Pepsi trial QR codes - more hassle than they’re worth?
Nov 18 2008
Posted by Martin as Mobile Phones
QR Codes are popular around the world as a way of quickly getting people to specific websites without having to type in URLs. Print a QR code like the one pictured here on your product and all customers need to do is take a photo of the code, scan it with QR code scanning software [...]
If you only read American tech blogs you could be forgiven for thinking that the first add-on applications for mobile phones only arrived in July when Apple opened their App Store. Of course, that’s far from the truth. Java-based apps have run on lots of phones for a long time and there have been applications [...]
See someone carrying two phones around and you’ll probably think one of three things about them - “busy business person”, “stupid poser” or “definitely up to something dodgy”. I’m none of those things and yet I’ve just bought a second phone, a Nokia N82, to go with my iPhone 3G. Why would I do that? [...]
Location awareness - the burglar’s best friend
Aug 20 2008
Posted by Martin as Internet, Mobile Phones
When I went on holiday recently I encouraged my friends (and you, my dear blog readers) to keep up with what I was doing via my posts to Twitter and photo uploads to Flickr, both of which were most easily followable on FriendFeed. While I was glad that I could let people know what I [...]
The one thing you notice when you spend time in Japan, especially Tokyo, is that everyone seems to use their mobile phones almost constantly. In the UK the heavy phone users are mainly the perpetual texters and annoying kids listening to music through their tinny phone speakers on the bus. Most other people keep their [...]
I’m a big fan of Truphone’s VoIP solution. I’ve got it installed on my Nokia E61i and it’s useful to have around if I want to make a call when abroad. A few pence per minute is a lot better than the 60p per minute, or whatever, my normal network will charge me. Unfortunately when [...]
Useful location awareness - we’re almost there
Jul 20 2008
Posted by Martin as Internet, Mobile Phones
Over the past couple of days I’ve been playing with two excellent location-aware apps for the iPhone. The first, Twinkle, is a Twitter client that can use your location to find what other users of the app within a definable radius of you (down to as close as one mile) are talking about. I’ve already [...]
So, following on from the drama a week ago (I was far from alone in the Carphone Warehouse security check nightmare), I managed to get hold of an iPhone 3G relatively easily at Manchester’s Apple Store on Saturday. I didn’t even have any activation woes - it was connected to O2 from the moment I [...]
Carphone Warehouse ‘Security’ issue wider spread? - Updated
Jul 11 2008
Posted by Martin as Mobile Phones
It appears that I’m not the only person who’s had problems with their card when trying to buy an iPhone 3G at Carphone Warehouse. A few people have found this site this morning while searching for things like “iphone cancelled for security reasons” and “carphone “security reasons””. There’s three of us on this thread at [...]
Regardless of what I wrote the other day about it not being the end of the world if I didn’t get an iPhone, I expected a fair chance. If I queue at 6.30am, I’m second in the queue and then the store manager gets an iPhone 3G out and places it on the desk [...]
