Nokia Maps, the N86 and getting ready for Prague from Ben Smith on Vimeo. In advance of our trip to Prague tomorrow I met up with James Whatley and we talked Nokia Maps and whether Rafe Blandford’s comments about side-loading map data and pre-planning points of interest could be right. We also waved a pre-release [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Q&A with the Valley’s Mr PR, Vijay S. Chattha
Vijay Chattha is the man. When you’re talking public relations and strategic marketing in Silicon Valley, the amount of people who actually make things happen can be measured on the fingers of one hand. And in this context, *the* chap to know is Vijay of VSC PR Consulting. Very well known across the San Francisco [...]
Nokia’s ‘actively looking’ at entering the laptop business
So this is where all the rumours about Nokia launching it’s own platform are coming from, eh? Reuters are reporting that Nokia’s top man, known to many as simply ‘O.P.K’, said in an interview yesterday: “We are looking very actively also at this opportunity,” Kallasvuo said, when asked whether Nokia plans to make laptops. Well [...]
Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – New phones for Normobs
This week I’m returning to the travails of the family Normobs (normal mobile users). A few weeks back I wrote about my son George’s search for a new mobile (to be fair he’s more than a Normob). Well this week we closed the deal for the next 18 months. George’s contract is in my name [...]
Twitter beats Reuters, AP, CNN and Sky News on Turkish Jet crash
MIR reader Ashley Bolser sent me over this story he was reading at CNN. It describes how Twitter… “stole a march on traditional media when it was the first outlet to publish dramatic pictures of the Turkish Airlines crash” The report continues: Moments after the plane crashed at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport on Wednesday morning the [...]
iTAGG’s numbers now earn 0.5 pence on inbound texts
Interesting news from Steve at UK mobile services firm, iTAGG. Check this out: – – – – – Hi Ewan Hope you’re well and enjoyed Barcelona. I’ll be at Cebit next week so lets meet if you are going too. Thought you would like a world exclusive from iTAGG….. iTAGG’s Dedicated Virtual SMS Numbers (e.g. [...]
We’re taking the MIR Show to Prague on Saturday
I’m taking Dan Lane and Ben Smith to the Czech Republic’s capital city early on Saturday morning. We’re packing away our Euros and getting out our Czech Crowns (“Korunas?”) and going to find out how the mobile industry is getting on across the city. We’ll most definitely be popping into the mobile shops there and [...]
The telephony service for the global mobile elite arrives in 2 weeks
Three lucky people will shortly begin using the world’s most advanced and most esoteric mobile VOIP and telephony service. And I’m one of them. Esoteric, meaning ‘only for the initiated’, is most definitely the description for this new service. It doesn’t have a name. It doesn’t need one. It’s mobile 3.0. Or telephony 10.0. This [...]
Nokia’s VP of Services, Niklas Savander
Whenever anyone sits down Niklas Savander, Executive Vice President of Nokia Services (e.g. Ovi), they ask him routine and dare we say, BORING, questions. And whilst we’d love to quiz Niklas about the intricacies of Nokia Maps, Ovi Store and so on, we thought it would be rather useful to put some different questions to [...]
The Microvision Mobile Projector is GENIUS
Time for another ‘coffee moment’ video. Go and get a coffee and sit back and watch this one. Dan and James introduce the Microvision Mobile Projector. It’s just stunning and you will want one… Here’s the video:
Trying to destroy the Sonim XP3 handset
We popped over to the Sonim stand on the last day of Mobile World Congress and…. yes, we put Dan in charge of the interview. He has been fascinated with the Sonim indestructible handsets and couldn’t stop looking at the hammer on the desk whilst Christophe from Sonim was telling us about their new range. [...]
Palm Pre reactions from the team
Having seen the Palm Pre in the flesh, what did the MIR Show think? Here’s some immediate opinion from Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley: Palm Pre reactions from the MIR Show team from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
- Operators: “Please stop using our network!” (“And, er, thanks for your money!”)
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The Smartphone sales stats for last quarter are out… have a read!
- The Digital Native divide: How difficult is it to send photos to Granny?
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Ronan Dunne, O2′s CEO hosted an #o2tweetup this evening: I was there, it was brilliant!
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LBF Digital Minds conference: Get the early bird discount!
- Have operators missed the OTT boat with RCS?
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11 Questions with the GSMA’s marketing chief, Michael O’Hara
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Jerome: (Little bit of advertising here, sorry about that)...
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Ewan: I have been thinking about that Iain......
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Iain51: How about a connected digital photo frame? I've n...
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james vincent: MMS really is a bit of a disaster... and i resent ...
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