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I did check and it’s not April the 1st… Orange today revealed their prototype T-shirt that allows wearers to charge their phone via the T-shirt using the bass vibrations to generate a charge. Orange will be conducting live testing of the gadget at the Glastonbury festival around the ‘Spirit 71’ stage to …
Vodafone UK are selling the BlackBerry PlayBook on their website now for £332.50 excluding VAT which takes it to a price of £399, however the bad news is this offer is for business customers ONLY!. This news comes after recently O2 decided not to sell the PlayBook at …
Here in the UK mobile companies Everything Everywhere (which run Orange and T-Mobile), Vodafone and Telefonica (who run O2) have joined together to create a new mobile marketing and payment giant which will help speed up the rollout of mobile payments and using new technology such as NFC. …
O2 have decided not to stock the new BlackBerry PlayBook here in the UK even after they originally signed up when it was first announced and even had a coming soon page for the tablet. O2 have come out and explained the reason behind the change of heart …
Evernote have just announced the release of a new app for WP7 which joins the versions already available for PC, Mac, Android, iOS, WebOS and Blackberry. For those new to the service, Evernote allows you to take notes which sync across all your devices. In addition to simple …
Play.com have put the HP Pre 3 up on their website as available for pre-order ready for a 8th of July release at £349.99. The Pre has been mostly forgotten, Palms flagship phone was well received when it first appeared but for various reasons has fallen by the wayside. …
O2 have updated their coming soon section and now have a wide range of exciting phones due shortly These include HTC Salsa in June HTC ChaCha in June HTC Sensation in June Alcatel OT990 in August Huawei G7010 in June Xperia Mini Pro in June Link: O2 Coming …
Whilst on Twitter today I came across a story over on Tracy&Matt which said Three UK have a HD Voice enabled network. Before now only Orange had mentioned a HD Voice network. They go into a lot of detail also listing the phones which have this free service …
So WWDC has been and gone and Apple has laid its cards on the table with iOS 5. The biggest surprise was perhaps the sheer scope of the update and the number of major new features that are being released. With one notable exception I’m now struggling to …
Not much I can add to that headline really… According to ClickZ Twitter can and is charging up to $120,000 a day to promote trends, this is up from the $25,000 – $30,000 when it launched promoted trends back in April 2010. It also apparently requires companies to …
Just quick little post to give you something to read while having the first life saving coffee of the day, Mondays, got to love them ! Quite interesting, shame it doesn’t list more of the smaller manufacturers, there is a lot of ‘others’. The growth of Android/Google is quite …
The Nokia 2600 was the first mobile phone that I owned; I’m a pretty late entry to the mobile tech scene, but this phone was the device that got me into using a phone. There were only two things it could really do: make calls, and send text …
Just spotted over on facebook a rather clever and funny video featuring Angry Birds the game…..but in real life!. If you have never seen the game, it is rather basic and involves firing birds at pigs who have taken cover…. oh who am I kidding EVERYONE has heard …
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Samsung is the latest company to be showing an interest in buying into ailing phone giant Nokia. Last week according to BGR Microsoft was reported as showing an interest in Nokia based on industry insider Eldar Murtazins tip. However, today it …
Vodafone have released two new videos on their YouTube website and these are taking a quick look at the HTC ChaCha and the BlackBerry 9900 both featuring QWERTY keyboards but aimed at different customers. First of all there is the HTC ChaCha…….. The ChaCha is one of the …
Mobile Phone retailers Clove are currently running a competition, the prize is an HTC Incredible S. All you have to do is create an Androidify Avatar and email it them. Obviously the more unique it is, the more likely that you might win. The idea is to get …
Being a Vodafone customer and a regular user of the Vodafone eForum, I found something last night on the Forum which I thought was to be untrue. iPad 2 3G 16GB available with no upfront cost to existing customers. I couldn’t believe my eyes, that’s a saving of …
AT&T are a massive network over in America (just in case you didn’t know) and even were the launch partner for the original iPhone. In a recent interview head of AT&T spoke out about Windows Phone 7 devices and it seems from a network view he wishes it …
T-Mobile UK have launched three new price plans on PAYG to suit different types of customer depending how you use your phone. For the text mad you can get Unlimited Texts, for anyone who loves to chat you can get some free minutes and for anyone who has …
Once again, Research In Motion are facing a setback. BGR has reported that the Bold 9900, Blackberry’s flagship device, will be delayed perhaps until September. RIM announced earlier this year that the device would be released globally this summer. With the next iPhone set to launch (probably) at …
You might have seen recently we have been doing work with networks as well as manufactures to bring a vast amount of content either news or reviews. One of the networks we have been dealing with a lot recently is Three and they have loaned us many handsets …
In February we had a great chat with Anne Bouverot from Orange. She’s the head of mobile services and was keen to tell us about the new contactless payment technology that was being rolled out with Barclaycard. The system has now gone fully live with a dedicated site …
Three have a special twitter event tomorrow where Marc Allera who works for the company will be sitting down and taking time out of his busy schedule to answer as many questions as possible in an hour or so period To get your question in just tweet it …
No, it’s not Windows Phone 8. This is a first look at how Windows 8 might look on future Microsoft-powered tablet devices. Initial impressions are good, with a lot of the interface looking similar to the Windows Phone GUI. The tablet-optimised experience should run existing Windows 7 applications …
We get lots of emails from random Chinese manufacturers who want to promote their very familiar-looking phones. Today a mail came through from French company Lekki and initially we thought it was more of the same. It’s not. These phones were once second-hand phones. Lekki buy them, dismantle …
Tethering. It’s a great way to keep connected on your laptop if you’re missing a dongle. Just enable the access point on your phone and – bam – you’re online. Many networks have recently started charging for “out of bundle” data usage when tethering is used, with some …
Android device manufacturers have pretty much stuck to the standard design, that is a touch screen 3.5″-5″ with a few buttons dotted around the screen. Over the years we have seen various devices with a physical keyboard such as the G1, Motorola Milestone (Droid) or the HTC Desire …
Released in mid-2008, the Touch Diamond was an important device for HTC. It was the first device to feature HTC’s TouchFlo 3D UI on top of Windows Mobile 6.1, a pre-cursor to HTC Sense. TouchFlo took a new approach, making Windows Mobile much more finger-friendly and easier on …
So you have a smartphone. Be it Android, Apple or Windows Phone 7. Or some other platform. Now what? Smartphones are becoming more and more popular, as they become cheaper to produce and more popular, and people are following their friends and buying something similar to them. Now, …
This is the first time that I am going to take a look at a game. Words with Friends is also available on the iPhone though so you Apple fans might want to pay attention too. I’d also like to invite you all to download the app now and …
A study performed by Ofcom has revealed some possible problems for Orange and T-Mobile. The new “Everything Everywhere” joint venture had average download speeds that were slower than 3, Vodafone and O2. The information, which comes from a massive 4.2 million speed tests, shows some key differences in …
Looking for the Xperia PLAY ? Want it in white ? Want to use O2 ? Well, I’ve got good news for you. O2 have the handset up for free on plans over £37 per month and for £299.99 up-front on the £16.50 per month plans. If you …
Everything Everywhere, the joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, have today announced the first live trial of 4G LTE to customers. The field trial will be launched in Cornwall and will involve 100 mobile and 100 fixed line customers from September this year. With speeds of more than …
In a rather strange move,Twitter has added email notifications for @ replies. You may have noticed this by the amount of emails suddenly appearing in your inbox! This does seem strange as you surely know when someone has mentioned you by simply looking at and reading your timeline… …
SPB have recently been porting their various apps from Windows Mobile and iOS over to Android. We have seen them release SPB Wallet, SPB Shell and SPB Wireless Monitor. Today they have released SPB Time. To quote SPB, “SPB Time is an adavanced, skinnable time toolbox for your …
Carphone Warehouse have a sale starting this Thursday on a lot of devices, the Dell Streak being one of them for just £199.99 sim free!. Other bargains in this sale include HTC Wildfire for £100 Sony Ericsson X1o for £150 HTC Desire Z for £200 BlackBerry Pearl 3G …
Yes, the commenting system was down yesterday. Strangely this time it had nothing to do with beer but involved our content delivery system trying to take over. Everything should be fine now, but do let me know if you spot anything strange. Please feel free to add your …
It seems a ton of Android developers are keen to mimic the minimalistic style of Windows Phone 7, and the developer of hugely popular Launcher Pro has decided he wants to make his own replica of WP7’s music player for Android. It is a pretty much perfect copy; …
A couple of months back rumours were circulating that the HTC Evo 3D would be coming to Europe and it looks like those rumours might be coming true. Various blogs are reporting that Vodafone UK will be launching it as just the “HTC Evo” with a release date …
Looking to get yourself a bargain?. Well T-Mobile are now offering for a limited time only the Samsung Omnia 7 running Windows Phone 7, 300 Minutes, 300 Texts plus 500MB Internet and a free Flexible Booster from just £15 a month!!. The Flexible Boosters allow you to have …
