Archive for May 29th, 2010

Samsung Wave in stock now at Mobiles.co.uk with a free bluetooth headset

The Samsung Wave has arrive on our shores, finally, and mobiles.co.uk have them in stock. I’m not one for pushing advertising on you but if you are interested in this phone yo may as well get a freebie on top of it. Read on for details.

Free on £25 per month tariff – 300 Mins, Unlimited Texts, 500MB Data and 9 Months Free!

• Incredible 3.3 inch Super AMOLED Touchscreen with multi-touch!
• Bada operating system – download apps and customise multiple home screens!
• Quality 5.0 Megapixel camera with autofocus, LED Flash and Face Detection!
• 720p HD Video Recording – capture the moment in style!
• Samsung Hub – live updates from Facebook, Twitter and more!
• HSDPA mobile broadband, Wi-Fi and built-in GPS!

O2 data network back to normal

Full service to O2’s data network has been restored after an air conditioning failure saw parts of the country without a connection yesterday evening

O2’s data network is again fully functional after an intermittent fault saw parts of the country without a data connection for up to eight hours yesterday. O2’s data network went down yesterday afternoon after an air conditioning failure in one of its London sites caused the technology which carries its network data to overheat and break down.

Data services were restored in London, O2’s biggest area for data consumption, by 9:30pm yesterday evening. O2 said all problems were resolved by 1am this morning. An O2 spokesperson said: "An air conditioning failure in one of our London sites caused two nodes which carry network data to overheat yesterday.

"This resulted in intermittent data access for customers in some parts of the UK. Full service was restored by 1am today. We apologise to our customers for the loss of service."

Palm defend their decision to go with O2 again

The Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus have both arrived on O2 but are Palm making the same mistake twice or have O2 promised to make an effort to push the device that than saying “you’d be better off with an iPhone”. Mobile New have offered up an article pointing out why Palm remarried the ex-wife that had given they so many problems since their engagement all that time ago:

Palm defends its choice to launch its Pre Plus and Pixie Plus handsets exclusively through O2 but says it may take longer to establish the brand in the UK

US manufacturer Palm has defended its ‘one network’ strategy in the UK despite admitting it will take longer to establish the company’s brand here than in any other European country.

Palm will launch its Pre Plus and Pixie Plus handsets in the UK in the next few days exclusively with O2.

Palm has been dogged by criticism since the release of the Pre last year that launching it through one network has been an error as sales have struggled.

Palm vice president for sales in EMEA Paul Ghent said: "The Palm brand in the UK is still limited and it’s an incredibly crowded market place here. You just have to look at the plethora of devices out there and the number of Android devices around so for the end user it’s pretty confusing.