Odds & sods

Sony Ericsson’s New Vision: Entertainment

Two weeks ago SE-NSE published an open letter to Sony Ericsson highlighting some of the problems they believe the company faces and calling on them to take action to address those problems. They have been running polls to gauge users’ reaction to the letter and so far the response is overwhelmingly...
October 13th, 2009 | Odds & sods, Sony Ericsson | Read More

Videos: Nokia’s Future Vision

Nokia wanted to know how the current generation of digerati would be using their mobiles in 2-4 years from now. To that end they got two students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design to investigate the matter. The result, in this blogger’s opinion, is more ‘meh’ than ‘wow’. The...
October 1st, 2009 | Nokia, Odds & sods | Read More

Sony Ericsson Under Fire

Sony Ericsson have come under increasing fire from a variety of sources over the past few years after a series of poor results, lacklustre handsets and increased competition from their competitors. Opening up a new front in that criticism is respected mobile journalist and editor-in-chief of Mobile-Review.com,...
September 22nd, 2009 | Odds & sods, Sony Ericsson | Read More

Nokia’s AR Vision Left Wanting?

Augmented is fast gaining ground (not to mention hype) and yesterday Nokia released a video of their own vision for this technology. It’s a slick video to be sure, but what does it tell us about how Nokia sees what may be ‘the next big thing’? Quite a bit as it happens. First of all,...
September 10th, 2009 | Nokia, Odds & sods | Read More

Spotify App Store Backlash

It looks as if the shine may be rubbing off Spotify’s App Store debut … The new Spotify app for the iPhone has gone straight to the top of the free app download list, a feat that no doubt has Spotify executives smiling, but closer inspection shows that all is not well. The app now has thousands...
September 9th, 2009 | Odds & sods | Read More

They Really Let This Into the App Store?

I was just Googling some iPhone apps, checking out what’s hot and what not, etc. Whilst looking for the next hot app I instead found a collection of apps that at best can be described as being awful and at worst are totally stupefying. Everyone has different tastes of course, but some of these...
August 22nd, 2009 | Apple, Odds & sods | Read More

Why Japanese Cellphones Haven’t Reached Us Yet

Japanese mobile phones, or keitai, have long held fascination for mobile geeks in the west, but despite their often superior functionality they have never seriously caught on in Western markets. Why? Japan itself is almost universally held up as the model of a technologically advanced civilisation, from...
July 27th, 2009 | Odds & sods | Read More

What Does the End of Exclusivity Mean for O2?

With speculation mounting that O2 are about to loose their monopoly over the iPhone in the UK I thought it would be a good opportunity to take a look at what this would mean for O2 and the wider British mobile market. O2 has been exceptionally fortunate to have hooked two of the biggest handsets this...
July 21st, 2009 | Apple, O2, Odds & sods | Read More

Another O2 Exclusive … Is Choice Dead Yet?

O2 have done it again, securing rights to much vaunted handset at the expense of their competitors. With both the iPhone and the Pre now in the O2 stable one has to ask whether these exclusivity deals are good for the market and more importantly good for the customer. If we look at the iPhone we can...
July 7th, 2009 | O2, Odds & sods, Palm | Read More

A Closer Look At The Hero of The Pack

Let’s go back to last year. Our first experience with Android was at the Mobile World Congress 2008. On the Texas Instruments stand a small device with a QWERTY-keyboard – it looked a lot like the current HTC Snap – was displayed running the Android OS. Developed by Google around the...
June 30th, 2009 | Google Android, HTC, Odds & sods | Read More