Author Archive: James Richardson

O2 Travel – use your mobile worry free when abroad

Nice, our second roaming post of the day.  O2 today announces the launch of O2 Travel, providing customers with a worry free way to use their mobiles throughout Europe this summer. Available from July to all O2 pay monthly customers, including O2 business customers*, the simple new approach offers 25MB of data per day for £1.99. When making voice calls, customers will be charged a one-off 50p per call, with minutes then taken from their existing tariff.
O2 Travel marks the next step in O2’s commitment to help customers banish concerns over their bill when they get home, allowing worry free tweets, Facebook status updates, and calls home from poolside in the sun. It represents the best value international offer from O2 to date, enabling customers to make their holiday as connected as they wish.

O2 Travel was developed using customer insight which highlights the growing demand for mobile use abroad:
. Mobile internet usage whilst on holiday is growing at more than 100% a year
. 60% of customers who use the mobile internet in the UK also use it whilst abroad
. Facebook, Google and BBC News are the most popular websites to vist while on holiday
. France and Spain are the most popular countries for customers calling back to the UK

With 25MB of data per day customers can keep connected to all their favourite sites, making 2012 the first ever social media connected summer holidays. Gone are the days of showing holiday snaps once the tan has faded: now holiday moments can be shared as soon as you hit the beach.

Carphone Warehouse Deal of the Week – Samsung Galaxy Note

Carphone Warehouse has announced its brand new super money saving Deal of the Week – the brilliant Samsung Galaxy Note.

For the next seven days, the Samsung Galaxy Note will be available for free on T-Mobile for just £31 a month. This deal, exclusively available with Carphone Warehouse, will give users 100mins, unlimited texts and 750 MB of data per month.

The Samsung Galaxy Note combines the benefits of a tablet with the portability of a smartphone; thanks to the thin design, supersized 5.3″ screen and S Pen stylus. The Note supports stunning visuals with the latest HD Super AMOLED technology giving it one of the highest quality displays on any phone. It also uses Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system giving users access to thousands of apps on Android’s huge app library, Play Store.

The Carphone Warehouse Deal of the Week is available in store, Direct and online at www.carphonewarehouse.com

Posted by: James

Pre-order the Samsung GALAXY S III now at Vodafone UK

Available on pre-order, the 16GB version is free on £41, 24 month price plans including 900 minutes, unlimited texts and an introductory offer of a whopping 2GB of mobile data, as well as 2GB of BT Openzone access.

The 32GB version is exclusive to Vodafone UK for one month from launch and is free on £46, 24 month price plans with 1,200 minutes, unlimited texts, an introductory offer of 2GB of mobile data and 2GB of BT Openzone access.

Both are launched on Vodafone’s Data Test Drive, so you can fully explore all that your new Samsung GALAXY S III has to offer for the first three months, without worrying about going over your 2GB mobile data allowance.

Making the introductory offer even sweeter, Vodafone UK is offering 100 free tracks to download via Vodafone Music on selected price plans.  For each of the first four months you can download 25 tracks of your choice.

The Samsung GALAXY S III will be available in Pebble Blue and Marble White.

For more information and to pre-order the Samsung GALAXY S III visit the Vodafone online shop.

BlackBerry Curve 9320 Press Release

WATERLOO, ONTARIO – May 9, 2012) – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced a stylish new smartphone for socially-connected customers. The new BlackBerry® Curve 9320 smartphone features all the core BlackBerry messaging and social-centric features that keep people connected, and it offers global 3G connectivity backed by long battery life to allow users to make the most of their day.

"The new BlackBerry Curve 9320 is designed to make it incredibly easy for users to stay socially-connected," said Carlo Chiarello, EVP, Smartphone Business at Research In Motion. "The new BlackBerry Curve 9320 will be especially popular with customers upgrading to a smartphone for the first time and existing Curve customers looking for a step up in speed and functionality."

 

The BlackBerry Curve 9320 has everything a customer needs to stay in touch with the people and things that matter most to them. It features a dedicated BBM key, bringing the power of RIM’s popular mobile social network up in an instant, as well as the best keyboard in its class for quick and easy typing. It includes a built-in FM radio, allowing users to tune into their favorite local stations, and listening to the FM radio does not require a data plan or use data services. Designed to allow both 3G connectivity and long battery life, customers can get up to 7 hours of talk time or up to 30 hours of FM radio listening or music playback with headphones.