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Every time I walk by a standard operator shop that isn’t EE, I have to cringe. I can’t avoid it. That’s because, invariably, the shop window is currently advertising the Samsung Galaxy S4. And unless you’re EE, you need to cover your promotions with…

This morning on the train platform I caught sight of an advert in the Metro newspaper from O2. It read, “Change your phone as often as phones change.” This is a really, really good advertising statement. I like it a lot — I think it will resonate with…

WTM (World Travel Market) is the planet’s leading travel festival. I’ve been attending for the last three years and last year I participated in my first panel discussion there. Based on that experience I was delighted when the organisers asked if I’d…

There’s still a lot of love in the room for the Q10. I knew there would be. I KNEW it! Fundamentally, I am faster at typing on a physical keyboard. There are generations of executives who are the same as me. And ever since the iPhone came of age, we’ve…

News just in from the Carphone Warehouse team: You can be amongst the first in the UK with a BlackBerry Q10 if you head over to the company’s concession in Selfridges, London, this weekend. The device itself will cost you £579.95 sim-free from them. Or you…

Are you ready for some real magic? I was exposed to some on Monday night when I went along to the O2 Refresh launch. Check out this amazing magician, Oliver B, who performed some seriously cool magic on me. He’ll be out and about on the streets in London…

I came across this Folding USB solar power cell on Kickstarter the other week and thought I’d pick one up. It’s too easy to forget how reliant we are on traditional means of obtaining electricity for your important gadgets, especially if you live somewhere…

O2 UK has launched a new way of doing business for its contract (or “post pay”) consumers. It’s called O2 Refresh and it completely decouples the monthly service plan from the handset cost. With this approach you now choose your calling plan — which…

I’ve been rather silent of late. I never want to actually force myself to write here on Mobile Industry Review. It’s far too easy to get stuck into the churnalism world of cutting and pasting press releases to make yourself feel like you’re doing the…

I’ve been pretty vocal recently about how shit the Sky Go Extra service is. I am astonished that the team there even let it out the building alive. There must have been some real pressure to deliver and I seriously doubt whether any of the senior executives…

In an utterly unbelievable move, Nokia today announced that the company’s existing Lumia range of smartphones will be joined by a reinvigorated Nokia Essentials range. Harking back to the company’s previous successes, the first device to hit the shelves…

Those who’ve been reading MIR for a while will recall that I recently bought an iPad Mini. I ordered a £15.99 monthly SIM from EE to power the connection. And when I signed up, I ticked the box to find out more about their EE Film offering. I installed the…

This is a post for Rafe Blandford, top man, editor, publisher, super-genius Nokia know-it-all and the man behind such sites as All About Symbian and All About Windows Phone. Dear Rafe, For some time now I’ve been feeling like chucking my existing smartphones…

I’d very much welcome your suggestions for public relations firms (and/or individuals) working in the mobile space. The reason I ask is that I’m trying to put a reasonably comprehensive list together. Every week I get emails from people asking for…

Right now I’m sitting on a train carriage surrounded by people using laptops. I’m the only one using an iPad (and a physical keyboard). The chap sat across from me looks to be in his sixties. He’s well dressed and looks to be a city grandee type. Arrayed…

Yesterday Vodafone splashed in the Metro about their all new (well, sort of) wifi offering for customers using the London Underground system. If you’ve ever been caught wanting to send an email or look up somewhere on a map whilst on the platform, having…

If you recall I have been trying to get Sky Go Extra to work. The idea is simple: If you’re a Sky customer you are meant to be able to download a selection (admittedly limited) of episodes for consumption on your mobile device of choice. The day I posted my…

Have you been reading the various news reports about the US regulator considering the possibility of actually allowing folk to use their Tablets and Smartphones during take off and landing? I really do have to calm myself every time I’m on the plane and I…

I’m pretty sure that BT doesn’t get a lot of online orders at 230am most days. Last night however I thought I would see how the march towards BT Infinity was coming on. The last time I looked the scheduled date for availability in Hook, Hampshire was June.…

A video conference? From a British train? Almost impossible for more than 20 seconds, surely? (I found this advert on the train to Basingstoke)

Give it a rest Apple? Following on from last week’s ultra desperate email to millions of iPhone users, Apple is back again with yet another reminder about how much you should love your iPhone. Apparently last week they said they had 8 JD Power awards for…

Let’s not mince words. Sky Go Extra is rubbish. There we go. Cathartic. What the frack are you thinking, Sky? Your advertising smarts have done a brilliant job with the “Sky TV, now available on trains” messaging. The message is brilliant. The actual…

I really, really like smart ways of paying for technology. Even stumping up £269 for an iPad Mini can feel expensive, more if you’re looking at the full size iPad. It’s so unpleasant that many UK consumers will run a million miles to avoid having to pay…

For the avoidance of doubt, the following text outlines why you love your iPhone 5. Feel free to print this text for further consultation. Your iPhone will periodically prompt you with test questions based on the following text. Heh. I felt that text like that…

I got this email yesterday from Apple. The subject was: How will you love it? Let us count the ways. The email then proceeded to go through a list of increasingly desperate reminders about why I was right to buy an iPhone 5. Yah-huh? I would have expected this…