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TELECOMS ANALYST Strand Consult has described Apple’s Ithingey as the Paris Hilton of mobile phones. A seemingly beautiful product but actually no good to the operators partnered with Apple.

The most damning part of the company’s report says that, “Our research shows that there is not one single Apple partner in the world [among the mobile operators] that has increased its overall turnover, profit and market share thanks to the Iphone.”

Worse still, Strand claims that a number of operators have issued profit warnings related to their Iphone ventures. The central theme from Strand is that the Ithingey burns up valuable mobile broadband.

Most Ithingey users choose not to view the websites in XHTML which is optimised for low bandwidth and mobile phone-sized screens.

Read the whole article at TheInquirer