Just a quick but important announcement. If you have ordered an HTC Desire from any of our sponsors ( Devicewire, Clove or eXpansys) the good news is that they now have devices. Today they will attempting the task of sending out their back orders – so if you have ordered one I suggest you keep an eye out for the postman tomorrow.
If you get one, have a great weekend with it!
Posted by: James
Matt posted a little snippet of news about iPhone 4.0 OS earlier, basically the biggest news being that it shall now and finally support multitasking without having to resort to being jailbroken!
There are 100 new or enhanced features in the updated OS, not surprisingly not all 100 were listed during the press conference but there were 7 key features or ‘tentpole features’ as they were called.
So what are these features all about?
As you may have seen us mention a few days ago, Apple are holding a big press conference today where they are going to tell the world about iPhone OS 4.0
James is watching the event live and will have more detailed coverage for us later but for now I just wanted to jump in with the latest news from the event and to put many of you out of your misery:
The iPhone will finally get proper multitasking!
iPhone OS 4.0 will be here later this year ‘summer time’ and will include about a hundred new features, including this much desired and requested feature!
Posted by: Matt
Image courtesy of Engadget.
All of the major UK carriers are rolling out the HTC Desire and I have just spoken with our ‘Orange man’ who has confirmed that the HTC Desire has been heading out to their UK stores over the past few days. It will also appear on the orange website later today or tomorrow.
Initially they will stock the brown version but towards the end of April they will have exclusively the nice black version.
The question is can you wait for the black or do you need one now!
Keep an eye on orange.co.uk over the next 24 hours for more details and price plans.
Posted by: James
Oh no, its happened again! Clove have just released the following statement. Not good news.
Having only sent all our customers an email yesterday we have now been informed by HTC this morning that they are delaying shipments to all SIM-Free E-tailers until next week. This is very frustrating for both you and ourselves, having made so much effort in trying to ensure you receive your Desire as early as possible. The actual shipping date is yet to be confirmed, although HTC expect to start releasing stock on 13 April.
Please be aware this is completely out of our control and will affect all other E-Tailers as well. We will continue to update you with as much information as we can.
We will not be refunding any orders that have already been charged unless requested – this will simply cause further delays next week.
Please accept my personal apologies for this further delay, we only wish we could give you better news. Hopefully you will appreciate we continue to offer the best customer service we can and keep you informed as best we can, even when the news it not what any of us wishes to hear.
We will update you all as soon as we get further news.
Posited by: James
Tesco has announced that it will be shelving its VoIP phone service due the lack of customer use. Their customers have until 27th April to find an alternative and the decision includes both the Internet Phone and Talk Wi-Fi products.
Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) lets people make cheap calls via their broadband connection and has been tipped for years to be a serious replacement for standard home phone lines. Nevertheless VOIP has failed to capture the mainstream UK consumer who has focused their attention on the mobile phone market in last few years.
Tesco is a big player, with a huge mainstream marketplace and if they have found it difficult to find success in VOIP it is likely a sign that the average consumer is not ready for this type of service yet. This is a significant blow for other providers.
Leon Perry of SynergyOne, a business telephony supplier that specialises in VOIP for business, told us:
"VOIP simply hasn’t found its feet in the consumer market. Regardless of the cost upsides, the average homeowner just can’t get past the idea that they may need to ‘switch on their computer’ or ‘plug in the VOIP phone’, and picking up their landline or mobile is just so much easier. It’s a different picture with business VOIP solutions. Businesses are more clued up and prepared for the set up, given the significant cost cuts they could make on their business calls."
Clearly the UK consumer is a long way from accepting VOIP, and in the meantime businesses are driving forward this technology. We’ll have to watch this space for the future of consumer VOIP.
Posted by: Matt
Only days after the release of the iPad Apple are keeping us on our toes with the announcement of an iPhone OS 4 event this week on Thursday, 8th April.
Although I’m not an iPhone user this maybe the event that changes my mind. Could we see multi tasking in 4.0? It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
I would love to say I will be at the event but its taking place in the USA so we will have to reply on press releases. We will be sure to keep you in the picture though.
Posted by: James
We’ve been talking about the Xperia X10 over the past few, erm, months I suppose but things finally seem to be hotting up, I got my Xperia X10 review unit a few days ago and the X10 has now gone on sale in Japan. Apparently the Japanese have gone mad for them and have been queuing for literally hours to get their hands on the brand new device.
The X10 was released earlier this week on NTT DOCOMO, one of the worlds largest mobile phone carriers.
I’ll be posting my video of the X10 over the next day or two before I go ahead and dive in to the full review. Don’t forger to fire over your comments or questions on the X10 and we’ll do our best to answer ya!
Posted by: Matt
I’m sure that you are only too aware that as of this morning, 3rd April, the Apple iPad went on sale in the US. Still no word on the actual launch date here in the UK or when we’ll even be able to pre-order.
We were keen to review the iPad as soon as possible so appealed to our US followers on Twitter to see if anyone could help us out and get one for us. I’m really pleased to say that we had a few offers of assistance and thanks to Ching-Yao Yu we’ll have an iPad to review within just a few days, as soon as it gets here from Maryland via FedEx!
Massive thanks to Ching-Yao Yu for helping us out.
Please head over to the forums to start submitting your comments and questions and we’ll do our best to answer your questions and it’ll give me some ideas as to what to cover in the videos that I shall undoubtedly be recording!
Posted by: Matt
As the title of the post states, RIM (makers of BlackBerry Smartphones) have released their Q4 earnings for Fiscal 2010.
As you will see in the press release below, although market share for the iPhone and Android is growing, BlackBerry users are growing too and by quite a lot!
WATERLOO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 31, 2010) – Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported results for the three months and fiscal year ended February 27, 2010 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP).
Annual Highlights:
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