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I’ve been looking at iNum, a new service from Voxbone. iNum has launched as a global phone number that isn’t tied to a specific geographical location. It uses the new global ‘country code’ 883 to give users a number that will reach them wherever they are, with no geographical implications. Voxbone’s vision is that phone [...]
Continue ReadingThis BBC story caught my eye.
The summary? Couple went to McDonalds. Arguably this was their first mistake. Certainly from my wife’s viewpoint, anyway.
The chap left his handset by mistake at a store in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Apparently McDonalds staff promised to ’secure the phone’ until he returned to get it.
And then it all went [...]
Popular USA mobile phone recycling company ReCellular has just made public their own stats and findings on their recycling of handsets, with some surprising occurrences.
They broke the list down in to 10 of the most frequently seen mobiles to pass through their doors, all to be reused, redistributed, repurposed, recycled. Basically all the best words [...]
LG and Prada also launched at the event the PRADA Link. It’s a fairly stylish leather strap based Bluetooth watch for use with the phone.
Once paired, the screen on the phone indicates the likes of an incoming call from the mobile, via sound or vibration. Where the call can be silenced or rejected from the [...]
Several notable points came to light in the press briefing. The first of which was the handset will also be known as the LG Prada phone, the exact same moniker the first phone went under.
Not LG Prada II, or LG Prada: The Next Generation. In fact nothing to separate it from the first phone which [...]
Late today we’re at the launch of the new LG PRADA phone, set to be the next exclusive designer mobile from the joint partnership of those two industry players.
It’s their second handset from the venture, with the first arriving on the scene like a sex machine in mid 2007.
The new model almost mimics the first, [...]
ASUS have just released a mobile phone with an 800Mhz processor inside, beating hands down the current spate of the 500+ MHz powered variety around today.
Just as your face lights up with delight, we’re sorry to bring you the sad news that no prices have been set as yet for the ASUS P565, ETA or [...]
Ah dear. I dug out my N95 8GB the other day and charged it up. I was going to try and use the device more - as a camera (because if you recall it arrived from T-Mobile UK without data functioning). Well. I can’t use it. Not at the moment. I’ve never seen this message [...]
Continue ReadingThe INQ1 or ‘The Facebook Phone’ is launched today. Our man RobK is on the scene. We’ll have more from you shortly — plus I’m hoping to be able to meet with one of their top executives tomorrow for a sit-down interview on camera.
We’ll bring you more on the handset shortly — but [...]
HTC has launched the MAX 4G, the only WiMAX 4G handset on the market today.
Slight snag though, it’s just for Russia right now on their Scartel network.
When will we see the handset elsewhere? Well, when other places have rolled out a WiMAX network we guess and is capable of supporting such a beast.
Think of the [...]
The phone first aired at CES this year has just been given the release date of March, for Korea. Elsewhere in the world? Your guess is as good as ours, but no holding your breath please.
We‘re unsure as to why we’re showing you this, it’s not to upset you with the unlikely hood that you [...]
Research firm iSuppli has it the G1 costs just $144 to build, where it’s selling for $179 in the states.
All the materials and components used just add up to a meagre amount, a lot lower than we would expect in terms of the profitability normally associated with handsets.
The HTC manufactured device, minus the software, research [...]
This Thursday we’re at the launch event by the network 3 of their latest handset the INQ 1 – a purpose built phone by their parent company Hutchison Whampoa.
Supposedly this handset has great Facebook and social networking integration; some are calling this the very first Facebook phone.
Pronounced ‘INK’, the phone is set to be the [...]
It appears not a week goes by these days without another Walkman mobile showing up, this time around they’ve released the W705 into the ether.
Oddly enough their own PR company charged with getting the message out didn’t even know about it. The first they heard about it was when yours truly called up asking ‘what’s [...]
Do I resent my mobile?
I’ve been told once or twice that I resemble something of an old woman or more precisely an “Old Bag”. True, I do have my “old person” tendencies; but I do try to remain youthful as much as possible… Seeing as I’m only seventeen.
It has however hit me; I’m beginning to [...]
UPI reports that the Italian Supreme Court isn’t having any of Telecom Italia’s attempts to fire one of it’s employees.
Apparently the employee knocked up 12,000 private text messages from his work phone. He didn’t have an unlimited messaging package on the handset, obviously — as Telecom Italia were billed more than $2,000 for this.
It [...]
It’s now official. We were spot-on with our report that HTC might be preparing itself to launch an High-Definition version of its popular touchscreen phone, the HTC Touch.
Dubbed as the Touch HD, the phone has some really interesting features. It carries a 3.8-inch WVGA screen with 480 x 800 pixel resolution. And yes, apart from [...]
Continue ReadingYou need a good phone — a Nokia E90 in this case — and a shit-hot HD camera. And you’re good to go for covering CTIA.
In previous days I used to carry a big bag filled with laptops, chargers and the like. Now I have it nailed and I’m conferencing-light. It’s the only way [...]
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 ReadingNo 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 [...]
Something strange is happening with me. It happened over the weekend.
I was in a Vodafone shop and … I don’t know what came over me. I headed over to the other side of the store where they had the ‘work’ phones and I started browsing the small handsets.
We’re doing a lot of [...]
Tomorrow, its GCSE results day. This means two things feeling extremely sick, and using my mobile phone a lot!
I havent really thought about the communications side of tomorrow much, seeing as Im more worried about everything else. However, as Ewan pointed out to me tomorrow morning I will spending more time than I have [...]
According to this article from The Press Association, Japan is planning to agressively push its mobile technology abroad, particularly focusing on the wallet phone - that’s devices which incorporate a type of NFC or ‘wave and pay’.
The particular type of wallet phone tech they’re talking about here is FeliCa, developed by Sony and very popular [...]
A little while ago I got a note from 3.
“Would you like to try out one of our new handsets?” asked the chap.
“Sure!” I said. I’m always interested to see what’s coming next.
The chap wouldn’t be drawn on the identity of the handset. Quite a good idea, if you want to [...]
So you’re in the business of making watches that people buy to make themselves look good, yes?
Your business has had it’s lunch eaten by the mobile phone industry — to the point that almost everyone uses their mobile to tell the time. I don’t bother with a watch for this reason.
What do you do?
Design [...]
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