We headed over to see regular MIR contributor and MIR Show star, James Whatley, at the SpinVox stand on the first day of Mobile World Congress — and then badgered him into giving us an impromptu tour. Here’s the vid: MIR MWC: James Whatley Introduces the SpinVox Stand from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.
Archive | February, 2009
Still haven’t made it to Vodafone
We haven’t managed to pop into the Vodafone stand yet. Time is sipping away. They close at 4pm! Dear me. I hope we make it. I’d like to see their Android stuff.
Ben interviewing Palm Pre’s product manager
We will be bringing you some super Palm Pre coverage shortly.
MWC: An emerging theme?
It really is all about the app stores this year. Android, Windows, Nokia, Blackberry, Orange – the handset manufacturers and the operators are slowly focusing their attention in this direction, with various flavours of developer support to match. It will, they are confidently asserting, help developers and consumers – with just one place to publish [...]
Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – Too many numbers
I’m not attending Mobile World Congress this week and rather than blog about news from Barcelona which will be admirably covered by my MIR colleagues on the ground there, I thought I’d pick up on a related subject – contactability. One of the interesting points I’ve picked up from tweets, blogs and conversations is the [...]
MIR Show – Nokia N86 8MP – First look & opinion
We were invited to the launch of the new N86 8MP yesterday and were amongst a small group of blogs given first access to it. N86 First Look At The Launch Event from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo. During filming we noted the handset was labelled as ‘N85 8MP’ and speculated whether that was a [...]
Listening to the UK Trade & Investment Minister
We’re at the UK Trade & Investment event up above the Mobile World Congress listening to the Minister giving an introductory presentation. We’re filming it in full and we’ll bring it to you soon.
INQ win ‘best handset’ at Global Mobile Awards 2009
Hutchison handset spin-off INQ – makers of the low cost INQ1 ‘social mobile’ won the award for ‘Best Handset’ at the Global Mobile Awards at Mobile World Congress last night. They beat giants such as Nokia and T-Mobile to the prize. This is a huge endorsement for their strategy and device and comes at an [...]
The MIR Billion Dollar Club
I bumped into Dale Thomas of Amdocs last night at the Nexec event. If you work directly in the industry, you’ll most probably have come across Amdocs. They’re a billion dollar company ($3.1 billion in revenue if my memory is working from last night’s conversation with Dale) serving the mobile industry. Dale is President of [...]
Sean Malatesta of IG Fun talks about Bioshock
We bumped into Sean of mobile games specialists, IG Fun. He was really excited to tell us about the fact that their new game, Bioshock, is coming out shortly on a range of multiple platforms. He’s a great chap, Sean. Check out his video introduction. MIR Show – Sean Malatesta of IG Fun from Mobile [...]
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