Mobilestead Blog

GSM Association just announced a standardized charger for all mobile phones. Consumers have been demanding this for a while now. But before we all get excited, the target date for this is Jan. 1, 2012 – 3 years away! This makes perfect sense and I would imagine that this would have been introduced a lot sooner as there are obvious advantages to both consumers and manufacturers. This new charger should also be a bit more energy efficient. There are 17 companies involved in ... Read More

According to the Telegraph, the average age for a kid to get his or her first cell phone is eight. Eight! I was lucky enough to get my first cell-phone at the age of 16. At that time this was a shared resource where one in five had one. A brick sized phone was a status symbol. This was still the age of the beepers and pagers. According to the survey based on“1,435 people including 546 children aged seven to 15, 676 parents ... Read More

New York City partnered with Google to create NYCgo.com and a brand new Official NYC Information Center, located at 810 7th Avenue . Tourists can now navigate the city easier by integrating Google Maps for mobile into their experience. www.NYCgo.com is similar to other sites as it lists hotels, restaurants, and things to do in New York. This is also in a way a competitor to CitySearch. Most pages embed Google Maps, and feature "send to phone" feature, which sends locations to ... Read More

Today is a major day for Location-based Social Networking. Google has just launched Latitude, which probably should have been called Location for simplicity. Now your friends can see exactly where you are. More info on TechCrunch. Google Mobile Blog has the official announcement. This means trouble for startups in this space, as none really got significant traction. In our opinion, mobile social networking space will eventually be won by the likes of Facebook which already know all your friends and can easily turn location ... 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

Welcome to Mobilestead and our blog! Our team is working hard to bring our vision to life. Here you will be able to read about all the happenings at Mobilestead and our commentary on the latest mobile news and developments. We hope to transform the entire tourist experience by providing targeted mobile applications and content using Location Based Services. Here is a short intro: Mobilestead provides solutions that enable hotels to integrate mobile guest services into their existing infrastructure to enhance the guest experience. Upon check-in ... 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