Mobile Industry Review Show (MP3)

Week 2009-04: Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic Launch Event

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:16:41 -0600

Coverage of the Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic launch from the Nokia flagship store on Regents St. Includes normob-walkabout, an interview with Mark Loughran (MD Nokia UK and Ireland), a product demo and unboxing with Rafe from AllAboutSymbian.com.

Week 49: Alfie Dennen on Britglyph Part Two

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0600

The second part of Alfie Dennen on Britglyph.

Week 49: Alfie Dennen on Britglyph Part One

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Alfie introduces us to the newly arrived Britglyph.

Week 48: Future of Mobile Walkabout 4

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0600

The third Future of Mobile walkabout with Ed Hodges.

Week 48: Future of Mobile Walkabout 3

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0600

The third Future of Mobile walkabout with Ed Hodges.

Week 47: Rich Miner of Google

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Ben Smith talks to Rich Miner from Google about Android, filmed at the Future of Mobile conference.

Week 47: Future of Mobile Walkabout 2

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Another walkabout video from the Future of Mobile conference.

Week 47: The INQ interview - Part Two

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Part Two of the INQ interview.

Week 47: The INQ interview - Part One

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Find out about new mobile manufacturer, INQ.

Week 47: Future of Mobile Walkabout 1

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Ed Hodges takes the microphone and walks the Future of Mobile conference.

Week 46: Astonishing mobile survey results from Flirtomatic

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:00:00 -0600

Mark Cutis, top chap at Flirtomatic, talks to us about their stunning mobile survey results.

Week 46: Paparazzi and the use of mobile

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:00:00 -0600

How do the Paparazzi use their mobile devices? Dan Lane finds out.

Week 46: MNOs to compete for Google business

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

That is what Josh Russell reckons. See if you agree.

Week 46: A tour of the Nokia handset laboratory

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Ever wondered what sort of testing Nokia does for every handset? Take a look!

Week 46: OTA update of the T-Mobile G1

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

What happens if you take the battery out of the T-Mobile G1 Android handset whilst it is doing its rather nifty over-the-air software update? Well that is what Dan Lane did, hands shaking, whilst handset owner Ben Smith watched.

Week 45: Justin Davies of NinetyTen on mobile app development

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Justin Davies of NinetyTen on mobile app development

Week 45: MIR Show LIVE at MoMo London and Swedish Beers

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

We are live at MoMo London and Swedish Beers talking about the G1 handset and more.

Week 45: Omar, Founder of AdMob, on mobile advertising

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Omar, Founder of AdMob, on mobile advertising

Week 45: Andy Munarriz of HulloMail - voicemail that is yours to keep

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

Andy Munarriz, top chap at HulloMail, dropped in the other week to say hi and tell us about their rather nifty and revolutionary voicemail system. Andy is rather passionate about voicemail - and whilst HulloMail offers you the standard voicemail-by-phone features, it has got one huge, huge difference. You now own your voicemail. Instead of messages residing on some server in the middle of nowhere, they are actually sent directly to your email for you to listen to.

Week 44: David Beckham Exclusive

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

You heard it here first... David Beckham at the Symbian Smartphone Show?

Week 44: Stefan Constantinescu

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

We caught the ubiquitous Stefan Constantinescu -- famed Nokia know-all -- at the Symbian Smartphone Show. Whilst Dan caught up with Stefan's background and current handset strategy, watch out for an all new feature from James Whatley...

Week 44: Kerry Ritz, CEO of Palringo

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

In this segment, the MIR Show team interview Kerry Ritz, CEO of Palringo -- who shows off some rather nifty location based instant messaging services. So good, that during the interview, James Whatley got out his handset and started downloading it. Have a look..

Week 44: Smaato, All About Symbian and Scalado

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

We are back at the Symbian Smartphone Show 2008 with interviews featuring Smaato (mobile advertising), All About Symbian team and Scalado -- showing off some eye-popping digital image services.

Week 44: Live at the T-Mobile G1 launch and Whatley has a view

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0600

We are live at the T-Mobile UK Oxford Street store to see the Android G1 launch. We have interviews with T-Mobile executives plus guest host Ed Hodges tries to convert Nokia-fan, James Whatley, to the Android platform. Will he succeed?

Week 43: Trutap, Fluid Pixels and a Skyfire Exclusive

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0500

We talk to Carl from Trutap, Stuart from Fluid Pixels and Raj from Skyfire -- who gives us a brilliant exclusive for our European viewers.

Week 43: Ewan Spence on the Symbian Foundation

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0500

Ewan Spence of All About Symbian discusses a quietly confident Symbian Foundation.

Week 43: Nokia E63 preview

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0500

Check out what we reckon is the new Nokia E63 and we have a special offer from DeviceAnywhere!

Week 43: Simon Ainslie, CEO of Nokia UK

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0500

The full interview with Simon Ainslie, CEO of Nokia UK, focusing on Nokia's new Comes With Music service.

Week 42 Special Report: Nokia UK CEO

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0500

A preview of the interview we did with Simon Ainslie of Nokia UK

Week 42: The iMovio iKit

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0500

This week, check out our exclusive report on the iMovio iKit and more!

Week 41: Future of Web Apps (Audio)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:51:06 -0500

This week we're at Future of Web Apps

Week 41: 2008 Awards Special (MP3 Audio)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:26:41 -0500

This week we bring you the 2008 Awards!

Week 40: T-Mobile G1 (MP3 Audio)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0500

This week, we've turned Google.

Week 40: Preview (Audio)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:45:17 -0500

Preview of the Monday show.

Week 39: LG Renoir (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:03:58 -0500

This week we're at the LG Renoir launch.

Week 38: CTIA and Beijing (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:05:07 -0500

We're at CTIA and Beijing!

Podcast 28: CTIA, Week 37 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:00:00 -0500

Here's the MIR Show from CTIA!

Podcast 27: Nihal Mehta of Buzzd (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:05:31 -0500

A quick interview with Nihal Mehta of Buzzd at the Buzzd and Skyfire party, CTIA Sept 2008

Podcast 26: CTIA Preview (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:02:29 -0500

Here's a preview of the upcoming CTIA Sept 2008 coverage on Mobile Industry Review

Podcast 25: Charlotte Mews (Audio)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:00:00 -0500

Podcast 24: SonyEricsson Party (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:00:00 -0500

This week we report from the SonyEricsson party including a chat with their UK Marketing Director, David Hilton. We take a hands-on look at the W595 and, of course, the Xperia (with which James Whatley was rather taken). Then we focus on the upcoming Future of Mobile event with a brief chat to event producer, Dominic Travers. Look out for a cameo from Ed Hodges of HowlerTech and we've got the first of our reader introductions. We also announce the winner of the Etymotics headset and give you a preview of some more cool things to win.

Podcast 22: Tower of London (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0500

This week we're bringing you an absolute WHOPPER of a show. The how comes live from the Tower of London (special thanks to Tim at the Historic Royal Palaces publicity department). This week we take a look at the 3 Skypephone S2, Lastminute Labs / Google Gears, Orange hiring iPhone-fans, Nokia Maps, Blackberry Bold's browser issues, IKEA MVNO, James Body of Truphone makes an appearance, a review of Etymotics Headphones, special Sony Ericsson News, the first EVER Whatley Goes Wild segment, we announce the winners of our competitions, Dan get's his present and James talks about the Nokia N78.

Podcast 19: Brighton Tuttle (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Mobile Industry Review on location... Yes! This Saturday, we headed down to sunny Brighton on the south coast of England, to visit the inaugural social media cafe ('Tuttle Club') establishing itself in the town. We've got a packed episode of pure joy for you, featuring: News and comment on the week's events, Lastminute's FoneFood service, Josh Russell at the Tuttle Club, a normob-walkabout, Sony Ericsson News, TwistedCarbon's Bluetooth Speakerphone, Apple iPhone simply isn't business critical: Discuss, Orange mobile data... woe! and the regular shout outs.

Podcast 17: Covent Garden (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0500

We try out the SIMable 'sim unlocking solution' for handsets on a Nokia N95.. and it worked. Then we tried it on an Apple iPhone 3G... and it worked. An EXCLUSIVE! All on camera for your viewing pleasure. This week we were joined by a special guest in the form of Josh Russell entrepreneur, founder, WiMax specialist and new Tuttle Brighton social media cafe host. We also pull take a look at Duracell's new mobile phone (and iPhone/iPod) Pocket Charger, take a walk about Covent Garden and check out the phones in use by the tourists and young things and you must, must, must watch... I kid ye not - as James Whatley is 'spotted' by some Italian girl who thought he was a famous singer.

Podcast 16A: AQA party (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Several SMS Text News members were at the AQA ('Any Questions Answered') summer party last Friday. We brought along the camera and produced the podcast and took advantage of the fact there were a lot of normobs ('normal mobile users') in one place. And of course, we didn't let the opportunity pass to grab AQA's Marketing Director, Paul Cockerton. He always has some interesting insights. So much so that we're going to publish an extended version of the interview featured in today's podcast later this week.

Podcast 15: Buckingham Palace (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0500

We take a look at Sagem, we discuss 3, we cast a glance toward the inevitable iPhone availability discussion, we discuss the Nokia Tube and Dan and Ben get overrun by some testosterone-fueled normob hoodies (who aren't, actually, wearing hoodies).

Podcast 14 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0500

With special guest Alfie Dennen from Moblog the team discuss the new Moblog platform, Three's hoodie-hating store, Christmas in July, the iPhone (heard of it?) app store, O2's continuing epic-fail to provide Dan a service, an update on everyone's favourite toy - the personal mobile network - and a special follow-up feature on James's brand evangelism post this week with some tips for Carphone Warehouse (no carphones, not a warehouse). As ever it's all wrapped up with the regular 'things of the week'. 49 minutes that just keep giving.

Podcast 13 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0500

This week we talk about unlimited drinks Dublin, review the kit that the mobile geek at Glastonbury used (that's James by the way), talk about Flirtomatic's move into the German market, Ewan's 'mobile hell hole post' and our favourite new things in the regular 'things of the week' slot. ...oh and one other thing too... what was that now...?

Podcast 12A (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Mr MacLeod is back from his desert island this week and we're back in SMS Text News Towers too - normal service has been resumed. This week we preview Ewan's write-ups on the technology he took with him - the stuff that made it through customs and the stuff that didn't. We also celebrate Orange's entry to the 21st century with a sensible data tariff and their latest customer, talk about Yahoo's developer platform 'Blueprint', handset pricing, unlimited drinks Dublin and our usual 'things of the week'. All in just about 40mins... how do we do it?

Podcast 11 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0500

This week Ewan's still on his desert island, James is in a muddy field (Glastonbury apparently) so Ben and Dan talk to special guest Jay Fenton on subjects including the Nokia buy-out of Symbian, Nokia's problem with product leaks, the new 'UK network' UK01 and the furore over Roger's tariffs for the iPhone in Canada plus 'things of the week'.

Podcast 10 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0500

This week Ewan's still on his desert island but has managed to send us an update anyway. Ben, James and Dan discuss the launch of Nokia's E71, Dan's self-build phone, James' upcoming Glastonbury trip, Canadian mobile data, proposals for incoming call charges by an EU commissioner, Unlimited Drinks Dublin as well as the usual shouts and 'things of the week'.

Podcast 9 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Ewan's off this week on his way to a desert island with enough mobile hardware to confuse them at Heathrow airport. In his absence the team discuss a number of the recent and forthcoming events (including our very own 'Unlimited Drinks'), review the Jawbone headset, discuss CLI-spoofing outfit Spookcall, get excited about budget S60 handsets and highlight their 'things of the week'. Recorded by phone, this episode has extra smooth-jazz hold music magic.... nice

Podcast 8 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0500

This is the 8th installment of the podcast, recorded on Friday 6th June. With a cast of thousands (well 5 at peak) it's another big'un (60mins or there about) and well over 30 additional minutes hit the edit-room floor (metaphorically, I used a laptop) this week. I hope you agree the bits left over are worth it. Dan is more audible this week, although the sound is still 'authentic'.. we discuss Ofcom's proposed 'voluntary code' for mobile broadband providers, Unlimited Drinks (tomorrow!), the Jawbone launch, the state of mobile journalism, Ewan's upcoming desert-island adventure, our things of the week and so many 'shout outs' it hurts. COMPETITION: Win a Jawbone Noise Assassin bluetooth headset - listen around 34m 57s for details.

Podcast 5 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500

60 minutes of joy featuring Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley.

Podcast 4 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500

This week we ridicule mobile operator, Orange and take lots of listener questions and do our best to answer them. Our applications of the week.... Aren't. That's a surprise.

Podcast 3 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Featuring Ben Smith and Dan Lane, Chief Technology Officer of Howler Technologies -- and see if you can spot where the batteries ran out...

Podcast 2 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500

The second in the series of podcasts from SMS Text News featuring Ewan MacLeod, James Whatley and Ben Smith. We've put in a few of the sweeper jingles a few more times for the fun of it... hope you enjoy. Please send us your feedback at www.smstextnews.com!

Podcast 1 (Audio MP3)

ewan@mobileindustryreview.com (Mobile Industry Review) — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500

SMS Text News 'draft' episode -- the first one we ever produced!