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Re: You’re reading this on mobileindustryreview.com

PatrickatJoshuaPR — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:25:52 -0000

Brad, I remember talk of awards. I wonder what happened to those ...

Re: You’re reading this on mobileindustryreview.com

bradjcouk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:15:38 -0000

So are the awards now called the MobileIndustryReview awards?

Re: We’re off to the Tower of London for this week’s podcast

bradjcouk — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:52:34 -0000

Ditto, Few hundred meters away! The weather's been pretty crap recently Ewen. Might want to bring an umbrella...

Re: I think I want a new mobile.

bradjcouk — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:48:10 -0000

Ditto. 3G

Re: Perhaps my iPhone 3G’s Exchange is draining the battery?

bradjcouk — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:06:02 -0000

At least there's a lot less junk mail on your door mat now...

Re: The Mobile Industry Review iPhone Application - ideas?

bradjcouk — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:22:57 -0000

Perhaps something that looks like iGoogle for the iphone... The comments integration would be good. At the moment, the iphone theme works really well, but integrated comments is a real pain on the iphone.

An application needs a real purpose. Optimising the website further should definately be first point of call, but maybe elements of social media/integration with other things would make an application work. Very loose thoughts here, as I distract myself from work further...

Re: Kizoom’s iPhone web application is a joy

bradjcouk — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:21:05 -0000

Got a chance to test it on the way home from work this evening... Decided not to look at the train board, instead just using the site. There's 4 possible platforms I could leave from, and the site managed to tell me the quickest way to Wimbledon.. Thumbs up for kizoom, weird name though..

Live train info could win this site awards...

Re: Is there anywhere that Mobiles don’t belong?

MaManfie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:52:08 -0000

I said exactly the same thing when I heard about it. It's not fair to the other passengers, and once again, unneeded. Planes are too small, and too clustered as it is, we don't need mobiles invading the space too!

Thanks,
Samantha.

Re: Is there anywhere that Mobiles don’t belong?

MaManfie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:49:10 -0000

Agreed. There is nothing worse than sitting around with family, and friends and their one of their phones rings, and you're left there like a lemon. If anything else, it's rude towards the people you're out with.

Thanks,

Samantha.

Re: Kizoom’s iPhone web application is a joy

smstextnews — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:21:07 -0000

I'm told it's actually live brad, but I've not been able to test it

Re: Kizoom’s iPhone web application is a joy

bradjcouk — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:13:05 -0000

Just tried it.. looks great! Not tested for accuracy yet...Any idea if it's live? i.e. shows delays etc?

Re: Is there anywhere that Mobiles don’t belong?

bradjcouk — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:49:22 -0000

Whilst having dinner. Enjoy the company of your family/friends...

Re: Is there anywhere that Mobiles don’t belong?

bradjcouk — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:28:37 -0000

Planes.

I know, i know... Not here yet... But this is most probably one of the worst ideas ever. Because as soon as it's allowed, I'll be on an overnight flight to somewhere, and wont be able to sleep because workaholic sitting next to me will be yapping international calls all through the night.

In-flight WiFi. Brilliant. Just block the skype ports...

Re: Self imposed living with the iPhone 3G

bradjcouk — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:04:45 -0000

I pretty much seem to get what Apple said I could get.

It's not bad. I can't really knock it's performance, seeing as it's running 10 recievers. (One thing I didn't know, but just found out looking up that number is did u know the iPhone's built-in receivers use metal surrounds on the headphone jack and camera lens as antennas? how cool...)

I do use my iPhone heavily. I listen to music for just under an hour each way commuting to work, check weather on the met website before going out, browse the net reading my usual blogs through iGoogle (google.com/ig/i - works really nice), have push/exchange email set up with work, check stocks, write notes, twitter on the way home, play games on the waterloo and city line, and more.

Admitedly, longer battery life would be a wonderful luxury, but for all it replaces and does, the shorter-than-usual-for-a-phone battery life to me is justafiable because it replaces everything else I used to carry to work. At weekends, when I don't have the ability to dump it in my dock infront of me, I turn off the push features (because no-one wants work email on a weekend), turn off 3G unless I'm browsing, and generally use it less, so it tends to last through till Sunday..

I never had the first iPhone. It was missing 3G, the feature I use the least. hmm... but so far so good. I woke up at 2am to pick my 16GB in black, even bought a chair just for the occasion, and I don't regret it just yet...

Re: Self imposed living with the iPhone 3G

mostlythis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:41:46 -0000

i loved my first gen iPhone - this time round it seems less. and i dont want to spend £160 + £30 a month to beta test for apple.

Re: Self imposed living with the iPhone 3G

smstextnews — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:17:06 -0000

Is your battery ok then, Brad?

Re: Self imposed living with the iPhone 3G

bradjcouk — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:10:47 -0000

Is it worth posting iPhone success stories? Yea, there's a couple of quibbles, mainly battery life, but compared to my 950i (who's manufacturing name I dare not mention), it's brilliant. I use it all the time, and it's a replacement for needing a bag, at all.. No pen, no notepad, no book, no laptop, no ipod, no psp... All of which I used to carry to work.

I live in Wimbledon, and 3g coverage is scarce on the phone, but I have WiFi. Outside my office window, there's a Cloud aerial stuck to a lampost. I don't need 3G for calling, and the only browsing I do on the iphone is usually reading blogs/articles to and from work, which don't take long to load on Edge anyway... The wordpress app is great for blogging on the go, and all the sites i look at work really well, even smstextnews has a great iphone theme... So much so, I added it to my blog.

I have a dock on my desk, and the charger at home. Heavy usage, I charge it every night, and for an hour or so at my desk. It's just a different way of doing things, and with all the stuff I use it for, and all the things it replaces, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a battery more powerful, and of similar size, that can last as long.

Anyway, just my thoughts...

Re: The iPhone 3G failure to launch continues!

bradjcouk — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:40:22 -0000

I had the same problem.. I was first in line friday morning outside o2, had to sign up the old fahsioned way (pen and paper). I'm not even sure if they actually did a credit check in the end.. Anyway, out of the store and using wifi by 8:30am and I didn't have 3G access till Sunday 10am... :( But it came eventually, and I'm happy. I suppose being a total sucker to consumerism and being first inline, and getting the phone in my hands straight away, now it's working, I kinda forgive O2 for not getting their lives together like at&t did for their launch... (At least their staff knew how to use the iPhone...)