Only last night I was writing about @O2′s smart marketing campaign for HTC’s Windows Phone 8 devices featuring voicemails recorded personally by acting legend, Brian Blessed. Today I got a tweet from the O2 team pointing me to the above SoundCloud archive of my own personal Brian Blessed voicemail recording. I am truly honoured! Seriously [...]
[That's it just gone midday here in the UK so it's time to be clear: If you hadn't already guessed, this was our April Fools story!] Silicon Valley is in shock this morning with the news that Google has quit the mobile industry. The dramatic move comes at a time when questions have been asked [...]
Was it this time last year that Nokia was burning? I had to check through the Mobile Industry Review archives just to be sure! What a difference a year makes in the mobile industry, eh? This time last year the market was reacting to the news that Nokia had dumped it’s “burning platform” and moved [...]
Microsoft smartly jumped straight into bed with the team of developers who got together to try and make it easy to hack (or, to install unsigned applications on) their Windows Phone devices. Instead of making it a total flipping nightmare for users, it’s actually going to be rather simple. Here’s the Chevron team with more [...]
I’ve been in and out of meetings today and I’ve been taking the temperature of the UK tech marketplace at each one. I’m surprised at the level of excitement brewing. Expectations are running high. Nokia has done a super job of setting expectations with the odd reveal now-and-again across the last few months. The tech [...]
I don’t agree with all the text in this piece from TechCrunch — not least because of the focus on HTC and hardly any mention of Nokia. HTC is a relative minnow compared to what Nokia could *possibly* do with Windows Phone. This, after all, is a company that’s consistently proved that it has the [...]
I’m sure there’s a lot of executives reading who wouldn’t mind the contract to build 300 apps for Nokia. Alas the opportunity has been snapped up by Canadian firm, Polar Mobile. Congratulations chaps. The focus for Polar is obviously Windows Phone — and this news demonstrates Nokia isn’t hanging around. Microsoft has already made good [...]
The video below apparently came from the Far East. It purports to show a Nokia N9-styled device operating Windows Phone 7. Matt over at The Next Web describes the phone as having ‘a near identical design to the Meego-powered Nokia N9′. Now then, here’s what you need to do. Definitely watch the video. Keep the [...]
Listen! Ben and Rafe head to the Millbank Tower in London for the official UK unveiling of Mango, Microsoft’s latest (and most major) update to the Windows Phone 7 platform (Wireless Worker coverage, All About Symbian coverage) where we also interview Oded Ran, Head of Consumer Marketing, Windows Phone, UK. I joined the chaps afterwards as we discuss: The ’500′ [...]
Here’s the full release from today’s announcement from Nokia regarding their definitive agreement with Microsoft: Espoo, Finland and Redmond, US – Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement on a partnership that will result in a new global mobile ecosystem, utilizing the very complementary assets of both [...]
Jay Greene over at CNET posted a useful overview of Microsoft’s latest activities with Windows Phone. Microsoft offered today its most detailed look yet into the next version of Windows Phone, code-named Mango, at the companys annual show for Web and phone developers. via Microsoft gives details on next Windows Phone OS | Microsoft – [...]
I think this can only be good news for the Windows Phone platform. I particularly like the T-Shirt (photo via the link below). Writing on their blog yesterday, Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh, and Long Zheng have revealed what they can (outside of the NDA they voluntarily signed) about the 2 days of meetings, and are [...]
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