You've probably seen us talk about Alfie Dennen and all the cool stuff he and his team have done at moblog:tech before, but he never fails to turn up with cool new things. His latest trick is a brand new platform that's powering their moblog community. You can check it [...]

I was out in San Diego a while back for Qualcomm's annual BREW confab. It's pretty easy to think of Qualcomm as this monolithic and slightly nasty company that does little more than bully its way to profits with patents and intellectual property and some chips, and is only interested [...]

Bloomberg.com: Technology: Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, sued a former executive now working for Apple Inc., accusing him of disclosing its trade secrets to aid in the marketing of Apple's iPhone. Michael Fenger in March ended an almost six-year career at Motorola where he was a vice president [...]

…you go see a great movie (The Dark Knight, in this case), and the most exciting thing you see is a Nokia touchscreen handset. And then you laugh when you see a main character with a years-old 6630 and feel like you're part of an inside joke, 'cause, damn, what [...]

MocoNews has a post on a new report from In-Stat about Google and Apple's efforts in mobile: First, he said Google is primarily using Android to push its agenda of doing location-based search, and second, the two Bay Area companies are implementing change by marketing and merchandising better, not developing [...]

The iHype continues this morning, with the world's press breathlessly repeating the Apple PR saying the company sold 1 million iPhones over the weekend. That's a decent number, and eclipses by far the first-gen model, which El Jobso is keen to remind us took 74 days to hit that model. [...]

I've mentioned before about how I think a key aspect of mobile operating systems of the near future will be the degree to and ease with which they can be customized with user interfaces. I think this is part of what's behind the recent Symbian move, for instance. But what [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

May 19th sees the annual return of the much loved Demo Night at Munich Mobile Monday. It's the most popular event of the year as companies come from far and wide to demo their mobile products. This year, we'll be expecting a huge turnout as we've partnered with Mobile Internet [...]

I spent some time at CTIA yesterday with Jon Lech Johansen and Monique Farantzos of DoubleTwist, a company which makes a media-sharing app and service. You might know Johansen better as DVD Jon, made famous by his cracking the content-scrambling system used as copy protection on DVDs. Since then, he's [...]

What, me late? Lost and couldn't find the room? Never. Anyway, the upside is that I missed CTIA head honcho Steve Largent's standarized bitching about taxes and regulation. Downside: I wasn't so late as to miss Verizon Wireless boss Lowell McAdam bitching about taxes and regulation. To hear these guys [...]