MWC: What device highlights did you miss?

So, early last week I predicted that...

How Wireless Will Pave the Path to Neobank Profitability

I'm delighted to bring you an opinion...

An end of an era: Vodafone UK turns off 3G services

I thought it was worthwhile highlighting this...

Sometimes I long for the BlackBerry days

Do you remember the good old days when you could: 

1. Write a text message to a friend and hit ‘send’, safe in the knowledge that it would be transmitted without any further action? If your BlackBerry didn’t have signal at that precise moment, the message would be queued and then sent when signal was reestablished. 

2. Plough through your emails with a single key press d, d, d, d, d, d, d, (to delete, for example) or a favourite of mine (thanks to the now defunct Gmail for BlackBerry app: e,e,e,e,e,e,e,e,e to archive) 

3. File your email with a simple ‘i’ and ‘d’ and a tap. (Where ‘i’ was for the ‘file this message’ action and ‘d’ was for the ‘done’ folder in my case)

4. Reply to an email on the train without any connection error messages

5. Read an email on the train without connection error messages

6. Queue up a load of outbound emails which would be automatically sent (like SMS messages) when signal reestablished, without generating all sorts of complaining prompts 

Oh those were the days.

4 COMMENTS

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Recently Published

MWC: What device highlights did you miss?

So, early last week I predicted that next to nothing from Mobile World Congress would break through into the mainstream media. I was right,...

How Wireless Will Pave the Path to Neobank Profitability

I'm delighted to bring you an opinion piece from Rafa Plantier at Gigs.com. I think it's particularly relevant given the recent eSIM news from...

An end of an era: Vodafone UK turns off 3G services

I thought it was worthwhile highlighting this one from the Vodafone UK team. For so long - for what feels like years, seeing the...

Mobile World Congress: Did the mainstream media notice?

I resolved this year to make sure I wrote something - anything - about Mobile World Congress, the huge mobile industry trade show taking...

NordVPN: Thanks again, Revolut

When I upgraded to Revolut's Ultra offering, I did so with a strong focus on the Financial Times digital subscription which normally retails at...

Revolut’s Roaming eSIM: 1 week later

This week I have been using Revolut's new eSIM capability whilst I was in Sweden for Stockholm FinTech Week. I'm an Ultra subscriber so...