Tag: mobile phone

Will the networks choose to improve all of the UK, or the Olympic Village?

I wonder how much of the new Government money to “improve coverage for voice calls” around the country will be spent outside of the M25, and how much of the £150 million will go to the area around the Olympic venues to stop the embarrassment of no mobile coverage for the world’s media as they go on their IOC approved Busman’s Holiday?

Top Ten: Why Mobile Phones Haven’t Changed The World.

Posted over on All About Symbian are my Top Ten Reasons Why Mobile Phones Haven’t Changed The World; the top three were… The first cameras required you to stand still while the picture was being taken. More than one hundred years later, you need to call ‘stop’ and have everyone freeze while your camera application opens up. The hip and cool thing to have in the 1950’s and 60’s was a transistor radio, with a tinny speaker, pushing out the hits of Dusty Springfield, Johnny Cash for all to hear. Now we’ve left the personal stereo era behind and are