Tag: mobile
-
Nokia BL-5C battery replacement page broken!
Nokia have issued a product recall for 46 million of its BL-5C batteries. Seemingly a short-circuit, while charging can “in rare cases” cause the battery to overheat and “dislodge”. The battery is used in the following Nokia phones: Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia…
-
3 Ireland's Mobile broadband offering – slow and unstable?
Getting broadband from your mobile operator is a very tempting proposition as I have mentioned previously. It allows you to finally get rid of that landline you so rarely use (and pay a fortune in monthly charges for) and mobile broadband means you can take it with you when you travel – no more looking…
-
You wait for ages then along come three!
I have read a lot about how great the iPhone is but I hadn’t seen any until last Friday; and then I saw three! I was at a lunch in Cork with Britt Blaser and Sean O’Mahoney (amongst others). Both had iPhones. I had a chance to try the phone out for myself and see…
-
Congrats Pat
Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom company has been selected to be one of the finalists in TechCrunch 20 for their Roam4free product. What is TechCrunch 20? From the site: Twenty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce and demo their products over a two day period at TechCrunch20. And they don’t pay…
-
iPhone reviews out – overwhelmingly positive
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and David Pogue of the New York Times were both given iPhones to trial for the last two weeks. Today they (and others) published extremely positive reviews of the phone in their respective publications The phone does indeed appear to live up to the hype with a game…
-
iPhone activation? Try to keep up!
It is funny to see Techmeme going wild over a story which I broke over 36 hours ago! Come on guys, that’s old news. Try to keep up. 😉
-
Nokia N95 initial impressions
Courtesy of Paul Giltinan of Choice Communications, I have a loan of a Nokia N95 to try out for the next couple of weeks – excellent! The first thing which strikes you when you pick up the N95 is how light it is. It is quite bulky (99 x 53 x 21 mm), so you…
-
Irish mobile broadband becomes more compelling
Several of the Irish mobile operators now have mobile broadband offerings and the offerings are getting more and more compelling! All the operators are using the same Huawei external USB mobile broadband modem. O2 claim that unlike their competitors, their version will have drivers for Windows Vista when they launch. The data for O2 is…