Mobile Extremist Blog

Gartner has released latest hadset market share statistics for first quarter of 2008. According to the stats Nokia still holds no.1 position with 39.1% market share on sales of 115.2 million units, Samsung holds the no.2 spot with 14.4% share on sales of 42.4 million units, Motorola secures the third position with 10.2% share […]

Following T-Mobile’s move to reduce the price the iPhone 8GB with selected plans, O2 UK & Carphone Warehouse  will be offering £100 saving on their iPhone 8GB plans. The offer is only valid from April 16 to June 1 and will only be applicable for the iPhone 8GB. Read more here

Source: Into Mobile

We recently made a post regarding the launch of mobile services in two Airlines including Emirates and Qantas Australia.
Here is a good news for European Travellers. The European commission has recently approved the use of mobile phones in all airplanes flying over the European airspace. Recently UK’s Office of Communications OfCom also announded that in-flight […]

According to a White Paper released by Rubicon Consulting based on a survey on the iPhone, the following are the strenghts and weaknesses of the Apple iPhone.
Strengths:

The iPhone is expanding the smartphone market - 50 per cent of buyers have only ever owned a regular mobile before
25 per cent of owners are using their iPhones […]

A Market Research Company called ChangeWave has recently released its stats regarding user satisfaction levels for various devices.
According to the stats satisfaction level of iPhone users is at all time high with 79% satisifed users up 5% as compared to February 2008. RIM Blackberry comes second with 54% satisfied users. LG and Sanyo score the […]

Microsoft has recently shown interest in developing MS office Suite for Apple’s iPhone. Currently iPhone users can only  view MS Words, Excel & Powerpoint documents but they can’t edit or create MS office documents on the iPhone. With so much going on these days, it won’t be a surprise if Microsoft does come with an […]

Apple’s iPhone comes with a very powerful browser known as the Safari Browser. The Safari Browser has out classed all other mobile browsers available in the market and asks a few questions from other top mobile browser developers including Opera & Nokia. Mozilla had recently announced that it would be launching its own mobile browser […]

Brits are renowned for being obsessed with texting. Such is their obsession with texting that they become blind folded to objects around them while using their mobile phones. Daily Star has printed some interesting stats about this obsession.
You will be amazed to read that during the year 2007 around 6 million mobile users got injured. […]

The manufacturer of Blackberry devices RIM recently announced that it had stronger than expected subscriber growth for its current fiscal accounting quarter, which ends on the first of March. RIM raised its expected current-quarter subscriber growth figures from 1.8 million to somewhere around 2.1 million new users.
Many businesses and government agencies rely on RIM’s […]

Robert X Cringely, better known as US tech journalist Mark Stephens, writes on his blog that Google is planning two Google Phone handsets. Both will reportedly run the Android platform and bear Google’s name. According to the blog post, the handsets will be released later this year and during the first […]

I recently upgraded my old BlackBerry Pearl to a new BlackBerry Curve 8320. The problem you are always encountering is: how do I transfer my data from my old BlackBerry to my new one? Well, you could technically just do create a backup and then restore it on your new device.
However, as the new BlackBerry […]

Softbank Japan is keeping pretty busy these days, most recently approaching a similar market as the Apple iPhone with the announcement of the Softbank Fullface 2, a mobile phone that — appropriately enough — features a large display across its full face. Also known as the SoftBank 921SH, this mobile phone does have one critical […]

Just as HTC are venturing to pitch their handsets beyond the confines of the smartphone segment, the LG are somewhat unwilling to make Windows Mobile Pro the focal point of the LG KS20. They are keen to have the KS20 rub shoulders with the Viewty and the Prada and keep it hush about the Pocket […]

I remember when the Samsung BlackJack was first revealed to the world, I couldn’t help but draw immediate comparisons to the Motorola Q. Both devices had very similar form factors and both ran on some version of Windows Mobile 5. Many people say that their Blackjack is better than the Moto Q, and now that […]

HTC Corp., the leading provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile based smart devices, and Parrot, a leader in wireless peripherals around the mobile phone, today announced an alliance to develop improved compatibility and overall user experience between the companies’ products. This alliance will see HTC working closely with Parrot to support product roadmaps, marketing efforts and […]

With PdfPrinter you can create PDF documents, also known as Adobe® Acrobat® files, on your Nokia Eseries smartphone, such as the Nokia E61(i), the Nokia E65 and the Nokia E90.
PdfPrinter is a printer driver, it transforms the generic printer commands generated by programs into PDF commands and stores them in a PDF file. As a […]

The Sony Ericsson K850i cell phone is already a little quirky, because the traditional five-way navigator that you use to dabble through the menus wraps all the way around the 2 and 5 keys, rather than being placed above them. Current versions of the K850i are available with blue or green highlights, but if you’re […]

As GIGA-BYTE Communications informed us today, the Taiwanese Windows Mobile specialist will show at least two new Windows Mobile 6 Professional smartphones next month in Barcelona.Quite typical for GIGA-BYTE smartphones, also the two new devices will have its focus on mobile TV, supporting DVB-T, DVB-H, T-DMB but this time, GIGA-BYTE will show these features with […]

Blackberry phones were primarily designed for businessmen, and the Blackberry 8800 performs this task efficiently. The device brings the media and professional features together in their profile. The smartphone looks very attractive in black and metallic silver casing. With an intuitive QWERTY keyboard and a large 320 x 240 pixel resolution screen-browsing phone functions is […]

Wordpress is easily one of the most popular blog platforms available on the planet today. My own blog — Beyond the Rhetoric — and my fighting games blog are both powered by Wordpress. The trouble is that I usually have to find my way back to my laptop in order to post up new content […]