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Please note: The following is James Whatley’s personal opinion and not necessarily those of his employer, Spinvox.
Hello folks,
If you haven’t read Ben Jennings’ excellent post on his view of how to deal with the iPhone debacle, then go and do that now.
This post is related.
How?
…I’ll tell you.
It was with great interest that I read Ben’s [...]
A ditty, while I write the main review…
So off I went to Glastonbury; all my gadgets in tow.
With all the kit I was packing, I had a confident glow.
And yet something seemed to be nagging, this voice inside my head.
It wouldn’t stop, nor would it cease… and this is what is said:
“Your gadgets will be [...]
Evening readers, Whatley here, writing this on my laptop en route to Pilton for the festival that is known as Glastonbury.
As you know from my last post, the multitude of tools available to the modern day, festival going mobile geek really is quite something… So here, for your pleasure, is a quick rundown of what [...]
Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited along to take part in a new Food-based event rather amusingly entitled – ‘Nom Nom Nom’.
The brainchild of London Underground Blogger, Annie Mole – Food 2.0 Nom Nom Nom, (to give it its full title), was a LOT of fun.
I was there in two capacities. First [...]
Been a bit busy of late folk, hence the absence of my regular Whatley on Wednesday slot.
Trying to get down for the weekly podcast mind…
But yes. Reading the site with interest as I often do, I really enjoyed Tuesday’s ‘Walking with Normobs‘ piece.
So much so that I stirred from my blogging slumber and decided to [...]
James Whatley just put this up over on his personal blog and while it’s not exactly Whatley Wednesday material, (nor is it, in fact, Wednesday), I still thought I’d publish this piece of comedy for your viewing pleasure:
Over to you Whatley:
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That up there ^ is my friend’s iPhone, last week after his dog had got [...]
Continue ReadingMaybe it’s the 24 hour sound of money being well and truly spunked up the wall as you walk through the casinos or the plastic nature of Las Vegas that gets to you after one or two days — whatever the catalyst, James Whatley has found himself undergoing several epiphanies this week, most notably when [...]
Continue ReadingI read this article last week entitled “Why 2008 won’t be the breakthrough year for Mobile Advertising”. It was originally published in the middle of Mobile World Congress.
It makes for very good reading and clearly outlines the one caveat that is currently preventing the mobile advertising boom that has been promised for the past [...]
Whatley is a Symbian guy, through and through. He’s got more applications on his Nokia then I can shake a stick at. But he’s tempted, sorely tempted by Apple’s iPhone. I suspect the o2 unlimited data plans are also annoying the hell out of him as he’s stuck with Vodafone’s paltry offering. [...]
Continue ReadingThis week Whatley is going all Web 2.0 on your ass. It’s all very well having these magnificent tools at our disposal — but how do you actually get them working? I’ve always liked the concept of geotagging my images — but haven’t quite got round to working out how to do it. [...]
Continue ReadingJames Whatley writes, this week, with an impassioned open letter to Vodafone. Write to your MP. Call your local radio station. Send letters to Arun!
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(Not another mobile web rant, promise.)
Dear Vodafone,
Let’s get one thing out in the open before we start:
I love you.
There. I said it. [...]
Just a quick two parter this week - Ewan gave me my first ‘actual’ assignment last week and I’m still putting the finishing touches to it, (i.e.: Still need to write it up proper-like).
So - as a bit of cheat - I thought I’d do a follow up post on last week’s Power User [...]
This week James documents more or less every use of his mobile phone during a morning’s work. It makes for fascinating reading — just how often did you check/use your mobile in the last 60 minutes?
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I am, by my own admission, a power user. This may come as no surprise to the regular [...]
Continue ReadingJames Whatley is in a thoughtful mood at the turn of the year with his first Whatley on Wednesday of 2008.
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Welcome to 2008 folks and good luck to you in the year ahead.
I don’t know about you but, for some reason, 2008 seems to hold an awful lot of [...]
This week, Whatley’s having a look at the Mobile Web, the ‘m.’ solution and web to mobile rendering engines.
Ok - on the back of yesterday’s announcement of the new Mobile Pownce (http://m.pownce.com) site, I thought I’d tackle a subject this week that I (along with quite a few others I suspect) have quite strong [...]
Continue Reading[ A wardrobe malfunction, that is, I was on a plane for hours on end, prevented me from publishing this at the appointed hour - Ewan. Now, over to Whatley...]
I woke up on Monday morning with the intention of writing this week’s ‘Whatley on Wednesday’ piece about firmware and firmware upgrades.
Recently a fellow Mobile [...]
Nokia’s Latest ‘Music Phone’ The N81 8GB.
First off can I state, for the record, that I tried.
I tried and I tried and I tried.
I really did!
Whenever I get a new handset I am aware there’s that ‘bedding in’ period of a couple of days where you have to get used to the nuances in the [...]
[Ewan here: In the first of many Whatley Wednesdays -- a new feature here at SMS Text News -- the Whatleydude (aka the uber connected James Whatley) explores the medium and life of mobile. This week he participated in a real life gun shoot out at the Tate Modern Museum in London (a shoot [...]
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