I had a humbling experience yesterday. I learned what it means to get old. It was a grim realisation.

I’ve always been interested in devices that allow elderly, infirm or disabled people the opportunity to enjoy all the benefits of mobile technology. In 2006 I bought a phone from Emporia, a little-known family-run Austrian firm, after [...]

In our preview of this year’s Mobile World Congress, we predicted there would be 50 Android devices on the show floor. In my spare moments, I’ve been taking pictures of as many of them as I can. The results are shown below. As you can see, the prediction was pretty accurate. There are 48 Android [...]

As someone who regularly changes his primary mobile phone, I’m always having to adapt to new devices. For me, the biggest change has been the shift from a hardware qwerty keyboard to a virtual touch-screen one.

I type a lot of text on phones, whether it’s for e-mail, text messaging or Twitter updates. The growing proportion [...]

I never cease to be amazed by the extraordinary things you come across at trade shows. Although it’s only day two of Mobile World Congress and I’ve not had a lot of time to look around, I think I’ve already seen the product that I’d label as the weirdest.
In the depths of Hall 2, I [...]

Today at Mobile World Congress, Sagem Wireless unveiled its Puma phone, the first results of a licensing deal announced in October last year.
When talking about the launch with colleagues in the industry, I generally got looks of disbelief that I would recommend going to see a product from Sagem Wireless. The company has been out [...]

I recently attended a very interesting debate about whether Google or Rupert Murdoch had more influence in the UK today. Speakers also considered who would have more influence in ten years’ time. During the debate one of the protagonists refrained from calling Google the Antichrist, but only just. Similar things have been said about Mr [...]