Category: Mobile phones
Moto V600 arrives at last
Motorola's long-promised V600 camera phone (we first heard of it nearly a year ago) is finally making an appearance in UK stores. Available via Orange, O2 and T-Mobile, the top of the range clamshell handset features a VGA camera…
Panny's tiny mobi
One of last year's surprise hit phones, especially with young women apparently, was the ultra-tiny Panasonic G50 distributed in the UK via Virgin Mobile. Now Panny has updated the handset, kept its compact size and added a few extra…
Vodafone 3G card won't work with Macs
Bad news for Europe's Apple Mac laptop-owners. It appears that the Vodafone 3G card, which enables its owners to surf the web wirelessly at speeds of up to 384kbps, is not Mac compatible. We have yet to receive official confirmation…
TV on a mobi – you'll be waiting for a while yet
Some interesting stories in the UK press about the arrival of what is being billed as the 'tellyphone.' Both the Evening Standard and the Mirror ran with a tale that mobile phones that could access digital TV channels would…
Vodafone 3G PC card launches in UK
It could be just what your laptop has been waiting for. Vodafone has today launched the Mobile Connect 3G/GPRS data card for laptops. So in theory, laptop-owning Britons can access the web on the go at speeds of up…
Single line for mobile and terrestrial
Good story in The Business at the weekend (yes I know it's Thursday, but I'm a slow reader). Tony Glover, the paper's technology editor, reports that Carphone Warehouse is to offer a single-number service that provides fixed and mobile calls…
Opera adds voice and maybe Windows phones too
The Guardian reports that Opera has announced it is to add voice recognition to its free web-browser software later this year, using IBM's ViaVoice technology. The Norwegian software firm says the functionality, which will not be in the next release,…
Virgin's left-handed phone
Virgin Mobile has unveiled a new mobile phone specifically designed for left-handed people. Dubbed the Sony Ericsson LH-Z200 , it features a unique keypad layout with the number keys positioned from right to left, instead of the standard left…
O2 unveils the X2
It was one of the most controversial phones of last year. The X1, available exclusively through O2, was a budget clamshell with an integrated camera available free to the network's pay as you go subscribers. While it sold by…
Panny's pop up phone
Clever stuff from Panasonic. It claims to have re-invented the form factor of the camera phone by offering a model sporting a pop up LCD screen just like they have on camcorders. According to the company the screen makes…