Sometimes you can rely on Google Maps – but other times not. We couldn’t find La Llotja, the venue, anywhere on the map. Cue three confused looking folk each sporting two mobiles at the bottom of La Ramblas. Then we bumped into a chap by the name of Andrea, a financial analyst, also hunting for [...]
Archive | February, 2009
HTC gorilla bus marketing
As we walked out of the Nokia press conference earlier, there was a chap standing with a sign saying ‘HTC press conference’ and pointing to their waiting branded buses. Very smart. Hijack’em as they come out. Alas we weren’t booked for HTC. We’ve an appointment with the future. We’ve taken a brief tour around the [...]
MobileWorldCongressWatch: Sony Ericsson launches W995 + new 12.1 camera phone – UPDATED
At the very first of many press conferences at Mobile World Congress ’09, Sony Ericsson launched their newest of the new handsets – the W995. SE W995 is heralded in as a slider formatted phone, with an 8.1megapixel camera as 8MP is just so last year. The Walkman phone comes with a 2.6-inch screen, stereo [...]
The MIR team at Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress is heading fast toward us and already the Tweet-streams are filled with copious MWC-related conversations. If you’re not heading to Barcelona, think yourself lucky. Although I haven’t yet made it to a Mobile World Congress before (on account of boycotting their no-blogger policies of years gone by), I have spent the last [...]
The MIR Mobile World Congress Gear
The first blurry snap of the new Mobile Industry Review-branded gear raised a fair bit of interest so just ahead of us jetting off to Barcelona tomorrow, here’s a few better pictures: Anyone want a MIR sticker?
Buy a Coke with your Vodafone Current Account
I spoke with the BBC’s Silicon Valley journalist, Maggie Shiels, last week. She was working on a piece about the ‘cashless society‘ — and asked for my perspective on mobile transactions. I asked if she was ready for some rather direct commentary. She was up for listening. I vented forth thus: ‘Take the lead’ “Come [...]
Samsung’s solar powered touch screen phone
Samsung has announced their very first and for that matter anyone else’s, touch screen mobile that’s solar powered. Under the product name ‘Blue Earth’, this marvel of usefulness comes under Samsung’s fairly new green initiative. A move that also ticks all the boxes in terms of how it and they respect the environment, along with [...]
Knowing the customer: It’s all about Frequency
Today we bring you the second of Dominic Travers’ columns on the subject of Frequency. If you missed his first one, (“Stop selling Ringtones and start selling Frequency Data“). Over to you Dominic: – – – – – In the first article in this short series I explored the frequency of mobile user activity in [...]
Confessions of a mobile phone
Tomi Ahonen has written an excellent ‘day in the life of a mobile phone’ — from the perspective of a mobile handset itself. I really enjoyed it. Here’s a sample: I start in the morning with the alarm. My owner is slow to wake up and will hit the snooze button, usually twice. So we [...]
Abphone – a mobile vertical search service taking on Google
Abphone is this month’s “Mobile 2.0 Service of the Week” coming to you from mjelly.com here at Mobile Industry Review.  After Mbmgl (Japan) and Mxit (South Africa) we continue our showcase of the world’s best mobile 2.0 services with a look at one of France’s hottest mobile startups. What is it? abphone is a mobile [...]
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