On the last Saturday of every month, we’re taking the Mobile Industry Review Show to a different city across Europe. Starting this Saturday with Rome, Italy. The model for each destination on the MIR Show schedule is simple: 1. We’re taking the crew — that is Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley — to [...]
Archive | January, 2009
Nokia’s E90 replacement leaked
High quality images have appeared online of the E75, rumoured to be the scheduled replacement of the Nokia E90. Sweden’s mobile news website Daily Mobile has done it again and managed to get their hands on the E75, said to be the next handset in the famed linage of the Nokia Communicator product line up. [...]
Nokia 5800 ‘The Tube’ Launch Event
As promised, James and I braved the rain on Friday to attend the launch event for Nokia’s first Symbian touch-driven device, the Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic – also often still known by its pre-launch name ‘The Tube’. Available exclusively via Nokia’s two flagship stores in London’s Regent Street and Heathrow Terminal 5 plus the Nokia online [...]
Lastminute Labs Launch NRU
The team over at Lastminute Labs – the hive of mobile innovation inside online travel and bookings site Lastminute.com – have been in touch to announce they have release NRU, the application for Android handsets (so just the G1 right now) we previewed in December. In their own words: nru shows you things to do [...]
HTC Cruises along with a new phone
The high tech computing corporation has just updated its Cruise handset, for the likes of O2 to adopt in its Xda range *cough* A few weeks back we brought you news of the online reseller Expansys leaking details of a new HTC mobile, by opening up its pre-ordering. This was even before the HTC had [...]
Orange offers an unhappy customer a loan to buy o2 iPhone
How do we solve the problem that is Orange? For a long time, this was a company that offered its customers ‘unlimited mobile data’, but only during off-peak hours. If you wanted to look up a train timetable, or send a photo to the internet during the day, you had to pay 3-4 pounds per [...]
StrawPoll: Ultimate Smartphone
Mobile World Congress is just around the corner with the expected usual plethora of delights, but if it is a monumental let down in terms of smartphones – how would you design the ultimate one. Pundits have called 2008 the year of the Smartphone, for our pennies worth it wasn’t all that. If we laid [...]
Truphone update
I had a quick catch up with Geraldine Wilson, CEO at Truphone, this morning to see what their plans are over the next few months. Now that Truphone supports multiple handset software platforms a lot of work is going into making the user experience and functionality as consistent as possible across all handsets. This is [...]
The Nokia 5800 ‘Tube’ launches today
From a distinctly soggy Regent Street we were delighted to jump the queue of the hundred or so keen customers at Nokia’s flagship retail store in central London this morning to attend the launch of the 5800 – Nokia’s first S60 Touch handset which, unusually, Nokia is still refering to by its internal code name, [...]
Top 10 tell tale signs your phone is on the way out
1. Calls get dropped so much that you’ve taken to using two polystyrene cups and a length of string 2. The megapixel on the camera is so low the very first pin hole camera takes a better shot 3. One of the music formats accepted by the phone is vinyl 4. The phone is so [...]
itsmy.com – mjelly mobile 2.0 service of the week
Hello hello James from mjelly here.  Itmsy.com are the world’s leading “mobile-only” social network and they are our Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week.  I have been a massive fan of the service since they launched and when I spoke to the Vince (the CEO) and Jukka (the CTO) earlier this week it became clear that itsmy.com are building something *really [...]
Will Jonathan Ross crash Twitter? Update: No
Standby for the Fail Whale. But in a good way. Either Twitter has some ahhh-bsolutely brilliant public relations chaps working their magic here in the UK; or the platform is really beginning to hit critical mass. Newspapers and their respective websites are alive with Twitter introductions. Half the BBC news reporters are on Twitter during [...]
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