From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Nokia Online Store fails to impress…

by Ben Smith 28th November 2009

If you’ve been following me on Twitter then you’ll have seen my recent frustration at the delays in shipping a pre-ordered N900, but this post isn’t about that. This post is about the Online Store itself…  What better place could there be to buy a new Nokia handset?
Quite a few, it appears (for the moment [...]

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The lowdown on giffgaff

by Dan Lane 26th November 2009

giffgaff (uncomfortably all lowercase) is a brand new pay-as-you-go MVNO backed by O2 (and using the O2 network) that claims to be “The People Powered Network”, they launched their service yesterday morning and I was lucky enough to get up close and personal with the giffgaff management team to get the lowdown on this unique [...]

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lastminute.com labs launch ’snaffle’ [sponsored demo]

by Ben Smith 19th November 2009

We were delighted to be asked by the lastminute.com labs team to take a preview version of their new iPhone application ‘snaffle‘ to Covent Garden to make this demonstration video. Currently under test, the app – which is powered by Vouchacha – allows you to see retailers offering deals in and around the area [...]

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Nokia dropping Symbian from N-Series by 2012 [UPDATED]

by Ben Smith 18th November 2009

This evening, at the official N900 meet-up in London, Tanja Sauvola from the Maemo marketing team revealed in a Q&A with bloggers (after giving the first of the evening’s three presentations) that Nokia plan to drop Symbian from the entire ‘top end’ N-Series range of handsets in favour of Maemo by 2012.

The transition will be [...]

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N900: A Gallery

by James Whatley 16th November 2009

Hopefully by now you’ve all read Dan Lane’s Really Mobile N900 opinion piece from last week (based on the development unit he ‘borrowed’ from Ewan Macleod), and, while we all sit around with baited breath (read: twiddling our thumbs) waiting for the actual release date, November 19th I managed to lay my hands on a [...]

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Yamaha PSG-01S Speakerphone for Skype

by Jonathan Jensen 16th November 2009

Last week a nice surprise arrived via courier – the new Yamaha PSG-01S speakerphone for Skype. Described by Yamaha as a ‘Sound Gadget’, the idea behind this device is that it acts as a speakerphone for Skype calls when upright and doubles as stereo speakers when lying on its side.
It’s a highly portable device and [...]

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Opinion: The Nokia N900

by Dan Lane 13th November 2009

For some reason the mobile industry has started to bore me. There has been very little released recently that has actually excited me. No real revolution to speak of. There was a new revision of the iPhone in the iPhone 3GS, Android has continued it’s slow plodding march to world domination and there was that [...]

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Sony Ericsson X10 Android Smartphone – Marketing buzzwords make me suspicious

by Ben Smith 5th November 2009

The much-anticipated Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 – an Android powered  touch-screen smartphone has been announced adding yet another platform to the Sony Ericsson stable.
As we commented at the release of the Symbian-powered Satio, Sony Ericsson can produce some attractive hardware, but we’ve also previously criticised proprietary connectors, odd memory-card formats, dire battery life and (perhaps [...]

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