Whenever I travel outside of the UK, I don’t have a clue how much Orange charges me for calls or texts. Data is a complete mystery all together. After coming back from Japan I was hit with a £140 data charges bill which I am still trying to track down. So in the meanwhile I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mobile’
Great to roam (with Vodafone)
Posted in Technology, tagged mobile, o2, orange, roaming, vodafone on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sixteen days in Japan
Posted in Travels, tagged Japan, Kyoto, mobile, Onsen, Shinkansen, Shirahama, Tokyo on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When we booked our flight tickets to Tokyo a few months ago, I wasn’t quite sure how this holiday would turn up. I try to be cautious about promises to visit “the most amazing place” and doubted whether Japan would live to the hype. It did. Japan is such a fascinating and unique place to [...]
Is Mobile the Graveyard of VC money?
Posted in Thoughts, tagged admob, Amobee, jumptap, loopt, mmetrics, mobile, MVNO, Shozu, successful mobile exits, VC, zyb on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Can you name one successful mobile software start-up, e.g. one that sold for $100m+ and generated nice returns to its VCs? If you cannot come up with a name, you might agree with a VC partner I recently met, who claimed that Mobile has so far been the graveyard of VC money. With that in mind, I [...]
INQ1: finally a mobile that gets the internet right
Posted in Technology, tagged 3, hutchison, inq, inqmobile, mobile, review, three on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
3 UK has launched their new INQ1 earlier this week and I have been using this handset for the past few days. I really like it. It’s the first feature phone (i.e. inexpensive, sub £100) that gets the mobile internet right. With £15/month or £80 on pay-as-you-go, it’s a non-brainer for any consumer looking for an affordable “internet-enabled” [...]
