That’s right!

We’re heading into the heart of London’s West End to film next week’s videocast.

If you’d like a shout-out, tell us and we’ll include you.

A note about shout-outs: I met a chap (codename: “Geoff”) the other week who didn’t think that we genuinely want to say hi to people and do shout-outs. He thought it was a gimmick.

“But surely you don’t really mean it?” he asks.

“Yeah! We just say hi. Stick in a link to your site if we can. That sort of thing.”

“But, I don’t actually.. I don’t … I’m not the CEO,” says Geoff.

So?

“But you can’t say hi to me. I, er, I probably need PR approval and they won’t listen.”

“You need PR approval for me to say hi to you on a Mobile Industry Review video?” I asked, eyebrows raised rather high.

“Errrr, ok… well. I just don’t think I qualify,” replies Geoff.

So I’d like to be very clear. If you’re reading, you qualify. We’d like to say hello — in the newsletter, on the site, on the video, whatever.

Send me an email (ewan@mobileindustryreview.com) with the subject ‘shout out’ and tell us something that’s going on with you. Or leave the email blank and we’ll just say hi.

Meantime, we’re going to be in Covent Garden tomorrow. If you’re in the area, maybe you should pop by and say hi on camera!

Contributors Dan Lane, Ben Smith and I headed off to the Centre of Her Majesty’s Empire (that is, Buckingham Palace) and talked-to-camera.

I’m going to see if we can rip the audio and serve it as a podcast as normal. We’ll publish the video tomorrow morning. It is most certainly a trial. A beta. A work in progress. There’s a squirrel and copious normobs. When a group of normobs came over for a chat, Ben was off his seat like an Olympic pro in case they were carrying knifes. Dan bravely demanded to see their mobile phones and, confronted with me pointing a camera in their faces, they were more than happy to oblige. It’s worth watching just to see the mild panic on Dan’s face as the hoodies (without hoodies) approached. They were, actually, very polite.

We wanted to have a practice in advance of this Friday’s AQA (63336) party that we’re filming — the SMS Text News team will be there in force featuring interviews, commentary and all sorts of devices.

There’s quite a lot of sensible conversation about the Sagem, iPhone availability, the Nokia Tube, 3′s Christmas in July event… and a blooper real at the end featuring occasional naughty language.

Standby for the video. It’ll be up shortly!