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Santa Claus is coming to town, which means from Friday 25 December until Friday 1 January you can enjoy free mobile internet on your phone, all week.
Asked Little Saint Nick for a new phone this Christmas? Get online and find out what it can do. From finding the perfect venue for New Year’s Eve to seeing your friends’ photos on Facebook. With free mobile internet for a whole week your Christmas fun need never stop.
It’s easy. Just use your phone to go online anytime between Christmas Day and New Years Day. The offer is open to Vodafone pay as you go and pay monthly customers with a consumer contract. If you have a mobile internet bundle, the data you use during Christmas week will not count towards your monthly data allowance.
There’s no catch. Our free Christmas mobile internet offer is available to all our consumer customers, pay as you go or pay monthly.
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Vodafone have opened the pre-order channels for the much anticipated appearance of the worlds best phone on their network. The contract prices surprise surprise are not exactly ground breaking or price war stimulating to say the least, but if your like me and have struggled with bad coverage from O2 this may be a god send, plus you can always add on the Vodafone Access Gateway which is a femtocell that should give you a full signal using your ADSL or Cable broadband.
All the pre-order and price plan details can be found right here, good luck, took me five attempts this morning to complete the order, looks like demand is strong.
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Got a N900 or thinking of getting one but not sure how well some of the must have features like Twitter work? Fear not, checkout the video below for the full lowdown on how to access the micro blogging site everyone loves to hate.
There’s a local application called Mauku but also a whole host of web services that work on the class leading browser, including Twithive and Hahlu.
I just wanted to draw your attention to some recent updates in our product range that may be of interest to you and more likely your readers – Especially on the run up to Christmas!
A few stocking fillers to begin with –
HTC HD2 PO S511 Flip Case – Now Available
HTC DC M400 Micro USB Data Cable – Now In stock
HTC CC C200 Micro USB Car Charger – Due Monday
HTC HD2 Sync Charge Cradle – TBC (Approx Mid-December)
Micro USB Travel Charger (UK/EU/US) – NOW IN STOCK
Older end of line or clearance products – Many bargains to be had.
Some of the more exciting offers!
On the 21st birthday of the cult TV series, the official Red Dwarf Soundboard App is now available from the App Store. The app means iPhone and iPod touch users can now carry the sounds of the Red Dwarf crew around in their pocket, as the rest of us are forced to endure them.
There’s no less than 32 iconic audio clips from the TV series, letting users re-live the classic lines over and over again from, you guessed it, "smeg head" to " smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast". There’s also a slideshow of stills for when the audio gets tired, which we reckon will be about 45 seconds after you download the app.
The Red Dwarf Soundboard App is available for £1.19 from the App Store.
Paragon Software have released version 2.0 of Handy Shell, a replacement stand-by screen for your S60 smartphones which provides huge levels of customisation and interaction over and above the regular active stand-by screen on your phone.
Based around four different views of your device, the app is called up with the menu key, and takes over the S60 interface for a much more customisable experience. A number of plug-in modules are available including a new “Photos” view for instant access to your media. This sits alongside the existing plug-ins including weather and contacts.
Also added in the new version is the “3D Cube” spinning system for fast access around the four views (each of them is one side of the cube); this is one of the improvements added for touch devices. Read more at Paragon/Epocware.
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Nokia’s first capacitive touch screen phone, the Nokia X6 is now available on Orange through Phones4u. The media powerhouse comes with 32gb of storage and unlimited music downloads with the Comes With Music service from Nokia.
A long standing compliant about Nokia devices to date is that they use the less sensitive resistive screen technology, but now that has all changed with the X6. Read a full review at Techradar.
Expect to pay £35pm with a 2 year tie in or buy direct form Nokia for £449. As ever, shop around and you can pick it up for £400.
If you’ve been waiting for the N900 to hit the streets with a network subsidy, then mark January 7th in your diary as Vodafone has confirmed they will be the first to stock the device.
If you cant wait that long, then Carphone Warehouse are also offering the N900 with a Vodafone contract online from Boxing day. Expect to sign up for a 2 year agreement at £35pm to get the phone for free, or you can stump up £50 upfront and only pay £30pm.
If Vodafone isn’t your thing then the word is that Tmobile and O2 will be offering the device in March. Of course you can buy it direct from Nokia if your one those funny people that don’t like signing up for 2 years, shop around and you can pick it up for £449.
On O2? Don’t have a decent connection in your area? Then you are going to love to know that O2 is trialling 4G in Slough. The town most famous for …The Office will be not be able to use the network yet since there are no 4G phones on the market as yet. Have a read at the full story below:
You might still be struggling to get a 3G signal on your smartphone, but O2 and mobile modem maker Huawei have just successfully demonstrated a 4G connection — the first in the UK.
LTE stands for ‘Long Term Evolution’ and it’s an enhanced version of the current HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology that most 3G smartphones and USB 3G modems are currently based on.
Normally it costs only $0.99 but if you are a total cheap skate and you don’t want to spend any money, then free Lite version is now available with 5-files limit what might be more than enough for many people…
Santa Claus is coming to town, which means from Friday 25 December until Friday 1 January you can enjoy free mobile internet on your phone, all week.
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