Opinion
We’re not short on opinion. Indeed, if you’ve got one, chances are, we want to publish to the industry. Drop a note with your viewpoint to our editor, Ewan (ewan@mobileindustryreview.com and we’ll go from there.
Well, not yet…. It’s just a music phone people.
The fresh round of leaked photos of the device we’ve all been calling the ‘Tube’ which first made it’s fleeting public appearance in that Batman movie has got everyone (including the usually-calm Financial Times on Tuesday) talking about Nokia’s new ’smartphone’. Some of the more breathless coverage [...]
A thought for the weekend, and considering this horrendous weather, a thought that might take you back a few years!
I’m asking, what has been your favourite mobile phone, you have owned, ever!
I’ll start with mine. Now for me, this is an incredibly tough choice, it’s between the Nokia 3310, and the Nokia 3200! (Not exactly [...]
Vodafone have announced their first pre-pay deal in over two years. Luckily for us pre-pay consumers out there, it sounds like a bloody good offer too.
For just ten pounds per month, users will be entitled to unlimited free evening and weekend texts. Obviously this will be in-accordance to a Fair Use Policy of some nature, [...]
Here’s an introduction to Daniel Pullen — a new recruit to Mobile Industry Review. Daniel is shortly heading off to Uni and I’ve asked him to give us a horse’s-mouth style viewpoint on just how the mobile operators pitch him during the Fresher’s Week (the introductory shenanigans popular at most UK Universities). Plus, [...]
Continue ReadingA thought I’ve pondered over a lot. If I had my way I would change a lot (not only in Mobile), but in the rest of the world. But let’s forget about that; let’s think purely Mobile, purely communications, and sales. What would you change?
What has to annoy me the most with mobiles, especially here [...]
Nearly two weeks ago, Ewan announced he was sending me an iPhone, and simultaneously I announced I really do not like the device. My ramble about the iPhone only summed up a few of my displeasures about the device, but I was more than willing to accept I maybe wrong.
Firstly, I should point out, the [...]
No seriously! Despite how rubbish you can be (note, not all are that rubbish), you have this ability to make me laugh, even when it’s not funny!
You see, on Wednesday I took a trip down to my local high street, a busy one at that; in all I would hazard a guess that there are [...]
I think it was Stephen Davies, who runs PR Blogger, who put me on to the Berocca Blogger Relief page. The page begins:
Blogging can be stressful. We live in a world where millions of people read and demand new content from websites every day.
Of course, someone’s got to satisfy this demand and as The [...]
I’m really excited to bring you the first in a series of posts about Estonia. Marino Bresciani responded to my call for contributors this week and took up the challenge. The first missive is a an overview of the marketplace and a look at how SMS is being used across the country. [...]
Continue ReadingI’m being serious here. Since my time here as Mobile Industry Review I’ve read hundreds of news articles on the latest goings on with the mobile industry. Yes a lot of the so called news is terribly “boring”, but every now and then, I have to sit back laugh, and ask “why”?
Ricky kindly sent me [...]
That’s one of the opened-ended questions posed by Kerrianne Gauld, Biz Dev at Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance on MoMoLondon this afternoon. Have a read:
Hi
I’m doing some research on the mobile advertising sector and wondered if anyone had any views on the sustainability of the sector. If the projected ad spend by 2013 [...]
I was listening to the radio the other day and I heard the following exchange:
- Presenter: “I’ve got a futurologist with me tonight. So that means you’re an expert on the future.”
- Futurologist: “Well, just technology in my case, not the whole future, that’d be rather a lot.”
And it got me thinking. Isn’t that the [...]
I’m not sure if you’re already aware, but Ewan has sent me a first generation iPhone for me to have a play around with. But also, I’m not too hung up on the device either!
I’ve mentioned this before (and no, I’m not complaining), but the iPhone really isn’t my cup of tea. I’m not that [...]
When Ewan informed me of a music downloading service for £1.99 a week, that was actually good, I honestly thought he was pulling my leg. It was either that, or the service was seriously flawed.
I was wrong.
MusicStation is quite simply, pretty amazing. What I thought really couldn’t work, or ever be good (especially on a [...]
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 [...]
Here, then, is yet another depressing illustration of how screwed the mobile industry is. It doesn’t matter how enterprising you’d like to be, or how innovative you’re mobile developers are, or how many 80 hour weeks you’re working away… if I can’t access your services on my device, then you don’t exist.
But, at [...]
After reading Ewan’s article on the iPhone it reminded me of my trip I took to my local high-street on Friday. Now, being a contributor on SMS Text News, I only thought it was my duty to pop into the o2 store, and the Carphone Warehouse.
Firstly I stepped into the o2 store, and I was [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Continue ReadingOn Thursday I’m flying to Dublin for Unlimited Drinks on one of Europe’s most-used and least-loved budget airlines Ryanair. I have, in the past, been terribly bored on Ryanair flights because they ban the use of any mobile phones during the journey… even if they’re in ‘flight mode’. That means no games, no music and [...]
Continue Reading… to SMS Text News Towers.
While Ewan’s away sunning himself busy working (as you can see here), he’s foolishly given me the keys to SMS Text News Towers.
So that means that your favourite blog on mobile related issues is in my hands for the next couple of weeks (actually, I think he just wants me [...]
Afternoon readers, Whatley reporting in…
My post quota has been a bit low lately, (sorry Ewan), I’ve been working hard on a top secret SpinVox project, (more on this next week - promise), in the meantime however allow me to share with you something that appeared on my radar earlier today care of my friend Roger.
Roger, [...]
Last Wednesday, Nokia announced via Press Release that they had signed on as the Official Sponsor of the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Big title, no? Likely cost them quite a bit of change to get that title, so you would expect that they would make good use of it, especially as the Execs are talking [...]
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