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I have written about voice over 3G quite a lot in the past, its also been covered by an amount of people that I really respect in the the telephony community.
I have been “Test driving” it today with 5 by 9 quality calls to Jim Courtney in Canada, James Cotter in Prague, Jeb Brilliant in [...]

A couple of months ago Vodafone invited me to the launch of the Vodafone 360 which was hosted by Dito Von Teese. To be honest it wouldn’t have taken Dito to drag me along as Vodafone 360 was created by my buddy Tommy Ahlers.
Anyways much as I love it, it was a gift thus must [...]

Post’s from Andy and Ben’s “Broadband In My Car” got me thinking

“I wonder can I do this?”
It should be quite simple really, 1. A USB cigarette charger and a USB2 cable to charge the Novatel MiFi device. 2. A vodafone sim for MiFi for only $19.99 a month including 10GB.
3. Two pieces of blue tack [...]

I can’t believe we are back here again in a discussion regarding Apple blocking voice over 3G.
Voice over 3G is an appalling standard, it just doesn’t work without massive compression.
If any iPhone user runs a standard ping test I would be shocked to see ping times of under 100ms, in fact I have just [...]

Its like the team the never learns at O2 Ireland
Its beyond disgraceful and they just don’t seem to give a damn about the Irish consumer on the Iphone 3GS launch.
Check the UK prepaid pricing out here
Check the Irish prepaid pricing here
Retail for 8GB iPhone 3GS
Ireland €519
UK €522.77 (Equivalent)
Packages
Ireland: free wifi roaming-Data roaming 99c [...]

My brother works for Sony and I got to play with the new Sony Vaio P yesterday, there is not much can be said on first inspection besides WOW, its a piece of art.
You need to handle this machine yourself to appreciate it, its almost featherweight with a really impressive keyboard.
It also has an embedded [...]

My friends know how much doing this stuff turns me on
MAXroam running with full 3G on an unlocked G1 Android phone

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This train of thought came about as a result of a few comments on a recent post.
With the Iphone V2 3G now being almost a certainty Apple are going to have a major problem on its hand with all the early adopters suffering from a large dose of penis envy regarding their friends new 3G [...]

Whispers emerging from AT&T suggest that the new 3G iPhone will retail @ $199 with a two year contact.
With 18 months in Ireland and 24 months in the UK now being the average mobile phone contract length are we going to see an iPhone break the £100 mark in the UK?
The phone at this price [...]