1. Text messages aren’t included in your package and you’re paying twice as much as the national debt of Uruguay for usage each month 2. The minutes you’re allowed are only enough to call customer services to complain about the tariff 3. Calling a ‘local number’ costs the same as calling Australia at peak hours [...]
Archive | January, 2009
The ShoZu Weekend begins tomorrow
Rome. We’re off to Rome tomorrow morning at the unlikely time of 7.30am. Unlikely because I suspect we’d all very much rather be in bed at that time on a Saturday morning. Let alone having to worry about being at the airport two hours before. The MIR Show team is heading to Rome to produce [...]
The Inaugural MIR Developer’s Event
So this evening we held the first ever MIR Developer’s networking event. We’re no stranger to events here at MIR — but this is the first time we’ve tried something different from the 150-people style big ones. This time we only had 15 attendees, along with a few chaps from DeviceAnywhere and the MIR editorial [...]
Mobamingle – a Japanese mobile internet success story expanding internationally
Happy Friday! James from mjelly.com here at Mobile Industry Review for another “Mobile 2.0 service of the week”. So far we’ve covered mobile 2.0 apps from all over the world from Mig33 in Australia, Itsmy in Germany, Mocospace in the US to ebuddy and Nimbuzz in Holland and this week we’re going East with Mobamingle - the international [...]
Carphone Warehouse ALSO launches Pay-As-You-Go BlackBerry x 2
On that day that will go down the annals of history as BlackBerry’s move to prepaid services, or the day everyone on the planet announces their pay as you go BlackBerry handsets – Carphone Warehouse unveils the 8110 and 8210. Those two phones are available from January 30th at the princely sum of £149.95 each, [...]
Acer’s Smartphone – it’s official
Acer has sent an email to the press this week inviting them to their briefing at Mobile World Congress, whilst ever so subtly unveiling their Smartphone at the same time in the invite. In a move that’s as subtle as opening an envelope by throwing a brick at it, they also announced their intentions to [...]
Orange’s Pay As You Go Blackberry Service – more details
Following up on our post a few weeks back about Orange’s Pay As You Go Blackberry service, we’ve got confirmed details from Orange. Kudos to Conor Maples in the Orange Comms Team who dropped me the details: From early February, Orange will be the first operator in the UK to offer BlackBerry on Pay As [...]
ShoZu Photo Of The Day: Live Updates
In curating the arriving ShoZu Photo Of The Day suggestions, I this one stood out for me — partly because WOMWorld dropped me a note to see if I’d like to try out an E71 (yes) and partly because this photo is an excellent, excellent indication of the business usage of ShoZu. Our very own [...]
Americans: Rent a Nokia N96 for $36/month
Rentobile is genius. I’ve been thinking of starting something like this for a while in the UK. But for Americans, stuffed by the (somewhat) rubbish mobile carriers in the States not carrying Nokia or any other decent European devices, this is a boon. Rentobile carries a large range of different devices — some locked to [...]
Flirtomatic heads stateside with Flirtomatic US Beta
I got a note in this morning from Mark Curtis, top chap at the mobile success story that is Flirtomatic. Have a read: – – – – – Hey Ewan, Wanted you to know that we are launching next week in the US on mobile. It a “beta” thing initially – a few (but not [...]
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