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MIR goes to Val d’Isere, France (and Happy New Year!)

It’s Ewan here. Happy New Year to you! In fact, may your new year be mobilised professionally, efficiently and to your personal fiscal benefit. I have just returned from a semi-refreshing Festive break and Monday the 5th of January is beckoning with a reasonably enthusiastic smile. Over the past few months, I’ve been running around all over the place [...]

Ewan | January 4th, 2009 | Continued
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Our first phone call made under water - with the Sonim XP3

The second part of our Sonim XP3 coverage continues. In this episode, Ed Hodges takes the handset and totally submerges it.. and then proceeds to use it to try and make a call and send a text. I wondered if this was possible. Have a look to find out…

Ewan | December 18th, 2008 | Continued
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Our first look at the Sonim XP3 waterproof phone

We’re big fans of the Sonim series of toughened handsets. The last one I had, the XP1, I took up a mountain overlooking Lake Tahoe and, in the middle of the snow, proceeded to stamp repeatedly on it with my ski boots. All around, bemused skiers hoping off the ski lift nearby watched, wondering what [...]

Ewan | December 17th, 2008 | Continued
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UK01 the new kid on the MNO block

So who’s heard of UK01? Probably not many people, but that’s all about to change. UK01 is a new mobile network run by Mapesbury Communications. They are one of the 12 winners of a low power GSM Guard Band license that Ofcom auctioned a few years ago. It’s not been plain sailing, becoming a Mobile Network Operator [...]

Steve Kennedy | December 16th, 2008 | Continued
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UK ‘Premium Rate’ regulation is failing - Part 1

Anthony Carroll, the man from the excellent FreshPlastic blog, has been championing the cause of the consumers against some of the worst abuses of the less scrupulous premium-rate operators for some time now. We’re delighted to bring you his story…. this is part 1 of a series.

Ben Smith | December 13th, 2008 | Continued

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Published by Steve Kennedy on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 20:52 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
The iPhone Dev Team have released Yellowsn0w, a software unlocking solution allowing the iPhone to be used with any SIM on any network. The phone needs to be Jailbroken first (another software hack allowing 3rd party software to be installed - can be performed using Pwnage 2.0) and then Yellowsn0w is installed and run. Apple doesn’t support [...] Continue Reading
Published by Steve Kennedy on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 20:46 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Google have confirmed that they will be letting premium apps into Google Market in Q1. This will roll-out initially to the US and UK followed by (2) Germany, Austria and Netherlands; (3) France, Italy and Spain. Other countries will follow by the end of 2009. Continue Reading
Published by Steve Kennedy on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 20:41 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Orange and Vodafone have extended their sharing agreements and will share cell sites and parts of the Radio Access Network (RAN). Vodafone hope to save around £1bn per year in saved expenses. This covers both 2G and 3G systems and they’re using BT for backhaul services. Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party is going to propose [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 09:05 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard Will you be getting the new Apple Air with a wheel click instead of a keyboard? The Onion News network has the exclusive. My favourite quote from the news reel? “Everything is just a few hundred clicks away.” Heh. Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 08:50 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
I just noticed this on the email I was sent from Mobile Industry Review reader, Vlad, about the Seidio G1 battery. I posted the piece earlier — then on the bottom of the Google Reader email, saw an advert from T-Mobile for the G1. Incidentally the deal is you get the G1 free with 700 [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 08:47 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Thanks to Mobile Industry Review reader, Vlad, who shared me a Google Reader item he picked up about a new battery for the T-Mobile G1. Sorely needed. The device is continually online (if you’ve got it switched to constant-sync for email and the like) which does screw your battery quickly. Uberphones report that Seidio has knocked [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 08:41 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
I had this note in the other day: Hi Ewan, I am looking for a programmer / developer to do some SMS and WAP based applications and games tied into TV properties that want monetizing Any ideas where i can advertise or know any one free and based in UK. And when is your next networking session? Thanks I’ve kept [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 08:38 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
That’s the Blackberry Storm been out for a little while now. Who’s got one — and kept it? Anyone reading? The device itself wasn’t for me. I really didn’t like the keyboard — and I felt the build quality wasn’t necessarily up my street either. That said, I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed the massive screen. [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 08:30 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Vodafone’s answer to ridiculous roaming charges whilst abroad is Vodafone Passport. At least in the UK. It’s generally automatically enabled on most new accounts and you don’t have to pay anything extra to qualify. Indeed if you’d like to check if it’s activated, you can call 5555 in the UK, plus it’s not restricted [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 08:12 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Today’s ShoZu Picture Of The Day is another one I took whilst in Val d’Isere. Or, more accurately, on the way back. I didn’t quite understand Eurostar’s timetable and, as a result, I embarked via Ashford International (leaving the car in their car park) and, most annoyingly, found that the return train only stops at [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 07:59 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Being shown off at the Macworld conference and expo in San Francisco later on today is the newest SlingPlayer for mobile phones, only this time around it’s for the Apple iPhone. The software has been aired as far back as June last year, with the publication Macworld having seen an early sneak preview of the code [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Tuesday 6th January 2009, 03:54 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
News of a new Palm mobile has been doing the rounds, with CrunchGear apparently having the exclusive lowdown on what’s what. The site has it from a trusted source the latest Palm Smartphone will be of a slider phone design, with a full QWERTY keyboard in a portrait formatted touchscreen. To our knowledge the case is [...] Continue Reading
Published by Steve Kennedy on Monday 5th January 2009, 20:22 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
According to Admob Apple’s iPhone accounted for 10% of all WiFi use in the US, this compared to 10-20% for all other WiFi enabled handsets. WiFi use is expected to grow as more phones have both cellular and WiFi radio and more people use WiFi for data access. It’s also cheaper for the MNOs for users [...] Continue Reading
Published by Steve Kennedy on Monday 5th January 2009, 19:50 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
UIQ which was the user interface on top of Symbian developed by SonyEricsson and Motorola, both companies are concentrating on other operating systems and the UIQ business unit has filed for bankruptcy protection. The main competitor is Nokia’s S60 (which also sits on top of Symbian) and it looks like the Finns have won the user [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ricky Chotai on Monday 5th January 2009, 17:26 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
I am currently reviwing the INQ 1,  and it has a inbuilt Skype client which is heavily promoted in its advertising and some would even say the INQ 1 is simply the Skype Phone version 3. I have 2 Skype contacts, that’s it! Who actually uses Skype?? This really hit home when reading a post by [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ricky Chotai on Monday 5th January 2009, 16:34 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Firstly I would like to say a Happy New Year to you all! Now back to business The INQ 1 has had a lot of coverage here on MIR, both positive and negative.  Both Ewan and Jonthan both have handsets, and thanks to the chaps at 3mobilebuzz and Trevor from the INQ 1 Blog, they have [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Monday 5th January 2009, 09:00 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Following on from my ShoZu Picture Of The Day, I’m pleased I had my N95 8Gb to hand to record this: Just how bad are the Brits at managing 0.5 inches of snow? from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo. Yes, it’s a poor chap trying, hope-against-hope, to get his van up a slight hill outside my place [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Monday 5th January 2009, 08:50 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
We’re back with the ShoZu Picture Of The Day! Mail me your best, most relevant or most unusual ShoZu uploads (to Flickr or the like) and we’ll put your name in lights here and drop your site a link. (I’m ewan@mobileindustryreview.com - use the subject ‘ShoZu Picture Of The Day’ so I can quickly [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ewan on Monday 5th January 2009, 08:30 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
You know how AQA, the text-answer-service is continually answering some weird and wonderful questions from people (usually sat in the pub)? Questions like: How many badgers would it take to fill the Empire State Building. That sort of thing? Well, every day, AQA are tweeting the odd answer that they’ve given. Brilliant idea to show off [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Monday 5th January 2009, 06:59 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Those guys at VentureBeat have managed to install Google’s mobile phone platform on an Asus Eee PC, for proof of concept that it could be done and they wrote it all up too. In order to possibly show how versatile the OS is, they spent just four hours compiling Android for the Eee PC 1000H to [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Monday 5th January 2009, 04:10 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Two reports came out over the past few days, one run by the Guardian and one run by the Telegraph on the BlackBerry Bold being withdrawn from Orange. You may recall there were teething troubles when the phone first rolled out on Orange, which subsequently resulted in the handset being withdrawn from sale. There were rumours as [...] Continue Reading
Published by Jonathan on Saturday 3rd January 2009, 19:24 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Well, my INQ1 has now died. The internal speaker doesn’t work - to hear the other party you have to switch to the loudspeaker. 3 are sending me a returns pack and promise to turn it around in three days. We’ll see … Coming after the variable performance of the INQ1’s applications this hardware failure has [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Saturday 3rd January 2009, 15:54 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Telefónica O2 in the UK just announced on the New Year, 1,900 text messages were sent every second. Over a 24 hours period, 166 million SMSs were sent, with their records ending on 7:30 January 1st. No news if this has set a new record and no one was on hand from O2 to deny or [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ricky Chotai on Friday 2nd January 2009, 16:59 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
A few months ago we reported that O2 had removed subsidies on its £35 tariffs and this resulted in phones being free only on the more expensive £75 tariff. O2 intended on the other networks on doing the same,  however the other networks didn’t. It now seems that O2 has given into the market and reinstated [...] Continue Reading
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