Category: General
Another app store? Really? Many of you will already have seen some Android handsets packing two, sometimes three different app stores. More choice must be a good thing, especially if you're using a HTC handset. Word has it that HTC are planning to lau...
During the last few years we've obviously linked to a number of sites and there's one in particular that's perhaps gained a certain reputation for a rather combative and tabloid writing style. The msmobiles.com site hadn't received an update for some ...
Now hitting over 2 million views, this Charlie Chaplin boxset will no doubt gain extra sales after this strange scene appeared on the internet. It's part of some “behind the scenes” footage and appears to show someone talking on a mobile phone.. i...
Windows Phone 7 apppears to have broken the 1000 app mark today. Meanwhile, Android has hit a similar - if not much bigger - landmark. Google themselves now confirm 100,000 apps, a number which you may have seen some months back. That, though, was a n...
A number of phones have appeared recently so we'd just like to bring you up to speed on availability. Firstly, the HTC 7 Mozart is now available to buy on the Orange online store. It's the new Windows Phone 7 device from Orange we'll be reviewing, plu...
If you are a mobile phone user looking for a Business contract and the new Omnia 7 has got you interested then check out this amazing deal on offer with T-Mobile. If you sign up to 24 months at £35 a month on a 'Business Unlimited' plan you …
I've made quite a few trips down to London over these past few weeks and booked a number of trains. Usually I find a computer, check the timetables, find the best fare and then book online. However, Raileasy have now made things mobile with the additi...
The T3 Awards have been announced and, after more than three quarters of a million reader votes, plus expert judges, HTC have emerged as winners in a number of categories. They bagged "Phone of the year" with the HTC Desire. "Tech brand of the year" a...
If you've requested it then you may start seeing network names like this showing up on your phone. From what we can see it seems that you get "Orange T-Mobile" when you cross over from Orange to T-Mobile and "T-Mobile Orange" when you're a T-Mobile cu...
So today, according to the Everything Everywhere announcement Orange and T-Mobile customers should be able to browse across both networks after registering on the links below. It's currently "voice only" but you'll get data roaming soon too. “Fr...
SonyEricsson have announced a new accessory - a bluetooth remote/touchscreen called LiveView. Its a 1.3" colour touchsceen that can be worn on your wrist like a watch, but is connected to your Android phone, displaying messages, status updates, incomi...
Pocket-Lint have today posted up news that the UK is expected to have Windows Phone 7 stock go on sale on the 21st October (just under a month away) In their post today they linked to a report staying "According to sources familiar with the soft...
The comScore report is out today and shows how things are shaping up in the US. Last year we saw Apple overtake Microsoft and now, just nine months later, Android has too. Google have experienced a 5% jump in smartphone market share between April and ...
On Wednesday we covered the HTC Event. Although WiFi was available, the weight of several hundred journalists pretty much killed it. Luckily I had a laptop with a Three Pay As You Go SIM card in. However, Three have now boosted their Top-ups now inclu...
Android or Windows Mobile? Well, if you don't mind having a dabble on a Chinese import site, this may solve your problem. For £153.78 you can get the Windroid Phone, which has a 624MHz CPU, 3.2" 240x400 pixel screen, GPS, WiFi, microSD and woah.. a...
Phonesdirect.com has just launched with a range of SIM-free HTC kit to choose from. The website is now online and there's a new partnership with Vodafone to reduce the cost of SIM free phones. Danny Key, Business Development Manager of phonesdirect.co...
HTC announced their new user website today too. I'm going to call it a "phone control portal" because that's pretty much what it is. Log in and, if you lose your phone, you can locatr it, send a message which will appear on the lock screen, wipe it …
The rather large HTC event kicks off tomorrow morning but, if you're in town there's also a party in the evening which isn't just for press. Now, due to my globe-trotting lifestyle (pah!) I'll not be in London that long but there seems to be quite a n...
Paul O'Brien from Modaco has recently reached 10,000 followers on Twitter. As a way of celebrating this he is having a charity giveaway. The aim is to get to £10,000 worth of donations for Cancer Research, once the target is reached there will b...
Don't ask me why, but today I've stumbled across a few historical items about mobile networks and their development here in the UK. There were a number of successes and failures along the way, with this BBC news item looking at Mercury Communications....
Coolsmartphone.com covers several different mobile operating systems - Windows Mobile, Android, iOS - which highlights the diversity currently in the mobile world. However, all these different OS use different SDK's and programming languages, an...
Three have just announced that they too will be carrying the Galaxy Tab. The Android Tablet will be hitting the 3G network soon, with 1GB of data available for £7.50 or 5GB for £15. There's also three voice packages to choose from, including SIM...
The Orange and T-Mobile networks will merge on October 5th but, due to the amount of handsets, you'll at first have to sign-up to be part of the new shared network. This, we presume, is because some phones may have been heavily tested for T-Mobile but...
In the last few minutes it seems that HTC Peep is starting to burst back into life. The HTC Twitter client, which packed up on September 1st, got apparently fixed by Twitter. However, after another "we've fixed some login issues" message from Twitter ...
The new joint venture company combining Orange and T-Mobile UK, Everything Everywhere today announced the launch date of the combined network roaming agreement which will allow customers of both groups roam on each other's network. From the 5th Octobe...
OK. I need your help with this one. According to Twitter the HTC Peep issues were their fault and they've now fixed them. Strangely I still can't login with Peep. HTC have now followed up with this Tweet which states.. “Twitter is on the case! T...
Whilst we're not really "into" the Qualcomm Brew-based phones, they're helping to bring Smartphone-like functionality top more people with the help of a bargain-basement price. The HTC Smart was rolled onto o2 here in the UK after a big announcement a...
Earlier the HTC Twitter client, HTC Peep, ground to a halt after Twitter turned off their standard authentication system. The new OAuth system was announced by Twitter in December and the actual "go" date was pushed back as clients were updated to use...
Orange have just enabled their new crystal-clear HD Voice service. It's the first network to do it and available at no extra cost to their customers. The system, which reduces background noise and adds a clearer voice quality, is only available on cer...
During my tired web-stumbling last night I found this comic from The Oatmeal. It's basically making fun of the people who spend a fortune on gadgets and phones, only to freak out at the fairly tiny price of apps. This, I'll admit, is me. Why? Well, I'...
Here's an interesting test, and one which becomes even more interesting when you consider that the Windows Phone 7 device shown here isn't using final software. Pocketnow turn on four phones - an iPhone, Nexus One (Android), HTC HD2 (Windows Mobile 6....
Morning all. I'd just like to keep you posted on a few things that are happening behind the scenes.It's been an incredibly busy few days. Last week we started seeing drive errors on our server, so we shipped everything to a temporary box and swapped t...
T-Mobile have just added an update for T-Mobile Pulse owners. It's .. not good news unfortunately and they're stating that some customers have experienced problems with the Android 2.1 update. They've pulled the update and expect to have a fixed versi...
There is an interesting article on the BBC News site today on the growth of the Android Market, and more specifically the growth of pay for apps and people making a living from them. Apple have the headstart, but now Android phones are outsellin...
Orange have responded to the data network issues we reported on yesterday. PR Manager, Conor Maples, has apologised to everyone affected by the outage and stated that..&ldquoFurther to some data access problems witnessed on our network yesterday, we c...
Thanks for your feedback on our commenting system yesterday. We've taken a few things on board. A few of your have suggested a site redesign, which is something we've considered too. It's on the cards and we'll be changing the way everything looks and...
I have a question for you lot. Just lately, due to hardware problems and firewall tweaks, we've been fiddling around in the datacentre and generally scratching our heads quite a bit. It's got me thinking about the way the site works and I'm feeling th...
A quick note for anyone using Orange today. There seems to be a problem with the data network. Orange say that they're working on it and currently I've got no data access at all. Chris Merriman has emailed in to say.. “It's been playing up since...
Today Ofcom revealed that 45% of our waking hours are spent watching TV, using our mobile phone or other communications devices. Peter Phillips, Ofcom Partner, Strategy & Market Developments, stated.. “Increasingly, mobile devices – especially...
A while ago, long before our server decided to throw a wobbly, we ran a competition to win some HTC Desire stuff. The winners are Simon Steele, who won the screen protector, Jared Dore, who wins the branded "pull out" Desire case and Simon Lyons, who ...
