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blackberry storm

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What is it about us? Are we special or what? are we thick bastards? Why do we accept this?

Europe and Mobile Phone cross border charging

Here is article. Interesting. What will it force the operators to do? Europe needs to force Irish mobile operators to slash ALL costs.

3 News

Launch a new phone specifically for social networking Article here

The only thing, how is this gonna take of in Ireland with the price the networks are charging. Unless 3 offers a good price, this is no good really.
PRICING
"INQ¹ will be available free on a contract tariff from GBP 15 per month offering unlimited free Facebook, Skype, Windows Live Messenger and web access, plus 75 minutes of calls to other networks, unlimited texts, unlimited email and unlimited free 3-to-3 calls. GBP 20 will get you all of the above but with 200 minutes of calls to other networks. INQ¹ will also be available on PAYG (Pay-as-you-go) at GBP 79.99 with Internet packages available from GBP 5 per month."


NOW, as we ALL know, this means nothing for the Irish market, although 3 have done a good job on trying to lower prices. So hopefully they'll have similar offer in Ireland. But im not holding anything waiting let alone my breath.

Nokia madness

More from nokia, they have launched the Vertu in japan. Apparently there will be a real life human available to answer questions for the owner! lmao...oookaaaaay! the phone is totally ugly also, as you can see.



Nokia are also NOW planning on launching an MVNO in Japan! Thats good! After the phone is sold now they can sell you content and other services. I wonder what Vodafone and DoCoMo are thinking. There has been a march from service providers to Launch their own phone models so is this Nokias way of upping the stakes against the service providers and other handset manufacturers??
Nokia MVNO here

the PEEK?

http://www.getpeek.com/

Look at this, as i mentioned about why the Blackberry is so good, this genius idea just follows that idea. As the site itself says...

"
Simply email.

Introducing Peek, a super thin and stylish device that lets you take your email with you and stay connected.

Get unlimited email for a flat, low monthly rate. Totally easy."



BRILLIANT.

Opening up a G1

This article to jail break the G1! careful now

1. Turn on WiFi in the G1 (Settings > Wireless Controls > Wi-Fi). Make sure you're connected to a network.

2. Start up PTerminal (search in the Market) and you'll get a prompt once its launched.

3. Enter cd system and hit Enter.

4. Enter cd bin and hit Enter.

5. Enter telnetd and hit Enter. You've now started telnet on your G1.

6. Enter netstat and hit Enter. You'll now see your G1's IP address. You can also find this in the Settings > Wireless Controls > Wi-Fi > and click on your network you're connected to. It will show you your IP.

7. Start up Terminal on your OS X machine, or bring up a command prompt on your Windows box. Type telnet [your.ip.address.we.just.found] and hit Enter/Return. So, if your IP was 192.168.1.101, you'd type telnet 192.168.1.101 and hit Enter/Return.

8. You are logged in as root now. To remount the system file as read write, type mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system from the Terminal/Command Prompt and hit Enter/Return.

Googles stupid Problem?

Im Thinking this may have not been such a stupid idea. Reports of people being able to Reboot their phone by writing the word reboot and sending it in a text message?
It there some sort of glitch that is working of some part of the phone that it shouldnt be right now..right now.....I have a feeling this is google's plan. And its a great plan..If google can make their Phone do that from an sms, what can they make a Coffee machine do? If you get me!

I believe that they accidentally revealed this functionality through this glitch!! I Phone will follow??

Noika sets up Shop in Hollywood? WTF

Funny Article, Engineers are laid off in finland. BUT holly wood is the place Nokia wants to tap for research? hmmmmmm, either someone is on coke, or this could be interesting,

The best line for the article stats "Nokia is the unlikely star of a Hollywood dream, and the company will probably end up working as a waitress for a few years before middle age puts such thoughts to rest, or the money runs out, or both."

B'Berry Javelin and Bold - Nokia E71 Vs E63

BlackBerry Javelin And Bold




E71 and E63

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meet the blackberry javelin??????

Register article here
erm, after reading that the Nokia E71 has a cheaper similar model called the E63, blackberry announces the javelin, which in all intensive purposes seems to be the Blackberry Bold minus the 3G capabilities!!!!

Reading other articles has confirmed it has no 3G and its is ready for launch in MID 2009....yes i typed 2009... o_0.....a wtf moment...Is this so it can copy nokias business model of releasing a cheaper version of its top selling phone!!! basically cheaper materials with a few changes here made!!

Its interesting but is there some sort of psychological aspect here, where they have done research, 2 companies doing the same thing is strange unless there is some sort of solid science behind it like marketing figures or something. Is there a group of people that want to appear to have the Blackberry bold and E71 from a distance??? But really they have the same look different innards model???

UK Ofcom comparison data including US and IRish Data

Apparently according to this article the Irish are the most

"Among the countries sampled the Irish use their mobiles the most, clocking up 179 minutes a month supplemented by 154 text messages, compared to 136 minutes and 81 texts in the UK - even the Americans are more text-heavy than us these days, with 107 texts a month sent by US subscribers."

Which goes back to the payment issue, if we talk more, why do we get LESS minutes and Texts for the same price as other nations? Interesting! and there's only one answer to that. And we all know it.

Nokia adding lotus notes to email service.

Artice in the NY times here

This is strange, how many people use lotus notes for their email? is this to target the blackberry and its corporate clientele? because i dont know anyone that uses lotus notes.
see this quoute

"With this partnership we are able to mobilize close to 90 percent of corporate emails without any extra investments from corporations," Ilari Nurmi, VP at Nokia, told Reuters."

Which is fair enough, i guess, corporate will pay. could this also be behind the charging of blackberry for enterprise models? Corporate will spend more for these business centric services compared to the average.
Also according to this article, a very important piece of Data

"Some analysts have tapped smart phones as the market segment with the best hope for growth in 2009. In the third quarter Nokia sold 1.1 million of its new sleek, full-keyboard E71 phones, outselling RIM's business user-targeted Blackberry Bold by five-to-one, according to Nokia."

WOW! 5 to 1 - but this underestimates Americas market for phonage, remember in the USA, people have 18 month to 24 month contracts, and no one upgrades really due to poor offers. And the Blackberry Storm was just released. Which resembles the Iphone but with a more business pedigree.

Some have said that E63 is a blackberry beater!!! If its cheaper components and stripped, how can it?

Blackberry - Adding Value

Blackberry are going to release a new "enterprise" version of Blackberry storm, Which will set you back some extra money per month. Did'nt Microsoft do this with access, found out what was its core money spinner was (or what it thought it could charge the most for), and spun it of from the Main office package (an advantage over other sellers was the bundle i reckon, especially when google and open office are there) - Someone WONT charge those prices for simple mail enterprise or other, thus taking blackberrys slice a little further! Nokia Mail Service will be a contender.

Article from the Mighty Register here
Enterprise Tutorial setup is here
Some more configuration for enterprise here

Another Rip off example.

When is a minute not a minute?? when your Irish

check out this article

D-I-S-G-R-A-C-E

And if thats not bad enough, they are saying they area gonna have to raise the price? Why not charge the rest of your customers what Irish customers are charged? Or would that put you out of business??? Disgusting.

BlackBerry Storm - Cant wait to get at it.. he really cant

This is funny, its a grown man with a camera in one had filming himself struggle with his other hand! Best packaging opening sequence ever! motion picture gold!

Why the black berry wins (its secret)

set up of Gmail on Nokia OR why other phones not just nokia lose


Why blackberry wins....Simple steps for the same want....Connectivity :) i <3 connectivity

Step 2.

As you can see the email added at the top of the 2nd pic, add another email address is as simple as clicking add email address...like the previous screen. SIMPLE.

This is what has taken blackberry to its much deserved place in the business world. And like all great solutions its simple.

This explains the previous nokia posts connection problems

This blog article, explains the problem with Nokia and Non blackberry type systems for email, just check out the setting he has to foother with to get his email.

*foother / Irish verb for "mess with", "to tinker with" etc
Prounounced...[foo_ter]...lol

some more thoughts on Nokia Email Service Vs Blackberry

As another point to note so far the beta allows 6 email addresses to be added in the NOKIA setup, while Blackberry currently has 10. Blackberry wins just cause they offer more? Or is it a sign of a more advanced system that can handle more for less?

Pricing. This is gonna be a big issue, with the price of some nokia "machines" going to the ridiculous extremes of near laptop prices, is nokia gonna charge for this Email service? They should not. This will only slow their market share if not stop it increasing altogether (maybe they do not care about that) .
This will reduce a very good "mobile product retort" to blackberry in its tracks. Think of this particularly when users are already being ripped of by Mobile service providers (MSP's) and high handset prices. For nokia, the business model they have behind this is all important for success, and sometimes in order to claw back, Nokia should take a small hit not the consumer.

Connectivity. Some people are having problems with connections with their nokia phones, Blackberry does this seamlessly, from Wifi one second on to the MSP's service with out you even noticing. Nokia does not do this smoothly sometimes. In fact sometimes, you just want to smash the nokia to pieces.

NOKIA forward???

In a recent post, i copy-N-Pasted in results from the mobile world regarding the use of OS etc in phones. Symbian being the most popular in the world. Followed by Windows, and RIM

Now, while i dont rate Windows mobile too well (it functional, but nothing else, and Microsoft does not like other people creating apps like apple and nokia does) I am thinking about maybe where Nokia needs to venture in its development in order to combat RIM / Windows mobile etc.

RIM Blackberry is an astounding phenomena. Its not called the crack berry for nothing. In Ireland we have a different sort of crack (Irish Euphamism, not the terrible drug) And it will indeed still keep you in up to date on the crack happening anywhere.

Its amazing (-ly simple) system allows a person to have at least 10 Emails routed to their phone, in (read carefully Nokia) a simple few click process. Its literally, add email address and password. All emails are then sent to you handset. I have a few email address coming in, an i could have them all going to the one address if i wanted.

NOKIA, on the other hand has some very cool tech. E61/N95/N96 etc, BUT, what business person/Any person for that matter wants to go through the setting up of an email account like featured above Nokia style? There should be a specific mail account set up in exactly the same way as Blackberry has its system set up, that enables routing of mail directly and easily to the handset, while enabling ease of use for the user.

see pics 1 & 2 below and compare the ease at informational addiction can be set up



NOKIA has the following process which should be a trip down memory lane for some people.
please note the technical phrases that the average user has no idea about. Thse pics are not exact, but are fairly typical. This is for an exchange server.


Hold the presses...BUT ....to their credit, they have awoken to the threat (after i searched around their website for a whilei found their response, and ho wmuch did it comst thme to analyse the obvious???)...and low and behold....Nokia Email service...

Its In BETA stage since august 2008....but none the less, the exact same idea as the RIM Blackberry's email system. Maybe it should be called the nokia blackberry service


NOKIA BLACKBERRY SERVICE?
Obviously some analysis has been done and im not the only one seeing this which is good. Nokia phones are capable of way more than blackberry's (which is yet another problem, more to come later) BUT Blackberry's do one thing and do it well, they get you your messages and deliver it to your hand, in a simple manner, that even business people can master to a degree!!! Blackberry is the handset equivalent of the sms message. Basic, yet brilliant.

In the future race, Blackberry will have to enable its phones to have the dexterity that Nokia has (such as other apps available etc which is where Microsoft will loose, which can only come from a larger user base, which can only come from a good product) - Nokia has to their credit spotted the genius of the blackberry, and hopefully its a success for them (not European Bias there on my behalf either)

It may not though, simply because, blackberry is associated with getting all your email to the handset, plain and simple. Nokia is known for having complex hi tech phones and simple talk - N - text handsets also. (Not for the purpose) As someone who has family members who are heavy crackberry users, who appreciate the blackberry for being simple, the question is how are nokia gonna take their vote???? Their nokia email service may simply be drowned out by its other features, such as their music system, 5mp camera etc

Windows mobile i don't rate because, well, windows Mobile does not translate well to the small screen. Apple i don't rate just yet and ill explain again at some other point. There are 2 players for me, blackberry and Symbian (which nokia now fully owns) At some point i want to use a nokia as i do my blackberry! but it will take some shifting to release blackberry's grasp on my connectivity. And nokia should note, it can take just one generation to indoctrinate people in to a whole way of using a product, then you have to spend the next decade trying to get them to change to you. How can Nokia take away that simplicity of reputation from blackberry?

FYI, amongst other possessions, i have an N95 an N70 .....AND my favorite so far the Blackberry Curve. I heart Blackberry!!!

Nokia rings warning bell

This news in from NOKIA in europe, slashing their estimates and outlook by 20 million sales of handsets.

Ill have more on my idea of where Nokia must go in another article.

IPhone cut won't apply in Republic

This just shows and proves whats happening in the Irish market. This takes nerve and cheek. I hope people dont buy the iphone.

also, for some bizarrre reason the O2 Have grown! Irish People wake up, you continue to give business while the do the above.

UK Vs Ireland phone plan pricing

OBJECTIVE:
1. Nokia N95 8gb.
2. Mid Range Plan

UK Vs Ireland. This is an example of the RIP off that Irish Mobile users face.
I'm using the example of the 49 Euro Bill pay per month example.
50 Euro would be the midrange of Monthly billing plans for Ireland.
In the UK 45 Pounds would be their mid range.

45.00 GBP = 52.5081 EUR (as of evening of NOV 14- 2008


In the case of the O2 plans....750 Mins and 850 text difference. What ever the currency difference, you cant say that we share different Minutes or whatever! A minute is a minute. And a text is a text.

So there you have it, Absolute RiP OFF - o2 Ireland even adds on an extra 5 Euro if you select a 12 month contract(E55) over an 18month (e50). (This is a trick to make you THINK its better value to be locked in to a contract for 6 months longer, but which actually provides little benefit or incentive really. Its just a psychological ploy, because humans prefer 50 to 55, trick of the brain eh!)

It's a wonder how or why MINUTES and TEXTS cost more in Ireland than the UK. Both operators operate north and south of the Border. And Equipment is Equipment. I imagine whats adds the costs is their stupid bullS**t excuses.



* All these sites used in the comparison were accessed on Friday NOV 14 2008 at roughly 10pm.

Interesting view from INTEL honcho << WiMAX>>

Last month, Intel CEO Paul Otellini stated that WiMax will be the wireless technology to bring mobile broadband to the masses and that around 1.3bn people will regularly be within range of a basestation by 2012.

3 Plans for Future speed

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/14/3_hsdpa_hsupa_rollout/

I wonder what the plans are for Ireland?

some interesting numbers and facts for the market!

Chart I: Wireless Phone Market Shares (By Brand)

56% Symbian (primarily Nokia)
13% Windows Mobile
12% RIMM Blackberry
9% LINUX
7% MAC (iPhone)
2% Palm
1% other
Source: Industry statistics, Money Morning Staff Research.

More importantly, Apple has recently been selling more units than the king of the enterprise-mobile phone segment, Research in Motion Ltd. lately. The mobile phone market is huge and has been almost doubling in size year after year. And although growth is expected to slow a bit in the future, the profit possibilities remain huge. Could these market growth numbers and Apple’s share gains be maintained?

To get a better idea, I started by studying the worldwide market-share sales projections for the “smartphone” market. Admittedly, these statistics harken back from before the current financial crisis really took hold in the past month or so. Still, it’s a good starting point. Let’s take a look at Chart II:

Chart II: Projected Global “Smartphone” Sales

The year-by-year and projected annual breakdown of global smartphone sales between both the high-end consumer and conventional corporate users (in millions of units).

Year Corporate High End Consumer
2006 : 12 + 39
2007 21 + 77
2008 40 + 134
2009 74 + 219
2010 111 + 300
Sources: Industry Statistics, Money Morning staff research.

First post, Reason behind Blog

Hi, my first post, i used to have another blog that was going for a couple of months on the same topic. BUT, i moved away and was busy so i had to give it up! It was taking alot of my time.
Now im back! I cant resist mobile phones and the way they are evolving in to our lives.

what started the original post was part of frustration at the way irish people were being over charged for something that other nations and markets were getting cheaper. Outside of Japan Ireland is apparently second highest mobile users in the world (In terms of spend per bill) And i was wondering how and why the Irish Phone proprietors are ripping us off.

So im back and will look at everything from Irish market to whats happening over seas.