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The doorbell rang before 9am this morning. There stood a courier guy with a big box containing an Xda Orbit 2 mobile phone courtesy of mobile operator O2 and its ad agency VCCP.
This is the latest smartphone from O2, running Windows Mobile 6, which is just now becoming available in the UK. So getting [...]

Reviewing some of the reporting and commentary from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, it’s clear to see that this is heaven for gadget geeks.
I wish I were there!
New mobile devices abound, either launching very soon or in the works for later in the year, such as one that interests me a lot [...]

I was thinking about who I would follow to see what’s going on at Macworld 2008 in San Francisco as the world awaits The Word from Steve on what Apple will be delivering.
Maybe what’s in his leaked keynote address, or not. That will be known imminently.
So very unfortunate timing to see, at 5:20pm, that Twitter [...]

As a podcaster, I often do interviews and other audio recordings when on the road.
Clients’ offices, in hotels, airports, at conferences, you name the place, opportunities often arise for recording a conversation that may end up as a podcast.
My preferred portable audio recorder remains the Microtrack 24/96, about which I wrote an enthusiastic review [...]

As any podcaster knows, the barriers to entry for starting a podcast are very low.
As I often like to describe it, all you need to get going are five things:

A computer
A microphone
Free recording and editing software
Somewhere to store and share the audio files
Some imagination

That will get you started.
As you get going, you may want to [...]

I’ve had a really superb mobile phone for the past three months - a Nokia N95 8GB, the latest generation of a phone that packs 8 gigs of internal flash storage space, has wifi, GPS and more bells and whistles than I could have wished for.
I got my N95 almost by chance. One day [...]

Some further thoughts on my ongoing Skypephone experience.
As I mentioned before, I love its slimness, it’s light weight, it’s appearance. It sits comfortably in my trouser pocket most of the time. It goes with me wherever I go.
Which is great except that I can hardly use it because 3’s 3G network footprint where I [...]

The iPhone came to Europe last night. If you’re in Germany or the UK, you can now get hold of one over here.
If you do have an iPhone, no doubt you’ll be spending a lot of time this weekend playing with it and discovering it’s features.
You might be going online with it, and your [...]

Since mobile operator 3 launched the Skypephone in the UK last Tuesday, I’ve had a pair of them to play with.
Quite a few thoughts to share. First, though, a quick overview of the Skypephone.
The photo here of the black Skypephone - there are two others, in white with blue or pink edging - doesn’t [...]

Skype, the internet phone service, is all about disruption.
I remember thinking, when I first started using Skype back in 2004, that here’s a small, nimble company that will drive a massive wedge into traditional telephone service business models.
From a user perspective, the model is dead simple and highly compelling - free phone calls via [...]