As usual they don’t give us specifications in advance, but there are a couple feature we now and we are waiting for.

Some people call those rumors, I don’t as I know that they are coming from Apple’s sources so they aren’t really rumors.

What we know so far:

• A5 processor chip
• Support iOS5 – announced in June
  
• iCloud Service ( it was announced be Steve Jobs on his last speech)
• Higher-resolution camera
• A smaller screen just 4 inch
• Face Recognition Security
• OLED screen with Scratch proof and shatter proof screen
• Flash support
• Wireless sync with iTunes 
• Extended battery life

We also expect some extra groundbreaking features.

A5 processor chip

iPhone 5 uses the A5 as the main processor, which will provide a better speed, somewhere around 1.2 to 1.5 GHz, and we expect 1GB RAM.

A5 contains:

• a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with NEON SIMD accelerator
• a dual core PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU, this is why the iPhone 5 will be so speedy and will compete with Samsung Galaxy S II

iOS5

As of keynote address on June 2011, the user interface is based on direct manipulation, using multi-touch gestures.
We expected to come with more than 200 new features that will including:

• Notification System
• News Stand
• iMessage – this is an app which allows: iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad users to communicate with each other

iCloud service

The iPhone 5 is expected to feature the new iCloud service for wireless remote access of music from both: computers and mobile devices.
This is the feature which supposes to fight piracy, is well expected by some and will make others un-happy.

A better Camera

This is pure speculation that the iPhone 5 will have:

• a rear-facing 8MP dual-LED flash camera
• a front-facing camera for video chatting
• a 3D camera which will be capable of capturing, processing and rendering 3D images with dual-camera hardware
• also it will be capable of taking pictures in Panorama

So just looking to the above list you can see that Apple is determined to keep up with the Android competition.

Smaller screen

The iPhone 5 could be slightly wider and thinner. The dimensions are:  4.33″ x 2.36″ and .27″ thickness at the top and .21″ at the bottom vs.  the dimensions of iPhone 4 which are: 4.5″ x 2.31″ x .37″.

Note : I don’t have info about the rest of features from the above list. So I let you to wait with anticipation. The price… well, we don’t know but I guess that will be compatible with the iPhone 4, it will be a great surprise if will be less…

Until next time be well and well-informed.
Michaela

I am sure there are some people having small businesses right in your town who have no idea, but are willing to figure out what they can do with simple text messages. They don’t understand all of the emerging technologies that have real potential to drive customers to them.

Adam Horwitz has  released Local Mobile Monopoly, so look it over:
Local Mobile Monopoly!

With “Local Mobile Monopoly”, you have the chance to learn all of the new marketing strategies and how to implement them effectively; and you can work with your local business!

And, by the way, it is ridiculously easy to learn and use to combine mobile marketing and local opportunity for a passive income every month.
I really think that this is shaping up to be a great opportunity for 2011 and in future as you already know that the trends are shifting towards mobile devices.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be a pioneer in a new hot niche:

Talk soon!

It is a complete new design: 33% thinner, 15% lighter, amazing speed, 2 cameras, and more…

I already hear runners that ver 2 is not so much different then iPad ver 1.

Hi! Listen – the biggest performance of iPad 2 is the speed,  dual-core A5 chip makes new iPad:

• two (2) times faster when browsing the web and
• nine (9) time faster on loading graphics

So only with this speed of the platform, they will be able to keep going adding user friendly innovations.

Not all performances are visible on user side,  some are just milestones for the future.  In this particular case, when you download 9 time faster some graphics, you will feel the difference.

Lets look it over to some specifications. The entire list is at Apple’s iPad specs

Size and Weight:

• WiFI:
  • Height: 9.50 inches
  • Width: 7.31 inches
  • Depth: 0.34 inch
  • Weight: 1.33 pounds
• WiFi + 3G:
  • Height: 9.50 inches
  • Width: 7.31 inches
  • Depth: 0.34 inch
  • Weight: 1.35 pounds
  • Weight: 1.34 pounds (Wi-Fi + 3G for Verizon model)

Storage:

• WiFI: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB
• WiFi + 3G: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB

Carriers: WiFi + 3G: AT&T, Verizon

Display:

• 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
• 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Chip: 1GHz dual-core Apple A5 custom-designed, high-performance

Cameras, Photos, and Video Recording:

• Front camera: Video recording, VGA up to 30 frames per second with audio
• Back camera: Video recording, HD (720p) up to 30 frames per second with audio
• Tap to control exposure for video
• Photo and video geotagging over Wi-Fi

Power and Battery:

• WiFI:
  • Built-in 25-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
  • Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
  • Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system
• WiFi + 3G:
  • Built-in 25-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
  • Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
  • Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using 3G data network
  • Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system

Sensors: Three-axis gyro, Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor

Location:

• Wi-Fi, Digital compass
• WiFi + 3G: Wi-Fi, Digital compass, Assisted GPS, Cellular

Audio Playback:

• Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
• Audio formats supported:
  • HE-AAC (V1 and V2)
  • AAC (8 to 320 Kbps)
  • Protected AAC (from iTunes Store)
  • MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps)
  • MP3 VBR
• User-configurable maximum volume limit
• Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound pass-through with Apple Digital AV Adapter (sold separately)

TV and Video:

• Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 1080p with Apple Digital AV Adapter or Apple VGA Adapter (cables sold separately)
• Video out support at 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable; 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable
• Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second

Mail Attachment: The types of document you can see are:

• images: “.jpg”, “.tiff”, “.gif “
• Microsoft Word: ” .doc”. ” .docx”
• web pages: “.htm” ,”.html”

Languages: You have 3 flavors:

• Language support
• Keyboard support
• Dictionary support (enables predictive text and auto-correct)
• The entire list is located at Apple’s iPad specs

Accessibility:

• Support for playback of closed-captioned content
• VoiceOver screen reader
• Full-screen zoom magnification
• White on black display
• Mono audio

Environmental Requirements:

• Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F
• Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
• Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet

Windows System Requirements:

• PC with USB 2.0 port
• Windows 7; Windows Vista; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
• iTunes 10.2 or later recommended - free download from http://www.itunes.com/download
• iTunes Store account
• Internet access

Mac System Requirements:

• Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
• Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later
• iTunes 10.2 or later recommended - free download from http://www.itunes.com/download
• iTunes Store account
• Internet access

So I hope I create a good image of the iPad2.

You can buy one at :
The Apple Store
And see all details at:
The Apple iPad

All the best with your iPad experience, drop me a line.

Apple iPhone 4,  the successor to the iPhone 3GS, runs on Apple’s iOS, which is the same OS used in the previous versions of iPhones.

iPhone 4 is also the world’s thinnest smartphone (9.3 millimeters).

The main features, in a nut shell, are:

• video calling
• media consumption such as books and magazines (periodicals)
• multi-touch Retina display which is capable of 960 x 640 pixel resolution
• movies, music, and games,
• web usage and e-mail access

More Details:

Same info from specifications:

Power and battery1

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
• Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter

Talk time:

• Up to 7 hours on 3G
• Standby time: Up to 300 hours

Internet use:

• Up to 6 hours on 3G
• Up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi
• Video playback: Up to 10 hours
• Audio playback: Up to 40 hours

You have 2 choices:

Apple iPhone 4 Black Smartphone 16GB (AT&T)
Apple iPhone 4 Black Smartphone 32GB (AT&T)

Enjoy!

Technology trends which dominated  in 2010 will continue to improve in 2011 while a couple of new trends will become significant at enterprise level. I’ll present 3 of them.

I think that after Apple updated his iOS to improve security, some snow ball effect followed at enterprises level:

• They were inclined to test and try iPad developments
• Experiment with Android smartphones tablet deployment as well

It is not the first time when in technology one improvement open the doors for a chain of events, a real domino effect.

1. Individual Business Units  Will Include More IT Experts.
The demand of IT professionals will grow but some shift from Centralize Information Technology Departments to medium/small business unites will occur.
Same typical positions IT as: DB administrators, network engineers, software developers, help desk personnel will be outsource. Functions as business analysts, project managers will remain at the IT companies department.

With other words practical business solutions will stay but IT expertise will be outsource.

We will notice:

• Increase Blogging at corporate level
  
• App-ification of the traditional web sites
• Increase on search at all levels and obvious increase on data storage

2. Experiment with desktop virtualization.

The virtualized desktop will be host on a server and it will be  access from company PCs, employee’s PCs, a thin client device, and even some smartphones.

What this really means is that the end user controls the access devices, and IT controls the software and setting on the virtual desktop.

A large scale experiments are expected with Google Chrome OS System, so finally people start to realize that Chrome OS is more then a browser.

If you want to know more about virtualization I suggest to visit:

Visit the Dell Virtualization Resource Center

3. IT Consumerization will naturally follow.

Spread of multi-touch tablets is expected, and advertising will expend with mobile devices.

Employees at all levels will use iPads and Android for work, so this will trigger:

• New employee policies
• Guidelines for workers who use their personal smartphons to access corporate applications and data.

A direct consequence will be the shrink of private data centers.

In summary the mobile technology, applications for mobile devices, smartphones, all of the will re-shape the enterprise work, and polices. It will mark the real triumph of mobile devices

It is really an unique opportunity I cannot wait to be part of it.

The format is webinar, so you pay a small fee and you are in… when the rest of the world are paying thousands to go on bootcamps, you can stay in your pajamas and listen to Adam’s and Tim’s hosting those webinars. Being webinar, it is a restriction of only 1000 people in, so it is some urgency here to secure your spot as part of Masterminding as soon as posible.

Today is the great day when Mobile Mastermind gets live:

The mastermind will take 6 weeks, one webinar per week, and the topics will be Application creation for mobile,  SEO Mobile, CPA Mobile  and so on…   After 6 weeks the mastermind is close forever and in February we will get Mobile Monopoly ver. 2.0

Click on picture, success is not an accident!

Do I need traffic for Mobile Profit? The Social Media is coming for the rescue. In general I don’t spread myself to over 500 sites but I have my favorites among the big boys: Blogging, Facebook, Squidoo, Twitter, Google Buzz… lets stop here for this post.

Blogging!

It is true that blogging is my favorite even if you don’t see me daily bases,  if you read this you are already in. So, Mobile Marketing is a new type of marketing which need more explanation, experience sharing, and a lot of love because even if some think that pioneering sucks, I am convinced that it is a huge value in doing it.

I create this blog to Promote Mobile Monopoly, but also to share trends, tips, give more details for Adam’s system, advertise  more Social Media, create a community interested on this new niche, and have a conversation within community.

At this point this is a 3 month Blog, it is a toddler but if you look at the end of the blog you will see under Views the number of visitors per post, which posts are viewed the most. It is clear that the community is moving along. You can argue that it is not quick enough -  I don’t think so,  if a new Site/Blog is sky rocketing in the first couple of month it will end up in Google’s SandBox, which means it will be penalize in ranking algorithm.

Why? Because Google thinking is:

• You abuse the system
• You do something which is artificial
• Maybe you use automated packages to force gazillion links to come to your site… and so on

So I am happy with this slow moving progress for the infancy stage of this blog. I have other blogs as well but this is the single one for this niche.

Facebook

The Facebook is the opposite story, it has a dynamic grow be definition, it is already a monster and you have to get in the game and play hard.

In FaceBook:

• I post on the wall just to acquire FB friends and make people know me
• Create group Affiliate Marketing and JV partners
• Create group Mobile Profits which echo my efforts for my new niche
• I don’t create ads with FB yet, because I am working on something which cannot be fragmented in pieces at this point, but the time of advertising via ads will come for sure

Note: It is a dispute about which has more value in it a Fan Page, or a Group. The answer is for long range a “group”, short range a “Fan Page”, at list this is the thinking now. With such an explosive development in FB, tomorrow can be different. I this it is correct because a group definitely create a targeted community, Fan Page can be, but not always is targeted because has too general subjects.

Squidoo!

Our beloved Squidoo is so fun, we all like to create lenses, which in general acquire a lot of traffic.

I started a set of four lenses for this new niche, the  first 3 of them are done, the last one is not but that one is only indirectly related with the mobile marketing niche.

• http://www.squidoo.com/mobile-marketing-part-I it is a lens which explain in general what it is Mobile Monopoly System
• http://www.squidoo.com/mobile-marketing-part-II it is a lens about the strategy of MM and how the knowledge from classic Affiliate Marketing with Mobile specifics are combine to produce great campaigns which will take advantage of the incredible pull of cell-phone owners
• http://www.squidoo.com/mobile-marketing-part-III it is a lens which explains the software package (beastmobi) which can create squeeze pages optimized for the little screen of a mobile device

You probably ask why I come with so many details – well, when I start I was overwhelmed by the quantity of new info. Then I realize that all the necessary steps in this system are very simple steps. It is just time consuming to mastermind the entire process in a short period of time.

So I want to make others go to the learning curve a little faster and easier, and this can be done knowing what you can expect from the system, and having upfront some knowledge about mobile marketing.

Twitter

It is an excellent way to network with business associates, competitors, and peers. It really is a way of life for many of us, so I just try to summarize only a couple of ideas:

• By befriending only people who are in the same niche as you, you’ll get a good insider’s look at your niche
• Update your audience fairly regularly, but don’t create the impression of spamming
• Use Twitterfeed to help people stay updated without them checking your page too often
• Display your Twitter profile all over: business cards, your website, your blogs,  email signatures
• Promote Events, people like events
• Keep it casual. Twitter is a social site, so it’s got more of a casual feel than websites in general
• Incorporate video into your Twitter page. Now Twitter allows for multimedia additions, so feel free to include video plug-ins on your page
• Separate your followers into different groups. This is actually quite useful, as they can be: customers, peers, competitors, or personal contacts
• Itunes, Iphones, and Twitter: There are plenty of new tools available right now that incorporated into Apple’s applications. This makes your Twitter updates available to
  
  • busy people who are on the go, and
    
  • for people who access your page solely on their Iphones
• Use other mobile Twitter related apps. Not only can your users download these apps and use them on their cell phones, but you can do the same and follow your personal friends and associates
  
• Ask opinion or feedback
• Make Twitter followers feel special by offering “Twitter followers only” specials. This encourages new seles as well as new followers
• Participate as much as possible
• Mix it up. Don’t just use Twitter as a promotional site. Try to keep a dialogue going, let people know what’s happening, and other things aside from over promotion

It is not much left about the Twitter, I am doing frequently, I tredirect then in many directions:

• My other social marketing work
• My blogs
• My affiliate links

I search statistics for you and my sales for Mobile Monopoly (I am an affiliate for them) are coming from 3 sources in the following order:

1. My list
2. Facebook
3. Twitter

Until next time be well

Let’s say you are in a hurry to live your house. What you take with you?

• Your keys
• Your wallet
• Your cell phone

Mobile phones are part of out life now…  as the keys of your home are. It is amazing, but this is the reality, so  a new shift of necessities must be follow by new tactics on marketing our business, on branding, on products and so on.

This blog has been created to:

• Advertise mobile marketing strategy and services
• How to create mobile campaigns
  
• Give news about mobile development
• Keep up to date with info in this niche as things happening as we “speak” and it isn’t easy to keep abreast with the now turns of events
• Keep up with Social Media and its implication
• Monetizing mobile marketing
  

You already know that I am a big fun of Adam’s “Mobile Monopoly” strategy, and also a happy user.

To be fair  and professional, I’ll publish tomorrow a different angle of mobile marketing as I consider that you must be inform and you must decide which one to follow.

Until tomorrow keep your keys, wallet and cell phone handy and safe. Be ready to watch Videos and take notes!

To your success

The Facebook Mission is:

“Give People the power to share and make the world more open and connected.”

As I told you in previous post, the new version of the FB groups is just the beginning in accomplishing the mission, and it is not glitches free.

What we know so far  is that:

• A person can be added to a group without the benefit of expressing his intention via an opt-in form, curious isn’t it?
• The new feature of group let the  users of the group add their existing friends to groups. Everybody can add their friends to a group
  
• If a friend is adding you, and from some reason you don’t like it, you can “unsubscribe” but this is  an irreversible act. The person who added you, lost the ability to add  you to any further groups at all
• You also can block the person who added you and remove that person from your friends list

Note 1: What is puzzling me is that  we cannot opt-out of a group using sign-up feature.

So, it is clear that this is a process in working, it will be numerous changes in future, we must stay in top and inform ourselves about the changes.

Note 2: What is interesting is that the Facebooks CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is just worry about making the interaction better, and is not worry about making the security  better.

One more point. I was asked what is better to have a FB Group or a FB Fan Page.  I will say a “group” because you have targeted people in it.

But I redirect you to an article written by Ann Smarty, she is doing a great study case on this subject.

Until next time stay informed

He thinks  that “the biggest problem in social networking” is the interaction, which is still one-on-one.
The new changes will add new elements to the interaction for a  better use.

The new version:

• Focuses around Group Chat
• Shares networks and notifications
  

In a nut shell, the new version definitely has a deeper array of engagement tools and will help the interaction and the monetizing.

So, I have created a new group on Facebook called “Mobile Profit“. Together we can measure the effectiveness of the new changes.

Note: Mark states that the will take time until people will jump on the wagon.

But with sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google Buzz, we already know that some events happen over the night. I advise to jump to this opportunity now, because some pioneer activity always create big benefits later in the process.

I invite you to my new group.

Regards
Michaela