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Re: Nokia’s legal action potentially massively damaging to their reputation

phoneboy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:09:32 -0000

While it looks like sour grapes on the part of Nokia, let's be clear how this will play out: after Apple's and Nokia's lawyers go round and round on this topic for several months, they will come to agreement. Apple will pay some lump sum to Nokia and come to some royalty agreement where Apple will pay Nokia a small percentage on each handset sold.

In short: nothing appreciable changes for us, the end users of said product, except the price. You know Apple will find a way to pass that extra cost onto us, the consumers.

Re: Calling all Nokia & Symbian geniuses: Am I wrong?

phoneboy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:00:52 -0000

Ewan, this rant is epic and spot on. The Symbian platform, as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and others have put out, is fragmeted. Operator variants make this problem worse.

While the iPhone has it's own faults from a development point of view, namely Apple's position as gatekeeper, the end user experience is fantastic. Normobs actually WANT an iPhone versus settling for the latest free-with-contract Nokia.

Re: Looking at Vox Sciences

phoneboy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:12:20 -0000

I thought Mr. Whatley didn't work for Spinvox anymore? Shouldn't the disclaimer be updated accordingly?

Re: Hello from the Blue Boar, Billericay

phoneboy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:24:12 -0000

My wife would have an iPhone if not for one thing: The $80/mo ball and chain that goes with it ($40 voice plan + $30 data plan + taxes). The same can be said for a number of people I know.

Re: How to tether your iPhone 3G’s data/wifi connection - free

phoneboy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:20:05 -0000

This is brilliant, Ewan, thanks for finding and posting about this. Don't have my iPhone yet (and my other phone will be a Nohkeeya), but I suspect this will be useful to me very very soon :)

Re: Is 2.5% enough?

phoneboy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:59:40 -0000

Not only is it going to not make any difference, it will actually make things worse, given the U.K. government is operating at a deficit like the U.S. is.

Re: Say hello to the Nokia E63 (again…)

phoneboy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:48:56 -0000

Hopefully they can get it in at AT&T, and they could sell it sub $50 with operator subsidy! Maybe we'll finally get some market share in the states?

Re: MIR Show - Week 44 - T-Mobile UK G1 Android launch

phoneboy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:58:49 -0000

Mr. Whatley, you are such a traitor! I don't know who you are anymore! ;)

Seriously, though, I hope my cohorts at Nokia are taking notes. We could learn a couple of things from the experience.

Re: MIR Show - Week 43 - Nokia E63 & DeviceAnywhere Offer

phoneboy — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:17:52 -0000

Body. James Body. All he needed was a pink cocktail in his hand. :)

Re: The Nokia N96: Face the Task

phoneboy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:16:42 -0000

Of course it should be obvious the above is not Nokia's official opinion, but rather my own thoughts.

Re: The Nokia N96: Face the Task

phoneboy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:15:04 -0000

Here's my $0.02 on the N96 from someone who works at Nokia, albeit at a division the mothership is selling off (Security Appliance division): it reminds me of the N95-1 when it was first released. Same basic firmware quality issues and same type of battery issues. After a couple of iterations of the firmware, though, the N95-1 is a pretty nice handset. They can't fix the hardware limitations--mostly memory--but I can certainly make use of the handset. I suspect we'll be saying the same thing about the N96.

For me, there are three key things the N96 has over the N95 8GB: S60 3.2, 16 gigs internal memory + MicroSD slot, and USB 2.0 transfer speeds. Wish I had a NAM version of the N96, like I do the N95 8GB, but I've seen what 3G does to the battery life!

Re: You’re watching MOBILL INDUSTREEE REV-YOUUU

phoneboy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:24:39 -0000

A couple of ideas (cheeky ones anyway)

* Mobile Industry Review: NOT SMS Text News!
* James Whatley: Normob Hunter
* We're Mobile Industry Review. You're not.
* Mobile Industry Review: Better than a shot in the crotch.
* Mobile Industry Review: We have more phones than you do!

Re: A chip on my shoulder ‘the size of a banana’

phoneboy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:07:59 -0000

This guy is a muppet. Ignore him. Don't feed the trolls.

Re: MIR Show - Week 43 - Simon Ainslie, CEO of Nokia UK

phoneboy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:21:14 -0000

I like smaller shows chaps. A ~30 min video is quite a commitment in terms of time.

Re: Mobile Industry Review Show - Week 39

phoneboy — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:30:12 -0000

Hm... you had a metric ton of stuff there. I liked that video camera
thingie you had. Maybe it's something my wife can use. :)

Re: Nokia gets into IM by buying OZ Communications

phoneboy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:10:09 -0000

The important thing about Oz not to overlook is that the Oz client is embedded into a lot of S40 phones already. This makes it possible to extend their service offerings into the S40 handsets, which is where the volume is.

Re: Mobile Industry Review Show - Week 39

phoneboy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:44:47 -0000

First post! Not that it means anything... but it's nice to see you chaps all back in the same place.

Re: Mobile Industry Review Show - Episode 27

phoneboy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:56:18 -0000

Now for something completely different!

Re: Carphone Warehouse Liveline Insurance: Total Rubbish

phoneboy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:43:00 -0000

I tend to think mobile phone insurance in general is rubbish. At least on this side of the pond, I have yet to see a single "acceptable" experience.

From my point of view, if I lose a handset--and I have yet to do so--I have a drawerful of replacements.

Re: F%^K Voicemail!

phoneboy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:27:10 -0000

I'm with that chap. Voicemail is the suck.

Re: Mobile Industry Review Show - Episode 25

phoneboy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:38:02 -0000

Thanks for using my videos, chaps. Maybe I can get myself in front of the Nokia office I work for in a couple weeks! :)

I'd be tickled if I was the random person who won the Cellranger.

Re: An international MIR Show?

phoneboy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:42:33 -0000

Speaking of International, did you get the videos I sent over?

Re: Mobile Industry Review Show - Episode 24

phoneboy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:14:24 -0000

Hey now, maybe they had brought in a repeater so there was phone signal? :) Maybe they also brought in a WiFi access point?

Bah, but you're right, the people who plan these events sometimes don't get it.

Re: Mobile Industry Review Show - Episode 24

phoneboy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:26:55 -0000

We're still waiting for the 3GP version :)

Re: Should an operator charge you VAT on your contract pay off?

phoneboy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:08:51 -0000

On this side of the pond, you don't buy out your contract, you pay an Early Termination Fee, which is either a flat fee (around $200) or a sliding fee depending on the carrier and when you want to "opt out" of your contract. Seems much more civilized. And, as far as I know, it's not taxed.