It’s being rumoured that Nokia will be launching an online music store at the end of August which is set to rival iTunes. Last year Nokia acquired mobile music service company Loudeye for $60m. Loudeye is a global leader of digital music platforms and digital media distribution services. Existing Loudeye services have over 1 million [...]
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Samsung to team up with Armani
July 27th, 2007 
blogstaff Following the very successful Prada phone, launched in partnership with LG, Samsung have teamed up with Armani to launch a phone under the Armani brand. “We are currently reviewing the possibility with various firms including Armani,” Lee Soo Jeong, a spokeswoman for Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung, said. “We will make an official announcement once it [...]
3 to cut the cost of international roaming
July 27th, 2007 blogstaff Following the recent cap on roaming prices announced by the EU, Three will be introducing new rates for their customers from 30th August. 3 customers travelling to EU countries will pay just 25p per minute to make a call to any standard UK landline or mobile, and just 10p per minute to receive a call [...]
Vodafone wants a 3G iPhone
July 19th, 2007 blogstaff Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin is reported to be concerned that the current iPhone does not operate on 3G networks. Sarin said “It is clearly a good, software driven device, but we’re concerned about wideband area coverage so that 3G or HSDPA connectivity with the iPhone is something we look forward to”. This could be [...]
T-Mobile launches Mobile Jukebox
July 15th, 2007 blogstaff T-Mobile have announced their new Mobile Jukebox service, which allows dual downloads to the users mobile phone and PC. Costing just £1 a track, T-Mobile are offering the first 5 tracks free of charge as an incentive to encourage customers to sign up. Initially T-Mobile will be offering access to around 500,000 tracks from a [...]
Top 5 Java applications
July 13th, 2007 blogstaff In time past, you could easily define the difference between a smartphone, and a non smartphone. As technology has developed, the lines distinguishing differences between the two have become increasingly blurred. This can be seen most clearly in the area of applications for mobile phones. Nowadays not only smartphones can have applications added to them. [...]
Beat the queues with O2 and Orange
July 10th, 2007 blogstaff With the Millenium Dome now renamed the O2, O2 customers can get priority booking on events at the dome and at events O2 are associated with, such as football or rugby games. You can register for O2 Priority by clicking this link. Further information on the Blueroom can be found here. Less advertised is the [...]
Motorola Z8 refused by Orange, T-Mobile and Three
July 10th, 2007 blogstaff Motorola’s new hero handset, the Z8, is not going to be taken at launch by either Orange, T-Mobile or Three, according to the trade magazine Mobile Today although no reasons have been given by the networks. Motorola were hoping that the Z8 would be the handset that revived their flagging handset sales. The advertising for [...]
Who will get the Apple iPhone?
July 6th, 2007 blogstaff There is confusion surrounding who will be the exclusive network to sell the iPhone in Europe. Various reports over the last few days have linked Vodafone, O2 and T-Mobile with the iPhone in some way or other. The reports started with a tussle between T-Mobile and Vodafone as favourites, with T-Mobile being claimed to have [...]
