The little gerbils — and the odd hamster — that, together with a bunch of string, keep the mighty o2 UK data network running, are on strike this morning. They’ve had enough. The result is that the o2 data network is, obviously, screwed. What the hell is wrong with o2? It’s supposed to be carrier-grade. [...]
Archive | August, 2009
o2′s Apple iPhone exclusivity terminates on October 9th
Well then. No wonder they needed the Palm Pre, eh? Have a read of this story: Although there has been plentiful speculation about O2 losing its iPhone exclusivity over the last few weeks, sister site Mobile Entertainment has seen documentation that states it will end officially on October 9th. O2 signed its original deal with [...]
Curve 8520 marks Blackberry’s consumer assault on feature phones
It is with no small delight that I sat down with Rob Orr, Blackberry’s Senior Director of Product Management EMEA, to find out more about the all new Blackberry Curve 8520. This is not a phone for Mobile Industry Review expert readers. Definitely not. It’s a phone for the rest of the planet — it’s [...]
Orange launches Welsh language Samsung handset
“Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick, you’ll be washing spit off your face for a fortnight.” That’s Edmund Blackadder’s advice for navigating the country of Wales. Me, I’m much closer to my celtic — or semi-celtic — brotherhood. I don’t speak any Welsh at all, though. But if you’re Welsh and you’ve been longing [...]
The Twitter Phones are here: INQ Chat & INQ Mini
Look at these latest gorgeous devices to come flying out of INQ headquarters. The Guardian got the news up and out just past midnight Tuesday: The two new phones from INQ, set up by Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong-based owner of mobile network 3, both have Twitter built-in, meaning that users do not have to [...]
Do you use doubleTwist for your mobile media?
I’d like to hear from anyone who uses doubleTwist to manage their media across (mobile) devices. I’ve been hearing a lot of good things but I’ve never actually tried it myself. (I’ve just downloaded it this evening). I was watching their demo — I’m particularly impressed by the possibility of simply ‘plugging in’ my T-Mobile [...]
Big news tomorrow
Big news tomorrow from INQ. I’ve agreed not to go into details yet, though, so standby for that. Plus I’m also at Blackberry to look at their new offering in the early morning. Bring it on.
Ahh.. if I could just get Netflix on my iPhone!
One big story today is that Netflix added ABC content to its streaming service (it actually did this a couple days ago when episodes of Lost started appearing). But there’s a potentially hotter Netflix streaming rumor floating around out there right now: That it’s coming to the iPhone. via Rumor: Netflix Streaming Coming To The [...]
Andrew Scott on The Curious Case of Johan Nordstrom
In 1901 a Swedish immigrant to America called Johan Nordstrom, founded the Nordstrom department store. In 1975, by now a national chain, a Nordstrom customer walked into one of their stores to return a set of tyres he’d bought. The salesperson gladly took back the set of car tyres and gave the customer a refund. [...]
SpinVox declined our video video offer; We won’t be participating in demo
I’m clairvoyant! SpinVox have, predictably, declined MIR’s offer to produce a video of their upcoming demonstrations for the media (mostly taking place tomorrow). Here is the response via their PR representative at Porter Novelli: I have checked with SpinVox and unfortunately there is absolutely no way that we can allow any filming in the office [...]
Microsoft considering a Palm acquisition?
This is just rumour and speculation — but it’s one of those delicious what-ifs that keep the geeks chatting long into the night. Speculation that Palm will be scooped up by a well-capitalized tech company has intensified since the well-received release of the Palm Pre and the company’s new operating system, webOS. While most of [...]
Get an unlocked Apple iPhone from T-Mobile UK!
If you’re a T-Mobile UK customer and desperate, desperate, desperate for an Apple iPhone 3G, then you might be in luck. Provided you’re a high spending customer and you’re threatening to defect to o2, T-Mobile may well send you an official unlocked iPhone to use on their network, in order to keep you happy. The [...]
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