I'll have some more on the Symbian news in a bit, but thought I'd get this up first. Russell's apparently a bit of a mobile history buff, and something he's mentioned before is Hutchison's Rabbit phone system, which it launched in May 1992… and shut down in December 1993. Rabbit [...]

Hard on the heels of yesterday's announcement from Google that the launch of Android would be delayed from the second quarter to the fourth, is a potentially huge one from Symbian that could make Android completely irrelevant when devices eventually do start to ship. It's too early to see exactly [...]

I've seen several things worth reading over the last several days that I wanted to share… 24% of Apple iPhone users upgraded from a Motorola RAZR - SMS Text News 24% — or, almost a quarter — of those surveyed who upgraded to an iPhone, did so from a stinky [...]

One of my speaking gigs last week was EDM08 in London. Unfortunately, I couldn't stay for long, but I did catch a very interesting presentation by O2's Mike Short, currently VP of R&D. I first met Mike back in ZagMe days and he's always good value. In his presentation, he [...]

It’s not just me that thinks Nokia’s a-bag-a-shite - SMS Text News: I often feel that I am the only chap on the planet calling out Nokia for piss poor innovation and ridiculous, ridiculous lack of attention to really important elements %u2014 especially when I%u2019m regularly coming into contact with [...]

I noted last month the growing number of manufacturers that are developing their own UI to run on top of Windows Mobile. Today, IntoMobile pointed out another, Glide, from ASUS. ASUS introduces its own Windows Mobile UI - Glide: Let's see, HTC has its own UI (TouchFLO and TouchFLO 3D) [...]

I've been in San Diego for Qualcomm's BREW 2008 event, and yesterday in the expo, I saw some neat stuff from a company called GestureTek. It's a company that's been around for a while doing motion-sensing technology, and they're putting it into mobile phones now. However, they use a handset's [...]

Regular readers will know we don't really talk about handsets much here on MH, except for the occasional shiny-object lust, but I wanted to point out this post I just saw over at IntoMobile about some forthcoming Motorola cameraphone. Moto has been working on devices with Kodak-branded cameras in an [...]

I meant to post about this last week, but a hectic schedule prevented me. So, sorry if you've read about it already. The Churchill Club, is a prestigious Silicon Valley tech forum, well known (among other things) for its Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate. This year, the panel consisted [...]

I'm behind on the blogging front this week - too much work and travel. But on Monday, I went to my third Mobile Monday in a month. This time I was playing at home, in Munich, which I co-founded. This was really well-attended, with about 200 people, all turning out [...]

I've been using the Nokia Podcasting app on my N82, and I'm pretty happy with it. Like most people, I suspect, I'm terminally behind on keeping up with my podcasts, but it's great being able to get the N82 to check for new updates and download them automatically, then listen [...]

Today, the Mobile Marketing Association announced the results of the EMEA Board of Directors election, held back in March and for which I asked for your support here at MobHappy. I'm delighted to announce that not only did I get elected in the face of some very tough competition, but [...]

It's a sign of things really taking off when a mainstream publisher starts taking an interest. So it's great to see Mobile Internet for Dummies being launched. Even better is that I know a few of the five authors (Dan Appelquist of Vodafone, Michael O'Farrell of the dotMobi Advisory Group [...]

I recently replaced my SO's trusty old Sony Ericsson K750 with a sparkling new Samsung SGH-U600. Decent little phone, for the most part, and she seems happy enough with it. Of course part of the "sales experience" entails me moving all her contacts over. I've not really had a problem [...]

HTC, best known for its wide range of Windows Mobile devices, today announced the Touch Diamond, an update to its Touch device released several months back. The Touch was notable because of the TouchFLO UI, an HTC-created, customized user interface that ran on top of Windows Mobile. The Diamond features [...]

Mary Meeker is the legendary Morgan Stanley analyst (aka "Queen of the Net"), whose regular state-of-the-nation reports into internet trends are eagerly awaited among the digerati as being both insightful and visionary. One of the emerging trends she points to in her most recent work (get hold of a copy!) [...]

This week saw me in San Francisco for the mega Web 2.0 event - I'm actually on my way back now. It's a huge event, with thousands of people in the cavernous Moscone Center (sic) in San Francisco. I'll be posting again when I've been through notes and caught up [...]

Vodafone Sets Up "innovation Lab" with China Mobile & Softbank: China Mobile, Japan's Softbank and Vodafone have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services. The three companies expect the initiative will help to accelerate the commercial deployment of [...]

Luca Passani is a mobile tech guru and the guy behind WURFL - if you don't know, WURFL is an open source project that allows mobile developers to identify which mobile phone a mobile web page is being viewed on. In layman's terms (the only way I understand it), this [...]

One of the keynotes given at last week's Mobile Marketing Forum was given by Adhish Kulkarni (Buongiorno) and Karim Khalifi of Vodafone Egypt, about the various marketing activities that Vodafone has been up to over there. One of the products they talked about was the very clever "Please Call Me" [...]

There's broadly two schools of thought for mobile technology. The issue tends to polarise people and some can get quite heated about it all, for some reason. First, we have what I call the Separatistas, who believe that a specialist device is always going to beat one that can multi-task. [...]