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 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 [...]

As we approach the launch of the iPad on 3 April, I’ve been thinking about how people might use it.

Once again Apple has cleverly created enough hype and buzz around a new product to ensure hundreds of thousands of advance orders; it’s certainly the latest must-have gadget for the “technorati”. But this left me thinking: [...]

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 [...]

I was talking to a friend of mine last week — a software developer — who’s been a committed iPhone user. Although he isn’t a Mac or iPhone developer, he’s passionate about how much better the iPhone’s user interface and apps are than any other phone he’s tried.

However, he’s just switched away from the iPhone, [...]

It’s no secret that RIM’s browser isn’t among its strongest assets. The list of sites that the BlackBerry browser either struggles or fails to render is growing by the day. That said, its poor performance hasn’t harmed BlackBerry sales, with subscribers now totalling at least 32 million. The dominance of BlackBerry Enterprise Server in business, [...]

There’s one development that could turn the US mobile broadband market on its head this year. If you want to know what it is you can skip to the end of this piece. Or you can read the next couple of paragraphs and let the suspense build.

I’ve spent the last few weeks researching the market [...]

Earlier this week I had lunch with a friend and his father. The father’s a witty and clever man who’s written several books about various topics, including chaos theory and nuclear physics.

He asked what I did for a living. On hearing the words “mobile phone” he reached into his jacket and brought out a shiny [...]