Episode 039

Techcrunch writer, Natasha Lomas, is James’ guest this week and brings her own unique point of view on the mobile news that you need to know. The duo manage to cover a lot of ground, including: Sailfish at MWC, the Samsung SIV eye-tracking rumours, and Nokia’s attempts at woo-ing Instagram (we’re not kidding).

Amongst all that, there’s some listener questions (well, one) and Natasha comes up with an awesome nickname for the soon-to-return Stefan.

Two links this week: first, to the Samsung smart screen leak; and second to the Apple innovation article discussed near the ned.

Finally, if you listen to us in iTunes, please rate the show – we’d really, really appreciate it.

[Episode 039, 33 minutes 19 seconds, 30.49 MB]

Episode 038

The Barcelona hangover is slowly passing and James is joined by MWC-attendee, Dan Carter (aka Mobile Man Dan), senior editor over at Cool Smart Phone and of course, a certifiable mobile geek.

Topics up for dicussion include: disgustingly cheap (smart?)phones, the latest news from Mobile World Congress 2013, and we compare the shiny new Sony Xperia Z to the even shinier HTC One.

Links mentioned: the Samsung Beam at Not at MWC, the proximity sensor thing that James doesn’t know the name of is in fact called ‘Mobeam‘, and that WP8 screenshot.

As ever, thanks for listening and, if you listen to us in iTunes, please rate the show. It really, really does help others discover our work.

[Episode 038, 35 minutes 43 seconds, 32.69 MB]

Episode 037

James is joined by Nik Butler this week, a man who wants to rant about (amongst other things) the lack of decent mobile technology infrastructure for small-to-medium enterprises.

Outside of that, the pair discuss Burberry launching (and then not launching) RFID for the non-RFID enabled iPhone, the launch of the HTC One and the Playstation 4.

As ever, thanks for listening and, if you listen to us in iTunes, please rate the show. It really, really does help others discover our work.

[Episode 037, 37 minutes 09 seconds, 34.01MB]

Episode 036

In this week’s episode, friend of the show Ricky Cadden returns to the show (to apologise for his terrible appearance last time) and talks to James about Vertu’s new Android phone, Google Now’s latest updates, and James makes fun of Ricky’s obsession with Motorola Smart Actions: OBSESSED I TELL YOU.

Also, the less we mention about Ricky’s knowledge of Anssi Vanjoki’s current employment the better.

As ever, thanks for listening and, if you listen to us in iTunes, please rate the show. It really, really does help others discover our work.

Oh, and apparently Otterboxes are a thing. Who knew?

[Episode 036, 36 minutes 58 seconds, 33.83 MB]

Episode 035

This week James is joined by long time listener and mobile blogger, Antoine RJ Wright. Antoine writes about the nexus of mobile technology and faith at Mobile Ministry Magazine; he and James have been fans of each others’ work and have talking online for many, many years. Stefan’s a fan too, and man, will he be pissed when he finds out he missed him…

This week: more Blackberry coverage, some MWC previews, and a rather interesting piece of news on graphene (seriously).

As ever, thanks for listening and, if you listen to us in iTunes, please rate the show. It really, really does help others discover our work.

Links mentioned: ArsTechnica on BB10, Two ReadWrite articles on BB10: for / against (we don’t normally do this whole linking thing. It’s new. Maybe we’ll keep it, maybe we won’t).

[Episode 035, 35 minutes 44 seconds, 32.71 MB]

Episode 034

What’s that? Blackberry are BACK? James doesn’t believe it for a second. So it’s a damn good job he’s got all-round Blackberry expert (and Editor-in-Chief of leading mobile website Mobile Industry Review) Mr Ewan Macleod, to help him out.

Ewan’s been using the Blackberry Z10 for a week or so now and well, if you tune in right now you can find out what he really thinks. James didn’t wait, which means you shouldn’t either.

As ever, thanks for listening and, if you listen to us in iTunes, please rate the show. It really, really does help others discover our work.

[Episode 034, 32 minutes 45 seconds, 33.12 MB]

Episode 033

Another week, another episode of The Voicemail without Stefan. The good news is James is fairly adept at dragging in his mobile friends and cohorts and this week is no exception.

The Voicemail welcomes mobile expert and industry veteran, FJ van Wingerde, as he steps into the fray and brings anecdotes-a-plenty to the weekly news roundup.

BUT WHAT IS THAT NEWS?

Well, Nokia announced its last Symbian smartphone, rumours abound of what their next PureView device might be aaaand FJ digs into the deepest darkest corners of… the rumour mill.

As ever, thanks for listening and, if you listen to us in iTunes, please rate the show. It really, really does help us out.

[Episode 033, 35 minutes 45 seconds, 32.72 MB]

Episode 032

Stefan is still [somewhere] in Thailand without Wi-Fi so it falls to serial mobile entrepenuer and all round technology-madman, Dan Lane, to join James on the show.

Up for discussion this week: RIM announces bigger carrots for Blackberry developers, Microsoft attempts to save the world*, and Dan and James discover they both have an aversion to the word ‘Phablet’.

If you listen to us in iTunes, please rate the show and hey, maybe your rating might help Stefan find some decent internetz. Maybe.

*turns out Dan already did this, five years ago.

[Episode 032, 34 minutes 59 seconds, 32.02 MB]

Episode 031

This week Stefan couldn’t make the podcast as he’s travelling around Asia on the hunt for decent Wi-Fi (hence the slight delay in publication); true story.

So instead, Ben Smith from Wireless Worker (and 361 Degrees) kindly steps in and he and James get a chance to about stuff and nonsense from CES, Nokia’s big number announcements, and the two tackle what they think is the best app for keeping fit. Kinda.

Stefan might be back next week, he might not. James will have to wait and see.

As always, we appreciate feedback. And if you use iTunes to listen to the show, then please do rate us! It helps new people find the podcast.

[Episode 031, 30 minutes 14 seconds, 27.67 MB]