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Motorola to cut distribution partners in the UK
Motorola has announced that it will be cutting the number of distributors it has in the UK. Jim Michel, general manager of Motorola UK, said that ideally the firm would be looking to work with just two partners, but that should it prove necessary they would use three, reports Mobile News. He said that once a firm was well-established, its distributors needed to provide something a bit more than what was offered rep in the past and consequently...
Friday, 29th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Mobile phone technology makes 'working easier'
Increasingly advanced mobile phone technology and the dropping cost of purchasing it has led to working while on the move becoming easier. At least this is the claim of Renato Bottini, head of business at 3 UK, who believes that the increased options enable people to choose when and where they work. He commented: "One of the previous barriers had been cost and that has been removed and it i... Read the full story »
Thursday, 28th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
China Mobile to expand 3G
China Mobile has announced that it will be conducting commercial trials of 3G in 38 cities by June 2009. The chairman of the mobile phone company's parent firm Wang Jianzhou said the company has already set up networks in eight cities and has purchased networks in a further two, reports AFX News. This move was part of the first stage of its expansion and cost 15 billion yuan (£1.2 billion).... Read the full story »
Wednesday, 27th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Photoshop to be released for mobiles
Adobe Systems has announced that it will be releasing a mobile version of Photoshop in late September. Early reports of the software suggest that it will serve three main functions, the first of which will be allowing users to upload photographs from handsets to Photoshop.com, reports CNet News. The second function will be to allow people to view images in thumbnail form on an online gallery. ... Read the full story »
Wednesday, 27th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Nokia to take Retail Vendor of the Year Gong
Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia is set to take the Retail Vendor of the Year Award at an industry event in San Diego this week. The firm sells more than 1.5 million handsets each day and posted sales close to $20 billion (£10.9 billion) in the second quarter of 2008, which correlates to a four per cent year-over-year increase, reports Channel Web. Robert Pignataro, Nokia's director of reta... Read the full story »
Tuesday, 26th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
New Nokia mobile handsets unveiled
Nokia has unveiled two new additions to its mobile phone range, which are expected to be on sale in the UK in the next month. The N85 is the new version of the N81 and offers users a five-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and Carl Zeiss optics, reports IntoMobile. It has a 2.6-inch display and is set up to recognise Bluetooth devices and connect to Wi-Fi. As it is fully compatible with the ... Read the full story »
Tuesday, 26th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Sony unveils mobile gaming plans
Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Sudios (SCE WWS) has announced that it has selected Player X to publish a new set of games for a mobile phone, including Buzz! and Destruction Derby. The Buzz! franchise will be the first title released and will be available in autumn 2008 with Destruction Derby close behind at the start of 2009. Sony has signed a three-year deal with the award-winning mobil... Read the full story »
Friday, 22nd August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Cameras are 'key mobile battleground'
Cameras are the deciding factor in the mobile phone war, according to an expert in the sector. Ben Wood, analyst at CSS Insight, predicts that phones with ten and 12 megapixel technology will hit the market within 12 months, reports the Times. He believes that firms that manufacture standalone cameras will soon begin to struggle to compete with phones with high quality photo-taking capabilities... Read the full story »
Friday, 22nd August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Mobile gaming receives iPhone boost
The popular Apple iPhone is helping to encourage the development of mobile gaming, according to new figures. A report from media analyst Screen Digest reveals that the top four game publishers are continuing to have a strong commitment to the sector, as consumers opt for phones that have touch screens - ideal for mobile games. Last month, a total of ten million applications were downloaded via A... Read the full story »
Thursday, 21st August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Asda slashes mobile charges
Asda has unveiled new price plans for its pay as you go (PAYG) mobile phone services. Call costs for PAYG customers have been cut to 8 pence a minute, with texts priced at 4p, compared to rates from Orange and T-Mobile of 15p a minute for calls and 10p per text. The supermarket claims that the new pricing scheme will save UK consumers £2.38 billion a year. Darren Blackhurst, trading direct... Read the full story »
Thursday, 21st August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Mobile honour for Google
Google has today won a leading mobile phone award. The company came out on top in the search category of the Future Mobile Awards, chosen by Juniper Research. Companies that have made a significant contribution in their sector and are expected to continue to do so are given the prize. Dr Windsor Holden, panel judge and principal analyst at Juniper Research, claimed there were many reasons why t... Read the full story »
Thursday, 21st August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Mobile banking 'makes life easier'
Taking advantage of mobile phone banking services is one way to make managing money simpler, according to an industry expert. Most high street banks have provided some form of mobile banking for some time, with customers able to sign up to a service that provides a weekly balance via text message. Alliance & Leicester has now gone a step further by offering people the chance to receive warni... Read the full story »
Wednesday, 20th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
'Do not ban overseas mobile downloads'
Mobile operators should think carefully before implementing a ban on international mobile broadband downloads following an EU threat to impose legal measures, says AdaptiveMobile. The European commission wants operators to slash the amount they charge their mobile broadband customers for roaming on overseas networks. But some operators are now considering banning all customers from downloading d... Read the full story »
Tuesday, 19th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Vodafone increases cost of calls
Vodafone's 11 million pay-as-you-go customers will see their bills rise by as much as third in September, it has been announced. The cost of a call will increase from 15p to 20p a minute. Contract customers who exceed their monthly limits will see their call costs rise by 3p a minute. In addition, 0871 and 0870 numbers are both going up by 5p. Critics of the tariff changes say the EU's ruling o... Read the full story »
Tuesday, 19th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Orange launches Blackberry Bold
Orange has launched the new BlackBerry Bold smartphone for customers in the UK, it has been announced. The first BlackBerry smartphone to support high-speed 3G and 3G+ HSDPA networks, the handset has the ability to support voice and data applications simultaneously, and comes with a GPS-enabled sat-nav system and Wi-Fi. It also has a "rich set" of features, including an intuitive user ... Read the full story »
Monday, 18th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
China expected to produce 605m handsets this year
More than 605 million mobile handsets are expected to be produced in China this year, according to CCID Consulting. Manufacturers in China have already made 279 million mobile phones this year. Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG accounted for two-thirds of production. The figures show that by the end of the year some 400 million units will have been exported to overseas markets, wit... Read the full story »
Monday, 18th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Mixed response to BT Fusion E72
A review of the latest BT Fusion offering has described the E72 as "perfunctory" with no real purpose. According to Pocket-lint.co.uk, the E72, which is a standard Windows Mobile device, "doesn't feel like anything special" and suffers from cheap casing and an ill-fitting battery cover. BT's E72 apparently looks no different from the mobile handset. The top half has a two-in... Read the full story »
Monday, 18th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Android handset 'on sale before Christmas'
T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone based on Google Android software, it has been reported. Both the New York Times and Reuters say that the high-end phone will be made by High Tech Computer Corp. The phone is expected to go on sale in the US sometime before Christmas. Industry analysts say the new handset is expected to challenge Apple iPhone and other smartphones that ru... Read the full story »
Friday, 15th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Mobile use doubles in 5 years
The average Britons spends twice as long texting and chatting on their mobile phone as they did in 2002, according to Ofcom. A survey by the UK telecoms regulator reveals that there has been a sharp rise in mobile usage over the past five years. Britain spent 99 billion minutes on the phone in 2007, compared with 82 billion in the previous year. The annual UK Communications Market Report also s... Read the full story »
Friday, 15th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Air passengers use mobile phones
It has been confirmed that the first UK-bound commercial flight that allowed passengers to use their mobile phones while on board landed at London Heathrow last week. The Emirates Boeing 777 service from Dubai arrived at the airport on August 7th. A spokesman for the carrier said a fifth of those on board had taken advantage of the mobile service. Passengers apparently made some 30 calls and re... Read the full story »
Thursday, 14th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Handset owners urged to delete mobile web history
Leaving personal information and web browser history on a mobile phone can make it "that little bit easier" for a fraudster to steal that person's identity. This is the view of Danny Harrison, head of mobile phone insurance at CPP, who is urging people to regularly delete their mobile web histories. A web history, he said, can allow a cheat to "see what sort of person" the ha... Read the full story »
Thursday, 14th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
VoIP capabilities added to new iPhone
Global IP Solutions has unveiled a software development kit for the Apple iPhone 3G, it has emerged. According to a statement issued by the company, this will enable application developers to integrate real-time voice over internet (VoIP) capabilities. Known as VoiceEngine Mobile, the application will allow developers to create new VoIP applications for Apple's App Store. Moreover, it will enab... Read the full story »
Wednesday, 13th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
51% of Brits receive mobile ads
Some 51 per cent of mobile phone users in the UK receive advertising messages through their mobile phone, new figures show. According to GfK Technology, mobile phone marketing exposure is becoming increasingly prevalent in the UK, as well as in the US and India. Text messaging is the most common way to send adverts over mobiles and is now vying with radio commercials and internet ads when it com... Read the full story »
Wednesday, 13th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
3G spectrum auction delayed
An ongoing legal challenge by T-Mobile and O2 has led to further delays in the expansion of the 3G spectrum, says Ofcom. Both T-Mobile and O2 say they cannot value the 2.6 GHz spectrum until the future of their 900 MHz GSM licences and their rights to re-farm the 900 MHz spectrum is clarified. Ofcom has decided that it will not call for 3G applications for at least two more months. Applications... Read the full story »
Tuesday, 12th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Mobile phone sales 'to rise 11% in 2008'
Global mobile phone sales will grow by 11 per cent this year to 1.28 billion units, it has been estimated. Despite challenges in some regions, the handset market is set for double-digit growth over the next two years, according to Gartner. Western Europe, the US, Canada and Japan are almost at saturation point but emerging markets like China and India will drive future sales growth. The run-up ... Read the full story »
Tuesday, 12th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
LiMo and Android 'can coexist'
Mobile platforms LiMo and Google's new Android should be able to "coexist" in the market for Linux-based handsets, it has been claimed. Strategy Analytics believes both platforms will be successful because each has its own advantages and restrictions. For example, mobile operators have generally come out in favour of LiMo but developers favour Android because it allows them to easily c... Read the full story »
Tuesday, 12th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Texting 'more reliable' than picture messaging
New services on mobile phones will only take off when they work on every handset with every operator, according to Huw Morgan, the editor of MobileChoiceUK.com. This is why text messaging has become so popular, especially among young people, he said. It also explains why picture messaging has been less successful because it cannot be done on every phone and is less reliable. His comments came... Read the full story »
Monday, 11th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Survey reveals strange mobile habits
New research from tech magazine iGizmo has uncovered the strange habits of mobile phone users in the UK. An estimated 730,000 Britons have conversed on their mobile while in the throes of passion. Over a third of those surveyed have chatted to friends and colleagues on a mobile while on the toilet at home, work or in a public lavatory. The study also reveals that two per cent of Britons have ... Read the full story »
Monday, 11th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
'Don't report lost handset as stolen'
Many people are unaware that reporting a mobile phone as stolen when it is just lost is a criminal offence that could actually land the person who finds the phone in trouble. Danny Harrison, head of mobile phone insurance at CPP, points out that anyone who is in possession of a lost phone could then be charged with handling stolen goods. According to the CPP, there is a widespread 'finders keepe... Read the full story »
Friday, 8th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Sony Ericsson unveils T700
Sony Ericsson has unveiled the slim T700 mobile phone, which combines "timeless design" and "premium features" for the mainstream market, according to the handset manufacturer. The 10-mm thin handset boasts a 3.2 megapixel camera, built-in stereo speakers, a self-portrait mirror, a film clip download facility, colour display, bluetooth and a 512 MB memory card "Become a ... Read the full story »
Friday, 8th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Sharp growth in handset recycling
Mobile phone recycler Eazyfone Group has seen an 80 per cent increase in people exchanging unwanted mobile phones for cash since the start of the year. The sharp rise has been attributed to the credit crunch and inflation in supermarkets and at the petrol pump, according to the Northwest Business Insider. Eazyfone Group's Envirofone scheme recycles reusable components in handsets or refurbishes ... Read the full story »
Thursday, 7th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Report predicts sharp rise in mobile broadband
The number of mobile broadband subscribers around the world will top 5.2 billion by 2011, a new report has claimed. According to Infonetics Research, cellular mobile broadband subscribers are forecast to grow by a compound year-on-year rate of 104 per cent by that year. This trend will be driven by a proliferation of voice services in large emerging markets like India and China. The analyst al... Read the full story »
Thursday, 7th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Mobile email is the 'next step'
The "obvious next step" for the mobile phones industry is delivering email to handset owners, according to MobileChoiceUK.com. Huw Morgan, editor of the handset review website, said that people send emails on a regular basis either from the office or home. As such, the widespread sending and receiving of emails via mobiles is the next logical step for handset manufactures and operators... Read the full story »
Wednesday, 6th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Ikea and T-Mobile team up
A new mobile service from home furnishings giant Ikea is being supported by T-Mobile. T-Mobile UK is providing Ikea with pre-paid services that will be available to the 1.4 million Ikea Family Loyalty programme members in the UK. Customers will need to shell out an initial £10.00 investment. They will then be charged a flat-rate of nine pence per minute for calls and six pence per text me... Read the full story »
Wednesday, 6th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
IDC: Smartphones driving global mobile shipments
Sales of smartphones helped maintain double-digit growth in the global mobile phone market during the second quarter of 2008, according to a report by IDC. Smartphone shipments are currently growing by 40 per cent a year, which is four times the rate of the overall mobile phones industry. A total of 306 million mobile devices were shipped in April, May and June, an increase of 5.6 per on the pr... Read the full story »
Tuesday, 5th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Nokia and Microsoft 'working on Zune handset'
There are reports that Nokia is working with Microsoft to integrate Zune Marketplace into the Finnish manufacturer's handsets. Nokia and Microsoft are apparently looking for ways to offer Zune Marketplace content on Nokia’s non-smartphone handsets. Zune Marketplace has millions of songs, videos, podcasts and television shows. Similar reports that echo this industry rumour say that Microso... Read the full story »
Tuesday, 5th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Free home broadband for O2 customers
O2 customers who take up the £20-a-month mobile broadband package will also get free home broadband for 12 months. The fixed-line broadband service will offer speeds of up to 8 mbps and comes with a free wireless router. Customers who are not within range of O2's home broadband network will be able to claim a discount on the price of the package. In a statement, O2 said it is the first co... Read the full story »
Monday, 4th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Samsung 'the world's number two'
Samsung is continuing to maintain its position as the world's number two handset vendor, according to IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker. Year-on-year growth of 22 per cent was "quite strong", says IDC, even though it was down slightly from the previous quarter. Samsung's performance was affected by increased competition for mid-range and high-end phones and the global economic slow... Read the full story »
Monday, 4th August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Mobile phones 'reflect latest fashions'
People buy up-to-the-minute mobile phones in the belief that they reflect their personal style and demonstrate their familiarity with the latest advances in technology, according to BT. Ian Neild, a futurologist at BT, said people buy handsets because they can access the internet, take pictures and play music, not just because they can make calls. BT's 21st Century Life Index consumer research r... Read the full story »
Friday, 1st August 2008 - by Editorial Team
Reuters: Nokia to slash handset prices
Nokia is about to cut prices across its entire mobile phone ranges in a move that can only increase the pressure on rival handset manufacturers. A report by Reuters says that the largest price cuts are on the Nokia 5310 and Nokia 5610 music phones, as well as the 8GB Nokia N81. A cut of up to ten per cent applies to all other handsets. Although customers are likely to be pleased by the price re... Read the full story »
Friday, 1st August 2008 - by Editorial Team
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