Author Archive: James Richardson

Best Buy goes green

With Best Buy opening its first store at Thurrock on Monday they are also launching the green tech selection.

Best Buy is re-defining consumer electronics retailing in the UK by today revealing its new area in-store dedicated to energy saving and green, energy efficient technology. This “GreenTech” area will showcase everything from energy management products to solar chargers and even electric vehicles – a first for any UK consumer electronics retailer.

mykindofphone from Microsoft – Exclusive!

Today Microsoft will launch a new website called mykindofphone.com

The new site is all about how people are injecting their personality into their mobile phones to make it uniquely their own.

My kind of phone is all about sharing and celebrating the inspiring ways people are personalising their phones, especially in the areas of mobile photography, gaming and music.  On the site you’ll find photos, videos and stories that we find interesting, quirky and cool, from phone cases, photography and screen layouts, to music, photography and gaming. We’ll be scouring the web daily for the most interesting and unique ways people make their phone ‘my kind of phone’.

Readers will be able to connect to my kind of phone by following 8 social media sites: Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Posterous, Windows Live, Delicious, Upcoming and Facebook.

Microsoft are also asking for tips or ideas on what readers want to see featured on the site, so readers can send their tips to [email protected] and we’ll be featuring the best entries.

This news is hot off the press and we are the first to announce it so I am heading off to My kind of phone is all about sharing and celebrating the inspiring ways people are personalising their phones, especially in the areas of mobile photography, gaming and music. On the site you’ll find photos, videos and stories that we find interesting, quirky and cool, from phone cases, photography and screen layouts, to music, photography and gaming. We’ll be scouring the web daily for the most interesting and unique ways people make their phone ‘my kind of phone’. mykindofphone.com right now to check it out. I will let you know what I think on the forum. Meet me there!

Posted by: James

Orange HTC Desire Update

We published a post about the HTC Desire on Orange a little while ago but unfortunately no details have appeared on the Orange website yet. 

Due to high demand for the Desire there has been very limited stock available in Orange stores, through Telesales and through Upgrades. If you got one you are lucky! I am reliably informed that the HTC Desire should appear on the Orange website either at the weekend or by early next week .

The official word from Orange is as follow:

"Due to an unprecedented high demand for the HTC Desire on Orange, we are experiencing some delays in delivering the handset across all our channels. We are currently working to fix this as a matter of priority and expect the Desire to be available across all channels shortly. Orange would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience this has caused."

This device has been so popular but pretty much every network and supplier has had some sort of delay over the past few weeks.

Remember Orange have the black version coming soon too. We will let you know when.

Posted by: James