An iPad for just £99? You’d better believe it.

This afternoon a colleague of mine got an email from T-mobile UK offering a reduced rate for existing customers wanting a new iPad. Below is a copy of the email. The small print mentions it’s only available for certain existing customers. So whether or not you can get …

Vodafone Handsets Coming Soon Highlights

So we are now nearly at the end of Mobile World Congress for 2011 and there have been a lot of new devices announced or shown off to press and media around the world. Vodafone have uploaded a few YouTube videos to their account of some of the …

Google at Mobile World Congress – Android is taking over

I wanted to give you guys a feel for how things are here in Hall 8 of Mobile World Congress. I know I’ve mentioned this before but I’m hereby rebranding Hall 8 as the “Google Hall”. Every single partner here has an Android sitting on the desk with …

Skifta – A global remote control

We went to see something called Skifta today. It’s available right now in the Android Market and is “a global remote control for your media”. You can access media on your phone, from the cloud and from media at your home. We spoke to Gary Brotman who told …

Motorola XOOM – Up close

The Motorola XOOM tablet runs the all new version of Android which has been specifically designed for tablets, Android Honeycomb. It measures in at 10.1″ and has a 2 megapixel front and 5 megapixel HD rear facing camera with LED flash. You can play back recorded videos in HD …

Morning all..

Woaha, and I really mean “Woaha!”. We really weren’t expecting that. Apologies for the downtime last night (Wednesday morning). We appear to have had a LOT more traffic than we could have ever expected.. and I mean.. A LOT. This effectively knocked the main server clean over last …

DivX at Mobile World Congress

We ran into the guys at DivX yesterday and they’ve certainly got a lot going on. Basically put, if you see a DivX certified phone (like the Galaxy Tab, Galaxy S or Galaxy Wave) then you’re guaranteed to be able to watch and enjoy high-quality content on your …

ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro – Windows 7 and Android in one

Whilst at the ViewSonic stand we took a look at the dual-booting ViewPad 10pro. Now, first up, we should state that the term “dual boot” isn’t quite right. It’s doesn’t have to boot or reboot – it’ll just switch. A mere double-click of the Android icon within the …

Windows Phone 7 at MWC. It’s here, somewhere.

We attended the big windows Phone 7 launch day last October and got hands-on with the new handsets from LG, Samsung, HTC and Dell. It was only four months ago, so we weren’t really expecting to see any new Windows Phone 7 devices launched here at Mobile World …

ViewSonic Dual-SIM V350 – Up close

Today we sat down for a chat with ViewSonic. They’re tucked away somewhat but we wanted to see the dual-SIM phone and dual-boot tablet. After being hurried upstairs and given free beer we took a look first at the ViewSonic V350. This is the dual-SIM device and, straight …

Orange announce their own tablet

Orange have announced their very own Orange Tablet. It’s a 7″ device and will be arriving in Spain, Romania, Poland and Slovakia. Sadly this device isn’t going to turn up in other countries but, if you are in one of the countries selling it, you get Android 2.1 …

HTC Incredible S – Up close

The HTC Incredible S will arrive in March and packs a 4″ WVGA Super LCD 480×800 display with srurround sound, 8 megapixel camera with auto-focus, flash and HD video recording. Up front there’s another camera for video calls and it’s a 1.3 megapixel shooter. It’s powered by a …

HTC Desire S – Up close

The HTC Desire S has the new Qualcomm 1GHz MSM8255 CPU but gets 1.1GB of internal storage and 768MB RAM – this compares to the 512MB ROM and 576MB RAM in the existing Desire. The camera is still the same 5 megapixel shooter with flash and HD recording …

Loyalty. Part 2.

As promised, here is the follow up to my earlier post, full of intrigue, drama, secretive phone calls, dead drop messages and information…

HTC ChaCha and Salsa – Up close

The ChaCha and the Salsa are the HTC “Facebook phones” we’ve heard rumoured. HTC boss Peter Chou stated today that he didn’t “just want to make the Facebook button open Facebook”, he wanted it to be intelligent, to know what the user wants to do before they actually …

HTC Flyer – Up close

Today HTC announced the HTC Flyer – it’s the tablet we’ve waited for from HTC and includes a totally re-worked HTC Sense interface. HTC have looked deeply into what people want and CEO Peter Chou told us that they “Didn’t just want to make another tablet”. There had …

Sony Ericsson Handset Prices Update

Also over on eXpansys are the prices for the new Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Xperia Neo yet nothing as of yet on the Xperia Pro?.  As expected all come with a rather high price tag at launch but as always these prices can change before release date and …

Optimus 3D Costing £514.99, Coming April 25th?

Online store eXpansys have added the recently announced LG Optimus 3D to their site with a price sim free of £514.99 and a estimated release date of 25th April this year. The LG Optimus 3D is the worlds first 3D phone and will also be coming to Orange, …

Vodafone To Sell Xperia Play & Neo

Vodafone UK have updated their coming soon section to include two new devices announced at Mobile World Congress, the Sony Erctton Neo and Xperia Play Both devices will be available on pay monthly conracts although at present no release date or price has been made official.  To keep …

Orange to range Desire S, Wildfire S and ChaCha

We’re only just getting news on this but Orange have confirmed that they will range the HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and the HTC ChaCha. More news as we get it on this one. Update – Here’s the full release from Orange. Android 2.4 – which is …