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This week the team re-cap a round-table discussion we were invited to, discussing the challenges and possible solutions for handset manufacturers in the future:

This is our last episode of 2011. Thanks for listening! We'll be back in January.

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This week the team set themselves a 'fun' challenge - to choose a new pre-pay mobile phone costing less than £100 to give as a as a Christmas present...

[To avoid arguments we agreed to 'shop' at Carphone Warehouse]

Rafe opts for a Nokia: A 'One Direction'-branded Nokia C2-02 for £59.95

Ewan buys something special for his Nan: A Doro PhoneEasy 610 for £79.95

Ben spots an Android bargain: The SonyEricsson X8 for £99.95 (or £69.99 direct from Three as Rafe points out later)

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Recorded at MEF Americas 2011 in Miami, Ben interviews Neil Stiles, president of the Variety Group, on producing content for a 'multi-screen world'.

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After a series of handset losses and breakages Ewan's been exercising his network operator-supplied handset insurance... something he'd forgotten he'd signed-up for. But do these policies offer good value for money and how should you choose who to buy from?

The team discuss:

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The UK has reached a tipping point - 50% of all mobile devices in use are now smartphones and the trend looks set to carry on, expected to reach 70% by 2015.

We discuss the implications of this - for retailers, for consumers and the mobile brands that serve them.

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We're back to the 'usual' format for this week's episode - recapping all the important events that happened between seasons 1 and 2. We discuss:

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In this episode - part 2 of the coverage from our live event at Nokia World - we carry on the audience discussion moving on to discuss the US market, Microsoft's Windows Phone ecosystem and Samsung's (possible) problems with Android.

This episode was recorded with an invited audience of bloggers and mobile gurus. They pitched-in to give their comments and opinions and in this episode you can hear:

Ed Lea, CTO at Grapple Mobile

This is part 2 of 2 - you can hear the first part of our discussions in episode 1.

Many thanks to Nokia who sponsored this event. They provided equipment and a venue, but did not have any editorial input.

Special thanks too to Ewan Spence our impromptu (and highly effective) 'audience and microphone wrangler' for this episode.

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We're back!

To kick off our second season we headed to Nokia World and recorded our first ever 'live' edition in front of an invited audience of bloggers and mobile gurus. They pitched-in to give their comments and opinions and in this episode you can hear:

Stephen Wing, UK Gadgeteer

This is part 1 of 2 - you can hear the final part of our discussions next week.

Many thanks to Nokia who sponsored this event. They provided equipment and a venue, but did not have any editorial input.

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This week we're recording remotely again as Ewan calls in from Austin, Texas. In the last episode of series 1 (don't worry series 2 is already on the way) we have a bit of a whinge discussing 'bothersome things' (as Rafe terms them).

Ben's list covered pages by the time we finished listing them pre-recording so here's a few choice ones... We discuss:

Gumpy old men we might be, but these are the niggles which drive us mad daily. What are yours?

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This week we talk about Nokia... How has it come to this and what next for the big firm?

We discuss:

It all gets a bit heated this week... Ewan accuses Rafe of not seeing the warning signs and Rafe explains that the Silicon Valley view is too limited. Ben plays referee and offers some dire warnings about the short-term.

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