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Top 10 tell tale signs you’re paying too much for your tariff

Top 10 tell tale signs you’re paying too much for your tariff

1. Text messages aren’t included in your package and you’re paying twice as much as the national debt of Uruguay for usage each month 2. The minutes you’re allowed are only enough to call customer services to complain about the tariff 3. Calling a ‘local number’ costs the same as calling Australia at peak hours [...]

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Carphone Warehouse ALSO launches Pay-As-You-Go BlackBerry x 2

On that day that will go down the annals of history as BlackBerry’s move to prepaid services, or the day everyone on the planet announces their pay as you go BlackBerry handsets – Carphone Warehouse unveils the 8110 and 8210. Those two phones are available from January 30th at the princely sum of £149.95 each, [...]

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Acer’s Smartphone – it’s official

Acer has sent an email to the press this week inviting them to their briefing at Mobile World Congress, whilst ever so subtly unveiling their Smartphone at the same time in the invite. In a move that’s as subtle as opening an envelope by throwing a brick at it, they also announced their intentions to [...]

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Windows Mobile 6.5 leaks

News has come to us via NeoWin.net that ROMs for the HTC Touch Pro has already appeared in the wild. That veritable source of wonderment that’s the XDA developers forum, has the full ROM images, ready to be applied, for the HTC Diamond with a keyboard – as let’s face it, that’s what the handset [...]

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It’s a dark day for Storms

It’s a dark day for Storms

The Wall Street Journal has just run a piece on the failings of the BlackBerry Storm and problems that plagued it soon after its launch in the States, some of which were clearly mirrored elsewhere in the world *cough* It’s an interesting read, which contains items that even our deft investigation did not uncover to [...]

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Expansys leaks again, only this time three handsets at once

Those ever more hilarious guys by each passing day at Expansys have just ousted not 1, but 3 Samsung mobiles all at the very same time. Marvellous! Highlighted to us by Cellpassion, who we must say are seriously on the ball of late and are making everyone else look bad, were the details on this [...]

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Nokia’s E90 replacement leaked

High quality images have appeared online of the E75, rumoured to be the scheduled replacement of the Nokia E90. Sweden’s mobile news website Daily Mobile has done it again and managed to get their hands on the E75, said to be the next handset in the famed linage of the Nokia Communicator product line up. [...]

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HTC Cruises along with a new phone

HTC Cruises along with a new phone

The high tech computing corporation has just updated its Cruise handset, for the likes of O2 to adopt in its Xda range *cough* A few weeks back we brought you news of the online reseller Expansys leaking details of a new HTC mobile, by opening up its pre-ordering. This was even before the HTC had [...]

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StrawPoll: Ultimate Smartphone

Mobile World Congress is just around the corner with the expected usual plethora of delights, but if it is a monumental let down in terms of smartphones – how would you design the ultimate one. Pundits have called 2008 the year of the Smartphone, for our pennies worth it wasn’t all that. If we laid [...]

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Top 10 tell tale signs your phone is on the way out

1. Calls get dropped so much that you’ve taken to using two polystyrene cups and a length of string 2. The megapixel on the camera is so low the very first pin hole camera takes a better shot 3. One of the music formats accepted by the phone is vinyl 4. The phone is so [...]

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Exclusive: Nokia is not launching a handset next week

In what may not be the most exciting news of the week and may lead to more confusion than anything else, there will be no Nokia handset announced next week. We had lunch of late with two senior people inside the Finnish fone makers, who mentioned in passing there will be a new handset unveiled [...]

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Three’s books from the SAS

The network ’3′ has just launched downloadable audio books for their customers, with a free preview service and a decent range of titles on hand. They’ve teamed up with ex-SAS founder of the GoSpoken.com website Andy McNab, to deliver 100s of new spoken word or viewable text based books each and every month. These fall [...]

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