Mobile Industry Review Show – Episode 26

By on September 16, 2008 in News

Here, then, is the latest Mobile Industry Review Show (“MIR Show”) — Episode 26. It’s jampacked! JAMPACKED with footage from both Beijing, CTIA and London.

Our technical contributor, Dan Lane, anchors the show from his office in London while everyone else was out gallivanting across the globe.

Watch out for:
- Ben Smith live from sticky Beijing
- CTIA interviews with an array of companies including Sonicboom, Trutap, GeoSpot, DeviceAnywhere and Nokia

Topics discussed:
1) Ben’s in Beijing (00:46)
2) CTIA (05:40)
a) ShowStoppers Event Tuesday Evening, CTIA (06:09)
b) DeviceAnywhere: iPhone 3G now available (06:22) : Leila Modarres, Director of Marketing, DeviceAnywhere (06:33)
c) Cascada Mobile (07:46) : Alan Lysne, CEO of Cascada Mobile (07:50)
d) GeoSpot (12:32) : Joe Chen, Founding CEO of GeoSpot.com (12:36)
e) Quick chat with Carl from Trutap (17:02)
f) Bena Roberts, President of Vicinity Mobile and Owner of GoMoNews.com (17:57)
g) David Danon, CEO of Sonicboom.com (20:27)
h) Jeb of TopMobile20.com checks in! (23:09)
i) Mark, top chap at Nokia North America (23:46)

Across this week we’ll be publishing extended interviews with each of the CEOs and Marketing Executives we interviewed. Standby for that!

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  • http://www.kcjhdesign.co.uk Kip Hakes

    Whoooo! I'm in it!

  • phillipyang04

    Ewan was great! Good job on reporting!

  • http://tumblolly.tumblr.com/ ollysk2

    Great stuff guys — REALLY interested to see the mobile app space, and the fact that there was a quick app hacked together in about 10 minutes for Ewan's e90 was very impressive.

    -olly

  • http://www.rickyc.co.uk Ricky Chotai

    Good Show, Dan did the best job?

  • dsample

    Very interested to see the Spot reviewed. I'd be interested to hear whether there are any interfaces that could be hooked into by other services as the prices for subscription are pretty cheap for the service it would offer.

    Dan, just had a look a p8tch, pretty interesting. Oh, and good work on holding the show together this week!

  • http://nokiaaddict.com gerrymoth

    Why is this episode not showing up in the podcast feed?

  • http://davidcarrington.co.uk David Carrington

    I finally get home to some real bandwidth and Vimeo tells me a very odd error message: “SUCKER, Vimeo drank your milkshake”.

  • mattinx

    Did he say “N95 8 gigabit”?

    On another note – how much are we thinking Rogers are going to extort the Canadian public to use the Ovi services then?

  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    Gutted I couldnt get my footage there in time – damn my flaky internet…

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    How is your internet now? Any better?

  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    Much. I can haz footage.

  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    Gerry – one of the feeds was missing. I've fixed it now – should be OK. Worth noting this is Show 28 not 26 as titled here!

  • http://www.visibilitymobile.com Bena Roberts

    THANK-YOU! I just found this and loved it

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Welcome, Bena!

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  • http://astroturfgarden.com bogart

    Loved the segways to Dan in London. poor Dan…

  • edgar1013

    unbelivable beijing video blog from the olympic compound Ben.
    one of my peers from howardforums is traveling to china and needs a prepaid sim.
    did you get your sim from a kiosk? or a china mobile store?
    laptop is sweet! is that a fujitsu siemens i heard? is that euro market only? never heard of it in US.

  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    Thanks Edgar. I got my SIM from a China Mobile authorised dealer (there must be one about every 300 yards along most streets), but friends also bought them from kiosks without any problems and there is a stall at the airport which doesn't appear to charge a premium and may be more familiar with dealing with english speakers. Be warned – I got a very clear explanation of call costs and deals, but data was more problematic and although I got something and the lady set it up for me it was HTTP only and I never fully understood the bundle I'd bought :-)

    By the way, check out the next show too which has some better coverage from the great wall and the summer palace.

    Yes the laptop is the Fujitsu P8010 and I really liked it except some build quality issues with the case. Not sure if it's Euro-only, but as it has a WWAN chip in it I suspect it may be. It too was a fingerprint magnet! A write-up is in the works… watch the site.

  • http://trutap.com Carl Uminski

    Can't believe I have only managed to get to this… fantastic coverage mate, especially on 17 ;-) – nice work!!!

  • http://trutap.com Carl Uminski

    Can't believe I have only managed to get to this… fantastic coverage mate, especially on 17 ;-) – nice work!!!

  • http://trutap.com Carl Uminski

    Can't believe I have only managed to get to this… fantastic coverage mate, especially on 17 ;-) – nice work!!!

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