Category: Mobile phones
Now its music downloads via your mobile
As we have been predicting for some time, T-Mobile has joined Orange and O2 in offering music downloads direct to mobile phones. Its Music Jukebox service went live this week offering users 500 truncated tracks (they are about two minutes…
Orange spoils cross-channel ferry fun
We don't get out much at Tech Digest, but when we do we sure know how to have a good time. An old favourite of ours used to be playing mobile phone Russian Roulette on cross-channel ferries. The game involves…
Blackberry's Euro rival targets consumers
While we love the idea of the Blackberry and especially its push e-mail systems which makes collecting messages on your phone the same as picking up your text messages, we certainly wouldn't give it its rather nasty looking devices home…
Orange SPVs reviewed
The Guardian takes a sneak peek at the two SPV smartphones from Orange, the tiny SPV C500 and the XDA 2 clone the SPV M1000. Read the reviews here…
Another LG handset for Three?
It has been rumoured for some time now that Three is about to deliver yet another new LG handset. Buoyed by the success of the U8100, which for a while was the UK's best selling mobile phone, even out selling…
Orange 3G launch imminent
Big day for Orange tomorrow with the UK launch of its 3G service for consumers. The service wad due to be up and running earlier in the year, but problems with the handsets delayed its delivery. Quite what Orange will…
Sharp camera phone first with optical zoom
It is always worth keeping tabs on what Vodafone is up to in Japan, largely because what it launches there tends to find its way over to Europe a year later. So we note with interest that Sharp has unveiled…
Japanese reinvent payphone
The Guardian reports that the Japanese have re-invented the concept of the pay phone. NTT DoCoMo has unveiled four new handsets that will allow users to pay for lunch, go to the theatre, book a flight or even open their…
Becks in divorce? (from Vodafone not Posh)
We certainly don't like to kick a man when he's down, but it appears England's off-form footy captain, David Beckham may soon be a few pounds poorer. It is rumoured that Vodafone, who pays Becks 31 million a year to…
Will the mobile phone kill the iPod?
And on the day that Apple's iTunes music download service launches in the UK comes news from Japan which could spell the beginning of the end for the iPod. If, like us, you are fed up of lumbering round with…