Yeah, sorry. I just can’t take any more. I can’t tell you how annoying it is to be reading Twitter and Jaiku messages from people brandishing top-of-the-line handsets as they walk around Mobile World Congress. Whilst the content is fine, the experience is utterly shit. Let’s be clear: It’s crap. Utterly, utterly rubbish. Take, for [...]
Wired correspondent loses handset at MWC; admits to owning Sony Ericsson T610
I hope Charlie finds his lost T610. Soon, I hope, with more and more handsets being fitted with GPS (that works indoors), we will, as a species, evolve from the age of the lost handset! Link: Gadget Labber Loses Cellphone At Worlds Biggest Cellphone Event | Gadget Lab from Wired.com It is also where I [...]
Bluestreak offers services for plethora of handset platforms
News in from Bluestreak Technology, the developer of the MachBlueâ„¢ platform for mobile phones and digital television. They’ve announced the latest addition to their MachBlue Mobile suite – a series of rich-media applications that can be integrated directly with Flash authoring tools to create dynamic user interfaces and content for mobile phones. Essentially, if you’re [...]
MWC: Diary entry from Eli Mahal of Flash Networks
I’ve asked quite a few people to take a bit of time out and send me their thoughts on a key theme (or series of themes) relating to Mobile World Congress. Here’s the first diary entry — from Eli Mahal of Flash Networks: I was delighted to see that the GSMA announced an initiative for [...]
Microsoft Living Dangerously, Buys Sidekick Company
Microsoft just announced at the 2008 Mobile World Congress that it will be acquiring Danger Inc., the company who created and supports the popular Sidekick range of handhelds offered by T-Mobile. Microsoft’s current mobile offering, Windows Mobile 6 (both Professional and Standard) is often slammed for being too ‘businessy’, with a bigger focus on the [...]
Motorola Embarasses Itself At Mobile World Congress 2008
It’s no wonder Motorola’s mobile phone business is in the toilet isn’t doing well. Here we are at the biggest mobile phone event of the year, the 2008 Mobile World Congress. Sony Ericsson dropped 7 handsets on us last night, including the X1, with Windows Mobile (a first for SE) and stinkin quad-band HSDPA support, [...]
Vodafone launch blog for Mobile World Congress
Big Red is going all web 2.0 on our asses with the launch of their Mobile World Congress blog. This is very encouraging. The media relations team appear to be getting more and more comfortable with the medium of blogging. Here’s the announcement from Vodafone: For the first time Vodafone will be running a dedicated [...]
Mobile World Congress showing off LTE
If you’re in Barcelona this year, you can expect to see number of players battling it out to show you working examples of LTE technology, from the network to the devices. Motorola will be showcasing online racing car games played over LTE, as well as LTE enabled VoIP calls. Freescale will also be demonstrating HD [...]
And lo, the Mobile World Congress dideth beginneth
Standby for an avalanche of updates. We’ve added a special Mobile World Congress category for event related news. We’ll have some diaries from executives on the site (If you’re going along and you’d like to send us a report, please do so — just mail me) and we’ll have a heck of a lot of [...]
Mobile World Congress: Look Ahead
Despite the organisers’ less than enlightened attitude to bloggers at last year’s 3GSM, absolutely everyone who’s ever put keyboard to WordPress is off to the newly re-christened GSMA Mobile World Congress this year. Except me. I have to stay here and work. Humph. Still, the mobile news will be pouring out of Barcelona like un-released [...]
Take your seat for the Nokia N-Series virtual event on Monday
Nokia are doing a N-Series launch event at Mobile World Congress — and WOM World are putting on a virtual version, here. It starts in 38 hours… or at 1020am GMT. (That’s 2am San Francisco time, in case anyone’s counting). Save this bookmark (or revisit here on Monday morning) for all the Nokia Mobile World [...]
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