Tag: carriers

Vodafone have confirmed that their customers are to get the Motorola MPx220 very soon. Their media centre is now displaying the handset complete with a customized Vodafone homescreen here. The revelation comes after our earlier story and then through ...

MoDaCo are reporting that a UK version of the recent French SPV C500 update is coming very very soon indeed! It's so close that MoDaCo say it's "IMMINENT". More details here.

Blimey, look at this! If you're a French SPV C500 user, you can get Windows Media Player 10 in this update from Orange France, which will move your handset up to version 4.2.2.1. The links below are direct links to the French update and this should on...

To celebrate the screening on May 19th of Star Wars III (Revenge of the Sith .. that's "Sith" people.. OK?), Orange are launching a special box this week. This coming Saturday, April 2nd, Orange are doing a promotion at the Orange Shop on the Kings Ro...

According to this MobileTracker.net story, the Audiovox SMT 5600 is still being "evaluated" by Cingular. The SMT 5600 was launched on AT&T Wireless just before it effectively got consumed by Cingular and there's not been much seen of it in Cingular s...

After the success of the last Orange Code Camp in France last year, Orange are doing it all over again - this time in Florida USA. More details on the event can be found here, where you can also register for the event and learn more about coding …

CoPilot® Live is basically door-to-door navigation via satellite from the guys at ALK Technologies. From today it'll be available as a bundle with the T-Mobile MDA Compact and SDA! The CoPilot® Live satellite navigation system transforms both the T...

The 3G SPV that we've featured here should be out later this year. Umm.. I think. See, to be honest I'm not sure because I've had a sneaky look at the device road-map for Orange in 2005 and it mentions that... "A Windows Mobile-based 3G phone will al...

I've chatted to Joe from MobileJoe.de in the past and he's always been very complimentary about T-Mobile Germany and the support they've given him. T-Mobile were always keen to show the latest Windows Mobile Phones and get as many developers and custo...

Oh dear, flamboyant Stelios, head-honcho at the "easy" empire, has landed himself in a bit of doo-doo with Orange. Only last week Stelios announced his new easyMobile service with T-Mobile. Stelios, who's always keen on protecting his "easy" brand nev...

Orange have announced a massive rollout of EDGE in France and aim to cover the entire country with EDGE, 3G and WiFi by the end of 2006. EDGE, for those who don't know, is like GPRS on drugs. EDGE will enhance the number of bits that can be …

MoDaCo have been running a poll - a very worthy poll too. They're trying to get a UK network to come up with a £10 per month with an Acceptable Use Limit of 100MB per month GPRS plan. Now unfortunately they only want it to be available to …

Looks like Vodaphone have grabbed themselves 5.4m more customers in the last quarter of 2004. However, the actual spending of their user-base is down and the "ARPU figure" (ARPU stands for "average revenue per user" fell. Hmmmm.. sounds like they coul...

Youssof emailed in with info on the proposed release date of the MPx220 on Vodaphone in the UK. Hopefully we may even see the MPx ... "I got this message from Vodafone and thought u might like to see it. I sent them a question concerning the MPX's …

Cingular talk here about their continuing commitment to Windows Mobile devices in 2005 and firmly put the Motorola MPx220 and Audiovox SMT5600 in their 2005 portfolio. Details from this d-silence.com article include details of the existing phones on C...

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cingular Wireless and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) today announced that they plan to make the powerful experience familiar on desktops available to users through more Windows Mobile(TM)-based device...

Orange have become the first UK network to reach 14 Million active customers. Orange, measuring with their own strict guidelines, have only counted those customers who've used their Orange phone in the last three months. This means that a quarter of t...

Neil just emailed me about the Orange Paper Film festival. It's a very interesting idea where you download paper chararacters (y'know, those characters from the Orange adverts) and backdrops, then film the characters on your phone and send them in! Th...

Orange have geared themselves up for a Christmas launch of their 3G handsets. 6 will be available at launch - all non-MS powered things. :) They come from Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo and SonyEricsson. This ZDNet.co.uk story has more info on ...

Our friends at Orange (who brough us the SPV range) have reached and breached the 52 million-customer mark. This "TheRegister.co.uk" article also states that ... "In the UK, the average annual amount each punter spends with Orange was up £4 to £...

Silicon.com report today on the new Orange "push" email service, which drives emails down to handsets rather than emails being retrieved manually by users. Orange have chosen Smartner to do this with their "Duality" software and are keen to point out ...

Orange are to launch their range of 3G handsets in 2005, according to this PC Advisor article. Orange CEO Sanjiv Ahuja spoke at the Etre technology conference in Cannes... "There's a lot of hype in the industry around convergence but more often than...

UK network o2 will be bring the much-anticipated Motorola MPx220 Smartphone out very soon. In fact, they've got a PDF which includes it in the o2 "coming soon" section. Grab the PDF direct from Motorola by clicking here. Here in the UK this move mean...

Both Orange and Vodaphone appear to be holding off a massive sales push on 3G handsets. Both networks are in the midst of rolling out their 3G networks and getting them tested and fully working. Source - MobileToday.co.uk

The UK has now got its first "Push To Talk" service, courtesy of Orange. Although at present it's only available on the Treo 600 handset, it's a great new service which will be rolled out to other handsets soon (no news on Windows Mobile ones though)....

Orange have today turned on their 3G network here in the UK, and their data card is available here. If you need speedy internet on your laptop when you're out and about, it's worth a look. The data card is available for £129.99 and adds to their ra...

We likes Orange we does. They're bloody good. They brought us the Smartphone (with a bit of help from Microsoft) and we like the lady on the answer phone. She's nice. So, you know that there's only one 3G network here in the UK ? They call themselves...

It looks like the Amena and Microsoft have joined together to launch a Smartphone in Spain. It appears that the MPx200 will be launched first, along with the Pocket PC XDA II. Details are sketchy at present as I only have Babelfish (Altavista) transl...

Orange are now offering the fantastic MPx200 handset on UPGRADE for absolutely nothing. So, if you haven't got a Windows-Powered Smartphone, now is your chance to get one for nothing. Just give Orange a buzz or click here to upgrade for nothing.

It seems that MMS just isn't tickling the fancy of us brits. In a recent survey by NOP it appears that 80% of those surveyed want absolutely nothing to do with it. Orange are currently pushing hard with free trials for new products and services - th...

Today marks the tenth birthday of network operator Orange. Ten years ago today Orange set up the UK's fourth mobile network in competition with BT's Cellnet (now o2), Mercury One-2-One (now T-Mobile) and Vodafone. At the time observers predicted that...

Wow ! I'm gonna use my bouncey girl picture again.. Have you got an UK Orange SPV E200 ? You have ? Wanna improve battery life? Wanna improve Bluetooth support ? GET THIS NOW! It will update your SPV E200 to ROM version 2.6.1.3 Download the update, a...

A new TLD ? What is it ? Well, you've heard of .com, .net, .org .. well, you might well hear of another soon ! Read on !!! Mobile Industry Leaders Announce an InitiativeTo Create a Mobile Top-Level Domain New Joint Venture to Be Created Upon Applicat...

It may be commonplace elsewhere, but the London Underground, with its large network of lines and tunnels, has never had mobile phone access. Why? Well, customers didn't want it previously - especially when you've got your face rammed up someones' arm...

Sky News report on the auction for AT&T Wireless in the States. Vodaphone has pulled out of the running, leaving Cingular Wireless as the remaining favourite.

ORANGE LAUNCHES TALK NOW SERVICE·    first operator globally to launch international service of its kind·    group instant voice and messaging communication·    an easy way to see who is available in rea...

I find myself in a tricky situation here. As you will no doubt have seen on MoDaCo.com and MSMobileNews.com plus several other sites, a new apparently fully working SIM Unlocking utility for the 1.6 OS is available at SmartEase.net (English translatio...

The recent update for Orange SPV and Orange SPV E100 handsets meant that a lot of data would be wiped from your phone. Although this was OK, we were all waiting for the backup utility to restore this info. Well, thanks to Patrice at huge French site ...

I like the Smart network, they've put the MS Smartphone well and truely on the map in the Philippines ... however.. I've had several emails from customers of Smart saying that they should come here for support. This is excellent ! Wooo!!! :) Thanks gu...

So, Vodaphone has said that the MS Windows Mobile operating system is "not quite ready for prime time". In an interview with the FT, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said, "Hopefully they're working to solve some of the issues that we have and, in time, when...