– Trinity Mirror: The Daily Mirror publisher is releasing two paid-for iPhone apps in January for its standalone gossip site 3am.co.uk and MirrorFootball.co.uk. At the same time, the company is working free apps for Mirror.co.uk and DailyRecord.co.uk, followed by yet more unspecified Trinity apps in 2010.
— Vodafone-Nokia: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) will be the first UK operator to offer the Nokia N900 smartphone, which uses the Linux-based Maemo OS. Pre-registration is open now and it should be available in January.
— Nokia The world’s biggest mobile handset maker, is still down-sizing and shedding staff as its prepares for a leaner 2010. Up to 400 staff at its Salo plant in Finland (via Reuters) will be axed, weeks after it announced up to 330 job cuts in Sweden and elsewhere, as part of long-running plans to axe 1,700 jobs. The company says it will produce half as many handsets next year — even though it still expect mobile volumes to grow 10 percent in 2010.
— O2 4G test: Telefonica-owned O2 and Huawei managed to reach speeds of 150Mbps when testing out long-term evolution (LTE) “4G” wireless network technology at O2’s Slough HQ. No word on when — or if — O2 customers will get those kinds of speeds. From Thenextweb.com.
— iPhone VOD: A survey from Olswang/Yougov has found that 37 percent of iPhone users will be happy to pay for mobile VOD content in future — opposed to 11 percent of all survey participants. Catchup TV could be a profitable verticle: 41 percent of iPhone users said they pay for it, while 30 percent of the total respondents would be interested. Olswang surveyed 1,013 adults and the full the report is available to AOP members.
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