Pat Phelan: Telecomms DisruptorSubverting telecomms from the edge of industry

A paragraph from an excellent post from Luca Filigheddu got me thinking about voice and where its at and where its going.
“All that being said, it’s very difficult for me to see another major disruption coming in the short term to impact mobile communications. I’m referring to changing the way people use their mobile phone […]

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 […]

The contacts in your mobile phone are THE social network and with a number of companies attempting to gain access to this it was only a matter of time before back-up kings Zyb made a play for this.

The ZYB Phonebook will, for example, enable you to:

* see the live physical location […]

This is an interesting one which crossed my path today.
SIMable unlocks your SIM, it allows you to put your SIM in any network locked phone and talk without the hassle of having to get your phone unlocked.

“SIMable is an innovative little chip that frees your SIM card to work in the vast majority of mobile […]

This is turning into a kind of confessional get it all off my chest day, feast on the humble pie and get it out of the way.
I was 100% wrong on the 3Skypephone, the bloody thing rocks

I started testing the 3Skypephone seriously a couple of weeks ago and can’t get the damn thing to fail, […]

02 have made the the first positive step in Irish mobile phone usage for a very long period.
This week they have announced “Release”

Make as many calls and send as many SMS as you like and only pay €99 plus VAT @ 21% per month. Its not bad in fact its not bad at all. Its […]

Russ Beattie has decided to close down Mowser his mobile search engine today, that in itself is pretty sad but the post announcing the shut down is pretty harsh on the mobile application scene.

“I don’t actually believe in the “Mobile Web” anymore, and therefore am less inclined to spend time and effort in a market […]