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ExclusiveLast week at The Fonecast: 17th February 2014

Mark Bridge writes:

Mobile World Congress is just a week away, with lovers of mobile technology preparing to be wooed by manufacturers, networks and developers. But if MWC is like St Valentine’s Day, then LG has been behaving rather like the world’s worst boyfriend.

ExclusiveLast week at The Fonecast: 10th February 2014

Mark Bridge writes:

Mobile phones have been hitting the mainstream news over the past few days. There was Channel 4’s report about data on second-hand phones not being properly deleted before the handsets were re-sold, there was the latest round of the Smart UK Project and there was Tim Muffett’s story about the mobile-enabled high street on BBC Breakfast this morning.

ExclusiveLast week at The Fonecast: 3rd February 2014

Mark Bridge writes:

Patents were a very popular topic of conversation last week. Google sold its Motorola Mobility smartphone business to Lenovo but hung on to most of the patents. Does this mean the patents were the most valuable part of the business? Well, when you look at the difference between the original purchase price and the sale price, it seems a reasonable conclusion.

ExclusiveA grumpy not-so-old man looks at his mobile phone bill

Mark Bridge writes:

Sometimes I worry that I’m turning into a grumpy old man. That I’ll follow the path of Rick Wakeman and become better known for my views on body piercing than for playing ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’ on eleven keyboards simultaneously.

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This week's edition of The Fonecast takes a look at the new Google Nexus 7 tablet, wonders what's next for RIM and awaits the arrival of the forthcoming Firefox mobile platform.

There's also talk about HTC's partnership with Pioneer, Vodafone's European reorganisation, the new BT WiFi brand, Ofcom complaints, tariff problems and international roaming.

You can listen to the programme on our website audio player, via iTunes, by using our RSS feed or by downloading the mp3 and OGG audio files directly. Alternatively, install the Android, iOS or webOS Stitcher Radio app and stream the podcast straight to your mobile phone.

01:15 Research In Motion warns of job cuts and BlackBerry delays
05:30 Google announces a new tablet and an update for Android
12:45 Firefox mobile OS will be on Alcatel and ZTE phones
16:30 HTC connects its phones with home entertainment
18:45 Sponsor's message: 51Degrees.mobi
20:15 Vodafone reorganises its businesses in Europe
22:45 BT creates a single WiFi hotspot brand
24:15 Takeover for one of the UK's biggest WiFi hotspot providers
25:30 Three-quarters of UK mobile consumers are on the wrong tariff
29:45 Ofcom publishes UK telecoms complaints data
31:45 New European roaming charges are applied

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