Podcast - 9th February 2014
The Smart UK project is an annual government-supported competition looking for the UK's Most Innovative Mobile Company.
A few days ago, all 20 companies on the competition shortlist gave a short presentation to the Smart UK panel of judges. Afterwards, Mark Bridge spoke to some of the entrants to discover exactly what they had to offer - and how they planned to disrupt the mobile industry.
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Podcast - 8th January 2014
Iain Graham, James Rosewell and Mark Bridge return with their first mobile industry podcast of 2014.
This week they're looking at new Samsung, Sony and ZTE products from CES, they're talking about Android embedded in cars, they're catching up with the latest news from BlackBerry, they're discussing cheque payments by smartphone, they're revealing complaint data from Ofcom and they're investigating quite a few other stories as well.
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Wearable product range on the way
Sony has added two new models to its Xperia Android smartphone range.
The Xperia Z1s is a variant of the flagship Z1, with a 5-inch display and the same 20.7 megapixel camera sensor but new social camera applications.
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Samsung is using next week’s CES 2014 electronics show in Las Vegas to reveal the Galaxy Camera 2, a successor to its Android-powered camera of 2012.
It’s equipped with a 16.3 megapixel sensor and a 21x optical zoom, while processing power is provided by a 1.6 GHz quad-core chip supported by 2GB of RAM.
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The UK government says it’s launching a consultation in 2014 that could result in consumers taking photos of their cheques instead of taking the physical cheque to a bank.
As a result, the money could be in a customer’s account within two days rather than six.
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