Despite being an ‘exhibition’, Mobile World Congress is a terrible place for firms to actually do any real communicating – to customers, partners or media. It’s even worse if you hope to actually gather any information. As a venue Fira is nothing short of incredible – perched on the hill-side overlooking Barcelona a small mobile [...]
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The MIR Mobile World Congress Gear
The first blurry snap of the new Mobile Industry Review-branded gear raised a fair bit of interest so just ahead of us jetting off to Barcelona tomorrow, here’s a few better pictures: Anyone want a MIR sticker?
Fun Text to be pre-loaded on Sony Ericsson handset
After attending MIR’s first developer’s event last week (see the video here), we’ve had fantastic news in from the team at Fun Text, who’s application provides a range of professionally-produced media such as ecards, emoticons, viral videos and virtual gifts for inclusion in text and multi-media messages. Over to them: Today Sony Ericsson is announcing [...]
Ben Smith introduces crowd-sourcing for UKTrains
Good man, that Ben Smith! As well as being a MIR Show contributor — and that already sticks him in the pantheon of the Gods as far as I’m concerned — Ben Smith has taken on the rail industry in the UK and left them looking like the damp squids that they are. His UKTrains [...]
The INQ1 gets an update
At a small (but select) gathering tonight INQ – the makers of the ‘social’ handset the INQ1 – that grew out of the operator Three announced ‘Update 1′, an over-the-air refresh of the INQ1′s application suite which makes a number of improvements and feature-additions. These improve Windows Live Messenger performance, give better general stability, pre-cache [...]
Creator of UKTrains site is MIR’s very own Ben Smith — UPDATED
Our very own Ben Smith is being hunted by the BBC this afternoon. All things being equal I think he’ll be on BBC Radio 4 later today. They’re after him because of of his brilliant creation: UKTrains. Here’s the service overview: Inspired by this tweet from MP Tom Watson and enabled by the excellent BBC [...]
Nokia 5800 ‘The Tube’ Launch Event
As promised, James and I braved the rain on Friday to attend the launch event for Nokia’s first Symbian touch-driven device, the Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic – also often still known by its pre-launch name ‘The Tube’. Available exclusively via Nokia’s two flagship stores in London’s Regent Street and Heathrow Terminal 5 plus the Nokia online [...]
Lastminute Labs Launch NRU
The team over at Lastminute Labs – the hive of mobile innovation inside online travel and bookings site Lastminute.com – have been in touch to announce they have release NRU, the application for Android handsets (so just the G1 right now) we previewed in December. In their own words: nru shows you things to do [...]
The Nokia 5800 ‘Tube’ launches today
From a distinctly soggy Regent Street we were delighted to jump the queue of the hundred or so keen customers at Nokia’s flagship retail store in central London this morning to attend the launch of the 5800 – Nokia’s first S60 Touch handset which, unusually, Nokia is still refering to by its internal code name, [...]
MIR Christmas Presents: The final 9
Ever since we did the draw for the first 10 prize winners in our Christmas Presents Draw, the Internet has been a-buzz (one donor e-mailed me) with the question, ‘who were the other 9 winners?’ Well, having just emailed them their prize choices, I’m pleased to announce they were (in order): Jonas Jaanimagi Aaron Vergara [...]
Preview: Lastminute Labs ‘Nru’ Andoid App
News just in from the clever-types at Lastminute Labs (the team behind FoneFood, which we rather like) – they’ve also been trying out development on the Android platform and have released this video preview of their forthcoming application ‘Nru’ (pronounced ‘near you’). Building on the search feature of FoneFood this application takes advantage of the [...]
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