Archive for Ricky Chotai
Nokia Build is a service that allows you to customize your phone directly from Nokia. As reported by T3; this service is currently limited to the UK and France and currently you can only customise a Nokia 7310.
Sadly the 7310 is not the best handset in the world however if the quality is good then [...]
The same thing that occurred to customers in the UK has now occurred to our friends over the water. Full details are on the Twitter Blog, however I suspect this is due to the costs associated with maintaining the sms service as Canda, like Europe does not charge end users to recieve SMS.
However there may [...]
As resident BlykWatcher here at Mobile Industry Review, I felt it important to bring you the following update;
from newmediaage
Ad-funded MVNO Blyk is rolling out a portal in January to direct its 16-24-year-old audience to relevant content.
The mobile operator, which offers free SMS and voice calls, will launch the On Blyk portal with content from providers [...]
This post is more of a question then an actual post. Those of you based in the UK will know that VAT is being lowered to 15% and your mobile service includes VAT.
Will the networks be recaulating bills in regards to the drop automatically from the 1st of December? I certaintly will be contacting by [...]
I picked the following up in my RSS Reader from The Register;
300,000 UK T-Mobile customers had a quiet morning as they were unable to make or receive calls thanks to a database snafu that forced the operator to restore from backups - a process which is still in progress.
The problems started at around 10am this [...]
So o2 has currently been behind all the other networks when it came to mobile broadband, however it seems they may have pulled the cat out of the bag.
From Mobile Today;
O2 is looking to accelerate sales of its mobile broadband by offering a money-back guarantee amid growing consumer uncertainty regarding speeds and coverage for dongles.The [...]
Continue ReadingEwan posted a while ago about Yammer and that team have been playing with it. Initially we used a fair bit now interest dwindled, until a few days ago that is. Yammer have now have the ability to send updates by SMS via a UK number and also the option to receive all [...]
Continue ReadingThis is another one I was contacted on Facebook by someone on Three asking to promote the opportunity to win £25,000 (Credit Crunch anyone??) to blow on a party for the winner and all their Facebook friends.
For more details checkout their Facebook Page.
Once again it is great to see companies like 3 embracing Social Networking [...]
It is always interesting to see how companies try and promote their services and engage with their target market.
First up is Nokia’s Comes With Music, previously we have had a lot of coverage here on MIR however this post is written in the position as head of sales and promotions at my student radio station [...]
I need some help from you the lovely readers!
You may or may not be aware that I am part of my university’s student station Shock Radio and we are looking for a short or long code. We would would then need the SMS to be delivered to an email address.
We are a non profit organisation [...]
Another network exclusivity was announced today the HTC Touch is going to Orange according to this article over at Mobile News.
The Touch HD comes with a 3.8 inch, high resolution, widescreen WVGA touchscreen and a 5 megapixel auto focus camera. The device also comes with HTC’s TouchFLO 3D user interface and is fitted with a [...]
Over at Mobile News they are reporting that 3UK are set to launch a new unlimited package at £15.
Unlimited calls, texts to 3 customers and 1GB data to boot
3 last week revealed it’s to launch a new £15 unlimited calls and text tariff through stores in November.
The deal, which also includes 1GB of data, will [...]
If you haven’t seen this weeks Mobile Industry Review Show, then go and check it out now!
If you have seen it then you can now play with Android yourself here.
As you can imagine all the functions are not available, however for those of you who have only read about the device this is your opportunity [...]
Continue ReadingA lot of the content here at MIR especially regarding the networks is heavily UK oriented, however I picked this up in my news feeds regarding one over the networks over the water in Ireland.
Over at Mobile News they are reporting that Meteor reached 1 million customers earlier this month;
Meteor chief executive Larry Smith presented [...]
They are still happening, it’s just that I smashed my phone screen in my pocket the other week hence the reason for no updates. I should have my trusty N95 back with me tomorrow, so we should be back on schedule for a new review on Friday.
As ever, if you are an application developer or [...]
According to Mobile Today, Phones 4u have stepped up the game in the bid to target students and are offering deals such as offering £100 of free music on any price plan.
Which is fantastic except there are not doing a very good job advertising it to us. In fact this year all the networks and [...]
Shazam ID is available here.
Shazam ID is an application that assists you in identifying songs that you do not know I name of, whether that be in a club, film or TV music or simply just off the radio. You simply start the application and point it at the source of music for 30 seconds [...]
200,000 members in one year of going live, Blyk has added 100,000 since April this year.
Impressive figures, but the figure I would be much interested is how many of those users have topped up their account!
Still they are getting good response rates 25 percent of those who receive ads respond to them, costing advertisers 50 [...]
It’s time for a new feature here at Mobile Industry Review I am going to be reviewing S60 applications on a weekly basis. If you want to share an application with the readers or if you are a developer and you want to give your application some coverage then drop me a line (ricky@mobileindustryreview.com). Quick [...]
Continue ReadingLast week Ewan announced that Nokia was to launch Comes with Music check out details here, here and here. Details have now emerged that Sony Ericsson are set to do exactly the same under the name of PlayNowPlus (catchy huh). Currently there are no details about how long the unlimited downloads are for? Whether the [...]
Continue ReadingI picked this up from The Register and as a presenter on my university’s student radio station I found it of interest.
Vodafone managed to squeezed 30 words into 8 seconds. A clip can be heard from here, according to one listener they felt they could not understand what was being said due to the speed [...]
It seems that Orange not being content with its deal with Lyca Mobile, has just signed another ethnic MVNO to its collection GlobalCell.
GlobalCell will be aiming their SIM only services to migrants from countries such as Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania and Russia, and will also offer customer service in those languages as well as English. [...]
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