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Palm Pre hands-on overview (2 of 2)

By Ewan on February 23, 2009 in News

Here’s the second in the series of the Palm Pre hands-on overview: Palm Pre hands-on overview (2 of 2) from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

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Palm Pre hands-on overview (1 of 2)

By Ewan on February 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

Here’s the first video of the Palm Pre hands-on video. We had the chap take us through a basic overview of the device capabilities and demonstrate it close-up. Standby for the second video. Meantime… enjoy: Palm Pre hands-on overview (1 of 2) from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

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Palm Pre Software Product Manager interviewed

By Ewan on February 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

Ben sat down with the Palm Pre Software Product Manager to find out more about the device before we got the hands-on demonstration. This is 9:16 minutes of pure relevance if you’re anywhere near excited about the Palm Pre device. Here’s the video: Palm Pre overview from their Software Product Manager from Mobile Industry Review [...]

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MIR Show – Palm Pre preview thoughts #meetpre

By Ewan on February 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

I sat down Ben and Dan before the Palm Pre briefing and asked them to tell us what they THINK they’re going to like and dislike about the Palm Pre… Here’s the video: Palm Pre – Our thoughts before seeing the Palm from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

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MIR Show HD – Microvision Projector

By Ewan on February 22, 2009 in News

For those of you who thoroughly enjoyed watching the Microvision Mobile Projector video we published last night, here it is again — in glorious HD format. It looks pretty good at full screen on my 28″ monitors. Here’s the video: The Microvision Mobile Projector from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

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14-year-old girl arrested for texting in class

By Ewan on February 21, 2009 in News

I got this via The Smoking Gun. They posted it up a few days ago. Have a read: A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl who refused to stop texting during a high school math class was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, according to police. The teenager was busted last Wednesday at Wauwatosa East High School after [...]

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Is this the rudest thing you can do on Twitter?

By Ewan on February 21, 2009 in News

I had a guy the other day send me an @reply on Twitter at my ew4n account. Here’s what it said: @Ew4n Unfollowing. I am continually mystified and delighted at the manner in which people use Twitter, I really am. If you’re viewing my output on to Twitter as utter arse, there’s an unfollow button. [...]

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Fring – MWC Mobile Monday Peer Awards Winner

By mjelly on February 20, 2009 in Applications, News

Hello James from the mjelly mobile 2.0 blog here at Mobile Industry Review with another Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week. Fring is an amazing bit of mobile software that I’ve been using for a while and always planned to cover as one of our featured apps. Earlier this week, (Monday) it was announced that Fring had [...]

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MIR Show – we chat to Jeb Brilliant

By Ewan on February 20, 2009 in News

We caught Jeb Brilliant of A Brilliant Blog during the show and I pointed the camera at him to find out what he thought of iPhones, Nokia’s latest and what equipment he was sporting. Here’s the video: Quick Chat with Jeb Brilliant from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

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MIR Show – Matthaus of Mobile Facts [STRONG LANGUAGE]

By Ewan on February 20, 2009 in News

I bumped into Matthaus Krzykowski from Mobile Facts in the media centre at Mobile World Congress the other day. Matthaus is a regular contributor to the silicon valley genius publication that is VentureBeat. He was running around all over the place getting interviews and quotes for their coverage (read his posts on VentureBeat here). But [...]

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Charge your handset with an AAA battery

By Ewan on February 20, 2009 in Devices

This caught my attention as we walked around Mobile World Congress: The ability to power your handset with a (rechargeable) AAA battery. This was particularly relevant to me since I’ve spent most of the week running out of Blackberry battery power at about 2pm much to my *intense* annoyance. Have a look at this development [...]

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MIR Show – Rafe Blandford on the N86 8MP launch

By Ewan on February 20, 2009 in Devices

Ben and Dan were up at the crack of dawn to hit the Nokia stand for the N86 announcement. Whilst there, they simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity of chatting to Mr Nokia himself, Rafe Blandford (of All About Symbian) to find out what he thought of the new device. Here’s the video: Nokia N86 [...]

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