Podcast
Every week, SMS Text News Editor and a selection of contributors come together at the site’s London office and discuss that week’s mobile news.
Ben Smith talks to Mark Curtis, CEO of Flirtomatic, about some absolutely astonishing survey participation figures — so surprising that the Flirtomatic team are considering offering their clients the ability to run surveys on the service.
Continue ReadingWe 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
Continue ReadingToday we bring you a stimulating interpretation of the future of the mobile industry — from Josh Russell: Mobile Operators will be competing for Google’s business, not ours.
Josh explains…
What do you reckon?
Continue ReadingHere we go!
I took an exclusive tour around the Nokia Handset Test Laboratory in Farnborough yesterday — see what you think. It really has given me a different viewpoint on (and a new-found respect for) Nokia handsets. I’ve always found them reliable and generally well-built, but when you take a look at the [...]
What happens if you take the battery out of the T-Mobile G1 Android handset whilst it’s doing it’s rather nifty over-the-air (”OTA”) software update?
Well that’s what Dan Lane did, hands shaking, whilst handset owner Ben Smith watched.
Originally we set out to film an OTA update happening — working on the basis that this itself would [...]
I caught up with Justin Davies, Co-Founder of NinetyTen, at the MoMo London/Swedish Beers event on Monday to find out how things were going for them — one of their core businesses is mobile development. Now that the marketplace is sorting out distribution (albeit slowly), Justin reckons it’s all about usability now. Have [...]
Continue ReadingHere’s the live segment we filmed at MoMo London & Swedish Beers on Monday:
Continue ReadingIn the first of our shows from the MoMo London/Swedish Beers event on Monday we bring you a brief interview with Omar Hamoui, founder of AdMob:
Continue ReadingAndy Munarriz, top chap at HulloMail, dropped in the other week to say hi and tell us about their rather nifty and revolutionary voicemail system. Andy’s rather passionate about voicemail — and whilst HulloMail offers you the standard voicemail-by-phone features, it’s got one huge, huge difference. You now own your voicemail. Instead [...]
Continue ReadingWe didn’t nominate o2’s Bluebook mobile address book backup service in our recent awards for a number of reasons. All discussed in this week’s 6th (and bonus) episode of the MIR Show:
(By the way, here’s Ben’s original review of the service.)
Continue ReadingYes, we were the envy of the world’s entertainment media the other week when we scooped the news that Victoria and David Beckham, fresh from LA, were seen taking in the sights at the Symbian Smartphone Show.
Dan Lane and Ben Smith were on the scene with me behind the camera to capture the joy.
Our joy [...]
This morning we bring you Stefan Constantinescu, one of the most prolific bloggers of time gone by. Stefan used to write ringnokia.com — before getting the opportunity to fly to Helsinki, (connect with good looking Finnish ladies) and study Nokia very closely on behalf of leading consumer mobile site, IntoMobile.
Stefan recently joined Nokia and [...]
In this segment, the MIR Show team interview Kerry Ritz, CEO of Palringo — who shows off some rather nifty location based instant messaging services. So good, that during the interview, James Whatley got out his handset and started downloading it. Have a look..
Continue ReadingFocus hasn’t really been on Symbian recently, what with all the G1 and related Android gubbins going on. However I’d like you to take a bit of time out to see just how shit Symbian, Nokia, the whole shebang is — at the moment… and how good it could be.
I arrived at the Symbian [...]
We’re at the T-Mobile UK launch of the G1 Android device. We’ve interviews with some of the operator’s executives at the launch — and, guest host, Ed Hodges, tackles James Whatley. T-Mobile were kind enough to send us a G1 to review and, since I’d already purchased one (and spent the weekend playing), we [...]
Continue ReadingI didn’t have time to publish this one last week since there was so much going on during Thursday and Friday (mostly T-Mobile G1 related). So before we bring you Week 44 — it’s time for eight minutes and twenty four seconds of joy from Week 43…
Continuing our coverage from the Symbian Smartphone Show [...]
Continue ReadingIn today’s segment, we grab a be-kilted Ewan Spence of All About Symbian and ask what he thinks of the Symbian Smartphone Show — which segways into a monologue on the state of Symbian today. Although Ewan takes a positive viewpoint, I was occasionally scowling behind the camera.. I think Symbian need to [...]
Continue ReadingSince we published the 3G video calling demonstration segment back in the Week 39 show, we’ve had a ton of positive feedback.
So much so that we’ve put the segment into it’s own mini-show. It shows Dan Lane (using 3) video-calling James Whatley (using Vodafone) calling each other.
We were rather surprised at the positive [...]
In the second of this week’s episodes, Dan & Ben check out the rumoured Nokia E63 (or ‘Exx’ as it’s branded) plus James & Ben talk to Janet from DeviceAnywhere and bring details of a special, special offer for mobile developers.
We also check out the new Flip. Ben is not a fan at all.
You [...]
Continue ReadingSimon Ainslie, CEO of Nokia UK answers our questions about their new Comes With Music service, launched here in London last week.
Here’s the streaming video:
Now, we’ve changed things around somewhat. Most weeks, we’re producing a MIR Show around 30 minutes — sometimes as long as 35 minutes. Whilst we’re getting tons of downloads [...]
Continue ReadingVodafone were rightly delighted to learn of their win in the Best Use of Public Mobile category in the MIR Awards 2008. Here’s the 2-minute individual award category video:
You can see the full Awards Show here.
Continue ReadingWe’ve created some smaller MIR Show videos for individual award categories (based on the recent MIR Awards 2008). Here’s the announcement of the Best Value Product:
Congratulations to winner, Clickatell.
You can see the full Awards Show here.
After the post I published last night about Simon, we’ve had a lot of mails from readers wanting to see how he performed.
Instead of having to wait ’til Monday, here’s a quick 2.5 minutes with the man himself from last night. We’ll publish the full interview on Monday.
Here, then, is the exclusive look at the all new iMovio iKit device. It’s intended as a mobile companion device to work alongside your average RAZR or Nokia S40 handset. The target market is very much teenagers and youth who aren’t in the market for an expensive smartphone, but who would like easy [...]
Continue ReadingWe’ve got access to a completely new device — the iMovio iKit. Never before seen. At least, as far as we know. Ben and Dan spent Tuesday evening giving it a once-over and we’ve got that — together with coverage of the recent Digital Winter press event. There were one or [...]
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