I know what you’re thinking. “Oh no, not another SpinVox-bashing post”. So rather than continue Ewan’s previous run of what some people have accused of being a personal rant when it’s just merely reporting facts with a few points of personal opinion attached, I’m going to do something different here. I’ll state some “facts” from [...]
Archive | August, 2009
Got a marketplace / business development post we should publish?
Last week I published a note from a reader who was on the hunt for a UK mobile aggregator and barcode/QRcode service provider. The response by email was fantastic — the reader was delighted and I think one or two of the people who emailed will be getting some good business from it. (You can [...]
Virgin Mobile UK launches £65 unlimited deal
Virgin Media have launched a £65/month (!) tariff that includes unlimited calls, text, and mobile internet usage. It’s an 18-month contract however, but it does include a Nokia N86, Samsung Jet, or some other appropriate devices also. via IntoMobile. Ben Robinson over at IntoMobile picked this one up. 65 quid gets you unlimited everything — [...]
What did Phoneboy think of the Sony W995A
The folks at Sony sent me a Sony Ericsson W995A to review. This is the first time I have actually used a Sony Ericsson product, so this is as much a review of the specific handset as it is the experience of using Sony Ericsson products in general. via Review of Sony Ericsson W995A on [...]
Motorola to focus on Android-based handsets
Motorola has confirmed that the company plans to shift to Google’s Android platform as a way to reinvent its handsets division. Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola said “[The new Android-based phones] will get us back in the game in smartphones,” He also mentioned something about the company’s venture with two major US mobile operators to [...]
Track home burglers from your mobile handset
Monitoring your home or business used to mean having an array of unsightly camera feeding grainy, washed out pictures into a row of VHS machines. In recent years we’ve seen the move to digital pictures, infra-red beams for night vision and, most recently, viewing over the Internet. What’s the next logical step? Viewing on your [...]
“A glass of prosecco on us when you dine”
I got this email flyer through today: It’s from The Roebuck pub/restaurant on Chiswick High Road. I went there for lunch a few weeks ago and, whilst in the toilets (“restrooms”) read their flyer encouraging me to sign-up to find out about their special offers. Unfortunately (for me, as a mobile geek) the instructions required [...]
Why mobile in the UK is like that scene in the Life of Brian
I think, at least in the United Kindom, we’re still very much at that stage in the movie, the Life of Brian, where the Peoples’ Front of Judea ask “What have the Romans ever given us?” The underlying assumption is that the Romans are rubbish. Until each of the ‘Front’ members pop-up with suggestions unhelpful [...]
Why Steve Jobs hates the iPhone App Store
Chris Messina has posted a rather interesting perspective on ‘Why Steve Jobs hates the App Store.’ If this is even half interesting to you, pop along and have a read. Chris has laid out the strategy he reckons Jobs would take if he really hated the App Store platform… the stimulating point being that, every [...]
- 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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Jerome: (Little bit of advertising here, sorry about that)...
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Ewan: I have been thinking about that Iain......
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Iain51: How about a connected digital photo frame? I've n...
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james vincent: MMS really is a bit of a disaster... and i resent ...
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Allen Cross: Terrible name for a great-looking phone with very ...
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“She was the peoples princess and thats how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and in our memories forever.” I have, rather cleverly, taken a leaf out of Mr Blair’s gifted, moving speech on the death of Princess Diana (in case you didn’t recognise the modified text, full speech here). But [...]