Mobilestead Blog

Just a few days ago I wrote about the upcoming launch of the Skype iPhone App. Today I noticed that on their blog they state: In less than two days, Skype for iPhone has been downloaded more than one million times – around six downloads every second. That's amazing growth for these type of applications and it's obvious that Skype will dominate in mobile VoIP as well. Read More

Crunchgear posted that tomorrow, March 31st, Skype will be added to the Apple App Store. This also gives iPod Touch users an ability to make calls over the WiFi network. They will need to purchase an external mic to do this. Its also worth noting that Fring and Truphone had Skype integration for months, but now we have a native Skype app which allows for IM, loading the avatars and more importanly to make the "callout" calls. Read More

This is a great event for companies focusing on Windows Mobile. Microsoft has lost the mindshare with mobile application developers and has been slow to move. Google and RIM have been following Apple's footsteps closely. Microsoft is sponsoring the first-ever “Mobile Incubation Week” to help startups incubate outstanding ideas. Read More

Analyst firm Gartner has just released a report that highlights 8 mobile technologies which they predict will impact the mobile industry over the course of the next two years. We picked three that have most potential and utility: Location Awareness Location-sensing technologies (powered by GPS as well as Wi-Fi and triangulation) provide live information on users' locations to enhance mobile social networking applications. Over the next two years, this sort of technology is expected to become more mainstream. There are still a bunch of privacy ... Read More

We all have seen the small watermarks in the corner of many web maps in the past. But what does this all mean? NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas are the main players. They both provide mapping data to GPS manufacturers and online mapping services. GPA Magazine has a very good discussion of them. Fletch concludes that NAVTEQ is the better choice (in the USA). It is a bit more expensive to the GPA manufacturers. Frankly, when choosing a navigation device, I can hardly think of anything more important ... Read More

Everyone is raving about the iPhone native apps, and I completely understand why. The biggest thing is the placement in the iTunes AppStore. Once you get there, you have a reach to hundreds of thousands of new consumers. However there are many applications that may just as well designed as a WebApp. Most of the current products are already implemented as a website and it would be a lot easier to publish it as a WebApp. Of course you miss out on ... Read More