I saw a tweet from the Mobile Data Association this evening linking to a video of Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills explaining the BBC Radio 1 Picture Messaging Day. The concept, as this MDA blog explains, is… …to drive a high profile project which will educate and reinforce MMS messaging to a mass market in [...]
Archive | November, 2009
Screencast demo: Vodafone 360 photo sharing limitations
A lot of people have been asking me to demonstrate exactly what the problem is with Vodafone 360′s photo sharing facilities. Or, to be frank, LACK of photo sharing facilities. I created a screencast for you to demonstrate. You can watch it here.
Help: Mobile app developers needed for project
I got this marketplace enquiry in today from a regular reader who’s hunting for assistance in the mobile applications space. Can you help? If so drop me an email and I’ll introduce you: Ewan, I have a client looking to build out mobile applications that would work on iPhone, Blackberry, Android, WinMo, and poss Symbian [...]
Boingo unable to deliver because of rubbish Italian infrastructure
It all looks really good on the press release, it really does. Then you find yourself in Rome Airport — which, you imagine should have some pretty decent first-world facilities — and then you quickly realise that both Rome Airport and their bollocks provider (something called Alice) can’t quite deliver an envelope, let alone a [...]
Hello from BlackBerry’s Rome event
Hello from the BlackBerry EMEA Alliance Summit in Rome! Yesterday morning, I got out of bed at 5am and headed for Heathrow’s dull Terminal 4. I was surprised to find the terminal looking rather modern, new and shiny just like Terminal 5. I couldn’t get a BA flight so I opted for an efficient Alitalia [...]
‘We’ll text you before we charge you again’
I’ve just landed in Rome and I’m delighted to have received this notification by text: Welcome to ITALY. Vodafone Passport calls cost 75p per call + your home rate (including bundled mins) to make and receive. SMS’s are 11p. Daily cost for data is up to £4.99inc vat per 25MB allowance. We’ll text you before [...]
Nokia’s Maemo: 43% of mobile developers in favour
So it’s time for today’s survey item and I’m taking a break from Vodafone 360 — this time we’re looking at Maemo. If you recall, we’ve been running a mobile developer sentiment survey as part of the report we’re writing for an investment bank.  The survey is aimed at measuring sentiment, nothing more. (And the [...]
This week’s newsletter: More about Vodafone 360
I think we’ll give over quite a bit of this week’s newsletter to Vodafone 360. If you got the newsletter last week, you’ll have seen my diatribe about the company and it’s new service. It’s elicited strong responses from you. So strong, that many of you have been moved to write to me with your [...]
80% of mobile developers think Vodafone 360 is sub-standard
We’ve been doing some analysis work for a ‘leading financial player’ (the contract prohibits specifically identifying them) and part of the task was to enquire after the thoughts and perspectives of mobile developers. I obviously can’t publish the entire report but I’m pleased to be able to begin presenting the results of the survey here [...]
Mobile Developers: Take this survey please!
We’ve almost hit the 500 target — I’d really appreciate it if you can forward this link to any mobile developers that you know. I’ve created a 120-second survey to track mobile developer sentiment with questions like: – Vodafone’s 360 developments are… [laudable | sub-standard] – Nokia’s Maemo is … [very exciting | irrelevant | [...]
o2: “We’re still only official UK Apple iPhone retailer”
That’s the message that o2 are giving to consumers walking into their stores at the moment. Readers across the UK have been telling me they’ve been witnessing the rather lax attitude of the o2 store design chappies. They’re still advertising that the iPhone is ‘only on o2′. Not quite accurate given Orange entered the market [...]
Survey — have you participated yet?
If you’ve taken the 2-minute Mobile Developer sentiment survey, thank you very much indeed. The results are absolutely shocking already. I won’t give anything away as yet so I don’t influence you. If you work in mobile development — or if your company *does* some kind of mobile application/service development, I would really appreciate you [...]
- The merry-go-round continues: We’ll all buy buying an iPad 3, right?
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Use your iPhone to pay for your Starbucks in the UK
- Will ‘superphones’ be the mobile trend of the year?
- Am I the only person in the UK that would pay a concierge fee to an operator?
- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
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