Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

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 [...]

I spent the day today with the Irish A Team at Nokia World a gathering of Nokia fans and executives from all over the planet. I traveled as maybe a bit of a cynic but with a little anticipation having played with Nokia’s turbocharged flagship the N8 recently. Before we get started I was there as a guest [...]

This issue looks as if it could turn very nasty. Last week the UAE rulers announced that on October 11th it will block all Blackberry data transmissions in the Kingdom, citing “security concerns” the government has said  that it cannot monitor BlackBerry communication because data is encrypted and handled through servers abroad. Yesterday RIM the manufacturer of  Blackberry cancelled its launch [...]

A nice little gift dropped in my hands today, the new Blackberry 9700 from Vodafone Ireland. I have been watching Vodafone closely lately and have been to a few of their events, I really like their new slogan “Best Performing mobile broadband” so to stick with that I would like the best comment involving the [...]

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 [...]

Today was a great day for Blackberry, Firstly qik got out their Blackberry app which is covered extensively elsewhere and works perfectly for me. This morning Truphone got me over a copy of the new truphone call anywhere for Blackberry, unfortunately I was unable to write about it earlier due to teething problems but my [...]

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 [...]