I’m pleased to see Vodafone UK is still innovating with mobile broadband. Today they’re launching some new monthly price plans, thus: – £15/month, which now gets you 3GB of data, along with basic anti-virus, spyware and 2GB of data backup – £20/month, which now gets you 4GB of data and a new ‘Premium PC Security [...]
Archive | January, 2010
The Guardian’s iPhone app: 70,000 downloads in a month
It’s always interesting to see how mainstream media gets on with it’s mobile applications strategy. Kudos to The Guardian who’ve attracted 70,000 downloads in under a month. And that’s at £2.39 at time. Therefore the app has grossed £167,300 of which The Guardian gets approximately £117,000. Assume those stats stay the same across the year [...]
Google Apps for your PBX: In stealth and coming soon
Calling all investors looking for a mobile business that’s poised to address a massive user-base both in the United Kingdom and internationally! I’ve been advising a small company that I guarantee you’ll never have heard of. They’re one of those firms that I suspect will come out of nowhere and run away with their chosen [...]
Where do you buy your smartphones?
Another email from a reader today — this time it’s not a poem though. Graham emailed to ask what online shops the Mobile Industry Review audience uses to buy unlocked mobile devices. He’s after a new HTC handset (he’s not sure which). My response, Graham, is a little predictable: I’ve never been let down by [...]
Arts on Mobile Industry Review: The Palm Poem
For all those who might think the mobile industry is limited in imagination, I am delighted to publish the very first (and, unless there are any other budding artists reading, probably the last) poem about the mobile industry. This has been sent in by a reader who wishe to remain anonymous. Palm – you’ve really [...]
iPhone: Two steps forward, one step back
I look forward to a time when I can take a photo with an iPhone and have the device automatically upload in the background. But I can’t help feeling held back by the iPhone’s one-thing-at-a-time architecture. Here’s a case in point: Today I was on the District Line platform at Victoria when I spotted a [...]
SpinVox’s shareholders receive £600 (in total) from Nuance acquisition
Heh. Oh dear. Rory Cellan-Jones over at the BBC has posted a very insightful story on the Nuance acquisition of SpinVox: A couple of weeks ago, the American speech-recognition firm Nuance paid $102.5m – around £64m – for the British voice-to-text firm Spinvox, and we speculated that most of the investors would get very little [...]
Tesco’s best selling handset is the £18.99 VX1i Party Phone
If you’re a handset fascist like me, you might want to look away now… … right. You can look back now. For the brave amongst you, that handset you see above is the VX1i Party Phone that retail behemoth, Tesco, are selling by the bucketload. In the two weeks leading up to Christmas, Tesco sold [...]
Mr Operator: Vindicated on the Palm Pre European Failure
I had a note in from Mr Operator — our super-high level mobile industry executive contributor. Here is what his email said: Saw your Palm Pre coverage, Ewan – Remember this? Mr Operator: Palm Pre – destined for European failure Heh. Mr O. That post he’s highlighted is a column he wrote published back in [...]
Are we ready to declare the Palm Pre dead in the UK & Ireland?
I’ve been reading and participating in the discussion that followed our post on Friday (“Palm Pre has apparently sold just 220 units in Ireland“) and i was surprised not to have heard from the Palm Pre fans. Amongst the 250,000 strong audience there are fans, defenders (and often product managers!) of all manner of devices [...]
Palm Pre has apparently sold just 220 units in Ireland
You know things aren’t going too well for Palm when a heavyweight industry source gives you a call to say ‘you’ll never believe this’. I always have to steady myself just in case it’s something shocking. You know, like ‘Larry Page has just bought Vodafone — he reckons it’ll be quicker’. Today, though, the call [...]
Vodafone becomes bit pipe: Locked out of retailing Nexus One!
Well then, I was waiting for confirmation about this. It’s shocking. SHOCKIN’, I tell you! @allaboutiphone sent me a tweet of 3g.co.uk’s coverage of this recent Nexus One story. A few days ago I speculated that Google’s move to sell phones (“The new way to purchase a consumer phone: Google.com/phone“) could well herald a new [...]
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