Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

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I got a little news today

1. Boingo is launching retail and commercial services.  Chicago is just the first city and I’m sure it will grow.  Boingo will be covering convention space as well as showrooms.  I’m not sure what they mean by showrooms but I [...]

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I’ve been wanting to blog about some Truphone (one of my favorite services) news for days now and I’m finally getting to all the news.  Instead of writing 3 different posts I’m just going to condense it down to one short post.  Let’s get to [...]

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This Thanksgiving (a US holiday) Truphone is offering free calls to US mobile and land line numbers for 12 hours.
Truphone is sharing the holiday spirit by giving anyone with Truphone the ability to call anywhere in the United States during the day.
What does this mean [...]

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Guess what everybody, I’m coming to SF and I’m putting a party together.  Nimbuzz, Attack Marketing, and GoMo News are sponsoring and we have a great lineup of stuff going on.  We have beta apps to give out, product launches and announcements coming.  In less [...]

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A friend of mine just brought this to my attention. Livestream is launching the Livepack (video automatically plays).  What is the Livepack you ask???  It’s a satellite television truck in a back pack.  You have an HD video camera connected to your Livepack via firewire.  Inside the Livepack is all kinds of technology I don’t [...]

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Great news for Nokia S40 users, emoze is now being shipped with a link in the Ovi Store to download emoze. This is a really big deal because S40 is the single most popular platform in the world for mobile phones.  I’m on vacation (holiday) so instead of going into detail I will just copy [...]

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Great news everyone, emoze (a client of mine) is now available on the Nokia N97.  We haven’t exactly had to wait long for them but I am pleased to tell you that it’s now ready for you to download.  I have been using it for a little while now and it’s fantastic.  It’s the best [...]

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Truphone the leader in mobile VOIP is expanding it’s line up to include 11 more Nokia handsets.
They include:
N96
N78
N85 (also VoIP enabled)
N79 (also VoIP enabled)
5630 (also VoIP enabled)
5800
5320
6210
6220
6650
E63
I’m a huge fan and extensive user of Truphone and think the world of the company and what they have done for mobile VOIP.  They have fought the big [...]

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Last night I got some great news from a friend at emoze.  Nokias newest flagship phone the N97 has just launched and emoze is about to release the touchscreen enabled app for it.  I don’t have an exact date but it should be very soon.  I’ll let you know as soon [...]

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Earlier today Emoze (a client) announced a developers program.  They are giving developers the opportunity to create plug-ins for Emoze.  In one case developers created a plug-in where by Emoze users can collect, create, and reply to Facebook messages.  This is a large step opening up hundreds of millions of users to have the opportunity [...]

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