Menace on your mobile

News filtering through the lofty windows of Refresh Towers this morning informs us that there is a rather large buzz about getting such comic classics as The Beano and The Dandy converted from their traditional paper formats to the digital medium of MMS!

Wowee!
Huzzah!

Breakthrough!

(No... Really)

Apparently:

"Publishers are looking at challenging traditional comic books by sending children stories, frame by frame, straight to their handsets as picture messages."

Which is quite frankly - AMAZING!

Don't get us wrong, magazines on your mobile are pretty damn good, (or 'Mobizines' as we like to call them - ahem)...

But comic books too? That'd be awesome...!

I'm sure that the kids (who I'm sure this particular money-making venture is aimed at) would probably only have to pay something like £1.50 per issue/MMS delivery... and kids are so good with their mobile phone subscription services - I mean - they never get ripped off!

Now if only there was a service out there already - that could deliver such comic classics like Garfield and/or Dilbert...

As well as provide users with the ability to create their own comic strips...
And then to get them sent straight to your phone...

For free.
No subscription charge.
Nothing.


Now THAT would be AWESOME.

;)

And as if by Magic...

We're back!

Yes yes - we know - it's been...
*checks calendar* ...ooo blimmin' eck!

...it's been over a month since the last post...
(really? that long? Wow)

Things have been a bit crazy here at Refresh Towers of late - what with uber brand new projects being created (shh - more on that soon)

Eyemags achieving one million downloads...

Vodafone breaking Mobizine downloads...

The launch of our first National Newspaper Mobizine...

...and that's just the tip of the iceberg!
But no fear - we're back and as strong as ever.

Anyway - it's all a lot to take in so let's tackle it one thing (and one post) at a time....

First off - Vodafone.

You may've read recently (ooo - say about a month ago?) that Vodafone's new 'mobile internet' complete messed up Mobizines for any Vodafone user who tried to download the service.
Well - you'll be please to hear that it has now all been fixed.
Voda have since apologised (to everyone - wasn't just us this affected) and we can all live happily ever after!

If you're still not sure you have the correct version of Mobizines - drop an email to help@mobizines.com along with your phone number plus make and model of handset and we can check it out for you.

We'll be back later in the week with more on all of the above - and we mean it this time!


Stay Tuned!

Perhaps Nokia users are just easier to please

Robin, our chief technologist (he posts here occasionally as "Eyemags"), has done some interesting research on user voting patterns on eyemags. He's posted the preliminary analysis at the Nokia Forum blogs, but the gist of it is, that when asked to vote on the quality of an Eyemag, Nokia users tend to rank their experience higher than any other handset owners. We've a bunch of theories about this (they have better screens, they can only see the first option, they're more enthusiastic by nature than Samsung owners) but nothing definite. Robin's story also got picked up at the Register in their inimitable nudge-nudge, wink-wink style.