O2 UK has unveiled it’s new family oriented Joggler device, a 7″ touchscreen photo frame based on Openpeak’s OpenFrame platform and I jogged along to take a first look.
MIR Show – Rafe Blandford on the N86 8MP launch
Ben and Dan were up at the crack of dawn to hit the Nokia stand for the N86 announcement. Whilst there, they simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity of chatting to Mr Nokia himself, Rafe Blandford (of All About Symbian) to find out what he thought of the new device. Here’s the video: Nokia N86 [...]
MIR Show – Nokia N86 8MP – First look & opinion
We were invited to the launch of the new N86 8MP yesterday and were amongst a small group of blogs given first access to it. N86 First Look At The Launch Event from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo. During filming we noted the handset was labelled as ‘N85 8MP’ and speculated whether that was a [...]
Exclusive: Samsung to launch new phone on Monday
We’ve been tipped off that Samsung are set to launch a new phone on Monday, with a ‘big, big’ announcement to back ‘big, big’ news. There was a private press pre briefing today in London all under embargo that we weren’t invited to, but we’re hearing good things are afoot. We’d like to bring you [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
GoSpoken launch deal with 3
Andy McNab, the SAS expert and wicked action author has done a deal with 3 to launch audio books on mobile. To be precise, Andy’s company, GoSpoken (we’ve talked about them before here on MIR) have done the deal. Trust 3 to be right there on the innovation curve. Each audio book costs around 5 [...]
We’re at the new LG PRADA Phone launch!
Late today we’re at the launch of the new LG PRADA phone, set to be the next exclusive designer mobile from the joint partnership of those two industry players. It’s their second handset from the venture, with the first arriving on the scene like a sex machine in mid 2007. The new model almost mimics [...]
Say hello to the Nokia E63 (again…) [updated]
Launched today Mobile Industry Review are among the lucky few to receive this new handset for a first hands-on. We have a first look.
We’re at 3’s INQ phone launch!
This Thursday we’re at the launch event by the network 3 of their latest handset the INQ 1 – a purpose built phone by their parent company Hutchison Whampoa. Supposedly this handset has great Facebook and social networking integration; some are calling this the very first Facebook phone. Pronounced ‘INK’, the phone is set to [...]
How not to launch a product /the trauma one endures on an average day as a journalist
Before we start our official coverage of the BlackBerry Storm, we thought we’d rant a little for a while on how well it all went. Firstly, events tailoring for journalists to attend should be just that – tailored for journalists that are attending. So when one turns up at the allotted time we were given, [...]
“Are you paid to talk up the G1 launch? It was a shambles!”
That’s the subject of the email I got last night from reader, Kai. It wasn’t all sweetness and light with the G1 launch yesterday, then. I know four people who got one yesterday without a hitch. But Kai was definitely not having a good day — he went on to list out his experiences yesterday [...]
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