Annoying
I’ve been going to and fro between King’s Cross, St Pancras and Euston Station for about three hours this morning. Total arse.
Having established that there was insufficient space on the Sheffield train (”change at Sheffield for another mind numbing trip to X, Y and Z prior to arriving at Darlington”), I headed back to my [...]
This is quite an interesting one sent in my an SMS Text News reader and T-Mobile USA customer who can’t quite understand why his 160 character text messages are being delivered with wildly inaccurate timestamps.
Any ideas?
I am not sure if you are aware of this, but shortly after the time change in March, those of [...]
It’s July (just in case you hadn’t noticed), and time for the industry to clear off for two months. That means it’s all very quiet out there in the world of mobile at the moment. Very quiet indeed. The only real thing happening is the iPhone PR steam roller is in it’s usual frenzy - [...]
Continue ReadingLink: PC World - iPhone Activation Disasters
What with other rather more pressing issues keeping the news broadcasters busy the past few days, you’d be forgiven for forgetting the iPhone launched on Friday just gone. So how has it gone so far? Rather badly, it seems.
There’s reports doing the rounds that many quite delighted purchasers of [...]
Link: BBC NEWS | Education | Mobile phones ‘offensive weapons’
Expect this to turn up in the Daily Mail tomorrow..
A teaching union is calling for mobile phones to be classed as potentially offensive weapons. NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said the way pupils misused them to bully their teachers meant they should be banned from school [...]
I’m absolutely tired of dissing Windows Mobile.
I’ve had enough of it, I really have.
I met ANOTHER guy the other day sporting a Windows Mobile handset.
“Do you like it?” I asked.
“Oh, it’s brilliant,” he responded, “I love it!”
“Shit!” I thought, reaching for my SMS Text News business cards, “Maybe I’ve found someone I can actually [...]
I teach a class of 11 and 12 year olds web, blogging, Google and the like every Thursday evening.
En route to the centre yesterday (it’s in a particularly dodgy part of town) I decided to be uber-organised and book a taxi for my departure later on. I even remebered the number of [...]
So, last night, I changed the SMS Text News database and login details as a precaution. They were on my phone contacts.
Smart man, yes?
Only, I forgot to update the configuration files here on the server, thus I’ve been displaying a WP error to the world for about 7 hours.
Duh.
We’re back… welcome! [...]
DEVELOPING STORY
More shortly from the reporter on the scene.
Had this in from SMS Text News reader Reuben Raveendran, talking about his experiences with the new Vodafone Mobile Internet service. He’s very kindly allowed us to quote his email, so over to Reuben..
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On Wednesday last week I called up Vodafone to add the £7.50 “Mobile Internet” bundle to my account and [...]
Had this in earlier from our very own Krystal.
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So I went to the mall on my lunch, and after being thoroughly
disappointed with the selection at H&M today, I thought I’d poke my
head into Wireless Wave (generic phone type place, probably like
Phones 4 U?)
So I say to the guy (full well knowing the answer) [...]
Link: MIKA’S SKINT! - 3am - Showbiz - Mirror.co.uk
If you were looking for affirmation that it’s not just SMS Text News contributor Ben Harvey who has problems with staff in mobile phone stores, maybe this will help.
According to the Daily Mirror, pop star Mika - the number one selling artist behind that catchy/annoying (delete as applicable) [...]
Link: Vodafone says VoIP is ‘expensive’ and ‘unsafe’ | The Register
Another day, another crap reason from a mobile operator for not allowing VOIP on their network and/or handsets. This time, it’s Vodafone.
Vodafone is telling customers that VoIP services are insecure - even as Sky News is reporting that VoIP calls threaten our war on terror [...]
After my post the other day about, amongst other things, T-Mobile restricting my web access via web’n’walk, I finally snapped. I did something about it.
Logging on to the T-Mobile mobile homepage last night, I noticed they’d added Facebook on the front page. Wicked. Perhaps they’ve added it to the whitelisted sites and I could access it?
Alas no, it was [...]
Saw this on the Mobile Monday London mailing list earlier. First the technical version (the original was written by Geoff Ballinger on the list).
Vodafone UK upgraded their mobile internet gateways for pay-monthly customers last night. If your site is not explicity registered with Vodafone as a ‘mobile’ site, the returned useragent is “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; [...]
Link: Orange simplifies data by capping at 30MB | The Register
Orange has launched its unmetered-mobile-data tariff for the UK - but unexpectedly capped it at 30MB a month. The tariff is available to pre-paid as well as contract customers, and costs a fiver for evening and weekend use, or £8 for anytime unmetered data access. [...]
As I (Alex) mentioned in a post a few days ago, I’ve been moving house. Been out on the road a lot the past few days, which has given me a chance to really hammer my T-Mobile Web’n’Walk/Flext account.
It’s been utter shite. No really, totally crap. My E61 seems to spend most of its time [...]
Why we hate the modern mobile phone | The Register
Yesterday I posted a link to an article on Sci/Tech news site The Register, which talked about the mobile industry and why they thought it’d lost the plot.
There’s been a few comments made here, but El Reg got a mailbag full. Check this lot out - seems [...]
After talking about his experience with mobile phone retailers last week, SMS Text News reader Ben Harvey is back with a little Friday afternoon entertainment. Just don’t ask him about his day…
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I’m having one of those days. Like it or not, you and your mobile are partners and, like an [...]
It’s been a rough old ride for the world of premium SMS of late. What with the numerous scandals involving TV channels, Vodafone having a couple of overcharging problems, ICSTIS adjudications and fines on the increase and public trust in the industry at an all time low, I’m wondering whether this is the end of [...]
Continue ReadingBBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile TV predicted to be a hit
Being rather sad, I was thumbing through the BBC News website over the weekend on my mobile whilst enjoying a nice cup of tea and breakfast in bed. This story caught my eye, and I meant to blog about it - but forgot til I [...]
Link: Orange Value Promise not as much value as promised | The Register
Having spent the past few weeks merrily redefining the the word ‘unlimited’ even more so than it’d been screwed previously by their competitors and the broadband sector, Orange have apparently set their sights on price matching.
Back in the day, price match meant just that [...]
Link: Government threatens TV premium rate ban | The Register
The Government will ban television premium rate phone-ins if the industry cannot better regulate itself, broadcasting minister Shaun Woodward has warned.
Woodward said the Government takes the spate of recent mistakes and breaches of regulators’ codes “very seriously”, and that it would ban the use of the [...]
Link: Network Operators Trying to Restrict Hyperlinks to their Websites
Here’s an interesting story, courtesy of Cellular News.
The “blogosphere” has been buzzing about a legal statement on the Cingular website which restricts how people are allowed to create a weblink from their website to the Cingular website. As we have bookmarked the press pages of practically [...]
I’ve got a dormant T-Mobile account. It’s been sat there for the last 6 months or so stuck in my N90 that I lent to Hetty ages ago to take some pictures of something.
It’s sat on a dirt cheap £18 a month 1,000 off-peak minutes tariff — with web’n’walk on it — [...]
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