http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog Inside infomation from the UK mobile phone market Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:51:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Canadian vendor RIM, best known for its BlackBerry business email phones, is making a major push into the consumer smartphone market. It wants to break out of its strongholds in north America and enterprise accounts, but its shareholders are nervous about the amount of marketing and R&D cash it will ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/10/voda-blackberry-storm.htm What we find so funny about UK operator's attitude to Nokia's "Comes with Music" service is that it seems to be one law for the iPhone and another for Nokia. Already newspapers are reporting that Comes with Music has no operator deal in the UK, where it was first ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/09/nokia-comes-with-music-shunned-%e2%80%93-surely-its-the-same-deal-iphone.htm T-Mobile have just dispatched a series of electronic press kits, which contain some revealing information on the forthcoming T-Mobile G1 phone, aka the HTC Dream, aka the Google Android phone, aka this thing. As well as detailing information about the G1 which we already know about - it has a 3.2 ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/08/t-mobile-press-kit-sheds-more-light-on-g1-android-phone.htm The autumn traditionally sees the smartphone makers going on a marketing blitz ahead of the holiday buying season, but this year there is the hint of desperation, as vendors unleash their most sophisticated devices yet, but to a market that is likely to be significantly tougher than they envisaged during ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/08/lg-renoir-outshines-european-cameraphone-rivals.htm Sony Ericsson has cut a deal with UK company Mobile Commerce to get itself into the mapping business in the UK, joining in with its "Near Me" program for finding businesses which are near GPS enabled phones. It plans to bring the service to market based on its new 8.1 ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/07/sony-ericsson-navigates-uk-handset-mapping-deal.htm One of the great gaps in the iPhone's feature set has been the lack of support for Adobe Flash, with Apple claiming this was not up to the advanced video tasks the iPhone required. Now Adobe has announced that a Flash player is in the works for the iPhone - ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/06/adobe-has-another-shot-at-getting-flash-on-the-iphone.htm Two closely entwined Nokia products - the Tube, its first touchscreen handset, and the Comes With Music unlimited download service - have been promised and analyzed for so long that they seemed to be already in the market, but in fact they were launched at last yesterday in London under ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/03/nokia-unleashes-tube-and-comes-with-music-at-last.htm Check this yeah? Colossally convoluted bonce garb from Nokia, optimised for full-on urban immersion and street-level ambulation facilitated by the ear-isolating sound chambers and above-lobe searchlights. Goth chicks will dig the silver skulls on chains, and nu ravers will double drop over the little torches and dayglo yellow. This little willy ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/03/nokia-unleash-nathan-barley-headset.htm The GSM Association which represents the interests of hundreds of cellular operators around the world, has cleverly positioned mobile broadband initiatives as a replacement for Wi-Fi and convinced all the leading laptop suppliers to move one step beyond broadband dongles in one concerted leap, to putting a chip on the ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/02/gsma-to-push-broadband-inside-label-into-laptops.htm Something of a late arrival to the party this; Virgin Media have just announced plans to make a move in on the burgeoning mobile broadband market. The Quad Play provider, which punts cable broadband, digital cable TV, along with fixed line calls and mobile services, already supplies some 4 million ... http://www.mobile-phones.co.uk/blog/2008/10/01/virgin-media-get-in-on-the-mobile-broadband-action.htm