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

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 [...]

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 don’t write enough about new products but once in a while something comes along that really has potential and MogoTix is definitely that. A nice piece from Ryan over at Gigaom drew them to my attention and with Dave Slugger McClure behind them the future looks bright. This is huge market that is in serious [...]

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 [...]

I have listened to the positves and the negatives from the iPhone 4 debacle for the last few weeks and I seriously can’t believe how this non story is still running. I am obviously not an Apple Fanboy however I do use the iPhone, I am also an Android user. Job’s frustration is easy to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have been asked how to do this at least 20 times this week alone by iPad purchasers. Its incredibly easy and I got the tip from Bernie @topgold almost a year ago “1. Start iTunes from a fresh log-in. This means you need to log out of any other account. I normally toggle out [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]