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Carnival of the Mobilists 146 at London Calling

Welcome to edition 146 of Carnival of the Mobilists.
It might be my birthday this week, but you get all the presents in terms of some fantastic posts from the world of mobile. This week, the carnival comes to you from London as the attention of the mobile world is focussed on Earls Court and Symbian’s [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 139 is over at mobscure.com

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists #139 is hosted at MobScure in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. Here, many are finally discovering the joy of 3G and mobile lifestyle with the new iPhone, which is extremely popular (random fact - the Nokia flagship N96 has been designed right here at the local Nokia R&D facility).Â
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Carnival of the mobilists 133 is at visionmobile.com

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is at Visiion Mobile.
As usual, a great range of news and views on all thins mobile so I encourage you to head over to Vision Mobile and have a read.
This week there are quite a few thought pieces and observations worth reading. The iPhone 3G has kept most bloggers busy, [...]

Carnival of the mobilists 132 at blog.mippin.com

This week’s carnival of the mobilists is hosted at the Mippin Blog. As always there are number of thought provoking topics and surprisingly wide ranging - given the release of the 3G iPhone this week you might have expected an avalanche of Apple posts and little else.

Carnival of the Mobilists 130 is here

Another huge week in Mobile – Nokia acquires Symbian, Virgin buys Helio and I still haven’t got a Nokia E71 (my hints to Nokia are clearly not obvious enough…).
This is my second turn at hosting Carnival of the Mobilists (having previously hosted Carnival 115), and if you haven’t visited since then, you will notice we’ve had [...]

The normob view of the new iPhone

I have been reading a ton of reviews and views on the new iPhone and so have resisted blogging about it, save my views just become caught up in the iPhone noise.
Travelling home tonight on the tube, I picked up a copy of London Lite, one of London’s two free evening newspapers.
On one of the [...]

Google “lifts the lid” on how their my location service works

…well not really. The summary from the official Google mobile blog reads
“Wireless phones can make and receive calls because they are connected over the air to a nearby cell tower. The phone knows the ID of the cell tower that it’s currently using. If the phone has GPS, the Maps application on the phone sends [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 123 at GoMo news

This week we have a new Carnival publisher, Bena Roberts from GoMo news - but she’s no stranger to publishing!
Head on over to GoMo News to read this week’s installment of Carnival of the Mobilists where you can read a collection of fascinating posts on Mobile Search and Android,  Softbank Japan’s $430 million investment into the [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 115 is here

Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 115, hosted for the first time on my site, located in London, England. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to have a look around after you have read all the carnival has to offer this week.

In another week in mobile where there has been much discussion [...]

iPhone finds its Mojo - Google My Location is a major plus for iPhone users

As a non iPhone user, I almost missed the news from Steve Job’s Mac World address that the iPhone would be receiving new firmware.  Because I don’t own the device, I have no need to update the firmware, but reading this official Google blog post, something caught my eye.
Then over the next few days others commented [...]

STOP PRESS: Customers with unlimited data plans use more data than those charged up to ÂŁ4 per megabyte!

We all know that the time leading up to Christmas and New Year is a very slow news period, but many mobile commentators including myself had a quiet chuckle when they read the story on the front page of the UK’s Financial Times on Christmas Eve 2007 - iPhone users raise network hopes.

Quoting the story from [...]

According to Carphone Warehouse staff, the iPhone has “3.5G technology”

I was in the Selfridges Carphone Warehouse store on the weekend in Oxford street, and I happened to walk past the in-store iPhone stand (shown on the left).  As I was playing with one of the iPhones on display, I overheard the sales pitch from one of the young sales people to a couple of [...]