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The Mobile Zeitgeist
Vodafone 360 is currently: Improving
We're buying our iPhones on: Orange UK
Best new phone: Sony X10 Mini
Favourite iPhone App: Paper Toss
Microsoft Mobile is: Getting there
Still loving: Touchnote
Thanks to the Symbian Foundation for supporting our MWC2010 coverage.
Video: Sony Ericsson’s X10 Mini super-small Android device
Would you like to see me raving about the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Android device? Well, here I am… Rafe filmed me doing an intro to the device here: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video And for anyone who’s interested in the phone, we also got the Sony Ericsson chaps to [...] Read more
SonicMule and every other developer should watch Nokia carefully
A tweet from Lee Williams, top man at the Symbian Foundation, pointed me to this blog post at the Wall Street Journal Online. Ty McMahan of the WSJ quotes Jeff Smith, CEO of SonicMule (the people who make the phenomenal music app, Smule) thus: “Nokia isn’t on the shortlist of anything we do at Smule because [...] Read more
Is Apple about to bake advertising into the iPhone SDK?
o2’s James Parton picked up this Mobile Entertainment story, Apple to integrate advertising into iPhone SDK. Mobile Entertainment’s Stuart Dredge noticed this job posting that gives a hint that Apple may well integrate advertising into the iPhone SDK. That has quite a few implications for the mobile marketing industry — much of it [...] Read more
‘Spot The Dog’ shows iPads are going to sell in their millions
I was having a read of this PR Week story and thought I’d check out the video they included relating to books and magazines on the iPad. The video is actually from PaidContent’s story about how Penguin is going to “Reinvent Books With iPad” In the video, Penguin Books’ CEO, John Makinson, showed off just [...] Read more
International calling for… FooCall
FooCall. Say it slowly, in two parts… Fook. All. Now say that together? Fook All. FooCall. That’s right! International calling for next to nothing. I’ve used a lot of international calling services, particularly from my mobile phone. For a long time I made use of [...] Read more
It’s the new Jabra Extreme
It’s the new Jabra Extreme, originally uploaded by smstextnews. Yes! It’s the new Jabra Extreme noise cancelling Bluetooth headset, complete with handy car charger. I will do a video shortly. – Taken at 10:54 AM on March 05, 2010 – uploaded by ShoZu Read more
Just picked this up…
Just picked this up…, originally uploaded by smstextnews. Popped to the Post Office to pick this up… – Taken at 10:52 AM on March 05, 2010 – uploaded by ShoZu Read more
Buy a phone for mum and get a free beauty treatment
Buy a phone for mum and get a free beauty treatment, originally uploaded by smstextnews. Is it me or is this a little bit of a rubbish offer? Buy mum a phone for mother’s day and Phones4U will give you a beauty treatment free? I suppose if I was in the market for a phone for [...] Read more

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