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The past few years have been dominated by one handset above all others, the Apple iPhone. And rightly so, I would contend. The device and it's OS have set the bar at a height that other manufacturers are struggling to reach, and have been since its launch. But the point of this blog is not to recap on history.

As we draw to the end of 2009 I am taken with the recent number of new handsets coming out that are vying for the crown held by the iPhone. Each new iteration of handset seems ...

There's no doubt that digital money is the future of our money system. As we rely increasingly on electronic devices, which are wholly incompatible with physical money, it is entirely logical that the transition to digital money must occur.

Currently almost all of our digital money is managed by private companies, and the balances of digital money, be it a credit or debit, are stored centrally, remotely. This is in stark contrast to physical money, where we can actually hold the credits ...

There's no doubt in my mind that smartphones have reached the stage in their development where they're taking over as the primary computing and Internet access vessel for some users. I know two people now who have 'survived' for several days (or more) using just their smartphone and I find that quite incredible. The iPhone is so good that even I could probably survive one quiet day without having to whip out the laptop.

This is a critical turning point for mobile, and a massive change ...

There are some great social technologies available to us today. Twitter and Facebook are particularly compelling, with Twitter in particular proving popular amongst Talk3G users thanks, at least in part, to the canny iPhone apps available for it.

But once you've Chirped to your Facespace and been labelled in some blurry phone Picasso it does rather beg the question of what these technologies are actually enabling.

Twitter has the interesting trends feature which, when ...

A problem with the iPhone, through no fault of its own, is that it doesn't offer much to enthusiasts to keep them interested.

I used to fall into the enthusiast category for mobile phones until the iPhone came along. Unfortunately it has rather integrated itself into my day to day world so I couldn't really get rid of it now even if I wanted to!

For others, where the iPhone hasn't become so depended upon, the sheer simplicity of the UI and lack of customisation options ...