iCall up for grabs – Morodo up for everything Mobile

It’s been reported that Apple is interested in acquiring Mobile VoIP company, iCall.  Figures such as ‘$50 million’ and ’100,000 customers’ have been bandied about and there  has even been idle speculation that Apple might be buying the company for the name alone.

OK, well, here at Morodo we’re not sitting waiting with baited breath for that call from  Motorola, Morrisons or Mozilla about MO-Call, but we do see this as an emerging trend for 2010 and beyond: First Google snapped up Gizmo, Packet8 has alleged suitors,  Orange ON is pitching VoIP outside it’s network footprint and now this. Operators of all kinds, Manufacturers and Brand Owners have finally realised that voice is the killer app.

Pat Phelan asks whether other service providers should be worried. Not particularly  bothered Pat, quite pleased in a right-place-right-time kind of way. Morodo is first and  foremost a mobile software company and we’re happy to sell our services to anyone, so,  dear reader, if you want a mobile dialer for your brand, do get in touch, our software works on almost 1,800 different mobile devices, not just the ones you read about in the PR press.

And if you want cheap international calls from your mobile, come and join MO-Call.

Google Nexus One in New Year Sales

In case you have not heard, Google have made a mobile phone and given it to their staff to test. This news should be a suprise to nobody – you make a mobile OS, might as well build at least one device to showcase it’s capabilities.

For a comprehensive rundown on the hardware, start with an informative post from Phandroid.

For a reasonable assumption of the Do No Evil marketing machine’s strategy, you could do worse than read GoMo News. Seems like a logical conclusion to me.

For frankly nauseating love-fest reportage, try Techcrunch – that post must have been written with tongue firmly in cheek, surely?

I rate Android very highly but I think it’s biggest problem is going to be a lack of standardisation in ODM/OEM reference design. HTC don’t have a great record in this respect so I sincerely hope that the Nexus One helps Google whip them into shape, for the sake of all of us.