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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
Our fellow Londoners at INQ have announced two new socially orientated phones, the Cloud Touch and Cloud Q. Both feature deep enough Facebook integration (using Facebook’s Social Graph API) to earn the title of ‘Facebook phone’ and rightly so – access to your Facebook Wall, Messages, Friends, Chat and Notifications are all available straight from the homescreens. Both phones also feature TouchType’s Fluency Prediction Engine which guesses the words you’re about to type based on your previous tendencies and some black magic. They’ll also feature Spotify integration for the musical duties.
As for the phone’s themselves, the Cloud Touch is a full-touch Android 2.2 based affair with a 3.5 inch HVGA touchscreen and 5MP camera. The Cloud Q has exactly the same specs but trades the large screen for a qwerty keyboard. The Cloud Touch is expected to be available in April and the Cloud Q sometime in Q3.
For full specs and information, see the press release after the break.
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Posted by: James
When users turn on their new BlackBerry® Playbook tablet for the first time, they had better be prepared for some fun and excitement with two iconic games from Electronic Arts preloaded* and available for hours of entertaining gameplay – Need for Speed Undercover, the high-octane action game, and Tetris®, one of the world’s most popular video games of all time.
Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) and Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) made the announcement today, ahead of this year’s Mobile World Congress, (February 14 to February 17, 2011, in Barcelona, Spain) where the companies will demonstrate Need for Speed Undercover and Tetris running on the highly anticipated BlackBerry PlayBook and showcasing the tablet’s next generation high definition 3D capabilities.
Good news for those of you that like to catch up on a spot of TV or radio on a mobile device. The BBC iPlayer app is now available for both the iPad and Android. I know that the Android one is currently restricted to the UK but i am not sure about the iPad version.
Having tested it out on my iPad and it seems to work flawlessly and best of all it is free.
Go check it out in your respective app stores.
Posted by: James
From business to education, from medical to home entertainment, users high-resolution requirements are ever increasing. Taking into account this trend, Acer expands its line-up of projectors with the P5403 that delivers SXGA+ (1400×1050) resolution, making it ideal for today’s most demanding projection needs.
Thanks to SXGA+ resolution, the Acer P5403 reproduces crisp, clear images and clarifies small details. The result is superior readability and 87% more pixels displayed on screen, making this projector perfect for projecting a wide variety of content, from spreadsheets to highly detailed images. Plus, you can select the level of detail required for your particular usage scenario.
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Got an Android phone with a front facing camera? Or a Tablet and want to do the video conferencing damn near all of them advertised? Well, February 28th could be a good date for you. Rumour has it that there will be an update for Skype on Androidy platforms that will include video chattery. Can’t imagine the networks being particularly enthusiastic about it so I imagine it might just be wi-fi only after a short time but the fact that it might just allow for some nice cross platform conferencing will be a winner.
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