Tag: carriers
Following our earlier report on the whole "is it or isn't it available" situation, we can now say for definite that the Vario IV is available on T-Mobile. Steve Clark has just ordered his and there's a stack of people at xda-developers.com getting the...
Yup, it looks like the all-new T-Mobile (USA) Shadow will be called the.. err.. T-Mobile Shadow. It's already had a firm hands-on at engadgetmobile.com. Now, we've always thought that the new one would be called the Shadow II (which would make sense f...
Virgin Mobile is to update their mobile data plans and will introduce a 30p unlimited daily browsing tariff. this page gives more details, with a claim that Virgin is 3 times cheaper than other networks. Sure, in the UK when you say "Unlimited" it gen...
Orange have just added three new mobile broadband plans. They include a 30-day tariff with 10GB of usage and two 18 month plans which give 1GB and 10GB usage respectively. These are to be made available immediately and target those using the Orange da...
We've all seen the endless scare stories of huge phone bills following trips abroad. Whilst roaming call charges were reduced a while back following an intervention by EU parliament, texting and data access is still shockingly expensive. Now EU Telec...
Following our coverage of the Orange data plans and the eventual changes Orange now seems to have gained 2.9 million users with data revenue now making up 23.1 percent of total revenue. Coverage has now hit 94 percent of the population, with the USB d...
Last week we published a scan of the HTC Touch HD in the Orange "Work" magazine. We also told you about the 3 month exclusive Orange had on the handset. Now Orange have confirmed everything with a full press release which reveals an early November lau...
There's an interesting discussion kicking off in the o2 forums about a certain "XDA Flint". The device is definitely on the way, but there's a bit of confusion about what it is. An email from o2 states.. "The XDA Flint will be a take on the HTC Athena...
Our earlier story on the HTC Touch HD has already sparked some interest. It's listed on page 34 of the Orange "Work" magazine and is coming soon. We're now hearing that it'll be on a 3 month exclusivity agreement with the Orange network, however it ma...
It looks like O2 are going to be grading their customers with a new scheme called the "O2 Priority Club". If you've selected an O2 Priority Club Portfolio tariff and have been with the network 5 months then you can join. O2 are also putting you into a...
Remember the days when the Orange SPV seemed to be the only Microsoft phone around ? Well now you can re-live them, thanks to a huge splodge of reconditioned SPV handsets from Orange. The Orange SPV C500 is for sale for £19.99 whilst the C600 is ...
Hello new and existing o2 customers. Want the Sony Ericsson X1? Do you? Have a look what's coming soon on o2. Kishan Sthankiya spotted this in the o2 catalogue and sent it into us. If you, like us, have been waiting since the start of February to get …
Just yesterday we ran a story about the o2 XDA Serra popping up in o2 catalogues. It's the o2 flavour of the HTC Touch Pro and both Kishan Sthankiya and Andrew Keith sent in scans so we can all see the evidence. No prices are showing as yet, …
Following our earlier X1 story and the launch on Vodafone, it's now started to show up in advertisements next to o2 branding. The o2 forums are already buzzing about the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, with October 13th mentioned as a possible launch date. T...
Addicted to the Johnny X videos ? Waiting for the new Xperia X1 to appear on Vodafone? Well, you might have to wait a little longer. Voda appear to have pushed back the release date to October 17th. This Vodafone post forum a member of staff doesn't ...
If you've got yourself a HTC Touch Diamond on Orange then you may still be waiting for the 1.93 update. This update has already been rolled out on some other Diamond variants, but Orange users have had to wait a little longer. The new firmware improve...
Here in Europe we often get spoiled with the hottest new mobile phones arriving first on our side of the pond. In the USA, Sprint has announced that the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro will be landing on their network from October 19th. Engadget h...
OK, the iPhone. It's exclusive to o2 here in the UK, so other networks are trying their best to compete. Orange have setup a dedicated web page which is accessible from the "Mobile Phones and Plans" section of the Orange website. There's a link called...
Crickey! We're starting to love Vodafone more and more each day. We've already seen that the Omnia is on the way, plus the Touch Pro should be landing any day now. Now there's more good news... First up, the Samsung Omnia is now live on the Vodafone B...
Orange are pushing several packages and phones at the minute. They have the BlackBerry Bold exclusive to the network (the first 3G BlackBerry as far as we're aware) and we've just revealed that the Samsung Omnia i900 is now selling on Orange too. Howe...
Got a HTC Touch Diamond from Vodafone? You have? Good. Envious about those those OS upgrades for handsets bought direct from HTC? Hey, don't worry. Vodafone have released the 1.93 upgrade for their customers right here.Wehay ! Well done Vodafone! Why ...
Now, what if we told you that we had some news on the HTC Touch Pro that was announced two months back? You'd be interested right? Now, what if we told you that the news involved a launch on a major UK network ... this month. The Touch …
Following our earlier story about Orange binning their unlimited data plans, I decided to call up on Saturday to see if I could increase the amount of data I'm allowed. After several minutes talking to Orange Customer Service people I got transferred ...
We've had a couple of emails about this now, so we're slowly beginning to realise that it isn't some sort of joke. Believe it or not, Orange appear to have put a stop the unlimited data bundles as of yesterday. Unlimited bundles included in the £30 a...
In our earlier story about the o2 XDA Mantle we mentioned that the HTC Touch Diamond may not be arriving on o2 just yet because the iPhone is exclusive to the network. However, we're now hearing that the Diamond will in fact launch on August 12th as t...
I stumbled across an Orange advert for their data dongles in one of Emilys' gossip magazines last night (it blew open - I swear). Quadband, 7.2Mbps speeds with unlimited data. Yes, unlimited-ish. It's actually a "fair usage" cap of 1Gb. According to o...
The HTC Touch Diamond is now back in stock at Orange following a bit of a shortage.. You can now hop off and buy one here in the Orange shop, plus you get the chance to win a trip to New York City ! How many of you …
Oh, Orange are on fire at the moment! In fact, you should probably sit down for this one. Following the confusing new "unlimited" data tariffs which showed "unlimited for two months" they now appear to be offering a free iPod Touch with phones that ar...
We've been following the all-new Orange data plans since we asked the guy in charge why they were so pants during the launch of the HTC Touch Diamond. The "unlimited" data allowances aren't really unlimited but it's a whole lot better than the 30Mb li...
The new Orange data plans are now online. Dolphin 35 will have 600 minutes of talk time with unlimited texts and unlimited data (up to 500Mb fair usage). Racoon 35 will offer 700 minutes of talk time with 100 texts, unlimited calls to landlines and un...
Following our earlier story about the imminent arrival of the HTC Touch Diamond on Orange, we've had some interesting news. By now you'll all be aware of our battle with Orange and their data plans. Personal customers, like myself, get just a 30Mb lim...
From what we're hearing it sounds like the HTC Touch Diamond has started appearing in network catalogues. It's popped up already in the Orange brochure, but strangely it's appeared in a Vodafone catalogue sporting a price of £230.... handset only. Y...
T-Mobile appears to have announced a new set of charges today. The prices, which will take effect on July 28th, are detailed here. It appears that T-Mobile have chosen to completely ignore an Ofcom ruling which states.. "Ofcom will require mobile and ...
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is another hot handset due to arrive this summer, but we've not heard much about which UK networks will be releasing it... until now. Orange seem to have it listed on their partner pages and, although you have to login to s...
As you'll all know by now, I'm currently on Orange. I'm one of the many customers who are paying a rather large amount of cash for data. Today I've been charged nearly £12 for using just 7Mb of data, which seems to come from the "Pay As You …
We've just received the Orange press release for the HTC Touch Diamond. Like the T-Mobile variant, it'll be arriving in July, so it's looking like HTC will be selling these in June - a few weeks before the networks. The Orange branding has been carefu...
Data usage is a hot topic at the moment. Most networks have started to get wise to the fact that - if you want to sell a "mobile internet" handset you've got to give users a decent allowance. If you don't, people will simply be too cautious and …
UK network o2 have finally reached their 3G licence condition of 80% population coverage. It's the last network to meet it's obligation, with the other four UK networks reaching and breaching the figure last year. Regulator Ofcom gave the network unti...
Are you a Vodafone UK customer? Are ya? Well, there's some great news if you are. Vodafone have just announced that pay monthly customers will no longer need to buy an additional internet bundle for £7.50. Plans will now automatically include interne...
Steve Hurcombe has just emailed in about Windows Mobile 6.1 He's got himself the rather tasty Vodafone 1615 (the Voda version of the HTC TyTN II) and he wanted to know if it'd be updated to 6.1. Now, here at Coolsmartphone Towers we've got so used to ...
