My phone of the year, Samsung GALAXY S II
I am putting my head on the block by picking this in May but having spent a day with the Samsung Galaxy S II I think its the safest blog I will ever write. This machine is absolutely incredible, the flow and speed of movement between applications is faster than anything I have seen and with [...]
Hey Skype, you better give Mr Viber a call
I have never been a huge Skype fan believing that people speak on phones rather than computers and that 5 billion is a much more interesting number than 28 million. I am though a fan of a new application called Viber which appears to be taking the world of telephony by storm. Friends who would be [...]
HulloMail a new type of voicemail for Ireland
It’s not too often that I will go straight out nuts for a product but having been using an early version of HulloMail for months now let me tell you, GO GET THIS. If you receive voicemail this will change your life, no more trying to grab a pen, pressing 7 to reply definitely no more garbled messages [...]
Why I’m sticking with iPhone (for now)
A number of pretty interesting posts popped up over the weekend by a couple of guys that I really admire and finally they got me to return to this forum. The first post is by Robert Scoble “Why I can’t kick the iPhone habit” Like Robert I have had the Desire, The Hero, The Nexus [...]
Is Twitter taking back the client market?
In another interesting move post their Chirp developer conference where they assured the development community that Twitter would always be there for them Twitter has launched a new Android client. So I suppose the first question is, whats it like? Its really excellent, the landing page is superb and with a bunch of really cool [...]
Has iPhone Peaked?
My timing was a little out but it now looks like Android is starting to match iPhone for browsing stats. Android has jumped 22% in the last year and with over 50 Android handsets being released these year it looks like its definitely going to be the year of the Android. I will definitely stake [...]
HTC Hero, amazing if you finish work at 2pm
My Htc Hero arrived yesterday, we bought it to test with some new MAXroam stuff and I have to say the improvement in Android since the G1 has been amazing. Menu layout and movement between applications is quick and intuitive and graphics are amazing. There is only one slight issue, after an overnight charge and [...]
Best of breed twitter mobile clients
There are a number of fantastic Twitter clients floating around at present for Blackberry, Android, Symbian and iPhone. Here are my flavors of the month. Symbian Gravity has just been released and its a huge leap from what was available.This is definitely a huge personal favorite. some complaints regarding its cost of €9.46 but not [...]
Intel head of mobility-”few people seem to want to use a mobile phone, even a smartphone, to get at all their online stuff”
This is probably one of THE most out of touch quotes I have ever heard from anyone in the mobile business. “few people seem to want to use a mobile phone, even a smartphone, to get at all their online stuff” Seriously Mr Chandrasekher, please have a look around at some numbers 10 million Iphones [...]
Are brands really using twitter?
This post got me thinking “93 of top 100 brands don’t control their Twitter name” I know Zappos have done an amazing job with twitter and I have engaged with their CEO Tony Hsieh who has over 30,000 fans including me. Shel has been interviewing a number of corporate Twitterers for his book Twitterville but [...]