When I was in Val d’Isere the other week, it was, alas, mostly work-work-work. I did manage to put on some skis and arse about on the green slopes — the real focus of my attentions was the technology I’d brought with me to field-test and the iPhone 3G users all over the place. Val [...]
Archive | January, 2009
Palm unveils sleek new OS and phone
All hail the newest Smartphone on the block, the one, the only – the palm prÄ“. On first impressions the handset looks uncomfortably like the very first HTC Touch. Then its slider drops down, the keyboard is exposed and all preconceived notions and subsequent lawsuits are dropped. As expected it comes along running the new [...]
Marketplace: SmartCam – uses bluetooth to turn mobiles into wireless webcams
The inaugural marketplace entry is from Ionut, a regular Mobile Industry Review reader who’s a big fan of our MIR Shows. We’ll have more for you soon Ionut. Ionut is looking to monetise the mobile application he developed. It’s called SmartCam and it turns a mobile phone with wifi/bluetooth and camera into a wireless PC [...]
Orange offering Blackberry on Pay As You Go
Thanks to Mobile Industry Review reader Hazy who dropped me a note about Orange doing a bit of innovation. I know it’s hard to believe. Very hard. If you screw your eyes up really tightly and look at the Orange brand whilst tapping your heels together 3 times, the company does look pretty innovative. But [...]
James Whatley hands-on with the Nokia N97
And what does the Nokia-fan-in-chief think of this pre-release version of the Nokia N97? Find out here: James Whatley on the Nokia N97 from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo. Here’s James’ initial thoughts: – – – – – The industrial design is pretty cool; with an extremely satisfying *click* when you open it… PLUS it [...]
ShoZu Photo Of The Day: Wanko!
Today’s ShoZu Photo Of The Day is from Mobile Industry Review reader, Phil Parry. Phil was in Beijing, China, last week. He used ShoZu’s GPS-tagging feature to tag the photo to his Flickr Map. Looking closer, it seems he was near the Forbidden City when he took the photo. Any westerner familiar with the phrase [...]
The MIR Marketplace has £75k for you this week
I hope we’ve got £75k for you. Or a similar amount. I’d like to see if I can make you some money. Read on and I’ll explain. I thoroughly enjoy producing Mobile Industry Review. It’s generally a pleasurable experience, although, inevitably some tasks get a bit annoying now and again. One task that doesn’t ever [...]
Qualcomm helps Android get bigger
Qualcomm has ported Android to its Snapdragon chipset (well actually Wind River Systems have for Qualcomm) which is used in devices that go beyond phones such as notebooks and other Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Wind River will give the (optimised) code back to the Open Handset Alliance in the near future. Much of the porting [...]
Got my Mobile World Congress press credentials
I’m in. That’s it. Locked and loaded… Are you going? If you are, I hope you’ve booked your hotel already? And your flight?
Record Vodafone UK usage across the Festive period
Just got this in from Ally at Vodafone: Nearly 170m text messages were sent over the Vodafone UK network during the 24hrs of New Years Eve and Day. At its peak, just after midnight, over 6,000 text messages a second were processed. The same period saw Vodafone customers make nearly 90 million calls. The festive [...]
Dabr – mjelly mobile 2.0 service of the week
Happy New Year! It’s James from mjelly here with the first “Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week” of 2009. If 2008 was “The Year of Mobile” then 2009 is “The Year of Mobile 2.0″ and we’ll be tracking it all here at Mobile Industry Review. To start the year with a bang this week’s featured mobile [...]
- The merry-go-round continues: We’ll all buy buying an iPad 3, right?
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Use your iPhone to pay for your Starbucks in the UK
- Will ‘superphones’ be the mobile trend of the year?
- Am I the only person in the UK that would pay a concierge fee to an operator?
- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
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