Jason Langridge’s Mr Mobile Blog

A great visual representation of the mobile market. (Spotted on Steve’s blog and created by iStrategy)

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This is an interesting take on mobile device charging!

The Powerstrap is a wearable rechargeable battery pack, providing quick and easy power for portable electronic devices. There are six Li-Ion polymer battery cells enclosed in a highly water resistant silica gel strap.

These six batteries provide a total of 1500mAH of power and the ten adaptors it is supplied with means the Powerstrap can provide battery life to many different kinds of portable devices, such as mp3/mp4 players, handheld game consoles, mobile phones and much more.

You can get more details HERE

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Gartner just released the latest Mobile Phone Sales data to the end of 2009.

The winners are RIM, iPhone, and Android that grew 3.3%, 6.2% and 3.4% respectively.

Windows Mobile (3.1%), Linux (2.9%) and Symbian (5.5%) all lost market share.

You can read more HERE

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Sony Ericsson has just announced the Aspen Windows Mobile phone. They did this pretty quietly with a simple press release (which didn’t even contain a picture of the new device.

The device is running Windows Mobile 6.5.3. which has some performance and UI enhancements to Windows Mobile.

You can get more details HERE

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Sadly this little gem almost eluded me as the product announcement was in my junk folder

Lucky I did a quick scan of that as the ChargePod v2 is a pretty unique device that allows you to charge a PC/Mac, 3 devices and also connect 3 USB peripherals too!

You can get more details HERE!

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Yesterday TeliaSonera launched the world’s first 4G Network in both Stockholm and Oslo giving you mobile broadband speeds 10x that of existing Turbo 3G download speeds!

Bring on the bandwidth!

You can read more HERE

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GM have just announced that in a number of their Chevrolet vehicles you can buy the Autonet mobile hotspot solution. The Equinox,Traverse, Silverado, Tahoe, Suburban, Avalanche, and Express vehicles can now be fitted with the service is provided by Autonet Mobile, which provides connectivity to select Chrysler, Dodge and Volkswagen automobiles as well.

The solution provides 3G connectivity in your vehicle – a great option if you need connectivity whilst on the road (but obviously not driving) or If you have older kids this may be a great way of them entertaining themselves whilst you travel!

You can read more HERE

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Text the World for free this Friday

Let those you love abroad know you’re thinking of them and let us pick up the tab. For a whole day on Friday 20 November, share in our celebration of World Hello Day by sending international texts for free all day long.

How to get your free texts

It’s simple – just type your text and hit send. Free Text the World Friday is open to all Vodafone customers, whether you’re on pay as you go or pay monthly.

What’s the catch?

None. You can text non-UK mobiles on 20 November for free – all day long.

Texting people in the UK or someone who’s taken their UK mobile abroad isn’t free.

Neither is texting premium rate numbers or texting while you’re roaming abroad.

Get more details here as well as full terms and conditions

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According to the latest Gartner results Apple has grown almost 50% unit sales to 17.1% Market share. )

RIM continue to do well and I’d love to see the breakdown of HTC sales of their split between Windows Mobile and Android to see what is fuelling their growth.

My personal observation is that those that have focussed primarily on their software experience rather than hardware have performed best while the traditional device vendors are struggling.

You can get more details HERE

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This is very cool – Vodafone New Zealand had an idea – the idea was simply to use a collection of mobile phones with TXT alerts that – when received in the sequence – created a symphony : Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture. It took 53 different ringtone alerts. Timed to imperfection. After a lot of practice it actually worked and Symphonia is the result.
Check out the video above!

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