Tag: Telecoms

  • You wait for ages then along come three!

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    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

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    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…

  • More rumours of O2 iPhone deal

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    Forbes Madrid are reporting this morning that O2’s parent company, Telefonica have signed an exclusive deal with Apple for iPhone distribution rights in the UK. This is the second time this rumour has emerged in the last two weeks. Both times from very credible sources. It makes sense. Vodafone don’t need Apple (and the sales…

  • Nokia N95 vs E65

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    Well, I handed back my review model Nokia N95 yesterday and already I miss it. Paul Giltinan from Choice Communications was good enough to lend it to me to try out for a number of weeks. Now though I am back to my trusty E65. Sniff! Here are a few quick thoughts on the N95…

  • O2 to sell the iPhone?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Several credible sources are today reporting that O2 have signed a contract with Apple to distribute the iPhone in Europe. I hope that includes O2 Ireland too! Vodafone would have seemed a more likely distributor seeing as they have a network in more European countries than O2. O2 must have made it far more attractive…

  • iPhone reviews out – overwhelmingly positive

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    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!

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    Tom Raftery
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    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

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    Tom Raftery
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    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…