Whatley Wednesday
If you buy a Nokia N96 you only have yourself to blame.
Before we go on, please note – if you are new to this site – understand that Nokias are my thing.
Resident expert if you will.
This is my opinion and I give it freely to you, the lovely readers of Mobile Industry Review.
So, in [...]
James Whatley used to write a mobile related diatribe each Wednesday for us — but we put a stop to that when we started getting busy with the podcasts and video work.
But Whatley comes out of retirement tomorrow with 1,700 words on the Nokia N96.
And you’ll want to read this one, particularly if you’re [...]
Howdy folks, Whatley here…
Haven’t written anything for a while, but this is something I just had to share.
I just got back from filming the latest edition of the Mobile Industry Review Show (live from the T-Mobile event) and I was about to go to bed when I found this video in my Google Reader [...]
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Hello folks,
If you haven’t read Ben Jennings’ excellent post on his view of how to deal with the iPhone debacle, then go and do that now.
This post is related.
How?
…I’ll tell you.
It was with great interest that I read Ben’s [...]
Alrighty,
Whatley here - I just got a call from our man on the street, Dan Lane -
(that’ll be the new version of Nokia PC Suite)
Bless Dan… I almost feel sorry for him.
After hearing that the Apple Store might have some iPhones to sell - our hero decamped to Regent Street to see what he could [...]
A ditty, while I write the main review…
So off I went to Glastonbury; all my gadgets in tow.
With all the kit I was packing, I had a confident glow.
And yet something seemed to be nagging, this voice inside my head.
It wouldn’t stop, nor would it cease… and this is what is said:
“Your gadgets will be [...]
Evening readers, Whatley here, writing this on my laptop en route to Pilton for the festival that is known as Glastonbury.
As you know from my last post, the multitude of tools available to the modern day, festival going mobile geek really is quite something… So here, for your pleasure, is a quick rundown of what [...]
Morning readers, Whatley here, just got this over MSN from a friend of mine at Nokia;
“Hey Whatley, we are buying Symbian and will donate it + S60 to an open source foundation!”
To which my response was a resounding - “Eh?”
You can read the official Nokia press releases here and here
Now, I’m not a developer. I’m [...]
Continue Reading Greetings readers, your friendly neighbourhood Whatley here;
While some of us are off gallivanting around the Maldives… sorry, ahem… A DESERT ISLAND …other bloggers, like myself, have to make do with the festival season to amuse themselves here back in the UK.
And what better festival other than the Mother of all festivals: Glastonbury!
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Now that the iPhone’s out and there’s no more arsing about with guesswork, we’ll be bringing you a lot of opinions about the release. It’s all too tempting to view the iPhone as the second coming (well, it is 2.0) but the reality is that Nokia alone have, what, 700m handsets out there. [...]
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Founder of Moblog.co.uk and all round friend of SMS Text News, Alfie Dennen, has set up a new blog in lieu of the Mobile Web 2.0 Summit which takes place in London next week.
The weird thing for me (for a start anyway) is the name ‘Mobile Web 2.0‘ - so weirded out was [...]
Afternoon readers, Whatley reporting in…
My post quota has been a bit low lately, (sorry Ewan), I’ve been working hard on a top secret SpinVox project, (more on this next week - promise), in the meantime however allow me to share with you something that appeared on my radar earlier today care of my friend Roger.
Roger, [...]
Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited along to take part in a new Food-based event rather amusingly entitled – ‘Nom Nom Nom’.
The brainchild of London Underground Blogger, Annie Mole – Food 2.0 Nom Nom Nom, (to give it its full title), was a LOT of fun.
I was there in two capacities. First [...]
Been a bit busy of late folk, hence the absence of my regular Whatley on Wednesday slot.
Trying to get down for the weekly podcast mind…
But yes. Reading the site with interest as I often do, I really enjoyed Tuesday’s ‘Walking with Normobs‘ piece.
So much so that I stirred from my blogging slumber and decided to [...]
James Whatley just put this up over on his personal blog and while it’s not exactly Whatley Wednesday material, (nor is it, in fact, Wednesday), I still thought I’d publish this piece of comedy for your viewing pleasure:
Over to you Whatley:
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That up there ^ is my friend’s iPhone, last week after his dog had got [...]
Continue ReadingMr Uber Mobile, James Whatley, is uninspired by the mobile industry this week. I get this now and again. It happens — it’s strange, but there you go. You’d think that the launch of two new Nokias would have got him moving? Not really. How about the brand new Nokia [...]
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Today I was going to publish my third and final part of ‘The Joy of Ku’.
What with Jaiku’s recent announcement that YES they are re-opening registrations and that NO Google are not turning out the lights on our beloved life-streaming app.
What announcement am I talking about? Well here’s this from Jaiku’s own Jaikido blog:
“We’ve been [...]
Maybe it’s the 24 hour sound of money being well and truly spunked up the wall as you walk through the casinos or the plastic nature of Las Vegas that gets to you after one or two days — whatever the catalyst, James Whatley has found himself undergoing several epiphanies this week, most notably when [...]
Continue ReadingIn years gone by, expert craftsmen were named Masters. Master Builders, Master Blacksmiths and so on. In this new period of our history, labels are changing. Whatley is one of the only Master Jaikus that I know. He knows and uses the service inside out. Jaiku is his third eye.
Today we [...]
I posted a quick summary of James Whatley’s Vodafone experience just a few moments ago — just as this update arrived in my inbox… Over to James…
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First up, if you missed the rant
on Friday, then you should go catch up or else none the following will make much sense.
HOLD MUSIC - BA BADADA [...]
We interrupt the scheduled programming to bring you a Whatley on Friday exclusive…
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AAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!
So - Those of you who follow me on Jaiku (http://whatleydude.jaiku.com) or on twitter (http://twitter.com/whatleydude) may have seen this message appear late last night:
‘N95 - kaput :’(’
What follows is an account of two hours of my life from the [...]
James Whatley lives on Jaiku. I don’t think they’ve got a more prolific or exacting user. He really does spend a lot of his real time existence living through the service — which is why there is, perhaps, no one better qualified to give you a perspective on the Joy of Ku.
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I read this article last week entitled “Why 2008 won’t be the breakthrough year for Mobile Advertising”. It was originally published in the middle of Mobile World Congress.
It makes for very good reading and clearly outlines the one caveat that is currently preventing the mobile advertising boom that has been promised for the past [...]
James Whatley, newly returned from Mobile World Congress, documents his burgeoning excitement at the social networking possibilities with Nokia’s N-Gage. Sadly, standby for the ‘er, not at the moment’ responses from Nokia…
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MWC - Wow. Cool. Loved it.
I was there on official business with SpinVox and the one KPI I had was [...]
Whatley is a Symbian guy, through and through. He’s got more applications on his Nokia then I can shake a stick at. But he’s tempted, sorely tempted by Apple’s iPhone. I suspect the o2 unlimited data plans are also annoying the hell out of him as he’s stuck with Vodafone’s paltry offering. [...]
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