keeps growing, looks set to hit 243-million

Cheaper internet plans and devices made 2013 a catalyst year in terms of increasing internet penetration and number of web users in India. Internet…

Woah. Chat app Line now makes more money than any other non-game app

Japanese chat juggernaut Line‘s active user count might be an enigma, but the latest edition of the App Annie Index shows outside of games, Line was the…

Why manufacturers should just leave Android alone

We’ve all read the comparisons, we know about the rivalry, but one thing that has recently started bugging me about the epic Android vs…

Top tips for deciding what level of phone to develop for

There are a number of very good reasons you should be developing for mobile. It’s an incredibly fast-growing medium. In fact, mobile web has…

When does a dumb phone become a smartphone?

The line is blurring. A year ago, perhaps even six months ago, it was pretty easy to define the difference between a smartphone and…

BlackBerry sued over global service failure

In the latest twist of the tale of BlackBerry’s woes, the smartphone’s maker Research In Motion (RIM), is now being sued in Canada and…

10 gems of wisdom for delivering service through mobile [Tech4Africa]

Gustav Praekelt and Sebastien Lacour show two very different solutions to the same problem – delivering services to people via mobile when the Web…

Seven rules for building a mobile campaign

So you’ve decided to build a mobile campaign. It makes sense. Everybody has a mobile phone right? And you know a few marketing basics…

Android triumphs over iPhone app store

The endless war between Apple and Android has seen a decisive victory, for the Android app store at least. In the second quarter of…

Angry Birds means Nokia will win in emerging markets

The headlines from Nokia World in London have centred around two things: Its new smartphones running Windows Phone (the new Nokia Lumia 800 and…

Nokia’s Asha phones target the ‘next billion’ internet users

While much of the attention from the opening keynote at Nokia World 2011 was focussed on the Lumia 800, the Finnish communications giant also…

So you think you know mobile in Africa? [Video]

We all know cellphones are vital to Africa. They’ve allowed large sections of the continent to entirely skip wired communication. This means that Africa…

BlackBerry is back

With hindsight huge issues, such as the recent BlackBerry service outage, may not have been as critical as they seemed at the time. If…

BBM is not dying, it’s BlackBerry’s secret weapon

Much has been made about BlackBerry being backed into a corner. Its device sales are “falling” (not so, it has 20-million more users today…

SMS is alive and kicking [Infographic]

SMS is dead, or almost dead. It’s a fairly common refrain and one that is threading its way into the mainstream as smartphones become…

BlackBerry shutdown: Are networks avoiding lawsuits?

If you are a BlackBerry user you’re probably quite aware of the BlackBerry Crash that crippled millions of phones across Europe, Africa and the…

How iOS 5’s iMessenger will kill BBM

The recent three day Blackberry fail adds impetus to the notion that Research in Motion (RIM) is dying. Sales of the BlackBerry are in…

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