I’ve had a LOT of email from people asking me to try the Nokia N900 out with the BBC iPlayer. My expectations were high… but wait ’til you see the experience in the browser. It’s bad news. I think we’ll need to hope the BBC release a stand-alone app for the N900  that’ll work [...]
Archive | October, 2009
A quick hands-on with the BlackBerry Storm2
I was delighted to briefly sit down and have a look at the all-new BlackBerry Storm2 handset. Some people love the original Storm whilst others simply cannot stand it. I found myself straddling the two perspectives  I loved the huge screen real estate, but I just couldn’t get to grips with the keyboard. The [...]
Giffgaff announces more news on their pricing structure
You remember Giffgaff, right? That’s the all new o2-backed MVNO that I introduced to you last month. I’m encouraged by the can-do open attitude of the management team who are very approachable and appear keen to really innovate the mobile operator offering. Kylie, the company’s marketing chief, posted a note with some updates on their [...]
Vodafone’s hiring an Apps Business Developer: Oh dear
I’ve got a ton of keywords that Google hunts for me — and this morning, this page showed up. It might be useful for some Mobile Industry Review readers looking for a new role. I thought it was rather insightful too. Have a read: One of the world’s leading telecommunications companies are currently looking for [...]
London Underground chap threatens: ‘sling him under a train’
Everyone’s a citizen journalist now. We’re all walking around with devices that can capture brilliant quality video (or in the case of the Samsung Omnia HD i8910, HD video at 720p@24fps). This is beginning to make life difficult for quite a lot of people, in particular those in the service industry. Take London Underground for [...]
First impressions of the UK Palm Pre: We like it!
Yesterday was the day of the pickup. I’d been instructed to meet a PR called Greg at a secret location in London’s Soho. Once there I’d receive a short briefing and handover of Palm’s much anticipated smartphone, the Palm Pre. The device goes on sale in the UK today exclusive to O2 and priced to [...]
Hello to the 560 users of Comes With Music in Switzerland
Yes, that’s right, there are 560 users of Nokia’s Comes With Music service in Switzerland. I know there’s only 7.5m people in Switzerland, but that sounds like a very, very small amount of Nokia Comes With Music users. Just how well is the Comes With Music service doing across the planet? Music Ally, the digital [...]
Your advice for calling America from your mobile
Ladies and gentlemen, I am in need of your advice for calling America. Today I need to call America from my mobile handset. And I’d like to avoid paying the crazy 1 pound and 25 pence per minute charge that I pay on Vodafone Contract. At least, I think it’s 1.25. Or something like that. [...]
BlackBerry Storm2 hits Vodafone
There’s a legion of fans of the BlackBerry Storm who’ve all been waiting with nigh on baited breath to find out about the next Storm handset. And here it is. It’s the ‘Storm2′ and it’s being ranged by many of Vodafone’s European countries, along with South Africa — and, of course, the United Kingdom. The [...]
Video: Nokia N900 running Google Wave
I was wondering how the Nokia N900 Maemo device would cope with Google Wave… would it work? Have Google created a custom version, as they have for iPhone and Android? How would it perform? I’m delighted to be able to answer with today’s episode…
Start your car with your iPhone thanks to Viper SmartStart
Yes. There is an app for that. It is flippin’ genius. Here’s how it works. It’s 7am and you’ve just been woken up by some gentle harp strumming from your iPhone. You have a look at your email. You check out Twitter. You put your iPhone down and you head off for a shower then [...]
Nokia N900 Maemo ‘switch on & test’ videos
We published this afternoon’s ‘first impression’ videos featuring the Nokia N900 Maemo device on Mobile Developer TV exclusively — that’s where we invariably publish our videos first, so if you’d like to be notified immediately, do follow @mobdevtv (or sign-up to email updates on the site). Here for ease of viewing are the two first [...]
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