Podcast - 2nd October 2013
Today's podcast starts with a gentle warning to app developers from the Office of Fair Trading.
We then move on to Amazon's new tablets, HTC's sale of its Beats Electronics stake, Twitter's emergency alerts, UK government plans to improve mobile broadband on trains, customer complaints and the growth in adult content for mobile devices.
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Highest proportion of complaints from T-Mobile
Ofcom’s quarterly report of complaints against major UK telecoms and pay TV providers shows an overall drop between April and June 2013, mainly due to a fall in the number of landline and broadband complaints.
It’s the regulator’s tenth quarterly report.
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This week Amazon has introduced the third generation of its Kindle Fire tablets.
The Kindle Fire HDX family uses new hardware, the latest version of the Android-based Fire OS and a new ‘Mayday’ button for customer service.
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London-based smartphone company Kazam, which was set up by former HTC executives Michael Coombes and James Atkins earlier this year, has announced more details about its management team.
There are now 30 people working at Kazam.
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David Heled of Cellebrite writes:
Smartphones are now by far and away the communication, payment and information device of choice for consumers and enterprises. Sales are set to overtake those of traditional feature phones this year for the first time. However, the increasing complexity of the devices’ technology means that there’s a lot more that can go wrong, and make it harder for mobile retailers to identify potential problems – and it’s costing them millions per every year.
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