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Archive | January, 2011

The Verizon iPhone press release in full

By Ewan on January 11, 2011 in Devices, News, Operators, Services

For those who’d like to read the full announcement today: Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that the iPhone® 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning on Thursday, February 10. Qualified Verizon Wireless customers will be given the exclusive opportunity to pre-order iPhone 4 online on February 3, ahead of general availability. iPhone 4 [...]

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Apple > You

By Ewan on January 10, 2011 in Devices, Opinion, Services

It won’t be long before another Apple press conference will be upon us. Next week’s announcement appears to be a run-of-the-mill carrier announcement (even though it’s Verizon). But we’ll hopefully be treated to another one of Apple’s finest soon. Meanwhile, I was looking through the traffic logs today and saw this post (“Apple iPhone 4: [...]

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HP Slate 500: Yup, looks like I was right, it’s pretty limited

By Ewan on January 8, 2011 in Devices, Opinion

A little while ago, a small band of HP / Windows fanatics were less than impressed by my assertion that the HP Slate 500 looked to be pretty poor (Read: “HP’s Slate 500 looks an absolute nightmare“). I cited the ridiculous (yet highly professional) marketing video that demonstrated multi-touch display working really badly when displaying [...]

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Ready for some iPhone Verizon rumours? 3rd of Feb is NOT the day! [Updated]

By Ewan on January 7, 2011 in Devices, Operators

BGR reckons that Apple will announce the availability of an iPhone compatible with the Verizon network (i.e. CDMA) on the 3rd of February. This all subject to the usual hoopla associated with rumours. Here’s what BGR have to say: BGR has confirmed with a source close to Apple that the company has blacked out employee [...]

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How big is your flatscreen TV and do you have one in the kitchen?

By Ewan on January 7, 2011 in Devices

Yup, this one’s off topic. But I need your help. Am I behind the times? Writing the Nokia N8/Big Screen post just now prompted me to think about my television situation. I only own one television. It’s a rubbish 32″ Poloroid from 2007 that’s got such bad sound that I had to buy a set of [...]

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Nokia Big Screen for the N8: Flippin’ Wicked

By Ewan on January 7, 2011 in Applications, Devices

The 12 glorious megapixels in the Nokia N8 are put to good use by one of the new additions to the Nokia Beta Labs line up. The app is called Big Screen. What do you think that does? Well, its… for Big Screens. It uses the HDMI port on the N8 to deliver a fantastic [...]

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The Making of the Motorola XOOM tablet

By Ewan on January 6, 2011 in Devices

In today’s world of choice, feeling good about your purchase is important. Being able to tell a story is important. Feeling like the people who made the product actually care about what they’ve made is important. In the bad old days of mobile, I often used to attend the most lacklustre device launches you could [...]

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Video: What will Android 3.0 look like on your next tablet?

By Ewan on January 6, 2011 in Devices, Services

Quite a few people have been raving over Android 3.0 which has been designed ‘from the ground up for devices with larger screens’. There’s a bit of confusion in the marketplace as to whether we should be referring to Android 3.0 as the ‘Tablet Edition’ of Android. The confusion, however, is nothing to the widespread [...]

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iPhone 3GS now only $49 from AT&T!!!!! (As long as you ignore the other $1,319)

By Ewan on January 6, 2011 in Devices, Operators

Before we start, I’d like to point out that those extra exclamation marks are ironic. So. TechCrunch, again, breathlessly reports the iPhone’s utter, utter dominance of the world’s mobile market. (Where world is defined as everything within the United States borders). Here’s the Crunch’s analysis: *BAM* Just like that, AT&T destroyed the $50 smartphone market [...]

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The Asia Series: 60 minutes with Qualcomm’s Man in South East Asia

By Ewan on January 6, 2011 in Devices, Services

Toward the end of my week in Hong Kong, I sat down with Qualcomm’s man in South East Asia, John Stefanac. Qualcomm needs little in the way of introduction: Billion dollar mobile industry behemoth with interests extending from mobile network technology (CDMA — that’s them), the Brew mobile operating system to m-Healthcare (yes, they’ve now [...]

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Seven Steps to MWC Success: Step 1 — Announcements

By Ewan on January 6, 2011 in Opinion

Here’s the first of the Seven Steps to MWC Success series, curated and authored by Dominic Pannell of communications consultancy Buzz Method. Over to Dominic… – – – – – Mobile World Congress (MWC) is coming up fast and now’s the time to prepare for it. Get it right and it’s a great opportunity to reach [...]

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BlackBerry PlayBook is heading to Sprint on 4G

By Ewan on January 6, 2011 in Devices

It’s been a while since I’ve seen Sprint playing a leading role in a key product announcement — so I’m delighted to read that RIM will launch the 4G PlayBook with the operator in the summertime. There’s more detail over at Mobile Marketing magazine. I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot more news about the [...]

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