Have a read of this post by CrunchGear’s John Biggs. He reckons the Palm Pre will fail: Why? Because we hyped it too much. Because the software is untested in real-life situations and we, as neophiles, are delightfully impatient when it comes to wonky design. Because the hardware is “plasticky,†according to Boy Genius and [...]
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GigaOm launches subscription-only service
Om Malik and his smart chaps over at the GigaOm Network have launched GigaOm Pro — their subscription-only service. (Check out Om’s post). I think it’s a smart move for GigaOm and I shall most definitely be subscribing. This is of particular interest and significance given the fact we took Mobile Industry Review subscription-only back [...]
Android Storage offering 50GB online storage for $10/year
I came across Android Storage the other day. The service is in ‘coming soon’ mode and is set to offer: – 2GB of free music, video and image storage for your Android phone and – A whopping 50GB of mobile media storage and streaming services All for only $10 per year. The service looks to [...]
Orange UK snap up the Android HTC Hero
Informed speculation is that the upcoming HTC Hero Android phone will be exclusive to Orange UK. MobileToday are reporting that the HTC Hero will sport a 3-megapixel camera. Nice. After the post I published last week about Orange needing a marquee handset (the Palm Pre), I am pleased that they’re taking a dip into the [...]
Why Ashton Kutcher should launch his own Twitter
Ashton hasn’t reacted all that well to reports that Twitter is getting into bed with a TV channel/show that may well, “put ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format.” Here’s a quote from that CNN report: Ashton Kutcher — Twitter’s top tweeter — warned he may pull the plug on [...]
Nokia Ovi Store launch blows the doors off the mobile industry
At about 9am this morning, the virtual equivalent of the panic button was echoing throughout the Nokia Ovi Store network operations centre. After a successful soft launch in Australia over the weekend, the press releases went out. The wires began to buzz. Twitter feeds began to chirp. Ovi store was live! Never mind that it’s [...]
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Poor old Orange. They didn’t get the Palm Pre
Nokia Ovi Store is open for business
Over the weekend, Nokia Ovi Store was soft-launched in Australia this weekend to allow the team, sweat pour off the proverbial forehead, to check everything was ready for launch. And it is. We’re live.
Butter me in jelly and call me JimBob! Rogers + Android?
Hear ye, hear ye! Canada! You’re getting Android! The backward 3rd-world mobile country that is Canada is reportedly evolving, ever-so-slowly, into a 2nd-world mobile country, through the introduction of Android devices on to Rogers Wireless. Canada has repeatedly been one of the world’s shittest Western countries to live in — from the perspective of a [...]
Why Orange UK really need the Palm Pre
I stood for a few minutes outside an Orange UK shop on Oxford Street this afternoon. Fluck all. Nothing. No excitement. No joy. No ‘I-must-have-that’. It’s a dire experience. Try it when you’re next on the high street here in the UK. Take a glance into the Orange shop. There ain’t nothing going on, but [...]
Mark Curtis of Flirtomatic: Don’t forget the mobile web
I popped by the Flirtomatic London offices today to meet with founder Mark Curtis and the team.
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Goodness me it’s getting interesting in the mobile industry. For years I’ve been screaming with utter annoyance at the absolute rubbish Sony Ericsson has been vomiting into the marketplace.
- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
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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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