Future of Mobile – Preview from Ben Smith on Vimeo.

There’s an excellent range of speakers – Rich Miner is currently on stage presenting on Android and Google Gears, but Doug Richards of Trutap also impressed earlier with an thoughtful discussion of emerging markets… the killer quote “if you read the web you’d think everyone in India was using using a $50 handset to check the price of cereals… they’re not.  If you went to a cocktail party in Mumbai they’d be quite indignant about that…”  He also announced a new version of their IM application.

Jemima Kiss from the Guardian and our own Ewan Macleod told it like it is in the first blogger session alongside James Whatley, Vero and Andrew Gill – there’s more to come later in the day.  It’s nice to see such a mix on stage.

Right now David Wood, Executive Vice President of Symbian, is asking the man from Google about handset compatability… where else can you see that?

And thus, here is the 24th Mobile Industry Review Show episode. For those who aren’t paying close attention — for clarity, we’re numbering the episodes literally. Thus last week’s episode was numbered 22 and the trailer we published was numbered 23. So that’s us on 24.

And it’s a special one. Packed to the rafters. The key focus is the Sony Ericsson party including a chat with their UK Marketing Director, David Hilton. We take a hands-on look at the W595 and, of course, the Xperia (with which James Whatley was rather taken).

Then we focus on the upcoming Future of Mobile event with a brief chat to event producer, Dominic Travers. We’ve actually got a good 10 minutes of briefing from Dominic so we’ll publish the full version nearer the time. Key message: Get your tickets now, while they’re still 145 pounds. They’ll go up in price by 100 quid shortly.

Look out for a cameo from Ed Hodges of Howler Tech.

And we’ve got the first of our reader introductions.

We announce the winner of the Etymotics headset and give you a preview of some more cool things to win. Watch of for Ben Smith’s special first-past-the-post competition too.

We were hoping bring you the next episode of the MIR Show from the Mobyko party this week — but it looks like it’s been moved ’til the 11th of September and we’re out of the country.

Featured SMS Text News people:
- Dan Lane
- Ben Smith
- James Whatley

Topics discussed:
- The Sony Ericsson Party: SE W595 ( 01:34 )
- David Hilton Marketing Director, Sony Ericsson UK ( 05:34 )
- Normob Hunting at the Sony Ericsson Party ( 10:02 )
- Ian Williams, News Editor of www.theinquirer.net ( 13:17 )
- A look at the Xperia ( 14:03 )
- The Future of Mobile Conference (www.future-of-mobile.com) with Dominic Travers ( 18:32 )
- Is this the most beaten-up iPhone ever? with Ed Hodges of Howler Tech ( 21:42 )
- Competition Time and Free stuff ( 22:49 )
- The winner of the Etymotics Headset… ( 25:18 )
- A Sony Ericsson Summary ( 26:37 )