Pat Phelan: Telecomms DisruptorSubverting telecomms from the edge of industry

Great to see a whole bunch of new features on Rebtel
One really caught my eye though.
Rebtel Call Collect
“Did you know that your contacts can call you collect? If they’re in a Rebtel country but don’t have a Rebtel account, they can call your Rebtel number and the call will be debited from your Rebtel account. [...]

Great news from the Redwood City Rockstars qik
They have just released support for billions of J2ME phones.
Now we will see huge adaption numbers from the man on the street
Supported handsets includeNokia S40 Phones:
- Nokia 5300
- Nokia 6300
- Nokia 6500 classic
- Nokia 6500 slide
- Nokia 6555
- Nokia 8800 Arte
Sony Ericsson JP-8 Phones:
- Sony Ericsson K850
- Sony [...]

Iain Dodsworth the super head honcho behind Tweetdeck recently borrowed a Nokia E71 from me for testing, the deal involved Iain doing a completely independent review of the phone for me to post, below is just that
I think he likes it
The Nokia E71 is clearly aimed at the business or enterprise end of [...]

I have been wanting to write this for ages as I have been on the road reguarly for almost 18 months now but top blogger and buddy Andy Abramson beat me to the punch.
I do however want to add some bits and pieces to Andy’s excellent post and will start off by reiterating Andy’s mantra
1. [...]

You gotta pick, I love the guy.
Why does he remind me soo much of Joe Pesci?

I used to do this when I first started blogging, I had a Eureka moment last week especially since I now spend so much time on planes.
I have checked with a few friends and none of us have heard of it so its over to you, if you want to do it take it away
Hedge [...]

So today its the turn of Conor O Neill’s LouderVoice
What can you say that hasn’t be said already, well beside the product Conor is one of the real Irish heads with a good word for most and a very sharing attitude, now onto the product.
I am a user and a fan, out simply it allows [...]

This is a real serious development for the Fring team lead by my buddy Boaz Zimmerman,an email from Gil Regev yesterday asking me to test had to be ignored for 24hrs due to travel, I posted today that the iPhone was going under the hammer for a Samsung Omnia i900 but this has earned it [...]

Well its one of those weeks, another one where an Irish mobile company again leaves its customers hanging.
Conor has the skinny
“When I contacted the company I was given a statement which confirmed it had reviewed eligibility criteria for mobile phone upgrades. I was told this was standard practice within the industry to review and [...]

Its fairly unusual for me to meet someone and think you have known them all your life, I met James Siminoff of PhoneTag in San Francisco recently and could have stayed talking to him for the three days.
An opinionated ex phonecard guy, kind of sounds familiar :-), seriously James is a die in the wool [...]