Comments on: Do you remember Pogo Mobile?

By: Mark Williams

Mark Williams — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:48:53 +0000

I've still got one of these in a box of old bits and pieces. It only works if it's left plugged in now as the battery has had it.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:52:57 +0000

Agreed!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:13:51 +0000

i remember selling quite a few of these back in the day as a sales exec for cpw and part of the data support team for the company. the pogo was a fantastic bit of kit and was easily as fast to use as modern mobile browsers. CPW I think ended up buying it to try and keep the company afloat. The tech I believe was powered by dedicated servers which optimized the web content before it was sent over the mobile network. It was ace for pub quizzes and had a couple of quirky games to boot. It was lights years ahead of its time and i think if it was in more conventional packaging would have been the eureka moment for mobile web browsing. RIP pogo.

By: Aidan

Aidan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:41:04 +0000

I had a few Pogos, including the next generation nVoy – that was very sexy (sadly I was not allowed to keep one).

And, yes James, I do still have an original Pogo. If I can find a charger and someone with an old SIM I might even be able to fire it up. I do also have the pc adapter (podulator/pogulator?), though it would be a challenge to gather all the right software to encrypt and upload new Flash (4) files to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_Mobile_and_nVoy

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:36:11 +0000

I know one of the original developers. (and he's definitely still got one, been trying to get him to bring it Mobile Geeks of London for AGES) I'll make sure he sees this. J. James Whatley's last blog post..Reminder: Mobile Geeks of London III

By: Lam

Lam — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:26:58 +0000

hi!
please help me !
I want buy a pogo mobile but it has discontinuted.
anyone known information about pogo please send to me.thanks all

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:23:50 +0000

I had one of those… and I thought it was great. Great design and great fun but it looked like it was aimed at the youth market who had no money.

It was out just before the xda which was shiney and slick but I can see the vision for the pogo. It could have been a major player in the mp3 arena but it focused on the net because everyone was talking about 3g etc.

What a pity it didn’t work out because for a first version of a product I think it was great.

Maybe people don’t do funky when it comes to mobiles….?