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Pearls - New real mobile services in
use somewhere in the world, described on one slide. Pearls are collected by Tomi T Ahonen, 3G
Strategy Consultant.
"It makes sense that content providers focus on
SMS and 2G WAP as they are comfortable with these technologies now,
and there is a large population of
users," Ahonen says. Mobile
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THESE ARE PEARLS OF THE MONTH FOR THE YEAR 2004. CLICK ON IMAGE OF PEARL
TO VIEW
To see other
older pearls, from 2003, 2002 and 2001 click here [Older Pearls]
PEARL OF THE YEAR 2004
winner is Comedy Insult Game "The Dozens" - Congratulations to its
developers Bonus Mobile, Topps Card Company and the Wayans Brothers
!! Press Release here shortly.
Pearl of the Month: October - Insult Comedy
game "The Dozens" from black American youth humor in the style of
"your mother is so..." has now been released as a mobile game, by the
black comic most associated with this style, director/actor Keenan Ivory Wayans
[large view insult game]
Other Finalists were
(in random order):
Handsfree bicycle
kit including the peddling-based battery recharger, by Orange Netherlands (Pearl
of the Month for February 2004)
Paid mobile
blogging by Kwickee Guides UK (Pearl of the Month September 2004)
Exclusive remote
access cameras via 3G phones to Big Brother House in Sweden (Pearl
of the Month January 2004)
Welcoming message
with current exchange rate information for travellers by Singtel Singapore (Pearl
of the Month May 2004)
Location-based
allergy warnings by Vodafone Germany (Pearl of the
Month June 2004)
SEE EACH OF THESE BELOW
ALL
PEARLS OF THE MONTH FOR 2004
Pearl of the Month: December - Light and
Connectivity to Darkest Africa, from Cameroon. [large
view Lite to Africa]
Pearl of the Month: November - SimPill, clever
medical pill bottle has built-in SMS alerting, from South Africa. [large
view SimPill]
Pearl of the Month: October - Insult Comedy
game "The Dozens" from black American youth humor in the style of
"your mother is so..." has now been released as a mobile game, by the
black comic most associated with this style, director/actor Keenan Ivory Wayans
[large view insult game]
Pearl of the Month: September - Mobile bloggers
are starting to be paid for producing their content. UK based Kwickee Guides
takes the lead [large view
bloggers paid]
Pearl of the Month: August - Sending text
messages based on license plates in UK. [large
view text to car]
Pearl of the Month: July - Now
the perfect alibis via the mobile phone in Germany. [large
view Alibi]
Pearl of the Month: June - Vodafone in Germany
offers personalised allergy warnings as a Location-Based Service. [large
view Allergy]
Pearl of the Month: May - Singtel in Singapore
has started to welcome travellers not with the usual bragging about who has the best network quality, but something every
traveller can use: the current exchange rate of your currency vs Singapore
dollar. This is one welcoming message worth keeping !!
[large
view Welcoming Exchange Rate]
Pearl of the Month: April - LM Ericsson
suggested at MMS Congress in Vienna that the next stage developing from
MMS-to-Plain-Old-Postcard, is now MMS-to-Stickers. Young people love stickers.. [large view
MMS to Stickers]
Pearl of the Month: March - UK discos have
SMS-to-Screen chat, already 100,000 text messages per month [large view SMS Disco]
Pearl of the Month: February - Holland now
offers free bicycles and handsfree kits for new phone customers on Orange [large view Free Bike and Kit]
Pearl of the Month: January - Big Brother TV
Show in Sweden has custom access for 3G cameraphones [large view Big Brother 3G]
To see other older pearls, click here [Older Pearls]
Pearls are collected by Tomi T Ahonen, 3G
Strategy Consultant and bestselling author on 3G business. A Pearl is a real world mobile service making money today, described on
one slide. If you like these, please contact Tomi Ahonen for many many
more.
To send e-mail about Pearls or to request
workshop availability or for any other contact, please send e-mail to tomi@tomiahonen.com
If you have found a
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presentations. To see Tomi's upcoming
and past conference speakerships see [Tomi Conferences]
His first book, Services for UMTS features over
200 services in detail, see [Services for UMTS]
His second book includes the money side of 170
service ideas and includes 50 real existing services, see [m-Profits: Money & 3G]
For recent press coverage of Tomi Ahonen see [See Tomi in Press]
For business consulting workshops and services see [3G Workshops & Consulting]
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