Following on from my ShoZu Picture Of The Day, I’m pleased I had my N95 8Gb to hand to record this: Just how bad are the Brits at managing 0.5 inches of snow? from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo. Yes, it’s a poor chap trying, hope-against-hope, to get his van up a slight hill outside [...]
Archive | January, 2009
ShoZu Picture Of The Day
We’re back with the ShoZu Picture Of The Day! Mail me your best, most relevant or most unusual ShoZu uploads (to Flickr or the like) and we’ll put your name in lights here and drop your site a link. (I’m ewan@mobileindustryreview.com – use the subject ‘ShoZu Picture Of The Day’ so I can quickly spot [...]
Follow AQA63336 on Twitter for some Twitertainment
You know how AQA, the text-answer-service is continually answering some weird and wonderful questions from people (usually sat in the pub)? Questions like: How many badgers would it take to fill the Empire State Building. That sort of thing? Well, every day, AQA are tweeting the odd answer that they’ve given. Brilliant idea to show [...]
Google’s Android coming to a netbook near you soon
Those guys at VentureBeat have managed to install Google’s mobile phone platform on an Asus Eee PC, for proof of concept that it could be done and they wrote it all up too. In order to possibly show how versatile the OS is, they spent just four hours compiling Android for the Eee PC 1000H [...]
Orange bravely killing off the Bold?
Two reports came out over the past few days, one run by the Guardian and one run by the Telegraph on the BlackBerry Bold being withdrawn from Orange. You may recall there were teething troubles when the phone first rolled out on Orange, which subsequently resulted in the handset being withdrawn from sale. There were [...]
MIR goes to Val d’Isere, France (and Happy New Year!)
It’s Ewan here. Happy New Year to you! In fact, may your new year be mobilised professionally, efficiently and to your personal fiscal benefit. I have just returned from a semi-refreshing Festive break and Monday the 5th of January is beckoning with a reasonably enthusiastic smile. Over the past few months, I’ve been running around [...]
The INQ1 from 3 – update
Well, my INQ1 has now died. The internal speaker doesn’t work – to hear the other party you have to switch to the loudspeaker. 3 are sending me a returns pack and promise to turn it around in three days. We’ll see … Coming after the variable performance of the INQ1′s applications this hardware failure [...]
O2 rings in the New Year with 166 million SMSs
Telefónica O2 in the UK just announced on the New Year, 1,900 text messages were sent every second. Over a 24 hours period, 166 million SMSs were sent, with their records ending on 7:30 January 1st. No news if this has set a new record and no one was on hand from O2 to deny [...]
Surprise Surprise O2 brings back subsidies to normal levals
A few months ago we reported that O2 had removed subsidies on its £35 tariffs and this resulted in phones being free only on the more expensive £75 tariff. O2 intended on the other networks on doing the same, however the other networks didn’t. It now seems that O2 has given into the market and [...]
- 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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