Category: Networks / Carriers

LG Optimus Chat available on O2

The LG Optimus Chat has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Here on O2 it’s available for just £139.99 on Pay & Go, although it is.. bright pink. Running Android 2.2 this has a 3 megapixel camera, FM radio, 3G, WiFi, GPS and microSD card. It’s also pink. If you’re …

Sensation offered up by T-Mobile

Dan has just added his fantastic review of the HTC Sensation. We’ve already got stacks of deals but the lovely Carly over at somobile has spotted that T-Mobile are selling it direct for absolutely nothing on this £40.85 per month plan. It includes a big 1200 minutes of …

Virgin Media adds Spotify goodness

Virgin Media are to team up with Spotify to make over 13 million tracks available through their Virgin TV or Virgin mobile phones. It’s due to arrive soon and will be available for existing and new customers on Virgin Media. Spotify Unlimited is included and lets you listen …

Roaming prices down, Pay As You Go prices up

Roaming costs are just silly. You know it, we know it. New limits of 32p per minute for outgoing calls, 10p per minute for incoming calls and 45p per megabyte will be applied from today with a £45 limit of data consumption, provided you’re roaming within Europe (all …

Orange Barcelona now available

Hey you lovely reader. Are you longing for an Android device with a QWERTY keyboard that looks a bit like a BlackBerry? Yeah ? Want one on Pay As You Go for just £99.99 with a £10 top-up ? Well, this has to be your thing. Running Android …

Vodafone add their own Android Market Channel

Vodafone have just launched their own branded content within the Android Market. Instead of adding yet another shop app, Voda have instead selected sports, news, information and gaming apps from their partners. They’ll be available either free or for a discounted price. It’s live now in the UK, …

Orange Stockholm shows up online

Orange have added their “Stockholm” Android to their store although there’s not much detail as present. This will be the Orange-branded Huawei U8160 which Vodafone are selling as the Smart 858 handset. There’s some slight design tweaks but the specs remain pretty much the same, although this has …

T-Mobile “Night In” offer is history

T-Mobile have quietly dropped their “Night In” deal. It let customers get a DVD, some sweets, popcorn and even a bottle of plonk for a fiver. There was even an app but now it looks like T-Mobile have ditched the offer. T-Mobile have compensated customers with voucher codes …

HTC Flyer & Sensation Coming To T-Mobile

T-Mobile UK have added the HTC Flyer tablet device and the HTC Sensation to their coming soon section, both are down for a July release but there is no information yet on prices or availability date The HTC Flyer is a 7 inch touch screen tablet running 2.3 …

Yes, it’s official. Truly unlimited data comes to T-Mobile

Following our earlier story we can now announce the official details of the T-mobile “truly unlimited internet” deals for UK customers. From July 1st until September 30th you can enjoy the “truly unlimited” internet on 24 month price plans costing £25.54 per month. You’ll be able to get …

Moto Defy FroYo update coming to T-Mobile

T-Mobile have just confirmed via Twitter that the Motorola Defy is due to get Android 2.2 in a matter of days. We gave the water-resistant device a full review in January and even dumped it in the sink. It has an 800MHz CPU, DLNA, aGPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3.5mm …

T-Mobile to introduce unlimited data packages

We, like a few other sites today, are hearing that T-Mobile are getting ready to unveil some pretty big changes to their data plans. The plans, which are apparently due to start on July 1st, will give “true unlimited internet” to customers taking out a 24 month contract …

HTC Salsa now available on O2

The HTC Salsa has just landed on the O2 website. Prices range from a big fat nothing to £104.99 on contracts, or you can pay £299.99 up-front and do Pay and Go. The handset has a dedicated Facebook button for quickly sharing and keeping up to date, plus …

Vodafone increase Pay As You Go prices

In a couple of weeks Vodafone will be changing the prices for their Pay As You Go plans. The costs for those on the “Simply” price plan will be increasing, with calls to UK landlines, mobiles and your voicemail costing 25p per minute instead of 21p. Texts will …

HTC ChaCha Lands On T-Mobile

On checking the online store tonight, T-Mobile have now launched the HTC ChaCha on their network here in the UK and you can pick one up free from just £20.42 a month which will get you 300 Minutes, 300 Texts, 500MB Internet and a Flexible Booster There are …

Orange Monte Carlo listed as ‘Coming Soon’.

Following on from our earlier post here, Orange have put up a page on their coming soon section for the  Android 2.3 , 4.3″ Skate. Good news as this hopefully means a release quite quickly. This eagerly awaited phone could be set to be another huge success for …

Have you switched to an MVNO ?

OK, so after finding out that most of you still wear a watch we wanted to ask you another question. MVNO’s, or “Mobile virtual network operators”, piggy-back off one of the “major” networks and have been gained popularity over the last few years. Most people will be aware …

Desire HD On Three Gingerbread Update

Three UK have announced this morning the 2.3 Gingerbread update is now available to HTC Desire HD customers (just to avoid confusion this is ONLY for the HD and NOT the original HTC Desire). This is a free OTA (Over the Air) update so will not need a …

HTC Evo 3D due to arrive on Vodafone soon

Vodafone have just confirmed to Pocket Lint that they will be carrying the newly-announced HTC Evo 3D. Vodafone have also revealed that they will be dropping the LG Optimus 3D. The video, below, doesn’t show a whole lot of the phone but at least confirms that this 1.2Ghz …

HTC Sensation now selling on Three

There’s been a bit of a wait since the announcement, but the HTC Sensation is now available to buy on Three. Brendan has been out and about to film a hands-on video of the device .. The Sensation was announced back in April and we have the full …

Roaming charges are still too expensive

Your phone is more than just a device for texting and calling. During the past few years the smartphone is no longer just a “geek” device with a stylus or an Exchange connection, it’s a phone that more people have. People expect to be able to browse, to …

Orange allows you to charge while you dance.

I did check and it’s not April the 1st… Orange today revealed their prototype T-shirt that allows wearers to charge their phone via the T-shirt using the bass vibrations to generate a charge. Orange will be conducting live testing of the gadget at the Glastonbury festival  around the ‘Spirit 71’ stage to …

Networks Join To Promote Mobile Ads & Payments

Here in the UK mobile companies Everything Everywhere (which run Orange and T-Mobile), Vodafone and Telefonica (who run O2) have joined together to create a new mobile marketing and payment giant which will help speed up the rollout of mobile payments and using new technology such as NFC. …

O2 Update Coming Soon

O2 have updated their coming soon section and now have a wide range of exciting phones due shortly These include HTC Salsa in June HTC ChaCha in June HTC Sensation in June Alcatel OT990 in August Huawei G7010 in June Xperia Mini Pro in June Link: O2 Coming …

Three HD Voice Network

Whilst on Twitter today I came across a story over on Tracy&Matt which said Three UK have a HD Voice enabled network. Before now only Orange had mentioned a HD Voice network. They go into a lot of detail also listing the phones which have this free service …

ChaCha & 9900 Sneek Peak Videos From Vodafone

Vodafone have released two new videos on their YouTube website and these are taking a quick look at the HTC ChaCha and the BlackBerry 9900 both featuring QWERTY keyboards but aimed at different customers. First of all there is the HTC ChaCha…….. The ChaCha is one of the …

Freebie – iPad 2 from Vodafone UK

Being a Vodafone customer and a regular user of the Vodafone eForum, I found something last night on the Forum which I thought was to be untrue. iPad 2 3G 16GB available with no upfront cost to existing customers. I couldn’t believe my eyes, that’s a saving of …

New T-Mobile PAYG Plans

T-Mobile UK have launched three new price plans on PAYG to suit different types of customer depending how you use your phone.  For the text mad you can get Unlimited Texts, for anyone who loves to chat you can get some free minutes and for anyone who has …

Kevin Russell Leaving As Three UK CEO

You might have seen recently we have been doing work with networks as well as manufactures to bring a vast amount of content either news or reviews.  One of the networks we have been dealing with a lot recently is Three and they have loaned us many handsets …

Orange Quick Tap is here

In February we had a great chat with Anne Bouverot from Orange. She’s the head of mobile services and was keen to tell us about the new contactless payment technology that was being rolled out with Barclaycard. The system has now gone fully live with a dedicated site …

AskThree Event Tomorrow

Three have a special twitter event tomorrow where Marc Allera who works for the company will be sitting down and taking time out of his busy schedule to answer as many questions as possible in an hour or so period To get your question in just tweet it …

Vodafone launch new tethering options

Tethering. It’s a great way to keep connected on your laptop if you’re missing a dongle. Just enable the access point on your phone and – bam – you’re online. Many networks have recently started charging for “out of bundle” data usage when tethering is used, with some …

Smartphones. What can you do with them?

So you have a smartphone.  Be it Android, Apple or Windows Phone 7.  Or some other platform.  Now what? Smartphones are becoming more and more popular, as they become cheaper to produce and more popular, and people are following their friends and buying something similar to them.  Now, …

Mobile broadband speeds – O2 come out top

A study performed by Ofcom has revealed some possible problems for Orange and T-Mobile. The new “Everything Everywhere” joint venture had average download speeds that were slower than 3, Vodafone and O2. The information, which comes from a massive 4.2 million speed tests, shows some key differences in …

Xperia PLAY now on O2

Looking for the Xperia PLAY ? Want it in white ? Want to use O2 ? Well, I’ve got good news for you. O2 have the handset up for free on plans over £37 per month and for £299.99 up-front on the £16.50 per month plans. If you …

Everything Everywhere to deliver 4G to Cornwall

Everything Everywhere, the joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, have today announced the first live trial of 4G LTE to customers. The field trial will be launched in Cornwall and will involve 100 mobile and 100 fixed line customers from September this year. With speeds of more than …

Vodafone to carry the HTC Evo?

A couple of months back rumours were circulating that the HTC Evo 3D would be coming to Europe and it looks like those rumours might be coming true. Various blogs are reporting that Vodafone UK will be launching it as just the “HTC Evo” with a release date …

Omnia 7 Bargain T-Mobile Offer

Looking to get yourself a bargain?.  Well T-Mobile are now offering for a limited time only the Samsung Omnia 7 running Windows Phone 7, 300 Minutes, 300 Texts plus 500MB Internet and a free Flexible Booster from just £15 a month!!. The Flexible Boosters allow you to have …

HTC Sensation hits Vodafone UK

It’s official, the HTC Sensation has hit Vodafone UK. You can pick up the phone for free with a 24-month, £30 per month contract. If you want to pay less than £30, you’ll be paying around £100 for the phone depending on the contract you choose. If you’ve …

Orange Incredible S units next up for Gingerbread

The HTC Incredible S is also getting in on the Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) action with Orange customers seeing the update today. Glen and Tony Mann emailed us about this, with Glen stating…. Just to let you know, my UK Orange contract Incredible S received its Gingerbread update last …