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My recent trip to Budapest gave me the opportunity to try out a couple of mobile services that would dramatically reduce the cost of roaming compared to using my regular UK SIM card – MAXroam and DeFi Mobile. Why two services? MAXroam is SIM based so provides worldwide coverage wherever there’s a mobile network and [...]
Continue ReadingAnnounced this week is Nokia’s first ever mobile broadband USB dongle
Crossing both 2.5 and 3G networks its due out soon, with carries to be mentioned in due course.
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3G: 850/2100MHz
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Microsoft Windows XP
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Continue ReadingComing from those bright bright guys at Nokia labs is the new concept of 3D video, without the need for those attractive red green glasses.
We’ve seen a working beta version on an N800, which looks rather like those magic eye pictures of yesteryear - only with video.
Already a year in development, it looks good so [...]
Yup, you read that right.
YES there is an LG Mobile Developer Network. Finally. Excellent.
Unfortunately it is stuck in the year 1997.
Yes indeed! If you’d like to get your application on to LG handsets, it’s as simple as:
1. Spend AGES writing a sodding proposal. (Ok so it’s only two pages…)
2. Formally submit [...]
O2 from December 1st have enabled mobile connectivity on the underground tube system in Glasgow, Scotland.
That’s right, you can’t even hide on the tube anymore. Anyone, anywhere can now find you and see if you’re unhappy with your long distance calls or whether Scania can come and fit a chair lift for you – despite [...]
Jonathan MacDonald has had enough. And so have I.
The industry is continually comparing Apples and Pears when it comes to mobile marketing. Witness the following from Jonathan’s recent post on the matter:
Page 12 of NMA (27.11.08) contains a piece by Charlotte McEleny who writes that “Some 65% of young consumers find mobile messaging [...]
In every single piece of reporting I’ve been reading about the terrorist attacks in India this evening, there’s been some kind of mention of mobile.
One British MEP, Sajjad Karim, has been frequently quoted - here’s an example from The Guardian:
“I was in the lobby of the hotel when gunmen came in and people started running.”
“There [...]
Now I know I’ve said it a couple of times in the past few months, but I’m looking for a new phone. The reason I haven’t yet bought one isn’t because I can’t be bothered to purchase one, or because I can’t afford one; in fact I’m more than happy to now pay a little [...]
Continue ReadingThe former wood-pulp millers have just made public their latest handset, the 6260 Slide. Which is an addition to their other 6260 from 2004.
Although not really drawn as update as such on the previous series, it does still share the same model number. Only now the word Slide is has been added, almost as a [...]
This post is more of a question then an actual post. Those of you based in the UK will know that VAT is being lowered to 15% and your mobile service includes VAT.
Will the networks be recaulating bills in regards to the drop automatically from the 1st of December? I certaintly will be contacting by [...]
Here’s the first of some walkabouts we did at the Future of Mobile event last week. We took the camera and poked it in the faces of people we knew — and people we didn’t. This morning brings Justin Davies, Andy Walker and Patrick Smith to the world.
Today’s quote comes from the very [...]
Hitting the stores this week is T-Mobile’s answer to 3’s wireless broadband mobile router, the mouth full that is the Mobile Broadband Share Dock
It works the same way as 3’s Huawei D100 Router, only with a less catchy name. The Share Dock plugs into their mobile broadband dongle, then enables surrounding devices to have ‘net [...]
We noticed some Paparazzi chaps waiting to take photos of famous folk at the recent Nokia Comes With Music launch. Dan went over to have a chat with them…
It was going well ’til Dan asked that question at the end
Continue ReadingIn an ideal world, I would ask for happiness, and the end of this dismal time of year. But of course I’m not here to discuss that! No, no, no… What do I want from the world of Mobile this Christmas?
Firstly, I call for originality.
I personally think originality should be the first aspect of any [...]
We were at a lunch and the launch last week of the new personal video Vuzix iWear products, the OLED based AV230XL and the widescreen AV310. Effectively turning your mobile device into a 44-inch and 52-inch screen, respectively, and as if my magic. Tadarr!
These [...]
Continue ReadingASUS have just released a mobile phone with an 800Mhz processor inside, beating hands down the current spate of the 500+ MHz powered variety around today.
Just as your face lights up with delight, we’re sorry to bring you the sad news that no prices have been set as yet for the ASUS P565, ETA or [...]
Thanks to a tweet that piqued my interest the other day, I can tell you that LG Mobile is doing research and they’d like your opinion, particularly in the run up to the festive period that is fast approaching.
They’d like to know what is important to you.
And I think that’s a good thing because LG’s [...]
Recently I’ve been canvassing opinion about tariffs. I asked the question ‘How many mobile tariffs meet the basic tenets of simplicity & predictability?’ Every answer I received was ‘none’, which got me thinking. What should tariffs look like and is anyone offering ‘customer friendly’ tariffs yet? Mobile tariffs expect customers to guess [...]
Continue ReadingHTC has launched the MAX 4G, the only WiMAX 4G handset on the market today.
Slight snag though, it’s just for Russia right now on their Scartel network.
When will we see the handset elsewhere? Well, when other places have rolled out a WiMAX network we guess and is capable of supporting such a beast.
Think of the [...]
So o2 has currently been behind all the other networks when it came to mobile broadband, however it seems they may have pulled the cat out of the bag.
From Mobile Today;
O2 is looking to accelerate sales of its mobile broadband by offering a money-back guarantee amid growing consumer uncertainty regarding speeds and coverage for dongles.The [...]
Continue ReadingSo I’m back to school this week; and during my free lessons, I often find myself aimlessly wandering around. I probably shouldn’t be, as I have mountains of work to do, but it’s certainly more fun.
But it turns out my aimless journeys around my over-crowded school can come in handy… And I came across a [...]
That popular virtualisation vendor VMware has just bought a French company known for a similar practice, only not so much on PCs or Servers but on mobile phones instead.
That’s right folks; no longer could you be tied into running only Windows Mobile or Symbian on your handsets, why not have them all or just one [...]
Well, we know this. But it’s good to hear the mobile 1.0 lot (i.e. the dotcom chaps) recognising the coming mobile revolution:
While websites may suffer in the looming recession, Mr Wales believes mobile internet will “explode” in the next couple of years. “I am constantly on my phone, and I use Facebook on here. [...]
Do I resent my mobile?
I’ve been told once or twice that I resemble something of an old woman or more precisely an “Old Bag”. True, I do have my “old person” tendencies; but I do try to remain youthful as much as possible… Seeing as I’m only seventeen.
It has however hit me; I’m beginning to [...]
Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK was originally slated to host the ‘Gateways and Barriers to mobile start ups’ segment at the upcoming Future of Mobile Conference.
Alas Mike’s had to dash off to China so the chaps at Future of Mobile asked if I’d be up for chairing it. Right on. You bet.
I’m no [...]