http://blog.mobiles.co.uk Mobile phone news with a UK perspective Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:10:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi, My name is Jack Bailey; I’m 20 and currently taking up the opportunity to join Mobiles.co.uk on my placement year at university. I’ve always been interested in anything technological and having owned my fair share of mobiles stretching from the very basic to the very unreliable and eventually to a ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/new-blogger-at-mobilescouk/ Here at Mobiles.co.uk we like to think we're unsurpassed when it comes to free gifts on contract mobile phones. So it should be of little surprise that our successful "Free Pay as you go" campaign is making a return. For a limited time, all orders for an O2 contract mobile ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/free-pay-as-you-go-nokia-on-all-o2-contracts-christmas-comes-early-at-mobilescouk/ If there is one thing we can be sure about James Bond, it's that the man likes his gadgets. It is a bit of a surprise to learn, therefore, that 007 has only been using a mobile phone in films since 1997, when he used the Ericsson JB988 in Tomorrow ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/007-gets-a-titanium-sony-ericsson-c902/ The HTC Touch Diamond has been gathering massive popularity since its launch so I decided to have a little one on one time with the Touch Screen Smartphone to see what all the fuss is about. Having never previously owned a Windows Mobile based phone and with a few fleeting ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/htc-touch-diamond-review-the-jewel-in-htcs-crown/ The Nokia N78 raised a few eyebrows in the office when it was first announced as no one could quite put their finger on where exactly it fits in the Nokia range. First things first; the design: it's hardly going to revolutionise mobile phones as we know them but ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/nokia-n78-mobile-phone-review-hidden-gem/ The Sony Ericsson Z780 is a quad band GSM handset, with support for 3G and Mobile Broadband HSDPA. It also includes a GPS chip and support for a-GPS. The clamshell design on the Z780 suggests nothing special. In many ways the Z780 looks like one of any number of mobile phones ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/sony-ericsson-announce-z780/ Korean electronics conglomerate Samsung has announced some interesting launch related information for their Windows Mobile based touch screen powerhouse; the Samsung Omnia. Firstly the concrete information; Samsung has announced that the Omnia, also known as the i900, will be available in Italy from the 22nd of July. Why is this newsworthy ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/samsung-omnia-preview-is-there-anything-it-cant-do/ The newest member of the Samsung Tocco family has now launched at Mobiles.co.uk sporting a stylish new rich Brown look. Though from the front the Brown Tocco appears almost identical to the original, round the back is where the action really is. Rather than lazily just colouring the back of ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/brown-samsung-tocco-now-available-at-mobilescouk/ Apple's new iPhone 3G is now with us having launched just over a week ago and while stock shortages mean it's as elusive as the Loch Ness monster, people cannot stop talking about it. With the internet rife with stories of queues outside stores and many customers heading home empty handed, ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/apple-iphone-3g-short-on-stock-but-short-of-competition/ Beam me up Scotty! In an announcement expected to go hand in hand with hover cars and robot servants, Chinese electronics company C-Sky Industrial limited has announced that it will be producing a range of mobile phone wrist watches. Though not a new idea (see the Samsung GPRS watch phone), these ... http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/mobile-news/chinese-company-announces-new-mobile-phone-watches/