Ewan Macleod, one of the most influential bloggers – worldwide – in the mobile industry, has reviewed Touchnote for Mobile an application we built with Touchnote in 33 days following an agreement they forged with Nokia to become a Nokia Launch Partner for the new Ovi Store. Check out the review below:

You can check out more of Mobile Developer TV here.

I recently met Iljar Laurs the CEO of Getjar at Mobile Web 2.0 Summit. He’s particularly insightful when it comes to understanding Mobile Application Stores as Getjar has more than 17 million downloads a month! We were both recently asked our opinion on the proliferation of Mobile Application Stores by Leila Makki of Telecom TV fame.

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Hi!

Welcome to Origin Mobile’s blog. I’m Ed Hodges the Founder of Origin and I’ll be posting news, advice and views on all things mobile.

It’s been a fantastic year so far. It seems there’s something in the water, companies who would have not thought about mobile campaigns or applications a year ago are now seriously considering them. In part, it’s got something to do with that beautiful device, the iPhone. It seems to me that with the phenomenal rise of the Apple App Store (hitting 1 billion downloads in April in just 9 months) in combination with the sale of more than 20 million iPhones around the world has caught the imagination of big business. Combine this with Nokia’s (soft) launch of its Ovi Store enabling more than 150 million N & E series handsets to download applications and the business case for creating a new marketing and sales channel – right into the consumers pocket – is too tantalizing to look away from.

As a result we’ve never been so busy! Be it consulting on how to take a business mobile, which programming languages and platforms are best for a business or just meeting for a lunchtime chat on the pros & cons of mobile, the buzz for mobile is increasing.

I’ll use this blog to bring you a glimpse of our achievements as well as some of the more important mobile stories that are, in my opinion, changing the direction of the future of mobile.

Incidentally, if you’d like an ‘edutainment’ (where do these words come from?) session about the rise of Mobile Application Stores and a general chat on how you might get involved with mobile, please email me at

ed AT originmobile DOT com