Just got this in from Orange. I asked them for news on today’s launch: Orange are delighted to reveal, that as of 4pm today Orange had sold more than 30,000 iPhones across the UK – smashing what we believe is the previously published first day sales records for a handset in the UK Posted via [...]

I’ve been watching the signs for a while now. The crazy attitude to iPhone whilst understandable has morphed from enthusiasm to bubble. I actually think we — the marketplace — is in pre-bubble mode. But I’ll deal with that in this week’s newsletter (sign-up for free, here). To the bubble. Why are we in a [...]

This week’s newsletter will hit your inbox in about 2 hours. Make sure you’re on the list by signing-up here. Also: Quite a few people emailed me to say they didn’t get the newsletter — even though they signed-up last week. I replied to all emails suggesting people check their spam folders. Sure enough (and [...]

I met up with Rafe Blandford at SEE2009 (“The Symbian Show”) last week and he did a reprise of his triumphant Nokia World walkabout. I filmed about 24 minutes and cut that down into 2x

Funambol (previously covered by Ewan here) is kicking off the OMS show with some early news. Later today, Funambol will announce its acquisition of Zapatec, a provider of AJAX Web 2.0 solutions (not a prescription heartburn medication as you might glean from first glance at their website). The full info is in the release below. I’ll [...]

Ahoy! I’m heading out to the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco tomorrow. Have a look at the agenda and tell me, dear MIR readers, whom should I make sure I talk to? I’ll probably write up a post at the end of the day tomorrow, and I plan do be doing some real-time updates on [...]

Here’s what I’m kicking about in terms of editorial for this week’s newsletter. I’ve got quite a lot of rants bottled up. And I mean a LOT. I have been walking past Vodafone shops this week and I’ve been feeling like imploding at the futility of their current mobile developer engagement strategy. This, despite the [...]

I spent a bit of last night playing with the Samsung H1 360 device from Vodafone, thanks to David Marutiak (Voda’s User Community Ambassador). It’s been a thoroughly interesting experience. The handset is gorgeous. Big. It’s very big. But that’s because you get a sumptuous touchscreen to play with. The handset reminds me a lot [...]