I’m posting this on the 5th of March 2009. I’m doing it for posterity’s sake so I can look back and remark just how shit the UK’s infrastructure is. Some people in the country are lucky enough to have nice fast connections. It seems that wherever I tend to choose to live, the...

Compared to the cell phone of tomorrow – the omni-function imbedded or external mini-peripheral perhaps with the processing and communications capability of today’s supercomputers – the contemporary smartphone may look even more primitive than 20-year old cell phone bricks look today. The futu...

I've fallen a bit out of love with Windows Mobile this week, ever since my shiny Samsung Blackjack II refused to - in order - 1 connect to my PC, 2 connect to email and then (to address 1 and 2) 3 boot. It's sitting there, with lots of unsynched photos and OneNote notes (thanks to 1) that will not s...

It hasn’t taken long for me to get increasingly wound-up at the internet speeds out here in Shitsville, Essex. I moved out here a while ago to be near one of the MIR consulting clients. We’re doing a lot of work for them and it makes sense for me to be physically located nearby, instead ...

Now, if you’re in the middle of getting nailed by Orange for your data usage, do talk to Orange. A MIR reader had the following issue. He thought he was on the £1.50 per day, unlimited data usage tariff. But, er, no. Call it a billing issue. A feature. Or whatever you like. He was actually hi...

Sometimes I am amazed at human behaviour. Other times I’m too busy giggling to give a damn. Any guess as to my state of mind for this story? A named Phillip Sherman, from Arkansas, apparently left his iPhone in a local McDonald’s restaurant. If it weren’t bad enough that he misplac...

Filed under: Cellphones According to the overactive internet rumor party line, T-Mobile is planning to take its currently limited 3G service nationwide come October. TmoNews claims -- thanks to an anonymous tipster, of course -- that on October 1st, the telco will bring speedy service to 27 of its t...

Ricky here! Ewan and the podcast team have been giving Orange a hard time recently about mobile data, especially about their unlimited Bebo. You can read about his rant’s here, here and here. It seems that Orange have listened to its customer and is now offering all £35+ plans unlimited free data...

This week Ewan’s still on his desert island but has managed to send us an update anyway. Ben, James and Dan discuss the launch of Nokia’s E71, Dan’s self-build phone, James’ upcoming Glastonbury trip, Canadian mobile data, proposals for incoming call charges by an EU commissi...

A few days ago I posted the requirements I deemed necessary to upgrade to a 3G iPhone. While the good folks at Apple decided to ignore all of my requests they did one thing that superceded all my other demands - dropped the price in half. For $200 I can get a new iPhone with 3G and GPS that I did...