The above video features me standing and hovering around the press section at BlackBerry DevCon in San Francisco two weeks ago. You’ll see as I pan around that every single press chap is seated in a dedicated section, with a table in front of him/her. Obviously, as they’ll usually want their laptop out and ready. [...]
Archive | October, 2011
Buying a Lumia 800? Get it on Vodafone and take their Data Test Drive
The other day I briefly wrote about Vodafone’s new Data Test Drive service. I’d seen a sign outside the Vodafone shop in Richmond and liked what I saw. I like the innovation. Someone at Vodafone has clearly been drinking some Mountain Dew. Here’s how it works. You sign-up for a new smartphone contract at Vodafone. [...]
Season Two of 361 Degrees is back: And this time it’s live!
Woop! Are you ready for the next season of the 361 Degrees podcast? It’s been a little while coming whilst Ben got married, Rafe got his new site live and I flew back and forward to the States like a nutcase. This season we’ve decided to hold the recordings live so you can come along [...]
Chevron for WP7 should get geek heads turning
Microsoft smartly jumped straight into bed with the team of developers who got together to try and make it easy to hack (or, to install unsigned applications on) their Windows Phone devices. Instead of making it a total flipping nightmare for users, it’s actually going to be rather simple. Here’s the Chevron team with more [...]
Quick overview of Adobe’s all new Carousel service
Adobe’s Carousel is along the lines of what I wanted from Apple’s Photo Stream service — the ability to capture, edit and seamlessly disseminate photos across my devices. That’s precisely what Carousel does. Install the app on your desktop, iPad and iPhone and you’re instantly able to share images between them. This is an amalgamation [...]
Rent an iPad in Spain for €25/day (including data)
This is an excellent find from Dusan over at Intomobile: A company called PadInTheCity is running a neat business, renting 3G iPads to interested tourists in Madrid, Spain to help them get around the city. Each iPad comes preloaded with a number of applications and unlimited data — all for 25 EUR per day. That’s [...]
Sony spends €1 billion to take full control of Sony Ericsson
Have a read of this one from Reuters: Sony Corp is to buy full control of the Sony Ericsson mobile phone venture from its Swedish partner as it seeks to boost its consumer products offering and to catch up on smartphone and tablet makers such as Apple and Samsung via Sony buys Ericsson out of [...]
Save me from know-nothing Nokia analysts
Do see what you make of Ben’s post highlighting a strangely disapproving Nokia analyst: Nokia’s two new Windows Phones look great value to me so why is an analyst comparing them (unfavourably) to $100 budget junk? via Nokia Windows Phone: A Pricing Advantage? – Wireless Worker.
Hands-on video of Nokia Lumia 800 from the Oxford Street Phones4U store
Thank you to the team at Phones4U who invited me down to their huge Oxford Street store today to check out the Nokia Lumia 800. Now, I was of course at Nokia World for much of the day where I couldn’t move for Lumias, but the reason I wanted to check out Phones4U was to [...]
Slide to Unlock patented by Apple? It’s one of the most annoying iPhone features
First the gossip: The United States Patent & Trademark Office this morning issued a patent grant to Apple pertaining to the familiar Slide to Unlock gesture. Remember, the now ubiquitous sliding move debuted on the original iPhone as a fun way to keep your device secured while in your pocket. “To unlock the phone, I [...]
Nokia Lumia 800 is now available for hands-on in EVERY Phones4U store nationwide
Do you like what you saw from today’s Nokia World show? Are you keen to get a look at the Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone? Well then, do not pass Go. Head straight for your nearest Phones4U store across the United Kingdom. *EACH* Phones4U store has a Nokia Lumia 800 on-site right now. Today. Ready [...]
Great to see such energy on the floor at Nokia World
Here’s a video from the show floor today — it’s just a quick one — I tried to capture the energy and some of the crowds to give you an idea how things were. I’ll be doing much more from the floor tomorrow.
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
- Operators: “Please stop using our network!” (“And, er, thanks for your money!”)
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The Smartphone sales stats for last quarter are out… have a read!
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Ronan Dunne, O2′s CEO hosted an #o2tweetup this evening: I was there, it was brilliant!
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LBF Digital Minds conference: Get the early bird discount!
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11 Questions with the GSMA’s marketing chief, Michael O’Hara
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