Mobile Industry Review Show – Episode 22

By on August 25, 2008 in News


Mobile Industry Review Show – Episode 22 from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

This week we’re bringing you an absolute WHOPPER of a show. A veritable whopper.

1. We’re committed to bringing you our show from different, unusual and picturesque locations around London. I think we’ve beaten everything so far by filming from the Tower of London. Special thanks to Tim at the Historic Royal Palaces publicity department. As you might imagine, with almost 1,000 years of history to play with, Ben had a field day with his facts segment. ( 00:47 )

2. We take a look at the 3 Skypephone S2. ( 02:19 )

3. We’ve got lots of news and commentary on last week’s happenings. ( 05:15 )

Lastminute Labs, Google Gears ( 05:16 ), Orange hiring iPhone-fans ( 08:40 ), Nokia Maps

( 09:16 )/Lonely Planet ( 09:37 ), Blackberry Bold’s browser issues ( 10:26 ), IKEA MVNO ( 11:51 ).

4. James Body of Truphone makes an appearance. ( 07:03 )

5. Review of Etymotics Headphones. ( 13:47 )

6. Mobile Industry Review website news… including quick overviews of our upcoming jobs section. Plus: We’ll be at the Future of Mobile conference coming up soon. ( 17:20 )

7. Future of Mobile Conference.  ( 18:58 )

8. Special Sony Ericsson News.  Very special stuff. ( 19:18 )

9. The first EVER Whatley Goes Wild segment.  Including a special N95 8GB-protective-strap.           ( 19:40 )

10. We announce the winners of our competitions.  ( 22:48 )

11. Dan get’s his present. There’s almost a tear shed…( 24:37 )

12. James talks about the Nokia N78.  ( 25:36 )

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  • http://tumblolly.tumblr.com/ ollysk2

    You guys also had Molsen Ice before the rest of us — first is not always a good thing ;)

    Oh, and I'll be making a trip up to BC soon, I'm assuming I shouldn't even bother trying to data roam up there as it'll cost me my firstborn?

    -olly

  • http://www.smstextnews.com Krystal

    You can't just let me have one freakin moment can you…

  • http://www.smstextnews.com Krystal

    yup olly, pretty much

  • ocifant

    And ducking!

  • http://www.kcjhdesign.co.uk Kip Hakes

    Another blinding Podcast! Ben – really you have nailed the looking down the camera lens stuff!! :) And was so happy to hear my name randomly near the end of it. Thank you very much for the pens, they are damned cool. I was expecting a load of shite, but they rock!

    Only comment I would make is that it didn't feel as smoothly edited as the othe Podcasts, not sure why.. but hey ho!

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    There was just too much I think. Too much and I had to squeeze the editing
    into about 8 hours.

    2008/8/26 Disqus <>

  • http://www.kcjhdesign.co.uk Kip Hakes

    Oh, and naughty Mr Whatley for taking his camera on Nemesis Inferno! Usually if you ask the ride operators they are happy to let you have them. But if you don't ask and they spot you with them whilst travelling up the lift hill they may stop the ride and take it off you. So in future, ask or take it out at the top of the lift ;)

    K

  • jimwild

    Another great edition guys, good work!

  • E-Z

    even though i don’t live in England, i do live in New England.
    i enjoy your crazyness, and the interesting info you put out there.
    thanks dudes.

  • http://www.phoneboy.com phoneboy

    I'm still looking for a higher-quality mobile version. Of course I'm sure it will be crazy big file size for that kind of quality :)

    Maybe Ben Smith will scroll to me the next time free stuff is given out. Maybe those headphones. The question is, are they actually worth 100 quid?

  • http://www.phoneboy.com phoneboy

    Disqus puked, attempt #2.

    Would like a higher quality mobile version, but given how long you chaps go on, the file will be 300mb :)

    Hopefully Ben Smith will scroll to me when the Etymotics are given away. Or something else. Hope it doesn't cost more to send it across the pond than it's actually worth. ;)

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    approve

    2008/8/27 Disqus <>

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Give us some guidance, Phoneboy –

    We can give you:
    - 176×144 (this is the 3GP format we use at the moment)
    - 480×272 (this is the 180-200mb format we upload to Vimeo and put into the
    Large Video feed)
    - 640×540
    - 960×540
    - HD DVD quality — now we're talking gigabytes though.

    2008/8/27 Disqus <>

  • http://davidcarrington.co.uk David Carrington

    I was also wondering this one. James is pointing at the bottom of the screen in the video where there are no links.

  • http://www.kcjhdesign.co.uk Kip Hakes

    Another thought – with the links – 'coming up on MIR' etc.. 'Welcome to MIR' etc. you should get other members of the MIR team to record them – Krystal, Julia, Samantha etc maybe even a disguised MR Operator? ;)

    I'm recording my ones for you soon – little fame whore that I am!

    K

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    excellent idea!

    2008/8/27 Disqus <>

  • http://numberonesnowstreet.com k3ith

    It would be great if you had time logs next to the show topics: See my two examples below after each topic. It would make it easier if I wanted to get to a certain part of the show instantly.

    2. We take a look at the 3 Skypephone S2. (2:19)

    3. NEWS – We

  • Mike42

    I reckon you can't / shouldn't factor in WiFi at all. To the point of disabling it in any test.

    This is the *Mobile* Industry Review, and (apart from JoikuSpot) WiFi ain't mobile.

    Certainly in Europe, there just isn't any compelling evidence that people flock to WiFi locations. Sure, if you can be bothered setting up a Cloud sub, and you have battled through the logon process you might use it if it's around, but you won't up sticks and hike a mile just to log on at a Star*ucks.

    Keep up the good work chaps.

    /m

  • Mike42

    And what a complete shocker – you gow *PWNED* by Dan over the self-install of the S2!
    .
    .
    .
    .
    …got any stats on number of Nokia owners who actually bother using NPC Suite / handset-as-modem? 1%? 2%?

    S2 w00t!

  • http://www.phoneboy.com phoneboy

    Why can't do you do a 320×240 like Cali Lewis does with Geekbrief?

  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    “pwned” is a bit strong…

    ..and if you want to talk numbers, let's talk actuals.

    1-2% of all Nokia users use their handset as a modem.
    Would we say that, in actuals, that number will be greater than that of S2 Handset owners?

    *yawn*

    It's a nice phone dude, but your anti-nokia bandwagon does get tiresome sometimes.
    And this is coming from the guy who was *actually* impressed at the Sony Ericsson party last night…

  • http://invalid.name DanLane

    Can we dress Mr Operator up like the Stig?

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    That is an excellent idea. Alas I suspect that he might object to the
    concept!

    2008/8/28 Disqus <>

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    I'll sort that out, Phoneboy

    2008/8/28 Disqus <>

  • http://invalid.name DanLane

    Some say his middle finger is actually an antenna and that when he's REALLY concentrating, all the radios nearby go “dit ditty dit dit dit duuhhhh dit dit ditty dit duhhhh dit dit dit”

  • http://invalid.name DanLane

    It's a shame Vimeo doesn't do “chapters” like the audio player did!

  • Mike42

    <3rd go at this – what's up with Disqus?>

    No anti-Nokia here chap, looking at the 3 of them on my desk…just anti-silly ideas, like having to download stuff to, er, download stuff.

    Bet you dinner somewhere nice that the % of S2 users eating HAM (Handset As Modem) will waaaaaaaay outstrip Nokia users eating HAM within a month. And that the split will just accelerate.

    This is the lesson vendors should learn. Must learn. Will learn. Have learned from the runaway success that has been self-install USB dongles.

    'Actuals' mean nothing. 'Actuals' (as my man Roger Waters once quipped) make Grease a better record than Graceland.

    Pip pip!

    /m

  • MarkW

    I know this is late, but I just got around to watching this episode. I have to say I feel like podcasts and the like are generally a waste of my life. Not so in this case! Nice one guys.

  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    Wow – awesome feedback – thanks MarkW

    :)

  • jamesbody

    Any chance of getting this syndicated out via iTunes? – it would make it much much easier to download onto my iPhone for a comfortable off-line viewing experience (and would undoubtably allow the show to reach a MUCH BIGGER audience)!

  • http://www.rickyc.co.uk Ricky Chotai

    all you need to do is add whichever feed to the add podcast link in itunes simple! :)

  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    Yes – this is coming this week. iTunes has a few more tagging and graphicing hoops to jump through that I want to (try) to get right before we submit.

  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    Olly,

    Congratulations – you were picked on this week's show as the winner of the rather super Etymotics (like Shure's for discerning people) headset. Ping me an e-mail at ben.smith@mobileindustryreview.com and we'll post them over to you!

    Ben

  • http://astroturfgarden.com bogart

    Just catching up on my MIR TV.

    So, here's a weird thing that happened recently. I went to our new IKEA here in South Florida. As usual in large buildings down here, there is no reception. What is weird, however, is that my phone, an n82 for which there is no 3G in America, displayed the 3G symbol while I was walking around. I tried to access a website, which didn't work, of course, but it was strange.

    Only time I've seen the 3G symbol since getting this phone.

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    that is veerrrrrrrrry strange!

    2008/9/3 Disqus <>

  • http://astroturfgarden.com bogart

    I went back and took a screenshot of my N82 getting the 3G icon in a South Florida Ikea. I have yet to see anything like this anywhere else:

    http://share.ovi.com/media/ktneely.public/ktnee…

  • edgar1013

    you're prolly picking up some security system signals mixed in there.
    my 400 dollar radar detector gets false alarms all the time too.

  • edgar1013

    you're prolly picking up some security system signals mixed in there.
    my 400 dollar radar detector gets false alarms all the time too.

  • http://www.detectordoc.com/ radar_detectors

    Yeah indeed it is!

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  • http://www.engeltoft.dk/ TV-overvÃ¥gning

    I can’t tell you how happy I am with that episode

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  • http://jamesvincentuk.blogspot.com james vincent

    just came across this video. i loved it when the whole gang was together. Oh I really wanted one of the 3 skype phones!

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