Krystal, our Operations Manager is heading to New York on Friday to check out the mobile scene. And do some relaxing, I imagine.
She’s steadfastly refusing to buy an iPhone 3G at the moment. Maybe she will change her mind after a weekend with just her iPod with wifi. You never know.
If you’ve got any mobile related recommendations, let us know. We’ll see if Krystal can take a look.
I’ve just spent an hour or so pointing a camera in the face of a very patient and highly animated Mark Tynan, founder of mobile travel geniuses, ShopQwik. With their service, you can book a flight or a hotel, anywhere in the world, in 60 seconds, from your handset.
I was interviewing Mark for the DeviceAnywhere Developer Roadshow we’re doing here at SMS Text News. I tell you, it’s just brilliant. Brilliant. I’m thoroughly enjoying being able to show DeviceAnywhere to top quality developer/entrepreneurs like Mark.
I sat him down and flipped open the DeviceAnywhere Studio (check out the walk-through) and brought up a few devices.
“Awww, look at that!” he said, as I opened up a few handsets, “It’s like having the handset there in your hand!”
Mark went on to explain that he’s spent about 20,000 pounds or more on handsets over the last three years (including contracts). With burgeoning demand for ShopQwik on a whole load of different platforms, testing is a key issue for him — he reckons he’ll be able to get some excellent benefits from using DeviceAnywhere, although I’ll leave the specifics ’til the video.
We’ll have it cut and online next week.
Meantime I’m off now to catch my flight to Dublin for Unlimited Drinks tonight!
God bless America – it looks like Delta has signed up to trial mobile ticketing which will be available from this week for passengers making domestic Delta and Delta Connection flights from New York’s La Guardia airport.
Travellers will be able to download their electronic boarding pass from delta.com, and then present it to airport security and later on at the boarding gate where it will be scanned. It looks like Delta’s got big plans for mobile check-in too: “Future enhancements include standby upgrades and same day, round trip check-in on delta.com, mobile and SMS check-in,” the company said.
It all sounds great, but what happens when your phone dies? Do airport staff have an emergency charger to hand?
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