The Walkman brand has shown incredible longevity since its inception more than 30 years ago. From cassettes to CDs, a brief flirtation with MiniDiscs, and now MP3s, Sony has subtly adapted the Walkman name to each changing form of technology. So it probably came as no surprise when Sony Ericsson expanded the Walkman series into [...]

I recently attended a conference focused on mobile phones for the ageing population. I went with high expectations of learning more about a subject that I’ve developed a keen interest in over the past couple of years.

At Mobile World Congress I was profoundly affected by the challenges facing older users and wrote about my experiences. [...]

I recently attended a round-table event with Kevin Russell, CEO of the 3 network in the UK. If I’m brutally honest I went expecting him to repeat the usual messages. Over the past few years Kevin has been unwavering in his views that spectrum allocation and termination rates have been detrimental to 3’s business in [...]

The buzz surrounding Android is inescapable at the moment. The progress the platform’s made in less than two years is remarkable. With shipments now averaging over 100,000 units a day, it’s entirely conceivable that Android sales will top 35 million globally in 2010. And that’s just handsets. It doesn’t include an abundance of new devices [...]

Having spent a large part of last month testing a new online product we’re developing, I’ve become quite familiar with the phone data we’ve amassed over the years. I couldn’t help noticing that each month we’re adding more and more phones with either a touch screen or a full qwerty keyboard. While we know anecdotally [...]

I’m sure the average buyer walking into a phone shop considers a number of factors when deciding which device to buy. They might like the look of it, or its colour. Perhaps they favour one manufacturer over another. Or maybe there’s just an attractive offer with a good price.

But what about the phone’s name? I [...]

Having had a few days to play with the Apple iPad we purchased and imported into the UK, I thought it was worth sharing my initial thoughts as a follow-up to my earlier blog post written in anticipation of the launch.
The Positives
One thing is certain — virtually everyone we have shown it to agrees that [...]

Last week I was lucky enough to go away on a skiing holiday. As always, I left my packing to the last minute. On the evening before departure I found myself scrabbling around the office for a Nokia S60 phone to take with me, as I wanted to use the excellent Sports Tracker software while [...]

I often marvel at the mobile industry’s unwavering pursuit of the next technology, irrespective of small details like a business case, consumer demand or day-to-day practicalities. The eye-controlled headphones on NTT DoCoMo’s stand at Mobile World Congress were an extreme but highly entertaining example. At least the headphones aren’t a commercial reality. Yet.
The launch of [...]

Travelling in the US recently, I had the opportunity to play around with a FLO portable TV device. The HTC-manufactured PTV 350 (shown below) works with Qualcomm’s FLO TV service. It’s optimised for broadcast TV services and is one of the latest of a growing number of FLO-enabled devices.

I was very impressed with the overall [...]