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The SMS Text News iPhone has arrived!

By Ewan on July 11, 2008 in News

Well it’s all happening today. Express thanks must go to o2 who have sent me over an iPhone 3G to review. I have it in my hand and it is more solid, more desirable, … just better than the 2G iPhone. Here then is a quick and dirty picture of it (taken, with a bit [...]

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Endorsement for Symbian Foundation grows; not quite from SMS Text News yet

By Ewan on July 10, 2008 in News

You know this whole Symbian Foundation thing? (i.e. recently Nokia actually bought Symbian and stuck it into the ‘Symbian Foundation) Well, I’m not sold on it. Not yet. I just got a news release in from Nokia telling me that endorsement for the foundation grows, thus: The initial board members of the Symbian Foundation have [...]

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SMS Text News Podcast – 30,000 listeners – guests wanted!

By Ewan on July 4, 2008 in News

We’re doing our best to try and work out exactly how many folk are listening. It’s a bind, a total bind. There are oodles of stats and clicks and download notification engines to look at. In the end you have you stick up your hands and say,… ‘Er, I reckon this is probably about right.’ [...]

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SMS Text News Awards – get your entries in

By Dan on July 3, 2008 in News

We’ve had more than 300 entries for the SMS Text News Awards ’08 already. It’s pretty shocking, and I wasn’t quite aware I was letting myself in for so much reading, but we’re now electing a board of judges… It’s a fantastic response and I don’t think we’ve seen the end of the entries by [...]

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SMS Text News 2008 Awards

By Dan on June 23, 2008 in News

Hola Dan Ilett here – I’m the publisher for SMS Text News. SMS Text News is giving out 19 awards for mobile industry excellence and one award for being dreadful. The categories are: Best handset Best application in mobile Best marketing campaign Best public social use of mobile Best business person in the mobile industry [...]

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SMS Text News launches DeviceAnywhere Developer Roadshow

By Ewan on June 20, 2008 in News

I first met the Chief Executive and Chief Marketing Officer of DeviceAnywhere (formerly known as MobileComplete) in a briefing late last year. I’d heard of the company quite a few times. It’s a name that comes up regularly whenever I’m talking to developers. At the briefing, I had a chance to check out the DeviceAnywhere [...]

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The Polycom Communicator, the Dell Ultralight and the SMS Text News podcast

By Ewan on June 19, 2008 in Devices

I tuned into the SMS Text News podcast (number 9) this morning from the Desert Island. Instead of using the Dell Ultralight M1330′s (rather nifty) speakers, I plugged in the Polycom Communicator C100 (it’s USB). It’s a bit of genius. Of course it does voice really well.. I’ve got a post on that coming, but [...]

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Ode to iPhone on SMS Text News

By Ewan on June 10, 2008 in News

For all those who aren’t interested one jot about the iPhone, look away now. We’ll put ‘iPhone’ in the subject of any related posts just in case you really don’t care. We’ve got a lot of (contrasting) opinion and perspective coming in from readers and contributors so standby for a bit of an Apple-fest, although [...]

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SMS Text News launches “Push 1 for Help” consultancy

By Ewan on June 9, 2008 in News, Services

We’re about to distribute this release shortly… SMS Text News launches consultancy practice Blog moves into analyst territory June 10, London. SMS Text News, the world’s most influential blog on the mobile industry, is proud to announce it has launched a consultancy and research arm of its business in a bid to help more companies [...]

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LG is hunting for good looking SMS Text News readers

By Ewan on June 9, 2008 in News

It is a truth universally acknowledged that SMS Text News readers are very good looking and sexually attractive. It is for this reason that I bring the following news to your attention: LG is hunting for a style icon — that is, a person — to front their upcoming advertising campaign. One imagines they’re hunting [...]

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SMS Text News is going to a desert island next month

By Ewan on May 28, 2008 in News

Next month, starting June 16th, we’ll be bringing you SMS Text News live from a desert island in the middle of nowhere. I’m going to be exploring the possibility of working remotely. I’ve emailed Iridium to see if they can lend us a satellite data system to enable us to produce the site. The hotel [...]

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Focus on Canada hitting SMS Text News shortly

By Ewan on May 28, 2008 in News, Services

I’ve had enough of hearing absolutely nothing from Canada in a mobile context. The only memorable thing I can tell you about is RIM. And Rogers executives who knew nothing about mobile (this was, admittedly, a few years ago, I trust the situation has changed). And the enterprising chaps at Bell who introduced unlimited data [...]

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