Motorola has recently released its Q device, which some have dubbed the RAZRBerry. That might be a catchy name and it tends to summarise what the device is seemingly all about, which is email, but its proper name - “Q” - more aptly catches the mood: minimalism, sleek, stylish. Unlike the stuffy Blackberry, which until [...]

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When roaming to other countries, the welcome text from my operator tells me how to access my voicemail from abroad, which is useful. However, this is a golden opportunity to grab my attention and offer me services. For example, why not push me a link to an online information service about the country I’m visiting [...]

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There are some applications in the market that convert a text message to an MMS, such as an animated message (or avatar). Using a technology like Fontifier, which can create fonts from your hand-writing, it would be possible to send “hand written” notelets.
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My latest Blackberry bill from Vodafone was twice the usual amount. I had that sinking feeling that I would wait on a customer care line for ages, but was relieved to find an email address on the bill. Here’s the automatic reply:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: [...]

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There’s still an obsession with “mobile web”, recently upgraded to “mobile web 2.0″. Now, I don’t have anything against taking the emerging app-centric web techniques and moving them onto mobile devices, which is a somewhat natural progression. As some observers (e.g. Ajit Jaoker) have pointed out, Web 2.0 might be a good fit for mobile.
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Operators are starting to roll-out online back-up services for our address books. In case we change phone, or lose it, we can load the contacts back into the new one in a jiffy. Of course, once an operator has the user’s address book, there are a hundred interesting things to do with it, starting with [...]

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