I was a bit of a dunderhead the other day. I keep on getting people saying ‘er, the newsletter subscription link doesn’t work’. And I’ve been mystified. Completely mystified. But I worked it out — eventually. I have, in some posts, been linking to /newsletter/ — the correct path when you’re online. But if you’re [...]
Archive | October, 2009
Newsletter: Got a special deal for our readers?
The first weekly Mobile Industry Review newsletter arrives tomorrow. I’m busy working away on it and I hope it’ll be well received. We’re including a really good special offer for readers from press release distribution geniuses, RealWire. If you’re in the middle of doing some marketing — or if you have some coming up, I [...]
What’s the best backpack a geek can buy?
Who makes the world’s best backpacks (or rucksack as we call them in the UK) for (mobile) geeks? I’m looking for a recommendation. You know, something that’ll carry a laptop, maybe even charge it via a solar panel, lots of pockets for phones and iPhones… integrated headphone loop or something like that? What’s the absolute [...]
The Phoneage Message To Nokia: HELP HELP HELP
Brilliant, brilliant video from the Phoneage / Tehkseven chaps. Genius. There’s 976 views on this video at the moment (as I write). Provided this video doesn’t hit the mainstream and Twitter doesn’t pick this up, Nokia will be perfectly fine. But if it gathers traction… (By the way, as I look back I see we’ve [...]
Your view on Symbian ‘and the PR War’
I wonder how you all react to this comment contributed this evening by a MIR reader on this post: My wife was a speaker today at the Symbian conference. She mentioned that the whole thing seemed dead and pointless. Symbian has already lost the PR war. It’s haemorrhaging developers and will shortly loose the App [...]
The full UK Palm Pre review: webOS is where things get exciting
It’s been just over a week since I took loan of a Palm Pre, a device that bears the weight of Palm’s future success on its shoulders. Or so the story goes. And it’s far too good a story for most pundits not to have written, me included. The truth, of course, is a little [...]
Killer Androids Attack Redmond
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about CTIA in which I said that Android could be the next Windows Mobile. Obviously, this story was read by Saul Hansell of the New York Times (although he did not comment on the post), because today he published an article in the Times saying pretty [...]
Where do you buy your mobile and gadget hardware?
I’m looking for recommendations on where to buy mobile and related gadget hardware — for this week’s upcoming newsletter. The site I always think of is Expansys — although I’ve never managed to actually *buy* anything from there. I also use Amazon and eBay a lot. I’d welcome your recommendations for places that you like [...]
Mobile Industry Review turns into a weekly newsletter next Friday
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been studying how the majority of the Mobile Industry Review audience ‘uses’ our service. I’ve talked to many readers about their habits, what they like, what they don’t like — and I’ve been looking closely at the myriad of usage statistics we generate. And I’ve concluded one thing: Change [...]
Do you know anyone who’s bought the £1k Motorola Aura?
I was walking down Tottenham Court Road the other day when I saw a sign advertising the Motorola Aura for £900+. I remember wondering if any readers know anyone who’s bought one. Obviously I doubt any MIR reader worth his or her salt will have purchased one given the fact the device itself does more [...]
Love and Appiness tonight in San Francisco
Approximately 30% of the MIR audience is based in San Francisco and the surrounding region, so for that reason I’m delighted that we’re one of the media sponsors for tonight’s Love and Appiness event. I did an overview post the other day here with full details. If you’re in the area, pop along — and [...]
Nokia’s legal action potentially massively damaging to their reputation
Nokia’s name is already mud in Silicon Valley, for a whole range of different reasons. For a large part, many people misunderstand the company, it’s reach, size, pedigree — and find it extremely easy to completely dismiss. Whilst in the Valley, I’ve seen many a senior Nokia (or Symbian) executive, accustomed to being treated with [...]
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