We start this week with two big handset stories - BlackBerry 10 and the Samsung Galaxy S3 - before moving on to the rest of the news, including more mobile wallets, more free WiFi, more quarterly results and more legal action!
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Mark Bridge writes:
What a week it was for mobile manufacturers. RIM revealed the BlackBerry 10 platform to its developers, while Samsung announced a new flagship Android phone. Both offer a number of distinctive features, with fans commending them and critics suggesting they didn’t go far enough.
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Iain Graham and James Rosewell look back at the top mobile industry stories from the past seven days - including RIM's BlackBerry plans and the EC's new roaming regulations.
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It’s always a relief when April Fool’s Day doesn’t fall on a work day, isn’t it? Still, that didn’t stop the jokes. Even though the mobile industry traditionally tends to head to the pub for a roast dinner and a pint on Sunday, there was many a prank in the morning of April 1st.
Our friends at 51Degrees.mobi revealed left-handed device detection, Google prepared to run mobile ads on phones with dials, Phones 4U introduced Gnomes 4U femtocells, Nokia made a Windows Phone device out of ice… and so on.
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Mark Bridge writes:
There are times I feel like turning my back on the mobile phone industry and joining a monastery. That’s probably not going to happen, given the monks’ tradition of not admitting wives. But yesterday was another of those frustrating occasions. Let me tell you why.
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