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Tesco has launched its new Talk Wifi service (via Pocket Picks), offering users of a few Nokia S60 devices a downloadable application that lets them make cheap calls over WiFi, to go alongside its low-cost MVNO and fixed VoIP services It’s fairly similar to services like Truphone or Fring (indeed, I assume Tesco’s using a [...]

Even though it’s 2008, syncing contacts and other info still sucks. Various pieces of the puzzle are there, but it seems like they rarely all come together. SyncML is great, if you can use somebody like Zyb, and your handset is supported. But there are still far too many handsets that don’t support SyncML, or [...]

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I get a lot of thinking done in the shower. I’ll leave it at that so as not to draw any unwanted mental images, but this morning, I was washing what little hair I’ve got left and had a thought about Facebook. Since my trip to San Diego for the BREW conference (more thoughts on [...]

Despite the hype, fixed-mobile convergence hasn’t made huge inroads in the market, for a variety of reasons. But when I was at my local Target store yesterday, I noticed these: It’s a little unit from GE that you plug your standard home phone into, and connect to your mobile via Bluetooth, turning your mobile connection [...]

Alfie Dennen from Moblog.co.uk has set up a site ahead of next week’s Mobile Web 2.0 Summit in London discussing the slightly nebulous idea of Mobile Web 2.0, and what it is and what it entails. There’s some good debate going on over there, as well as a post by yours truly, so be sure [...]

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 camera instead of an accelerometer [...]

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 syncing contacts since I switched [...]

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 a new version, called TouchFLO [...]

Via MocoNews, the NYT has a case study on a test of mobile barcodes at an Ohio university. The test hasn’t proved very popular among students, despite the attraction of some of the services on offer, such as barcodes on bus stops that users can take a picture of to find out when the next [...]