Tag: mobile phone
Samsung G600 camera phone will launch in partnership with Truprint
Samsung has announced that its G600 Camera Phone, which we previewed last month, will launch in the UK in partnership with the Truprint brand.
AA launches Smart TravelGuides: interactive guides and maps for 3G mobiles
AA Publishing has announced a new set of AA Smart TravelGuides, that turns any 3G mobile or smartphone into an interactive travel guide and map.
The maps, provided by the Ordnance Survey, will cover a variety of areas, with the first in the series covering London.
The product comes as a memory card which is loaded into the phone and then allows you to search for points of interest, including sights, things to do, and AA-rated restaurants and hotels.
UK's 3 network gets improved Nokia N95 handset
3 has just announced that an updated Nokia N95 handset, version PR1.2, is now available on their network.
Sporting an improved battery life, GPS, and better Internet browsing stability, as well as full X-Series support, it’ll cost £49.99 on the £28 monthly X-Series tariff, or is free on £45+ monthly tariffs.
Millions of mobile phone photos going to waste: enter the MAX BOX
New research from Felix Group suggests that millions of photos captured using mobile phones are going to waste because people have either forgotten that they’ve taken them, or they get stored away digitally, never to exist in printed form.
They reckon that the average camera phone has 67 images on it, with the most popular types of photo being groups of friends/colleagues on a night out, family pets, family members, holiday snaps, and famous people spotted in public.
Now the company believe they’ve come up with a solution to get those shots out in the open. The MAX BOX.
Orange intro new European roaming rates
Orange has announced the launch of new European mobile roaming rates for its consumers. From 30th August 2007, it will cost 38p per minute to make a call while roaming, and 19p per minute to receive them – at least, in their “Europe 1” area.
Orange customers can check how much a call will cost while away, by texting “FROM [COUNTRY]” to 452 (PAYG) or 159 (Pay Monthly), and receiving a free-of-charge confirmation from Orange.
No doubt this new “transparency” on Orange’s part is in response to various initiatives by the EU and Germany to pull into line the high costs associated with mobile roaming abroad.
DatingDirect.com partners with Vodafone to offer mobile dating service
DatingDirect.com, the UK’s largest dating service, has announced a new partnership with Vodafone to bring a mobile dating service to the Vodafone Mobile Internet service.
This will give Vodafone users complete access to the Dating Direct website, and its 3.5m active members, straight from their mobile phone.
The new service has been developed and optimised for mobile phone use, and will allow users to browse images and profiles, manage their own content, upload photos, and even sign up as a new member directly from their mobile.
Euro iPhone Rumours continue: O2 poised for UK launch?
With the US iPhone launch safely out of the way, attention turns to a European launch, and it’s as rumour-filled as anything the Americans could cook up.
On Tuesday, we reported that German company Deutsche Telekom were poised to clinch an exclusive iPhone deal, at least for German customers. In previous months, both Vodafone and T-Mobile were said to be favourites for winning the iPhone.
O2 were supposedly nowhere to be seen.
Yet a report in yesterday’s Financial Times suggests otherwise.
Opinion: Why I DON'T want an iPhone
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
So, Apple’s “must-have” mobile phone has now finally launched. Well, I say launch. That’s obviously true if you’re reading this from America, but for the rest of us it’s tough luck. After all, it’s not as if anyone in Britain has ever put their hard-earned cash into Steve Jobs’ coffers.
Survey shows people so attached to mobile phones, a million quid wouldn't make them give up
According to the latest installment of the Carphone Warehouse's "Mobile Life" research, the Great British public are so attached to their mobile phones that they wouldn't give them up – even for a million pounds.
The results come out of depriving 24 pour souls out of their mobile phones for a week, in order to understand how they shape our behaviour.
One in three people said they wouldn't give up their phone for a million pounds. 76% said they believed it was a social requirement to have a mobile phone, while 85% think that having a mobile phone is vital to maintaining their quality of life.
Win a disposable, cordless mobile charger from Mobcharger – perfect for Glastonbury Festival!
Glastonbury Festival kicks off next week, and we’ve got a killer competition to get you just in the mood for all that aural pleasure your ears will be receiving.
The kind folks at Mobcharger have given us a bunch of their mobile phone chargers to give to 12 lucky readers located in the UK. These pocket-sized mobile phone chargers are disposable and cordless, so perfect for the five days you’ll be spending swimming around in mud out in the country. No more refraining from texting your mates, for fear of running out of battery!
We’ve got several of each sort to give away to 12 people to enter the competition, so if you have a Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson or Mini USB phone, read on below the jump for how to enter…
