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The Mobile Zeitgeist
Vodafone 360 is currently: Rubbish
Vodafone 360 maps are: Back in 2002
We're buying our iPhones on: Orange UK
Favourite UK App: Snaptu
Fav American App: Poynt
Microsoft Mobile is: Dire
Samsung Bada: Wait and See
Did you say “Google Chrome Tablet?”
This tweet from Neville Hobson caught my attention: “Google to unveil Chrome tablet?” FUD! http://is.gd/7xXlS The tweet links to a v3 blog (formerly vnunet) discussing the possibility of a Google Chrome tablet… Here’s a mock-up image: Bring on the tablet wars… Read more
Nokia on Apple: “A Fruit Confused”
Staying on the subject of Nokia, I was delighted to read this post by Mark Squires on the Nokia Conversations blog. Mark is Director of Social Media Communications for the company. He and his colleague Ray are amongst the finest in the industry. They run a disciplined well-oiled machine that was, for quite a [...] Read more
Verizon: America’s Best 3G Network – I just became a customer
I’m demonstrating some mobile applications this week. Some of the applications that I’m showing off rely on a decent internet connection. They’re not asking for terabytes of capacity, just a good sustained 10k/sec throughput now and again. Unfortunately I’m in America: The land of rubbish GSM mobile data speeds. AT&T’s network runs like [...] Read more
The Prodigal Guide’s Open Letter to Nokia’s CEO
Have you read the Prodigal Guide’s Open Letter to Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kalasvuo? It’s been doing the rounds since it came out on Thursday last week and — well, frankly it makes for depressing reading. But I don’t think it’s going to get better any time soon. There are indications from Nokia that they’ve got [...] Read more
Good morning from New York
Hello everyone! Thank you for your patience whilst I’ve been flying. I packed my massive flight case late on Friday evening after a day of filming at the Symbian headquarters in London (more on that soon). I got to Heathrow and then had to empty some of the contents of the flight [...] Read more
Mobile Money: Real Madrid makes €14M from 100,000 mobile subscribers
The super Tomi Ahonen has the details… Read more
The iPad: Advertising must be more entertaining
I’m delighted to be able to bring you the first of what I hope will be a series of perspectives from leaders around the mobile industry. Starting us off is CEO of MOFILM, Andy Baker. Given MOFILM’s focus on providing a platform for independent filmmakers to submit ads for some of the world’s [...] Read more
Even Michael Dell can’t get touchscreens to work properly
I am, mostly, reasonably calm. I think I got to age 17 having spent a long time professionally worrying about things before I realised — perhaps in quite a male manner — that worrying about things is a ridiculous waste of time. Stop worrying about everything, I told myself, and start doing. So I’m [...] Read more

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