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If the iPhone without 3G or Wi-Fi was bad enough, here’s some more bad news for the mobile users in China.Â
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which has been more widely referred to as the “Tube” is all set to hit China, albeit without 3G or Wi-Fi. The lack of 3G may be due to the lack [...]
The keen eyes of Steve over at AllAboutSymbian have just come across an update available for Nokia’s E90 Communicator. Currently running firmware version 210.34.75, Nokia has made the jump all the way to v300.34.84.Â
Initial reports by him suggest that the following changes have been made:
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Much faster orientation switching (open/close lid etc)
Nokia Maps 2.0 now built-in
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It’s here, folks. Nokia has finally unveiled the first touchscreen Symbian S60 powered music phone, which has been majorly successful to draw all the attention towards it over the past few months, being dubbed simply as the “Tube” throughout its development cycle and even making a quick cameo in ‘The Dark Knight’.
This touchscreen beauty has [...]
Not wanting to fall too far behind in the race for ‘phone-awesomeness’, HTC seems to have gone Full-Screen mode on their phones, as shots of what is claimed to be the HTC Touch HD have surfaced on the Internet. Although I’d rather wait for HTC to send us an official word on the same, I’m already [...]
Continue ReadingYes, it’s Official. Sony Ericsson has sent an official word out to the media that the most awaited phone from the company, the Xperia X1, will be made available in the countries of UK, Germany and Sweden starting September 30th, 2008. That’s just 20 days away.
Enough has already been speculated and said about the phone, [...]
Originally announced a couple of day before the Apple iPhone 3G debuted in India, Nokia have today announced the availability and pricing of the Nokia N96 for the Indian markets.Â
Ever since the official carriers for iPhone 3G announced the pricing, there has been widespread disappointment among the people, thanks to the high prices set for [...]
Vodafone have announced their first pre-pay deal in over two years. Luckily for us pre-pay consumers out there, it sounds like a bloody good offer too.
For just ten pounds per month, users will be entitled to unlimited free evening and weekend texts. Obviously this will be in-accordance to a Fair Use Policy of some nature, [...]
In my post last Thursday I commented on Rebtel’s dispute with O2 Germany over access to Rebtel numbers. Rebtel has just announced that O2 is no longer blocking these numbers. There’s no detail in the annoucement as to how this was resolved but it would seem that common sense prevailed. This is great news for [...]
Continue ReadingTo follow-up on Dan’s mention of QR codes, the City AM free paper in London had a prominent QR code on it’s Friday edition linking to a Mippin-ised version of their website. Kudos to them for including it (and good instructions on how to use it) and to Mippin for being the ‘website mobiliser’ of [...]
Continue ReadingI wandered over to Victoria this evening take a look at what would be big for Christmas this year from Carphone Warehouse (silly name, good shop). It ranged from the ‘meh’ to the ‘wow’ so here’s a quick overview in pictures. The event was organised as a ‘home’ with each vendor in a different room…
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Continue ReadingMinistry of Sound, the global dance music brand, dance music record label and famous night club in South London have announced the launch of three exclusive handset bundle, each with the popular handset manufacturers of Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.
As a part of the deal, media content from the superclub brand will be pre-loaded onto [...]
It has been reported that Comtel, an Australian telecom firm is to launch SMSpup: Mobile, an MNVO offering subsidised tariffs in return for adverts.
Unlike Blyk the service is not completely free, and that they will receive around a 65% discount on pre-paid tariffs.
Similar to Blyk customers who “opt-in” will receive MMS and SMS messages complete [...]
America’s fastest growing network morning newscast, CBS News, is reporting that texting whilst walking isn’t good.
It’s bad.
So bad in fact that it could get you killed.
In other news, I’d like to point out that if you stick a knife into your heart, you could very well kill yourself.
Also: And, I don’t blame you if you [...]
Lastminute.com’s Labs team have today announced the launch of their first mobile application FoneFood - an impressive European-wide multi-lingual restaurant table reservation service. The best apps explain themselves so…
Awesomely simple the application takes your location and food preference, displays a list and Google map of options that are bookable. Users can then book and receive [...]
Continue ReadingI was just checking the headlines on BBC news, and the Business and Technology section, and I came across a little article about an Italian answer to rising food prices.
According to the article consumers can “check the average price of different foods in northern, central and southern Italy” by using this SMS Service. This [...]
Continue ReadingGrowing up I was forced to watch a lot of the series Due South. My mother and sister both fancied the Mountie.
Aside from slightly mentally scarring me for life the series taught me one thing - Canadians are lovely people that never commit crime.
And it’s true, according to the mobile companies, nobody steals handsets in [...]
Roll up, roll up, it’s time for the SMS Text News newsletter!
Aye. This Tuesday we’re going to send out the first ever newsletter from SMS Text News.
Now readers subscribe to the Feedburner Newsletter that’s sent every day automatically. And whilst that’s of great value for many, we’ve had a lot of demand for an [...]
We’re going to be launching an exclusive weekly newsletter shortly, but first, we’re on the hunt for any newsletter services you think are worth it. I’ve had a bit of a struggle finding one I like, so any suggestions? Comment below or krystal@smstextnews.com
Continue ReadingIf you’re planning to go out for the night in any of the major US cities then you might want to try out buzz’d. By texting your zipcode to buzz’d’s shortcode you can be told the answer to the question on everybody’s lips - “What’s going on around me right now?”
There are now 1.2 million [...]
Blyk has announced that it is hoping to repeat the success it has had in the UK and will be expanding its operation and moving out into more European countries next year. It already told us that it was moving into the Netherlands in January of this year and today it has announced that the [...]
Continue ReadingWhen I was little hand-me-downs were all about getting your older brother’s old clothes. Now according to this article in PocketPicks it can mean iPhones as well.
Anyone who upgrades from the 2G iPhone to the new 3G one can simply pass the old one to family or friends. It seems if the recipient is an [...]
Ricky and your Blykwatch mates - this one’s for you …
NatWest has announced its new student deals and they include a £50 voucher off 3’s Mobile Broadband. They also include £100 off an ASUS laptop.
Fear not though, they are still offering a student railcard.
The deal is obviously trying to attract the more tech-savvy students who [...]
A company called Mapesbury Communications Ltd has announced that it has signed a deal with Spectrum Interactive (UK) for the rights to broadcast a GSM service from payphone kiosks.
It says that this will be the start of a new mobile phone service called UK01. According to Magnus Kelly, the CEO of Mapesbury, the agreement is, [...]
Over the past few weeks the two major networks in Afghanistan have both announced that they have hit the two million subscribers mark. Afghan Wireless Communications hit this mark in May of this year, while its main Roshan rival caught up last week.
This all sounds pretty impressive given the stories we hear of bombs, terrorism [...]
There was an interesting and upsetting story from The Telegraph yesterday about a community in the West Midlands (the area around Birmingham in the UK), that claims that a phone mast has cause 14 people to die of cancer and 20 others to have contracted the disease.
Firstly, it is obviously very upsetting to hear of [...]
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