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We noticed some Paparazzi chaps waiting to take photos of famous folk at the recent Nokia Comes With Music launch. Dan went over to have a chat with them… It was going well ’til Dan asked that question at the end
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I was up at half five this morning. Half past FIVE! That’s how dedicated we are here at Mobile Industry Review.
I grabbed the cameras, jumped into the car and sped into London as fast as possible. I’m not normally a native of the 6am shift — so I was rather surprised to [...]
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If you’re a true telecoms geek (and lets face it, if you’re reading MIR, you’re well on your way) then you’ve thought, nay dreamed, about having your own private mobile network. Even for the non-techies amongst us (I’ve been told there are some), the allure of not having to pay any money to the Vodafones...
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Filed under: review, Mobile, T-Mobile, VoIP, femtocell, Devices, Operators, feature, PicoCell, Rapid Deployment Unit, PMN, MNO, Teleware, (RDU)
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I recently published The Mobile Traveler Challenge where I detailed my challenge of using just my BlackBerry to plan a trip, including buying and checking in for my airline tickets and a hotel room using the mobile websites of American Airlines (AA) and Omni Hotels. Well, the trip I planned to Dallas...
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After hearing about Nokia’s E71 smartphone and then reading our review, I was very much impressed with its feature set. Being the current owner of their flagship phone, the E90 Communicator, I saw many features in the E71 that were quite worthy of noting. The one I will attempt to cover and document...
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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...
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These days you can do a lot with your mobile phone. You can text, surf the internet, download your favorite music, and of course send and receive e-mail. Because the mobile phone is so powerful, I wondered if I could go on a trip and use just my mobile phone for things like [...]
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I recently talked with Tricia Duryee, Principal Correspondent at mocoNews.net about her recent exclusive on T-mobile USA launching an app store, similar to that of Apple. It’s a fantastic move. They are the first mobile operator to break ranks — and, as Tricia and I discussed, this could...
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The team at txtNation are rightly delighted to be providing the infrastructure for wine maker, Blossom Hill’s summer competition. Blossom Hill are giving away 20 summer garden parties worth £1k each. Nice. 3.75 million promotional bottles of their Rosé range are already out in the marketplace looking...
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Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley are back! This week we took the video podcast to Covent Garden — Central London’s haven for tourists. It’s a very special video this week — we tried out the SIMable ’sim unlocking solution’ for handsets on a Nokia N95… and...
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Filed under: Apple, iPhone, Video, Mobile, Podcast, unlock, feature, james, whatley, dan, SIMable, ben, smith, duracell, josh russell, lane
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Having just taken on a new role I’m having to get another mobile phone and mobile number.
It’s not such a big problem and, because I’m on Orange, I’ll just grab a BlackBerry for work but it has left me frustrated at Samsung and all of the mobile operators I’ve called this...
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SMS Text News Podcast 16 (with Video) from Ewan MacLeod on Vimeo.
There’s always a moment of slight panic when you’ve uploaded a 168mb file and you’re waiting for Vimeo to show it. Did I upload the right one? Did I remove the ’subtitle here’ white text? Published and be...