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Archive for February 11th, 2011
Those cheeky chaps at mobilefun.co.uk have the Samsung Galaxy S2 up for pre order. The Galaxy S2 is one of the devices we believe that Samsung are due to announced on Sunday at Mobile World Congress.
Now, I don’t suppose that Samsung are particularly happy with mobilefun for putting the device on their site so early and I expect they may even open a can of whoopass on them. I would. Cheeky beggers!
Anyway, you can see the specs below that mobilefun are advertising and after speaking with some people who know stuff I think the specs are pretty spot on.
Orange and T-Mobile parent brand to launch on the high street for first time on February 18 as the second stage in branding trial commences.
Everything Everywhere is introducing its branding in the high street for the first time by opening five branded branded stores over the next month, offering what it calls a “21st century” retail customer experience.
Everything Everywhere, the parent company of T-Mobile and Orange in the UK, will open the five “trial” stores over the next month with the first opening in Altrincham (February 18) with Bishops Stortford, Eltham Lowerstoft and Evesham opening two weeks later.
Nokia today outlined its new strategic direction, including changes in leadership and operational structure to accelerate the company’s speed of execution in a dynamic competitive environment.
Major elements of the new strategy include:
– Plans for a broad strategic partnership with Microsoft to build a new global mobile ecosystem; Windows Phone would serve as Nokia’s primary smartphone platform.
– A renewed approach to capture volume and value growth to connect "the next billion" to the Internet in developing growth markets
– Focused investments in next-generation disruptive technologies
– A new leadership team and organizational structure with a clear focus on speed, results and accountability
This week Gareth, James, Matt and Tracy are all over the HP/Palm announcements, even though some are not terribly excited about them. Matt has been playing with the HTC 7 Pro. Gareth gets a bit gooey over the Toshiba Tablet, Tracy enjoys some of the BBC’s programming and James gives us an example of the Hackney slang you might expect.
With Mobile World Congress right around the corner Gareth reveals his action plan. Who and what he plans to see. If you have any suggestions or requests for Gareth to cover then drop him a line on [email protected] or on Twitter @garethmyles.
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Taiwanese manufacturer HTC have acquired the mobile video content specialist firm Saffron Digital for £30 million. Not too long ago, we reported that HTC injected $40 million into online gaming business OnLive, and Saffron Digital is the second major investment HTC have taken recently. Saffron Digital specialises in providing mobile media delivery services, with high-profile customers including T-Mobile, Paramount Entertainment, Nokia and Sony Ericsson.
This is quite obviously part of a strategy to boost their software offerings on their smartphones in order to stand out from the ever growing crowd of mobile phones. HTC’s CEO Peter Chou said “Saffron Digital has developed an incredible expertise in mobile multimedia delivery. This ability to deliver optimised content in the future will be a key asset as content becomes more and more complex and localised.”
Hopefully we’ll see more content from HTC and maybe even gaming to go with their Sense online portal.
Posted by: Vince
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