Many of us have only heard about the upcoming impact of mobile coupons, but only recently are we actually seeing it happen.
I was again reminded of this by way of MobileMarketingWatch.com, where they higlighted the graphic below from PromotionalCodes.co.uk’s Money Saving Blog.
This is one of those cases where a picture tells a thousand words:
2 comments July 27th, 2010
The next time you are waiting for the hot dog guy to come around to your nosebleed seats at a baseball or football game, you’ll wish you had the FanGo mobile app.
FanGo is a mobile point of sale system that resides on your iPhone, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile device, and allows you to order food from the stadium merchants from wherever you are in the stadium. No need to leave your seat, or deal with long stadium lines at intermission.
The FanGo mobile app is currently available on the iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile platforms. The system is being rolled out to venues across the country, and is currently available at a few locations including Rupp Arena at the University of Kentucky, as well as the KFC Yum! Center in downtown Louisville. To find out which stadiums use FanGo, view their most recent list of locations here.
3 comments July 20th, 2010
Google announced this week that it is extending invitations to it’s App Inventor tool to the general public. App Inventor, which can be considered an Integrated Deveploment Environment (IDE) for Android applications, was previously only available as part of a test program that Google was managing in schools.
The tool is certainly geared towards those new to programming in general, and the idea behind it is to get more people comfortable building and deploying Android apps.
The brief video below shows how easy it is to build a quick Android app using App Inventor. There’s a more complete video here.
Ready to start building your Android App? You’ll still have to apply by filling out this form.
Have you built an Android App using a different tool? Let us know how your experience was by commenting below!
Add your thoughts July 17th, 2010
As many of you have heard, there are a number of stories out there about how Apple’s new iPhone 4 is getting negative reviews around it’s reception.
Specifically, the redesign of the iPhone 4 includes incorporating the antennae in the outer casing of the phone. As a result, the user’s hand can interfere with the phone’s reception, causing the bar indicators to go down.
Even Consumer Reports has stated they cannot recommend the iPhone 4 due to this reception issue, in what was an otherwise a positive review.
We want to hear from you!
Did you buy an iPhone 4? Let us know by answering the poll below. Two people who participate in our poll will win a free MobileMammoth t-shirt.
7 comments July 14th, 2010
We are back (finally)!
We’ve spent the past couple weeks upgrading our infrastructure to make our back-end operations better than ever. Thank you to all out readers and text message users for your patience as the site was unavailable at certain times throughout the process.
Now we are back and excited to bring more content around mobile websites, mobile apps for the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry platforms, and general mobile talk as well.
Thank you readers!
1 comment July 14th, 2010
The Versus channel has developed an iPhone app that provides live video from the 2010 Tour de France. At $14.99, it’s not the cheapest iPhone app in the App Store, but by all accounts it is well worth it for cycling and Tour de France fans.
Let us know what you think!
1 comment July 8th, 2010
We at MobileMammoth are pleased to share that our free text message tool has just recently passed the 400,000 text message milestone!
Launched in 2008, the tool has enabled thousands of users to send text messages to friends and loved ones for free from their computer. We appreciate the many users who have shared their thanks and words of praise for the tool. For example, we’ve received several emails from military families who’ve used it to communicate to their loved ones deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan, or elsewhere overseas. Those are the stories we love to hear.
We are always looking to approve our online text message tool, so please do contact us if you have any suggestions for additional carriers or countries. Last year, we created a tool to send text messages to India as well.
Thanks again to all our users for helping us reach this milestone, and we hope to reach the 500,000 milestone before the end of 2010!
5 comments June 23rd, 2010
Tvider is a Twitter application that allows users to instantly Tweet videos, pictures, and audio from mobile devices or webcams.
Tvider is available as a mobile app on all major mobile platforms including iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbian, Java and BREW.
If you are looking for a super easy way to tweet those crazy pictures or video that you capture with your phone, this is an app worth trying out.
1 comment June 15th, 2010
If you know it, give yourself a high five.
The site is hi5, which happens to be very popular, particularly outside the U.S. hi5 has a mobile website as well, allowing users to sign and and update their status and stay in touch with their network.
Any hi5 users out there? What do you like most about it?
m.hi5.com
Stats based on 2008 Comscore metric of total monthly visitors.
4 comments June 10th, 2010
It’s not easy to come up with a fresh idea for dinner each night. Luckily, the Epicurious app for Android offers over 28,000 recipe ideas with just a few clicks on your phone.
Some of you may remember the mobile website we highlighted back in 2007, where we showed how to get free recipes to your mobile phone. Well they’ve been keeping at it with their mobile app for Android and other mobile platforms as well.
Bon appetit!
www.android.com/market/#app=com.epicurious
2 comments June 9th, 2010
