Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 69 (WAHAY!) Snigger!

Gareth, James and Andy get down to another packed week of all things mobile. This week there is a lot of news about Palm, O2, HP, Tesco, Virgin Mobile and Phones4U. Also Andy’s bought himself an iPad. As a special bonus for those who have purchased the iPhone App you can have the Mickey Papillon Ringtone!

Regulars: James Richardson, Matt Davis, Gareth Myles and Andy Lee

Show Notes

All 3 contracts are now 24 month only!!!!!!!

Palm Pre sales are rubbish

O2 stopped buying the Palm Pre

HP buys Palm

HP Slate cancelled?

Are RIM working on a BlackBerry Pad?

£350 cashback this Bank Holiday at Phone4U with horrible deals

Tesco Mobile Phone shops to pop up on every High Street

Windows Phone 7 Q&A re Office Hub

Virgin Mobile customer base increases

Skyfire Launches the First Flash Video Enabled Mobile Browser for Android

google.com becomes gmail.com in the UK

UK 3G > 4G election = NO G

Ovi Maps in your Own Voice

Trafficmaster Smartnav Tested

Twitter for Android – if Gareth has tested?

UK to only get the BB 9105 and not the 9100

Listener Question:

I found your podcast a few weeks ago and I love it! But, tell James to sort his ‘happy shopper’ mic out ;-) Muther Fukker! Anyway I have fixed it!
My current phone is a Nokia N85 (I’ve owned a few Nokias). I like the features and use most of them alot, I also don’t mind Symbian OS.
However, it is time for an upgrade!
I really fancy going the ‘touch screen’ route, though I’ve never had or tried one! But something tells me I’d be better off with a ‘forward facing qwerty’ as I do lots of messaging.
I’m a mechanic and my hands are often dirty and they are a bit chunky! I have narrowed the list to three handsets; HTC Desire, Nokia E72, and Blackberry 9700!
The Desire seems to be an amazing gadget with a gorgeous screen and nice apps.
Blackberry seem to be the ultimate messaging machine but the Nokia E72 seems to be a better phone?
I’m sure you lot will be very familiar with these phones, so your expert views are appreciated.
Sorry if this is one of a million ‘help me choose’ emails but……tough 😉

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Gareth Myles – twitter.com/klonricket
Andy Lee – twitter.com/weirdshanghai
James Richardson – twitter.com/jpr7373
Matt Davis - twitter.com/tracyandmatt