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Bad news: Almost everyone at MWC had an iPhone!

[Note: This post was originally published as the main editorial in the Mobile Industry Review newsletter. Would you like to receive it in your inbox now-and-again? It's free to subscribe.] Bad news. Or, is it good news? Let me know what you think… I arrived into Barcelona as the city bathed in glorious, glorious sunshine. [...]

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Barcelona: You can shove your “transport system” up your jumper!

I just spoke to the highly helpful Abigail in the GSMA press office who confirms that there’s no news yet regarding this bus and metro strike that’s due to take place next week whilst Mobile World Congress is in full swing. The current GSMA update is here and I expect that we’ll have an announcement [...]

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Top Tips for staying connected at Mobile World Congress 2012

With MWC just about a week away, it’s time now to get your personal communications plan sorted. I asked Christian Gunning, Director of Corporate Communications at Boingo Wireless for his suggestions. Over to you Christian: – – – – – Attending Mobile World Congress is a bit like weathering the perfect storm for wireless power users. [...]

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Greasy Food And Petty Crime? It Must Be Barcelona For Mobile World Congress

Hello! Andrew Scott here with a look ahead at Mobile World Congress. We have less than 100 hours to go until the doors of the world’s biggest and best known mobile conference swing open in Barcelona for another year, so let’s pause to see what we have to look forward to. As all good conferences, [...]

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Video: The Rafe Blandford Interview

Video: The Rafe Blandford Interview

I am delighted to bring you this rare treat! An exclusive sit down interview with Rafe Blandford, founder and editor of All About Symbian. I filmed this whilst we were at the Symbian London headquarters interviewing many of their team. There was a break in proceedings whilst we waited for some more interview subjects to [...]

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Video: Scott Weiss, Symbian’s User Interface Manager

Video: Scott Weiss, Symbian’s User Interface Manager

A few weeks ago, Rafe and I popped into the Symbian London HQ to talk with Scott Weiss, the Foundation’s User Interface & Technology manager. The aim? Find out more about what they’ve got planned with upcoming versions of the operating system. Have a watch! Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video

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Video: Lee Williams Mobile World Congress Walkabout

Video: Lee Williams Mobile World Congress Walkabout

Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian takes a walkabout Mobile World Congress with Symbian‘s Executive Director, Lee Williams. Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video

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Video: Nokia’s Tero Ojanpera on Symbian, Ovi and beyond

Video: Nokia’s Tero Ojanpera on Symbian, Ovi and beyond

At Mobile World Congress, we sat down with Nokia’s Dr Tero Ojanpera, EVP of Services for Nokia, to talk about the company’s strategy with Symbian, Ovi, Maemo/MeeGo and the way ahead. Here’s the video… Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video

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Video: Sony Ericsson’s X10 Mini super-small Android device

Would you like to see me raving about the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Android device? Well, here I am… Rafe filmed me doing an intro to the device here: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video And for anyone who’s interested in the phone, we also got the Sony Ericsson chaps to [...]

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Video: Meet the man who runs Nokia’s Navigation business: Christof Hellmis

With Nokia’s EVP of Markets, Anssi Vanjoki, predicting that the map will become the generic mobile interface and in the light of Nokia’s dramatic Ovi Maps & Navigation is free announcement back in January, I thought it would be rather interesting to meet the chap behind it all. Christof Hellmis is a highly affable and [...]

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Video: James Lamberti of mobile advertising giant, InMobi

If you haven’t heard of InMobi yet, don’t worry. You will. They’re coming. Having already locked up the Far Eastern markets (8 billion mobile impressions a month, 150+ million user reach), InMobi is the biggest mobile marketing giant that you’ve never heard of. If you’re into mobile applications (or websites) in any way, you should [...]

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Video: Julien Fourgeaud on the Symbian’s future

Video: Julien Fourgeaud on the Symbian’s future

Just before Mobile World Congress, Rafe and I sat down with Julien Fourgeaud to talk about his involvement in the Symbian Foundation, the importance of explaining technology as a user experience, where the Foundation and platform might go (i.e. future vision) and the possibilities of using Symbian on other connected devices. Let’s see what’s on [...]

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