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Mobile World Congress 2011 – Let the fun begin

James Richardson | February 12, 2011 |

Unless you have had your head in the sand you will know that Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona, Spain, tomorrow. Here in Europe it is the mobile event of the year where all the major manufactures announce new products and services. Our man Gareth will be at MWC over the next four days […]

ZTE to Launch Cloud-based iMarket at MWC 2011

James Richardson | February 12, 2011 |

ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, today announced it will launch its cloud-based applications store iMarket to global operators at the telecoms industry’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. As content and applications (apps) continue to grow in importance for mobile device users, ZTE developed the iMarket with […]

Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 up for pre order!

James Richardson | February 11, 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 […]

Everything Everywhere to launch branded stores

James Richardson | February 11, 2011 |

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 […]

Nokia gives Symbian the cold shoulder and gets some WP7 love!

James Richardson | February 11, 2011 |

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 […]

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 106: The Palm Trio

Gareth | February 11, 2011 |

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 […]

HTC snaps up Saffron Digital for £30 million

Vince Chan | February 11, 2011 |

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 […]

INQ announce a duo of Facebook phones

Vince Chan | February 10, 2011 |

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 […]

Vodafone mobile broadband special offer

James Richardson | February 10, 2011 |

Our friends over at phonesdirect.com have just sent us details of a nice new mobile broadband offer if you are in the market for such a deal? Sign up for the Vodafone Monthly Mobile Internet for only £4.99 for the first six months, then only £15 per month thereafter. A generous 3GB of Mobile Broadband […]

EA’s Need for Speed Undercover and the Tetris Game Coming to the BlackBerry PlayBook at Launch

James Richardson | February 10, 2011 |

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 […]