GLOBAL – When a new rugged device started doing the rounds internally recently, we decided to get all scientific and conduct a few tests. First job was to work out what tests we could conduct. Given that Nokia’s reliability lab do a lot of work on scientifically testing devices, we thought we ought to take more of a “real world” angle on things. We also figured it’d be a good idea to bring a video camera along to record proceedings.

y do Brits txt so much?

LONDON, UK – A new report from the Mobile Data Association this week found that the amount of text and picture messages sent every day in the UK continues to grow. The number of SMS and MMS messages sent in the third quarter shot up by 20 per cent compared to the same period last year, with nearly 1.5million being sent every single day.

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Announcing The 1100 Club (aka ‘Ditch your smartphone. Go dumb!’)

LONDON, UK – Do we really need smartphones? Indeed, why are they called smartphones? Are all other phones dumb?

I’ve been using cutting-edge Internet-connected mobile devices for around ten years and over time pushed the envelope so far, it’s even got ripped in a few places. Lately I’ve come to see that, in the end, it’s connecting to people (where have I heard that line?) that matters most to me and, for the most part, voice and text seem to do the trick.

Therefore, I hereby announce the formation of The 1100 Club (not to be confused with The 1100 Club).

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Hidden in plain sight

ESPOO, Finland – This week Nokia launched another NFC phone. NFC stands for ‘Near Field Communication’, a short-range radio-based data exchange technology. While NFC refers to a particular standard, you probably use something similar with tags such as bus cards, ski passes, or corporate access keys that you use by touching to a surface.