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Around London of late, LG has been rolling out some rather large adverts for its latest low-to-mid range device - the catchily-named LG GD510. The first time I saw the ad, ...

LG: what’s wrong with this picture?

31st January 2010
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Here we are again; I find myself deliberating which phone to move on to next. Post-E71 meltdown last year (RIP), I took a step backwards and reverted to my trusty N95 ...

From N95, to E75 and beyond. Where next?

29th January 2010
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Last weekend I visited London's Natural History Museum (the NHM) to take part in a secret filming mission for a new and yet-to-be-made feature film. With an N86 in one ...

The N900: just a Qik note

27th January 2010
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One of the challenges when travelling abroad on business is finding the best connectivity solution to get online. Your regular WiFi service may provide roaming access to local WiFi hotspots, ...

iPass launches their Open Mobile Platform

25th January 2010
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Well, it wasn't an Ovi Store announcement. Nokia's big announcement this morning was an all-new version of Ovi maps - available now for 10 devices including N97 mini, X6, E72 and ...

Nokia’s Ovi Maps: All new, all routing and all free

21st January 2010
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We'll be there... Nokia have invited us to their big Ovi announcement. Lips are unusually tightly sealed but the message is consistent - Nokia see this as a big announcement. ...

Today’s the day… ‘Big’ Ovi Event

21st January 2010
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Now that's a fair amount of linkbait right there, but before I reveal which handset I'm going to bestow such a high prize upon (chortle), let's first cover off those ...

My Phone of the Year

30th December 2009
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As the Christmas Season rushes in on us, we thought it would be a good moment to reflect on the mobile apps this year that we particularly enjoyed at Really ...

A Really Mobile Christmas

23rd December 2009
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There are no good mobiles for the enterprise... That's the grim realisation I've come to over the last few weeks. There are plenty to chose from, but stop buying for ...

There are no good enterprise mobiles…

16th December 2009
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EXCLUSIVE: The Ovi Store team added an specially selected, full-length Hi-Def feature film to their catalogue exclusively for one customer (me!) today... It was hand-delivered from Finland by George Linardos, ...

Exclusive: Ovi Store ships Hi-Def Movie

10th December 2009
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UK supermarket chain Tesco isn't exactly known for it's premium brand (apparently sitting between Asda and Sainsbury's in the 'Supermarket Snobbery' charts) but that doesn't mean customers of their MVNO ...

O2 confirm iPhone launch on Tesco Mobile

10th December 2009
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This week I had a chat with Tim Behrsin, who heads up the iNum division at Voxbone. iNum (which stands for 'international number') launched in 2008 and has been busy ...

iNum: one global phone number

8th December 2009
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"How much for an N900?", a friend asks. Hmmm... I'm not sure. I got a discount code when ordering mine, but otherwise it was always £499 in the Nokia online ...

How much does an N900 cost? Nokia don’t know…

4th December 2009
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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 ...

Nokia Online Store fails to impress…

28th November 2009
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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 ...

The lowdown on giffgaff

26th November 2009
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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 ...

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

18th November 2009
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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 ...

N900: A Gallery

16th November 2009
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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 ...

Yamaha PSG-01S Speakerphone for Skype

16th November 2009
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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 ...

Opinion: The Nokia N900

13th November 2009
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Criticising awful application stores has been a hobby of ours for some time now. Symbian Horizon's not an application store, but it should be much, much better... On this performance ...

Symbian Horizon: Here we go again…

4th November 2009
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The Bluetooth SIG have - once again - leaked a much anticipated handset.... This time it's the Huawei G6600, a QWERTY form-factor handset presumed to run Android. A QWERTY Android device ...

The Huawei G6600 looks oddly familiar…

4th November 2009
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I've used a number of headsets over the years with variable results and recently I’ve been using the FREETALK Everyman headset. The headset has been optimised for Skype which means ...

First Look: FREETALK Everyman headset for Skype

3rd November 2009
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In an exclusive announcement to TechRadar (which, bizarrely, has not been followed with much detail), Kevin Russell CEO of 3UK has announced that 3 will also be carrying the iPhone ...

iPhone to come to 3UK (probably)

2nd November 2009
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Kinoma Play is a media-consuming power-house of an S60 application. Fast and refined, even in this its first non-Windows Mobile incarnation it justifies a hefty $30 price-tag, giving my ...

First Look: Kinoma Play for Symbian

30th October 2009
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As previously announced by Ant at his Fresh Plastic blog and anticipated by us some time ago, 3UK have today announced they're launching a tariff with an inclusive Spotify premium ...

Spotify and Hero on 3UK

19th October 2009
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giffgaff, the people-powered network to whom we gave (what we thought was) a fair preview of, has released a teensy bit of news about their pricing. Well, that's not strictly ...

giffgaff gives the goss (on pricing)

16th October 2009
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It's now only about 7 hours until the Palm Pre goes on sale in the UK. We went to the launch party earlier in the week, but since then there's ...

Underwhelmed by Pre launch buzz

16th October 2009
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Whoops! this post was previously about the Palm Pre winning Gadget of the Year at the 'The T3 Gadget Awards'. Well it pains me to say that turns out we ...

CORRECTED: Palm Pre (doesn’t) win T3 ‘Gadget of the year’

14th October 2009
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The Really Mobile Team recently attended the Palm Pre launch party - thanks to JP at O2 who really pulled the stops out for us. These events confuse me ...

Palm Pre launch party [There ain't no party like an O2 party... Hey... Ho... etc]

14th October 2009
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GMail Alerts (iTunes link) is an iPhone app and service that uses Apple's push notification service to notify you of new mail arriving in your GMail account. Now I know what ...

iPhone app: Gmail Alerts

9th October 2009