Archive | September, 2009

MIR hands-on with the Motorola CLIQ launch in San Francisco

Our very own Michael Selvidge — our man in San Francisco — was at the Motorola Android event last week. He’s filed this piece and a Youtube video (made on his still-glistening iPhone 3GS) for us. Over to you, Michael! – Ewan I had the chance to check out the new hotness from Motorola yesterday [...]

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SpinVox investor: company has been ‘put up for sale’

The BBC is reporting that SpinVox has been “put up for sale”, according to one of it’s investors. The actual quote the BBC obtained from Invesco Perpetual is: “The business has been put up for sale, and it is possible that, should a good sales price be achieved, the new valuation may be exceeded,” Invesco [...]

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Video: Rafe Blandford’s Nokia World Tour – Part 2

I’ve had a lot of emails asking about Part 2 of Rafe’s Nokia World tour — I’m delighted to say it’s ready to publish. Here we go: Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video (You can find Part 1 here)

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LG’s GW620 is officially a 5MP Android handset!

LG’s GW620 is officially a 5MP Android handset!

Chris over at Engadget is reporting that the above pictured GW620 will — at some point — hit mobile operator shelves. It’s rather exciting — this is LG’s first Android handset. Chris points out that the device looks to be very ‘bone-stock Android build’ at the moment — no mention of the whizzy S-Class LG [...]

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What’s new in iPhone OS 3.1

You can’t have failed to hear that Apple had a little get-together last night – unless, of course, you don’t use Twitter, don’t watch the news or have spent the past 14 hours or so with a tin foil hat on your head. New iPods – and the second coming of Jesus first public appearance [...]

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Video: Rafe Blandford’s Nokia World Tour – Part 1

Here’s Episode 28 from Mobile Developer TV — featuring, as promised, the utterly brilliant Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian — taking us on a tour of the Nokia World conference. This is part one. Part two follows shortly. Download M4V Video | Subscribe to Podcast | Embed video

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Novatel’s MiFi personal wifi network coming to Vodafone

Novatel’s MiFi personal wifi network coming to Vodafone

Hello, Jonathan Mulholland here again! So, who’s getting a MiFi unit from Vodafone, then? The above image is from Vodafone Germany, where the MiFi is already available. I understand that UK pricing and availability is also going to be confirmed very soon. The MiFi is a personal, portable WiFi router that uses a mobile network [...]

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Nokia N900 media tablet is £499. I’ll take two, please

Nokia N900 media tablet is £499. I’ll take two, please

Got a mail in from Expansys this afternoon to tell me that the Nokia N900 media tablet — the darling of the Nokia World conference last week — is ready for pre-order at £499.99. Yours to have from the 19th of October. Provided there are a few more apps added for the device (and that [...]

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Coming soon: Rafe Blandford does Martin Brundle at Nokia World

Whilst at Nokia World in Stuttgart last week, Rafe Blandford from All About Symbian and I got together to produce a tour of the conference floor. I always like to have a look around conference stalls to see what’s on offer. Often you’ll come across some real gems. It’s also worthwhile done together with colleagues [...]

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More information on the Orange/T-Mobile merger

It may have only been unveiled a matter of hours ago, but the PR teams at both T-Mobile and Orange have been busy assembling a veritable ream of information about the proposed merger of their two businesses. And some video too (at the end of this post). First, some headline figures. As mentioned in the [...]

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T-Mobile and Orange merger: It’s official

The BBC are reporting the rumoured merger between Deutsche Telekom’s UK mobile unit T-Mobile and France Telecom’s Orange is on – with the two companies planning to create a ‘super-operator’ by November. The new combined unit would bring in around £8.2bn worth of sales, and hoover up 37% of the UK market – more than [...]

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T-Mobile and Orange to announce merger tomorrow?

Just in: Reuters is reporting T-Mobile UK and Orange are set to announce they are in exclusive talks to form a joint venture. Whilst neither party will comment on the report, sources close to both companies said an official announcement could happen as early as tomorrow (Tuesday). Reports over the weekend in the UK Sunday [...]

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