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Mobile Industry Review Show - episode 19

Started by Ewan · 10 months ago

Mobile Industry Review Show - 19 from Ewan MacLeod on Vimeo.

Here, then, is Mobile Industry Review on location.

Yes! This Saturday, we headed down to sunny Brighton on the south coast of England, to visit the inaugural social media cafe (”Tuttle Club”) establishing itself in the town.

We’ve got a packed episode of pure [...] ... Continue reading »

58 comments

  • Constantine

    10 months ago

    props, the evolution of this podcast has been fun to watch. this is really some awesome stuff, makes me wish i was in London. looks like all the cool things in mobile are happening there!
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  • James Whatley

    10 months ago

    You're welcome to come and join us on the show anytime ;)

    ...and thanks for the feedback too - we genuinely really, really want as much as possible.
    This show is for you guys after all, y'know?

    :)
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  • Kip Hakes

    10 months ago

    I'm well up for a walk on part next time you're filming in London :D
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    All are welcome. Next week has a special guest, but we'll issue an invite for the next 'general' one and see if we can't get a few local viewers along.
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  • David Carrington

    10 months ago

    I agree that one of the great things about the MIR videos is that they're fun. How come James was the only one nuts enough to jump up and down for the video?
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  • James Whatley

    10 months ago

    I think the answer is in the question... :)
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    David, Dan and I are (a) more affected by gravity and (b) less inclined to look like idiots ^H^H^H energetic.
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  • DanLane

    10 months ago

    Same reason captain slow won't run on Top Gear :P
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Mullet hair?
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  • Kip Hakes

    10 months ago

    3GP feed doesn't seem to be up to date...
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Kip, I suspect it's just being uploaded now - all the various formats result in quite large files and Mr MacLeod's on the end of some pretty thin 'wet string' at the moment....
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Kip, All the feeds except the big video are now published. So give the 3GP a try!
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  • TerenceEden

    10 months ago

    Nice one. Might be an idea to get mics for each of you so you don't need to keep passing them around.

    Perhaps you need to get some UGC to integrate with the main video?

    Good stuff.
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  • James Whatley

    10 months ago

    Noted on the mic front.

    What you don't see is the weekly discussions about the kit but yes, we are working on it...
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    UGC - top idea! I'll put it on the list...
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  • Hetty Browne

    10 months ago

    Definitely the best one yet!! Well done guys
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Thanks Hetty!
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  • Kip Hakes

    10 months ago

    Yay!! Shout Out for me!!

    It's really getting much much better each week! I'll have a pen please ;)

    K
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    I haven't watched it yet (!), but happy to send them to you in recognition of all your constructive advice. Ping me an e-mail at ben.smith@mobileindustryreview.com with an address and I'll send them over.
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  • babernath

    10 months ago

    Great show. In regards to the iPhone troubles with e-mail and how it is not business critical yet, does the blame fall more with the device itself or the networks that's being used? Looking forward to the next show
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  • Ewan

    10 months ago

    It's a mix, I reckon babernath -- but I reckon it's 90% the handset
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  • technokitten

    10 months ago

    loving the out-takes! Who's getting the fancy pens then?!
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    See... everyone loves free stuff. Kip Hakes gets the pens because he asked nicely first. I'll try to have some more stuff for next week... Perhaps a bit more exciting than pens though :-)
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  • Ricky Chotai

    10 months ago

    guys i downloaded it on my n95 travelling on the train (granted I needed to be at a station to downloaded it very quicly) and watched it! Wicked podcast!
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  • James Whatley

    10 months ago

    "I've got a degree...."

    ROFLOL - Love it...
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  • issaham

    10 months ago

    This show was brilliant guys! As informative as it is I find it hilarious. About going to China. I was there two weeks ago and one very helpful and practical service was a language translation service that was being used by students at the university campus I was staying at. I stayed with a chinese family for a day and it proved extremely useful.
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Top stuff - thanks! Any name / links?
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  • issaham

    10 months ago

    I'll have the name ASAP :)
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Issaham, Congratulations - you were picked as the winner of the AQA book. Drop me a line at ben.smith@mobileindustryreview.com with your address and I'll post it out to you.
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  • Annie_Mole

    10 months ago

    Loving the podcast roundabout bit with Ben "I've got a degree you know" Smith

    Also Dan's "That'll be me James Whatley" bit was kewell

    So the iPhone then - sounds like it's kinda pants - get a normal phone and iTouch - Nice

    I did tell you about those pens in the car - didn't I???
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  • alan s

    10 months ago

    Another great show guys - going from strength to strength, and making this a 'must-see' for me these days. Interesting to see James' encyclopedaic knowledge in action on the handset recognition front!
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  • James Whatley

    10 months ago

    At this rate I might have to start swotting up!

    ;)
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  • Krystal

    10 months ago

    Isn't this only #18? Did I miss #18? You go away for one weekend...
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  • Ricky Chotai

    10 months ago

    Podcast 18: Special Report - Lastminute.com Labs launch FoneFood. It was an audio only one krystal, and a belated happy birthday!
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  • Krystal

    10 months ago

    Thanks!

    Clearly I was out of the loop for the weekend.
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    I see how this was confusing though Krystal... I'll be tidying up the feeds even more this week to avoid this in future.
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  • Krystal

    10 months ago

    It probably wasn't that confusing Ben, I've just only had like 3 hours sleep :D
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Ah Mr MacLeod... you git... you left my 'right of reply FAIL' in... :-)

    For those interested a quick post-mortem revealed that it didn't push because I had turned the feature off earlier for something else I was writing... I'll be back.
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  • AJ

    10 months ago

    It is all very well slating email on the iPhone but you dont compare it with anything else. I have an old iphone and I dont know of any device's email app that comes close, certainly none of the Nokia's I have ever used. I could go out and try every phone on the market but that is kind of what I hope you guys can do.

    NB The number of posts on this site seems to be inversely proportional to the number of contributors.

    Nice show though.
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  • Ewan

    10 months ago

    You're right, we'll compare in future. I didn't help with the production
    though -- I forgot to bring my Blackberry. I think the piece stands on it's
    own two feet though -- what you saw there was me trying to send a mail to
    Ben via my iPhone...
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    With a non-standard SIM in (that we have't fully gauged reliability of), on an overloaded WiFi (with 35 other geeks pounding it), in a poor signal area (granted may be the phone's fault) and with an idiot trying to prove you wrong without checking his own phone settings first :-)
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    AJ - Agreed and I screwed up the 'repost' by not having push switched on. The iPhone has a good few problems (battery, crashing apps), but I think e-mail is actually one of the better experiences. Ewan's going to argue that the Blackberry does it better and although I've never been a BB user, I expect he could well be right, but it comes at a cost (for enterprise users who need a special server) or relies on BIS in 'consumer' mode which has been unreliable, ties you to a special BB tariff with your operator often and looks like arse (IMHO excepting the Bold possibly).
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Yes people... we got pens.
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  • Ricky Chotai

    10 months ago

    put me down for one! :) Out of curiousity why are they soo good?
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Afraid they've already gone, but we'll have more stuff soon. They're not 'great', but Etymotics were good enough to give us them so why not share the love?
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  • tarek

    10 months ago

    I finally caught up with the Video Podcat over the weekend and then caught this one this morning. *Such* a great job. There was a serious lack of good Mobile related podcasts at the beginning of the year so MIR podcast is a welcome addition. Thanks for setting the standard so high guys, looking forward to the next episode.

    Oh and as for the podcast, I object to being called a Normob (I was the one with the iPhone 3G @ Brighton Tuttle in the video) ;) and that post I mentioned about the iPhone is up at MM2 if anyone is interested...

    http://www.mobilemessaging2.com/2008/08/16/why-...
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  • James Whatley

    10 months ago

    Thanks for the *awesome* feedback Tarek :)
    Cheers.

    (And good post btw)
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  • Liz Lowlife

    10 months ago

    Hurrah for the Caroline of Brunswick!
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  • James Whatley

    10 months ago

    I can recommend the Fish & Chips. They were lush.
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    and the free WiFi!
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  • Eddy

    10 months ago

    Very nice show! The best of all podcasts (with video). The good news is the shows keep getting better and better. Can't wait to hear the feedbacks when you're all back to London.

    If I could, I would send the MIR feed link to the marketing guys at
    B-T-R...(Thanks for feeling sorry for me as I happen to be a "happy canadian mobile user" ...total irony as those words can't go in the same sentence) to wake them up.
    Huuumm, I should also put some banners on street light poles to tell canadian customers to visit the web site for trusted mobile industry review.

    Well done guys and MIR have made it up to #1 on the list of my mobile industry related feed.
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  • Ben Smith

    10 months ago

    Eddy, Congratulations - you were randomly picked to win the Sagem phone in Episode 22! Drop me a line at ben.smith@mobileindustryreview.com with your address so I can get it to you.
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  • Eddy

    10 months ago

    Ben, I have emailed you the details.
    Thank you again,
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  • matthew bennett

    10 months ago

    Hey, another great podcast, guys! And thanks for the shout out! My website is not nseries.com, cause Nokia wanted that one for some reason. The Nokia Daily News lives at nseriesUS.com...

    About the iphone push tests... Didn't Ben say there was no signal? This might not work so well, yeah? I would liked to have seen the iPhone vs another device with real push to see which received the message first. Graphics are great, out takes are great. Slamming UK carriers might be a bit... locallized, but certainly of interest to UK users.

    Personally, I'd like to see more drinkin and cussin. Ewan, lemme know when you're in San Francisco. I'll buy you a pint!
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  • Kip Hakes

    10 months ago

    Try the new email client from Nokia - its fooking amazing.. usually pings quicker than my GMail notifier.
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  • James Whatley

    10 months ago

    I *really* liked it but it slowed my N95 down like you wouldn't believe...
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  • Kip Hakes

    10 months ago

    Hmm - do you have an 8Gb one?? My vanilla Silver N95 runs it like a treat..
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  • James Whatley

    10 months ago

    8GB one.

    I should write it up really...
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