Regular reader Carl Uminski is at Mobile World Congress. He was delighted to see that the Financial Times were represented with their own stand and decided to head over and see what was going on. Not much, it seems:
Archive | February, 2009
MIR Show – Ben and Rafe row over Nokia Maps
Toward the end of the interview we filmed with Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian last night, there was brief discussion about Nokia Maps. Rafe is obviously a rather big fan of it. Ben Smith — normally the quiet, implaccable and relaxed thinking man on the team (“come on Tim!”) went nuts. Nuts in the [...]
MIR Show – Rafe Blandford: WHERE is Android?
Rafe Blandford is the terrifically knowledgeable founder of All About Symbian. We spotted him at MobileFocus as we were taking a tour around the companies there (more video of that coming soon). We accosted Rafe in what we hope was a semi pleasurable manner and demanded he give us a brain-dump. He has such a [...]
MIR Show – James Whatley gets his MIR jacket
James has been busy on the SpinVox stand — but we managed to grab him for a few minutes to award him his very own MOBILE INDUSTRY REVIEW jacket. Oh yes. One problem — Dan was positive that a Medium size just would not fit him. Watch and see what happens… MIR Show – James [...]
MIR Show – John Strand of Strand Consult
We bumped into John Strand of Strand Consult just outside the Nokia stand. I am very pleased to be able to bring you his perspective on the show and the industry. Have a watch! MIR MWC – John Strand from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.
Really impressed with MiFi
The chaps – Ben in particular – are heavily impressed at the possibilities of what Novatel’s MiFi devices promise. I really like the idea of being able to walk around with a wifi router in my pocket. We just saw their HSDPA device sending HD video at 14.1 meg throughput as well. Ben’s going to [...]
Look at this rubbish spam text
Here’s what I got sent on my device just a few minutes ago: FREE MSG: Our records indicate u maybe entitled to £5000 in compensation for your recent Accident, To claim just reply with CLAIM to this msg, 2 stop txt STOP It was sent to me from this number. Come ON why am I [...]
Having a look at Novatel’s MiFi device
This look rather smart. MiFi is the world’s first intelligent mobile hotspot. USB charger, network storage and a wifi hotspot. I will take two please! You’ll see a video of this later on! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
Sometimes it’s too much
What press conference was this guy just at, I wonder? Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
Chatting with Jason from Skydeck
Skydeck is one of my favourite services that I’ve never been able to use yet! We’ll bring you the video interview with Jason shortly! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
MIR Show MWC Snapshots: Nokia Stand
The internet connection is a little unpredictable here so we’re going to bring you a series of small snapshots instead of packing them into one massive show. We’ll do that once we’re back. But for those who’ve been emailing demanding to see video footage up on the site, here it is! We took a brief [...]
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