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.
In an ideal world, I would ask for happiness, and the end of this dismal time of year. But of course I’m not here to discuss that! No, no, no… What do I want from the world of Mobile this Christmas?
Firstly, I call for originality.
I personally think originality should be the first aspect of any [...]
So I’m back to school this week; and during my free lessons, I often find myself aimlessly wandering around. I probably shouldn’t be, as I have mountains of work to do, but it’s certainly more fun.
But it turns out my aimless journeys around my over-crowded school can come in handy… And I came across a [...]
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 [...]
What’s the industry thinking about the G1 launch? Let’s hear from one of the top chaps at Amdocs. If you haven’t come across them, they’re a $3 billion 17,000 employee behemoth, serving the back-offices of many huge providers in the telecommunications industry. (Think China mobile, Japan Telecom, Vodafone, BT, Cable & [...]
Continue ReadingOur second executive opinion on the T-Mobile G1 launch is from Brad Rees, the Managing Director of Mediacells (the leading independent supplier of fact-based market insight in the mobile arena).
For those who haven’t met Brad, he’s an former journalist, who began his career with Reuters, before migrating to popular Fleet Street brands for United News [...]
Anders Norström is the first of our executives that we’ve invited to comment on the G1 launch this week, here in the UK. Anders knows a thing or two about mobile and is now heading up the European market for MobiTV. Indeed whilst working along side Ericsson, Anders was instrumental in delivering the [...]
Continue ReadingI love it when I see mobile phones being put to good use, and I also love it when say for important issues, mobile phones are being utilised to capture a target audience in the best sense and way possible.
I was browsing around my daily choice of news reads, when I came across an article [...]
Is just the question I’m asking!
You see, the other day I was sitting in the School Library working hard on a piece of History work, when a class came in and began working on the available computers. The class was a mixture of boys and girls who were thirteen/fourteen years young.
A group of these boys, [...]
Wow! Doesn’t time just fly by? I’ve been away for a month – organising myself with school and the various activities I’m involved in, and it feels like forever! Never fear though, because now I’m back. Well, for once a week that is!
Now school’s are a hostile environment (well, at least mine is), and navigating [...]
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, someones 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 ReadingIm being serious here. Since my time here as Mobile Industry Review Ive 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 [...]
Im not sure if youre already aware, but Ewan has sent me a first generation iPhone for me to have a play around with. But also, Im not too hung up on the device either!
Ive mentioned this before (and no, Im not complaining), but the iPhone really isnt my cup of tea. Im 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 couldnt 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 isnt 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 [...]