Category: Mobile
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More On Cars (And Mobile Data)
CES has been taking place recently and one of the themes seems to have been the increased amount of sophistication in the in-car audio market. In particular Pandora is getting a lot of support from major manufacturers like Toyota and Ford. But there are plenty more besides. Last month I wrote a piece about in-car…
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Data Reductions Hurt Mobile Media
The news that T-Mobile is dropping its mobile data usage limit to 500MB from 1GB is not great news. This is not just about one operator, but a trend across the industry. While T-Mobile says that “over 90%” of its customers use less than this a month (does this include customers without smartphones?), it’s not…
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Orange World
Sometimes I think that Orange really is very classy. Orange is currently trying to merge with T-Mobile in the UK. If they get regulatory approval, the combined company will be the biggest mobile operator in the UK. So isn’t it charming when you open Orange World, their website which is set to be the default…
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HTC Desire – Initial Thoughts
I’ve got a new phone, and it runs Google’s Android OS which is a first for me. It’s an HTC Desire, and I’ve had it less than 24 hours. So these are just some intital thoughts. I previously used the company’s Nexus One phone, and essentially this is the same phone as Google’s own phone.…
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BBC Mobile Apps
The big news eminating from the BBC today is that they’re finally getting around to releasing some mobile applications. That’s not entirely true: the BBC has previously released other applications, such as the iPlayer for various Nokia mobile phones. But notably, it hasn’t released any applications on the mobile daddy of them all – the…
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Nokia’s Ovi Store
Now I’ve genuinely been looking forward to a decent competitor to Apple’s iTunes App store, so today’s launch of the Ovi store by Nokia has been something to look forward to. Sadly, all is not that great with it. Early in the day there were issues of too many people hitting the servers too frequently.…
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Listening to the Radio via a Nokia N82
The other day I talked about the frustration I suffered when I tried to listen to BBC Radio Five Live on my mobile streaming via 3G. I thought that it might be worth exploring that a little more. Most of the news about listening to the radio via your phone is about the iPhone. Of…
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INQ1
I got invited along to the launch of a mobile phone the other day – the INQ1 (pronounced “Ink”). But just calling it a mobile phone is a bit harsh – it’s more of a communications device than anything. It comes from a new company who are looking to target people for who iPhones, Blackberrys,…
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Online Privacy
A couple of weeks ago, I started playing with Geode – a Firefox plugin that allows your browser to use geolocation technology to determine whereabouts you are. When you reach a Geode compatable site, a bar at the top of the browser asks you how much information you want to pass to the requesting site…
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Mobile Data Costs
The failure of the BBC’s Dr Who mobisodes, with an average of just 3000 people downloading each episode, only further highlights the problem with mobile data in this country. As the Mediaguardian piece points out, despite the fact that episodes were offered free, they cost users between £1.50 and £2.00 each to download. The versions…