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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 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
Published by RobK on Wednesday 31st December 2008, 19:00 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Only days after we brought you news of the Dick Tracy video watch phone, another one gets released by the company Phenom who actually have a history in making watch-phones. The company whose US phone number is 1.888.9WATCHPHONE, has just launched their latest model – the SpecialOPS. This version of their established series of watch phones isn’t [...] Continue Reading
Published by Samantha on Wednesday 31st December 2008, 10:30 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
What an interesting year! Since I joined the formerly SMS Text News/MIR team in July of this year, a lot has happened. But there has also been so much more too… And here are some of my highlights, or should I say, more notable occurrences! The iPhone 3G! This was bound to appear somewhere, and so I [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Wednesday 31st December 2008, 04:32 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Those Korean electronics giants have now added a third massive megapixel monster to their range, seen in the Samsung S8300. The new phone which comes along in the former of a slider is due out March, according to reports on daily mobile. Their first outing the i8510, also known as INNOV8 in parts of the world, was [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Wednesday 31st December 2008, 02:04 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
News has reached us that LG and Phillips now have dual SIM mobile phones, both of which have been made public in the last day or so. First up was the LG KS660 with iDNES.cz heralding in its arrival, which came to our attention initially via Engadget Mobile. This dual SIM wonder is of a touch screen [...] Continue Reading
Published by Jonathan on Tuesday 30th December 2008, 07:00 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
The days around Christmas and New Year do tend to be a bit of a blur but I am publishing early this week deliberately! Whilst it may no longer be the latest gadget the 2nd Generation iPod Touch is still probably (in my view) the best standalone music player out there. I say this in part [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Tuesday 30th December 2008, 03:11 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Deutsche Telekom has just entered the foray of a free portable computer, with a mobile broadband contract in tow. They’ve now joined Orange who offered a similar deal back in August, with almost the very same netbook. T-Mobile’s package is based around a £25 a month contract, with the Asus Eee PC 904HD thrown in gratis. The Orange [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Monday 29th December 2008, 23:51 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
LG has brought 1930s cartoon gadgetry to life, with the invention of the LG 3G watch phone that will be shown off at CES next week. It’s been touted as the world’s first 3G watch phone, not that we’ve seen many plain old watch phones around before. Known solely as the LG-GD910, it has a 1.43-inch screen [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Monday 29th December 2008, 01:42 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
The Finish phone maker’s latest handset, the 6208 Classic has been snuck out via their China website. A phone that just happens to be their very first touch screen mobile, running on the series 40 platform. Hurrah! Reports of the new phones existence has picked up momentum recently over at unwiredview, with them officially spotting the [...] Continue Reading
Published by Ricky Chotai on Sunday 28th December 2008, 22:10 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
Jonathan Morris over at What Mobile has written an interesting post about a new gadget that will be hitting the shops early next year! Bluetooth is useful for many things, but the latest idea could be one of the coolest for some time. A keyfob sized gadget that backs up all your phone data and alerts [...] Continue Reading
Published by Steve Kennedy on Sunday 28th December 2008, 19:21 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
iBreviary is am iPhone app developed by Rev. Paolo Padrini and an Italian web designer. It contains a Breviary prayer book in Italian, English, Spanish, French and Latin and, in the near future, Portuguese and German. It also contains 2 other sections, the prayers of the daily Mass, and various other prayers. It’s available for €0.79 on the [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Sunday 28th December 2008, 15:54 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
News has reached us from the phone accessory case maker XSKN’s website and via TrustedReviews the iPhone Nano could be a reality after all. As the well known company has started making and selling cases for that exact handset. Since the beginning of time, well, the last few months really, rumour of a new Apple phone [...] Continue Reading
Published by RobK on Saturday 27th December 2008, 19:00 | Comments | Related | Filed Under
An application has appeared on the website of dailymobile that looks ever so suspiciously like the idea this hack had for utilising Bluetooth on handsets for the purposes of a Walkie-talkie. The idea was aired to a few likeminded individuals following on from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group 10th anniversary this year. With even a communiqué [...] Continue Reading
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