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 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 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 [...]

During interview with All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher at CES Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein said three of the most incredible things I have ever heard, not only in telephony but in business in general. Q:How does Palm (PALM) view Apple (AAPL)? “We don’t pay that much attention to Apple….I know it sounds really strange,” says [...]

Some interesting news floating around regarding Apple and its interest in purchasing iCall a USA VOIP provider. iCall allows iPhone users when in a hotspot to divert calls off of the GSM network and onto the WiFi network. I have been testing it for a few week now and quality appears to be as good [...]

Today we launched the new MAXroam store. Its the third iteration and its definitely getting to where we want to be with lots more to come soon. So whats new? Lots of phones, a nice selection of the most popular Nokia phones with Sony Ericsson and other models coming soon. All these phones have never [...]

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 [...]

Palm have all but confirmed that they have entered into an agreement with 02 for exclusive distribution of their much praised Pre. From pretty limited sources it appears that the Pre has sold 300,000 units in its first month in the USA, this is quite successful especially in a market where the Iphone has been [...]

Iain Dodsworth the super head honcho behind Tweetdeck recently borrowed a Nokia E71 from me for testing, the deal involved Iain doing a completely independent review of the phone for me to post, below is just that I think he likes it The Nokia E71 is clearly aimed at the business or enterprise end of [...]