Anders Lindh <alindh@iki.fi>
the mobile experience
Convergence, mobility, related technologies & development and random thoughts related to mobility and the mobile web.

Archive for April, 2006

Less blogging, more work

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Hmm, almost no posts for one month. Here is a quick summary of what I’ve been up to (as a reminder for myself).
Bought a PlayStation 2 (GT4 bundle) and the Guitar Hero game (which is a lot of fun). Had some time off during easter. Been learning Ruby (and the rails framework) and done some […]

Finnish mobile services market 2005

Friday, April 28th, 2006

The Ministry of transport and communications has completed its annual report of the Finnish mobile services market. Here is a quick summary for 2005:

2.8B SMS messages (+29%)
14.4M MMS messages (4 M€)
Total value of market: 284 M€ (+16%, SMS’s account for 178 M€/+13%)
Data services market worth 30 M€ (+43%)
Content services worth 71 M€ (+16%)
Monthly ARPU 27.2€ […]

Symbian icons

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Symbian based handsets have evolved a lot during the last couple of years, and there is a lot of cool stuff that can be done with an always-on, always-connected device. I’ve got cool idea for an application, so I’ve been playing around with Carbide++ and the Symbian SDK’s for a couple of evenings. So far […]