O2 reduce iPad data allowances

O2 have announced that they are reducing the data allowances for their iPad data tariffs.  As of 1st October, the £15 monthly rolling contract will reduce the mobile data allowance from 3GB to 2GB. This is somewhat out of the blue, and...

HTC Desire HD ROM running on the HTC HD2

Was it really just 3 days ago that the Desire Z and HD were announced? Well, that seems to be long enough for someone to get the Desire HD ROM, complete with all the new HTC Sense goodness, into the usually Windows Mobile-powered HTC HD2. It's early d...

FroYo For T-Mobile Desire From Today (UPDATE)

Exciting news for HTC Desire customers on T-Mobile UK is that the update for 2.2 (FroYo) is available right now!.  T-Mobile have posted on their official forum the following statement Hi all,We have some exciting news for all our Desire users.The...

Three announce Add-ons for Pay As You Go customers

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...

Shazam updated – Offline tagging is go

The free version of Shazam has now been updated for Android users. Version 2.1 brings the ability to tag without coverage and a number of bug fixes. The free version allows 5 tags per month, but the paid-for version (Shazam Encore) allows unlimited mu...

Samsung Galaxy Tab Hands On

Yesterday when attending a get-together arranged by @ThreeUKLatest up in London it was a great chance to get to meet some new people and also catch up with people i already knew plus meet some of the team from Three. Whilst I was there the h...

HTC Event launch video and up-close overviews

So, you've read the specs, you've seen the event pictures, the Desire Z pictures and the Desire HD pictures. What more could you possibly need? Well, how about a few more videos? HTC have now posted this full video of the event so you can re-live the ...

Windows Phone 7 – GSM-only devices at launch

Microsoft are up against it. Windows Phone 7 has to be good in order to compete. There's some who say it'll take years to even get a tiny share of the market, no matter how good it is. Bing, for example, is very good at what it does, …

HTC HD Mini Lands On T-Mobile UK

The HTC HD Mini has just landed on the T-Mobile UK network.  In quite a shock as this device seemed to bypass the coming soon page and has gone straight on sale. The HD mini was announced at this years Mobile World Congress and features 5 Megapi...

HTC Sense for Windows Phone 7 – Please let this be it

Just yesterday we posted our thoughts on the HTC event. We asked HTC repeatedly about how HTC Sense would work on Windows Phone 7. We just couldn't see how all this Android-based cool stuff would possibly "fit" into the all-new Microsoft world. We kep...

The Windroid – Get the best of both worlds?

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...

Windows Phone 7 Developer day

With Windows Phone 7 now tantalisingly close it's good to see developers being given opportunities to be part of the new OS. A Windows Phone 7 Developer Day is being held in Manchester on October 7th. It's a community-led event and is completely free ...

Orange Desire 2.2 Update delay – Who’s to blame?

The new Android 2.2 (FroYo) update has had a bumpy delivery for Desire handsets. o2 rolled it out and pulled it and Orange announced that there's was delayed. Now, here's the thing. Orange stated that "there has been a delay in receiving the 2.2 FroYo...

HTC Desire Z hands-on video

Yesterday we posted a couple of videos showing the HTC Desire HD and the new speedy power-on system that's been implemented. Today there's a quick hands-on with the HTC Desire Z and that pop-up screen mechanism. We've had pricing from phonesdirect.co...

Phonesdirect.com launches

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 Desire Z and Desire HD – Full specs and more shots!

Well, what a weird day that was. It all seemed to start with Nokia trying to detract from the HTC launch with some Ovi Map balloons with these leaflets being given out to help you "survive a HTC press conference". Now, whilst this shows how powerful ...

T-Mobile Also Getting Desire HD In October

This is the BIG news of the night for all T-Mobile UK customers and that is the brand new HTC Desire HD which was just announced a few hours ago will be coming to the network sometime in October... yes just next month!. The Desire HD is being …

LG Optumus One, T-Mobile In October

T-Mobile have updated their Coming Soon section of the UK website and now include the recently announced LG Optimus One which is a Android 2.2 powered device packing a 3.2 megapixel camera and the usual features you would expect. This is being classed...

HTCSense.com and stuff we heard today

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 …

Pre-Order HTC Desire HD & Z

If you are interested in getting hands on your very own HTC Desire HD or Desire Z (and lets be honest, if you have seen the photos how could you not want one!) then eXpansys have them on their site to pre-order today and going on sale 11th …