Hello again everyone,
And welcome to another instalment of the WORD on mobile phone recycling.
In recent figures by the IDC it is suggested that 450 million mobile customers use their mobile to access the internet, an amazing figure but even more amazing is the fact this is expected to double by 2013!
Internet on the go is not a new thing, it started with internet cafes and has spread to WAP enabled phones and into the internet access we take for granted on apple iphones and other PDAs and smart phones. But why are so many people using the internet on the go?
I know that I use it when I am in London and need to search Google maps to find where I am going or when I have been reluctantly taking shopping on a Saturday and I want to find out the latest football scores. These are merely trivial things with little direct use except gaining knowledge! But do people use their mobiles to conduct regular business? Or is it not quite as good as it needs to be to make this a valid option. I suggest the later to be true and that this 200% increase in take up will be built around the fact that mobile internet will be the first option before we even think of sitting down at our tired old laptop for a browse through the latest news. And thus phones must get quicker, faster and with a better interface to meet these needs and as a consequence for will become redundant at a quicker rate. It is at this point I ask you to recycle your old phone responsibly with us here at mopay.
Until next time people, keep recycling
Internet on the GO GO GO!!!!
iRecycle mobile phones!!
Hello again everyone,
My apologies for the lack of blogs recently I have been on my travels up and down the country recycling mobile phones and have not had the chance to write a blog with the dedication that it deserves.
On my travels it has amazed me now how many people use an "i" at the front of a word to try and make it sound new and interesting. We have the iTeddy from Dragon's Den, imax cinema, ipods, iphones and the list goes on!
Well I am now coing the phrase iRecycle, this is my atempt to make the notion of recycling cool and as a consequence encourage more people to do it. It is becoming a more and more relevant issue and also with the rise on celebs getting a Toyota Prius as their run around, cooler!
So in light of this why not log on to mopay and iRecycle your old mobile phones now!
Until next time people keep recycling!
A Storm in a tea cup!
Hello again everyone,
Even though the third mobile phone in the Storm series is likely to be at least a year away from release in the UK, rumours about it are already being circulated in online forums and threads.
When the Blackberry Storm was released it was the first touchscreen smartphone from Research in Motion (RIM) and was met with mixed reviews. However when RIM amended many of the issues with the original and released the Storm 2 it was still greeted with a similar vein of reviews and split the opion poll like marmite.
There have been no official reports about the Storm 3 as yet but it is expected to combine the best aspects of the first two with the more traditional BlackBerry approach of a full QWERTY keyboard being used. The main change the looks likely is that it will have a touchscreen that slides to reveal the QWERTY keyboard which will be a first for Blackberry but not really a new spec. in the mobile market.
RIM is expected to make an announcement about the Storm 3 in the new year with a likely release date in the later half of 2010.
thats is all this time, so until next time keep recycling.
Can you Spotify the issue with Mobile Phones?
Hello again everyone,
With the recent announcement that Spotify is now available on Symbian handsets has it set in motion the start of an internal war between Apps, Brands and networks?
What I mean by this is that Nokia already have a music streaming application on most of the phones this will affect. (N97 being the exception for some bizarre reason) and this will be in direct competition. I for one know which way I will favour. Spotify all the way!!
I think this is only the beginning as Spotify grows and becomes more popular it must have an influence on iTunes and the Apple iphones as a music device. So what is the next step??
I honestly believe that the next step will be Skype calls dominating the mobile world and threatening the networks for customers. How can O2 for example not allow Skype usage on a Nokia phone if they say it is OK? They could always refuse to sell that model but why would they do that if it is the latest model and people want it. They will just limit themselves to other customers.
I think this will be the next big battle in the mobile industry and don’t be surprised to see large and manufactures, retailers and networks buying into internet providers to insure themselves against this.
Until next time people keep recycling
An Apple App. a day keeps the brain cells at bay!
Hello again everyone,
And welcome to another exciting installment of the WORD on mobile phone recycling. Today I would like to talk about Apple iPhone Applications. And can we have too many?
It seems every day there is a new one to help us book trains, set gym routines, spirit level, calculate time allowances for journeys.
Has it all become to easy?
Are we in danger of becoming a gadget lead society?
I am not saying that we will end up living in a Terminator-esk Judgement day society, but simply are we taking too many of the every day thought processes away that have helped us become so developed as a species.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good laugh at the apps that can do catch phrases from A Team and Borat but it is the more medial task targeted apps I am questioning. A mobile phone used to be just that a "MOBILE" can be moved around, "PHONE" call someone on it. Now it is so much more and the questions is are we better off because of it?
Until next time people keep recycling
Mobile phone “King of all Gadgets”?
Hello everyone,
With new tech replacing old tech, and an ever increasing polarisation towards the mobile phone as a one-stop shop for all your modern day needs. Could it really happen? The day the mobile phone replaces the gadgets we love so much the Laptop, the Sat Nav, the MP3, the TV, and become an integral part of life.
The mobile phone is our most personal device, we keep confidential details, information and secrets on it. It never leaves our side even when we sleep. And yet we are more than happy to change it for the new model as soon as we get the chance from out network.
How can an item we guard and keep close to us be so easily made redundant?
The answer is that the mobile phone is merely a vessel and not a possestion! It simply holds what we need it to until its time is up and it is replaced by a vessel that can hold more, in more quality and has a better interface for recollection. We have no loyalty to a phone like we do to a car. I can ask anyone who drives and they can tell me exactly what colour their first motor was, the make and model and usually the registration. But a mobile phone is a different story we do not connect long term like we do with our first car. But ask them their first phone and people just say it was a real brick and the battery lasted about 5 mins before I needed to charge it.
I honetly and truly believe this is the reason we are willing to give it up so easily after a very intense year or 18 months together....
It gave you a year of total dedication and you simply let it go to be the vessal for its next owner. It is not all doom and gloom because even at this late stage in you time together your phone, that you got free from your network, that kept you in touch with your friends, that made sure you got up for work in time, will, even as it is being replaced give you once last gift.
Money…
It has no lasting value as soon as the day comes that the new one you ordered as an upgrade from the network arrives, which you show off to everyone you see with such pride. And yet the phone is worth something to someone and thus the option arises to sell the phone on and earn you some cash in the process. So why not give it a second chance of a prolonged and useful life and send it to mopay today.
So in answer to the title question… is the mobile phone the king of all gadgets?
The answer… Yes.
Well for a day at least.
Until next time people, keep recycling
Mobile phones, a bun-DELL of technology.
Hello again everyone,
As more and more companies see the polarisation of technology towards the mobile phone, it seems natural that DELL should release a smart phone.
Don't get too excited yet though recyclers as it is only available in China and Brazil for now, but I can assure you they will be selling like hot cakes when it hits the UK. The DELL keyboadless, touch screen smart phone runs the google android technology and is the next step in the mobile phones quest to replace sat navs, mp3 music players and laptops. It will be interesting to see what phones it replaces in your pockets?
Could it really defeat the mighty iphone? or even compete with the new palm pre? I am not so sure and I think it will depend on the apps available.
In other news the £1000 cash prize draw is going strong and someone will win that £1000 cash delivered to your door in time for Christmas, so keep selling your phones through mopay as each handset earns you an entry to the draw for the cash..
So until next time people, keep recycling.
What happens to your mobile phone after you sell it to us??
Hello again everyone,
A question I am constantly asked is what happens to the mobiles phones after you sell them to mopay. A good question and not an easy one to answer in this little blog space.
So to help answer this I have included a section on sell/recycling mobile phones on the bottom of my homepage. Please feel free to visit and read through the article.
For those of you who want an easier process to the answer. I am going to post videos of the recycling process on my Youtube channel. Simply visit Mr Mopay's channel and view the vids I post.
Have fun everyone, and until next time keep recycling
BACS to the future!
To help you, our valued recyclers with have a few suggestions to combat any of these potential delays:
1. If you going to sell 5 or more mobile phones to mopay you can use the free courier service instead of posting the phones. This will not only ensure speed of delivery to us here but also some added security for higher end phones.
2. Choose the BACS payment option. This is a payment made into your account 3 days after your phones arrive. This is safe and secure and far faster than waiting for a cheque in the post and then awaiting it to clear in your account.
So as the title says " It's BACS to the future"
Until next time people, you keep recycling Britian!
Can you digg it? yes you can!!!
£1000 cash prize draw when you recycle your old mobile phone with mopay
Hello again everyone!
It is not even Halloween and I am already seeing Christmas trees all over the place on hotels and even a smattering of decorations in the shops. It seems to get earlier every year!
Anyway, we all know Christmas can be a hard on the old sky rocket (thats pocket for us Northeners). And I thought it would be great if here at mopay we could do something a little extra to help one lucky recycler out over the Christmas period.
And so.... da da da dah.. Prize draw (the old favourite).
Between October 26th and December 13th in addition to the great cash amounts we give for recycling your old mobile phones you will be entered into a £1000 cash prize draw to be hand delivered to your home on the 21st December by the mopay models featured in the recent TV advert.
£1000 cash delivered by a model in tight latex phone suit days before Christmas, Can it get better than that?
So get on over to mopay and get recycling, as the old saying goes "you gotta be in it to win it"
Good luck to all and until next time, keep recycling people.
Samsung Solar Panel Phone A Ray of Sunshine.
The Samsung Blue Earth was first announced back in Febuary of this year and Mr. Mopay was thinking that it would never make it onto the mobile market. However a couple of days ago it emerged like a new Eco flower. So what makes this environmentally sound phone so good? Well firstly the rear of the phone is a large solar panel, so you can recharge the phone by sunlight with no need to use up expensive electricity. And it does not stop there, the Blue Earth is made in the main from recycled plastic and even comes in a recycled cardboard box that can be re used again as a photo frame or pen holder.
The software is Eco friendly too! For example the "eco walk" function allows the user to see how the walk they have taken instead of driving has helped the environment. This phone will be highly wanted when it hits the UK later this year, as how many of us forget to charge the phone over night? Until then those lucky Swedes are the only ones able to get one!
It will be interesting to receive a phone for recycling here at mopay.co.uk that has already been recycled. I like the sound of that!!!
Mr. Mopay - The WORD on phone recycling