How to make viral marketing appealing for phones
October 28, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Cell phone, Convergence Phones, Mobile Monitor
I was just reading the Easy Marketing Blog’s entry on how to achieve the viral marketing apex using mobile phones. I do believe that the springboard of viral marketing has a lot to do with the consumer wanting to create a buzz. If there was no incentive, then why bother?
A lot of free viral marketing does happen over the Internet – yes they do not get paid to post about products and services and campaigns – but that’s because the incentives are not quantified in terms of cold cash. Instead, these “grassroots viral marketers” are in it for the prestige, …read more
Apple WWDC: What? No iPhone??
August 7, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Cell phone, Convergence Phones, Mobile Monitor
Yeah, like I was really expecting it.
I think it’s too early for Apple to pull a fast one and come up with a new product like a smartphone. As to what ancestry it should come from, whether it should be more iPod than phone, or more phone than iPod or more MacBook than phone, only time will tell.
Really nice Mac Pro though.
Nokia 3250 hands on
May 13, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Convergence Phones, Nokia, Portable Audio
Got a chance to play with the Nokia 3250 “twist” phone. A rogue among all of Nokia’s designs, this SOLID candybar phone allows you to twist the bottom part of the unit’s real estate in three iterations for phone mode, shooting mode and music mode.
Perhaps the biggest question on the minds of readers would be whether the twisting mechanism provides a good UI compliment for phone and multimedia. The answer is that it wins 2/3 times failing in the realm of the camera. Tilting the bottom half perpendicular to the screen makes it a bit uncomfy for taking shots since …read more
XDA II Mini Pro is a bit camera shy
September 18, 2005 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Convergence Phones
I recently came from a three day mobile tech expo and was curious to find a huge group of geeks (like me!) huddled around the Windows Mobile booth. I tried to push myself through the sweaty crowd to find a man showing off a new Windows Mobile 5.0 device in all its OEM glory – fully functional, no brand, no distributor. it looked like the XDA II Mini (popularized by 02) but slightly thicker.
I grabbed my camera to take a shot but when the evil demo guy saw me whip out my Olympus, he grabbed the unit and with …read more
