Annoying
Blyk and I are now officially no more. I thought that maybe there was a chance of reconciliation, I was severely misled, and quite possibly slightly delirious, but who could blame me for wanting something to work?
I learnt yesterday after a meeting with the Blyk Manager of User Experience that it isn’t just poor customer [...]
I haven’t done an update on the loveliness, that isn’t Blyk in a while; and so, I thought, today I would. I mean, what else is better than having a good old moan?*
Well, to be honest it hasn’t been going good. Yesterday I “celebrated” my six week anniversary of Blyk not working; not much cause [...]
This is a thought that I’ve been pondering over for some time; mobiles have taken over our lives, almost to the point of invasion. We use and take them everywhere we go, and many of us rarely turn our beloved handsets off. So is there a time and place for mobiles?
Well I think there is. [...]
I want WiFi, like right now.
I’m sitting here testing out a Nokia E66 (expect the review later this week), and I’m looking at the Maps function, and amusing myself at having Facebook on my phone. And I’m angry, at two things; that poor excuse of “speed”, and the ridiculousness of the cost.
I would have used [...]
Please remind me why I am a member of Blyk. I swear, I’ve spent more time complaining to and about them, than I have actualling using my Blyk texts and minutes; which I think is a little dissapoiting. I was so looking forward to love Blyk.
Earlier on I tried phoning up Blyk to find out [...]
Some of you may recall my complain to Blyk I posted yesterday; this was directly aimed at my frustration of some of the Blyk staff, but also turned out to be a ranting ramble about the audacity that Blyk think they have to expand.
Well it seems, they’ve finally gotten around to reading my complaint (it [...]
Pink. A colour for the females apparently, and one, which according to many female gadget/technology orientated websites, feel like they have to ambush my eyes with! And to be honest, I’ve had enough.
It’s bad enough that quite a few technology/gadgetry websites and even magazines insist on having half-naked women plastered all over them. I’m not [...]
I was talking to Ewan about my phone operator Blyk; I’ve been with them since February/March, and for the most part I’ve loved the service, I mean it’s free right?
Somehow, some Blyk membercare staff have got it into their heads that shouting to me down the phone, or telling me to go to the forums, [...]
I’m sure you’re sick of hearing about my troubles with O2 by now, but it’s not over yet!
After my SIM was FINALLY activated last week it was time to wait for my T-Mobile number to be ported to O2. The T-Mobile SIM went dead at around 4pm on Friday and upon calling my number I [...]
After the awful experience of our intrepid reporter Dan, we have more reader woes to report.
This is from Ben:
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It was strangely reassuring to read someone else having a similar degree of pain! After O2’s site crashed and burned after 10 minutes of people trying to use it, I placed an order on CPW [...]
Dan Lane covered the launch of the iPhone 3G here, but as his subsequent posts revealed his own purchase wasn’t as smooth as it might have been *cough* 8 hour wait *cough*. If like me you revel in other people’s pain listen to this special podcast ‘queue-cast’ edition to hear a man who doesn’t know [...]
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Backwards Canada strikes again, I honestly checked the calendar to make sure it wasn’t April 1st.
Oh my god. I can’t believe it. Things should not be getting worse.
I just heard on the news that Bell & Telus are going to be charging 15 cents to receive a text message.
I CAN’T EVEN TELL YOU HOW LIVID [...]
It doesn’t take much for children not to understand their parents. The generation gap is usually more than obvious, especially concerning technology.
I am in that situation. My parents are ok with technology, my Dad can almost program the VCR, and is pretty good with his computer. Mom on the other hand won’t touch it. They [...]
$13,465.60
yes that’s right dear reader. Ewan’s pockets would be hurting a lot more than they currently do if he was in our fair country.
Here’s how we figured it out.
Ewan would have the exact same plan I do. On Fido, the now defunct $18 value pack that gives me 12MB of data a month.
Data usage by [...]
UK network operator Three is having a problem this morning with the system it uses to monitor data use against its ‘fair use’ policy with multiple warning SMS messages being sent to customers warning they are over the limit and may be cut off (I’ve had 23 26 27 in about 3 hours - 4 [...]
Continue ReadingOk it’s official, I’m fed up with the Canadian Mobile Industry.
I was pretty darn close before, as many of you know. I was borderline ready to give up completely. But there were always those ever so slight glimmers of hope that brought me back from the edge.
But now I’m done. I. AM. DONE.
Tonight I [...]
Terrence, a regular SMS Text News reader (and Scrabble regional finalist) , decided to test the UK mobile retail market from the point of view of a standard customer wanting to buy a pay as you go handset. Fascinating results. Have a read…
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With all the talk of contract, tariffs, mobile browsing [...]
The “more bars in more places” mobile network operator has summarily increased the cost of text messaging from $0.15 to $0.20 for out of bundle text messages.
Why? Because they can. Nobody cares. Americans don’t care. Individual Americans — some who have been emailing this site — certainly care, but [...]
Note: If you don’t like pictures of middle aged men (albeit one in very good shape) in speedos, don’t scroll down.
I’m a bit of a closet celebrity gossip nut, I’ll admit. So today, while scrolling through Tmz.com I came across this.
Pictured below is Carson, formerly of a show that was on here and in the [...]
It’s the little things that annoy you on a daily basis. Just missing the train, waking up to find out you’re out of tea bags or having to pay stupid data rates.
We here at SMS Text News find a few things annoying in the mobile world, therefore we’ve created the Annoyances Page where we [...]
With apologies to those seeking analysis or a product review (what are you reading my rubbish for anyway?), this week’s piece is a self-indulgent rant about a mobile payment service gone wrong… a ‘how not-to’ guide if you like. My interest in the matter? An £80 ( $160) ‘penalty charge’ notice sitting on [...]
Continue ReadingSo I went out for dinner this evening, with Matt (the husband) to a place here called Philthy McNasty’s (your typical sports bar like place).
Wow, exciting news there Krystal. I know bare with me!
The people at the table next to us had finished eating while we were perusing the menus and called the waitress over [...]
So I am in love with my N95. (How could you not be?) It’s been two whole days now and I don’t know how I lived without it.
Since it’s one slight downfall is battery life, I decided to go out and buy a car charger for it.
Off I go to the mall, and to [...]
Big news. I now own a Nokia N95.
Ok, I know this isn’t very exciting to most of you, but here in Canada, where the mobile industry hasn’t quite caught up, it’s unchartered territory. Ewan often says ‘deary me†when I mention something that’s going on in the mobile world here, yes it’s that bad.
I’ve wanted [...]
I was alerted by Stefan @ IntoMobile of this little video
regarding the silly words that are pre-programmed into the T9 predictive text dictionary. The video is actually pondering why curse words are not included, but I am more interested in the silly non-words that are included such as shiv, pigt, and others. Don’t pretend [...]
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