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kapow — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:32:51 -0000

a jobs a job. you took the job knowing full well what it entails. i dont care if you have 50 deadlines to meet you do what your supposed to do. thats what you get paid for. give me the damn job if you cant be arsed or have no interest!
sods law.

hey any news on the samsung soul on three? i hear a release is imminent?

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bensmith — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:25:56 -0000

Sorry pet peeve: It's the British market, not the English one.

On a more helpful note, all the 3 firms world-wide select their own handsets so what 3UK does is no indication of what will happen in Ireland... other than via consumer pressure.

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Richi — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:55:01 -0000

i wonder if these handsets you have mentioned above will appear at some stage on the 3ireland network because frankly the choice of handsets in the Republic is quite bad compare to the English market....

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sierranighttide — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:31:49 -0000

Speaking as a nerd and a geek I’ve gone camping three times this summer and two more are planned – the gps is a wonderful tool for campers
I’ve traveled the states from one coast to the other with an Eee PC – it saved me a lot of potential frustrated moments and getting hoplesly lost
Flat tire, dead battery & no wifi service – PDA phone worked great and got help

Next? I might be traveling the South America seas and I’m bring my nerd toys with me.

Us geeks & nerds have a LIFE and we have complete efficently with nerd toys and survival skills -- Maybe you’re just jealous?

BTW – I’m a grrrrl – Nerds & geeks rock!

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sierranighttide — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:26:06 -0000

Sad…. Just sad about the idiot journalist. This is why the information on gadgets in printed news papers sucks! I don’t even bother to read most of them, as they’re boring or give no interesting information. Bloggers is where to go for information. Double check / research to ensure it’s accurate and or true…but still the blogs is what I read.

Glad I found this site, I’ll be reading often.

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Mike42 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:18:38 -0000

How's the stick wounds chap?

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danlane — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:49:22 -0000

You don't always do a job because you care about it, you do a job to get paid for it. Not caring about the subject matter doesn't mean you can do a half-arsed job.

All you're doing is confirming the laziness of mainstream media.

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danlane — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:40:08 -0000

My slingbox gets used every day... never on my mobile though!

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danlane — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:39:10 -0000

Exactly, and it's because not everybody wants to eat, sleep and live mobile phones that they need advice from the people who do, literally, eat, sleep and live with mobile phones on their minds. When mainstream media prints news about mobile phones they need to make sure they've done their research so that the normobs of the world can be informed without putting in too much effort.

Thanks for proving our point :)

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mostlythis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:30:17 -0000

mind you - there was nothing genuinly *new*
bold has been at various trade shows
E71 has been in nokia store on regent street for a few weeks
N96 is there too
tocca is in every mobile store in the country

X1 is rare as is the things you presumably wernt allowed to blog

however if its a bloody press show - why have things you cant show on display.
unless it was purely on embargo. which most press ignore.

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South77 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:16:54 -0000

right, it's totally rude and slack. no excuses.

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mostlythis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:53:49 -0000

now you are just making me hungry, I'll put the kettle on.

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smstextnews — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:48:21 -0000

Aye. If the journalist just wants the release and a picture, fine. You get
that by email. But when you turn up to an event, it's downright rude to pop
in, stuff your face, ignore everything, spot the 'goodie bag', grab one and
head off!

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mostlythis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:44:44 -0000

ideally not - but you know daddy got me this job.

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mostlythis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:44:02 -0000

Agreed, presumably you were given some sort of takeway press kit. 3 would be looking for a magazine like heat to stick the E71 (in girl friendly white) or black berry bold - next to some lippy and wedges.

Of course the danger being it ends up being PR for the handsets rather than the network - but im sure the press kit photos are '3''d to within an inch of their DPI.

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smstextnews — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:41:14 -0000

I really don't agree. If you're the technology correspondent for a girly
mag or a computer mag or whatever... it's your job to take an interest, even
if it bores-you-to-shit. You take an interest. You walk about. You look.
You poke.

You don't arrive, stuff your face and piss off with the press release 60
seconds later.

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mostlythis — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:36:07 -0000

Entertaining post, but chill mate.

Imagine if you had to cover 15-20 launches a month. Not all on things you care about, you may be for example massively into home cinema but not care about mobile much. etc. Most of the results from a launch like this is to get the Press Release printed - mostly verbatim, and a photo in the publication.

Job done.

Dirty but realistic.

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Mike42 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:27:51 -0000

Hmmm...Orb. Slingbox.

er, taxi for mass-market FAIL, please! It was a buzz but really - TV on your mobile? Next.

...actually, I met a Slingbox user the other day. No, really! I was carving my initials into his side with a stick and he woke up...wait, no, that's a Monty Python routine....

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meraj — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:00:14 -0000

Great insight Ewan, I share the same feeling.

I remember being at the Nokia Growing Together conference and having tons of international journalists doing nothing related to the phones, and looked at me crazy just for taking tons of comparison images. The same happened at the N96 and N78 launch, although there were less of these mainstream reporters.

They probably think "This guy never saw a phone in his life..."

Pretty ironic it would be!

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danlane — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:45:46 -0000

http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/07/3_skypephone...

There is the next skypephone, plug it into your laptop and it'll load the drivers to use it as a mobile broadband dongle... there's your innovation!, every other operator will sell you a handset contract with data and specifically forbid you from tethering it.

Three are pushing all the right buttons for me right now!

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Mike42 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:21:19 -0000

Go the Daily Mail technology columnist.

....Of course, your readership aren't interested in mobile broadband dongles for their free laptops while on holiday in their velour-stuffed caravans in some Midlands white trash wasteland hell-hole.

....I'm amazed you were even able to find this site......

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smstextnews — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:19:06 -0000

Thank you, Mr Shit Hot ;)

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smstextnews — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:18:07 -0000

Alas no mention of the E66!

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constantine — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:17:58 -0000

Thanks Ewan, you'll be the first to know if Nokia is doing something in the UK. Well it could be you or Rafe, depending on whoever has push email turned on ;-)

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doug — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:42:53 -0000

did they mention the E66??