Fancy using your mobile to pay for goods on the High Street? Well, you will be able to later this year as Everything Everywhere have teamed up with Barclaycard to allow contactless payments with a new free online credit card processing software.
- The UK’s first commercial contactless mobile payments service, to be rolled out by Everything Everywhere and Barclaycard by early summer (second quarter of 2011)
- The new service will offer consumers greater convenience and control on the high street with over 40,000 stores ready to accept contactless payments
- Industry backed secure SIM-based payments approach, ensures excellent purchase protection for consumers
- Latest move builds on Everything Everywhere and Barclaycard’s ongoing partnership, which has already produced a co-branded contactless credit card and the forthcoming Orange Cash pre-paid contactless card
The guys over at crackberry.com have got hold of a real beauty. Details of RIMs CDMA roadmap which not only seems to confirm the device leaks we saw last week but also an extra addition – the BlackBerry Curve Touch. Now we clearly don’t have CDMA here in the UK but i would be confident in saying that chances are a GSM version will be made for most if not all of the devices in the leaked roadmap. I know we have not seen a GSM version of the BlackBerry Style but I think that is due to the flip design being much more popular in North America.
There are some device names to clarify and these are below:
- new BlackBerry Bold Touch: Dakota is the GSM version, while Montana is the CDMA version
- next gen Curve: Apollo is the GSM version, while Sedona is the CDMA version
- new Curve Touch: not previously mentioned, Malibu is a new CDMA touchscreen Curve (likely to be a GSM one in the works too of course)
Rather than me pinching all the pictures from crackberry why not head on over there. Kevin has done a great job on this post and if you are a BlackBerry fan you may need a tissue to wipe up the dribble!
Click here to see the post on crackberry.com
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Gareth, Andy, James and Tracy run riot on the recent ramblings from the mobile world. Sony Ericsson’s big announcements about gaming, PlayStations and phones prove popular. Samsung yawns and four mobiles pop out. Tracy updates us on the Orange’s on-going problem and an impromptu bargain gets James all excited.
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With the likes of Android and Apples iOS now steaming upwards in Smartphone market share we mustn’t forget the good old trusty BlackBerry. Shunned by many the BlackBerry is still an invaluable solution for millions of business users around the world.
Here in the UK, O2 are still great believers in the BlackBerry Smartphone solution when it comes to running a business. They have just released the below video to emphasize their beliefs and if you listen to our podcast you will know that I too am a huge fan of BlackBerry and I manage not only this site but my day to day business on my BlackBerry.
O2 currently have six BlackBerry Smartphones in their current line up, available on contract and on pay as you go.
Check out the video below and if you are considering using a BlackBerry why not head on over to the O2 website and see what they have to offer.
O2 have very generously announced that their Wi-Fi will be available to all mobile users in the near future and not just O2 customers. Initially 450 venues will be made available for use and these sites will be situated in key venues. Why is it free and what is the catch you may ask? Well there isn’t one as far as I can see. The idea behind the venture is to get people into these key venues.
You can read the full press release with the finer details below:
The so called ‘Playstation Phone’ combines Sony’s portable gaming system with a phone is one of the many tech unicorns that many what to come true. But that unicorn is turning out to be a reality as the people over at Engadget have managed to get an exclusive hands on with the Sony’s Playstation Phone, aka, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. They confirmed that the Xperia Play will have a 4″ 854 x 480 LCD screen that is the same screen that is on the X10 and this screen is powered by Bravia engine for better video playback. But we don’t know if it is powered by the Qualcomm MSM8655 CPU but the clocking range goes from 122.88 MHz all the way up to the now expected 1 GHz.
The Xperia Arc from Sony Ericsson has popped up on play.com as available for pre order. If you remember, this new Android device from SE was announced at CES and looks to be quite a beauty.
Play.com have the device price set at £459.99 which is not cheap but the device is packing some fine specifications. Delivery is expected at the beginning of April but we all know this is subject to change. Will will have hands on with the Arc before release so you may want to keep an eye on the site for our unboxing video and full review. I suspect this device is going to be pretty popular.
You can check out the Sony Ericsson Arc specs and some more images after the break if you need a reminder:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today announced the expansion of its Galaxy Family with the introduction of four new smartphones to the range; the Samsung Galaxy Ace, the Samsung Galaxy Fit, the Samsung Galaxy Gio and the Samsung Galaxy mini. Following the global success of the Samsung Galaxy S, which has sold 10 million devices in just seven months, each of the new handsets offers something different so there is a Galaxy smartphone for everyone.
All the devices offer limitless entertainment possibilities via more than 100,000 applications from Android MarketT and Samsung Apps. Each device also features Samsung SWYPE for quick and easy text input, and benefits from Wi-Fi connectivity and Social Hub allowing people to view their contacts, social networks, IM and email together in an integrated one-page layout, keeping them constantly connected.
Three has announced that it will be ranging the Samsung Galaxy Ace in February. The successor to the popular Samsung Galaxy Portal, this smart black device boasts Android Froyo+ 2.2.1, a 5MP camera and offers customers access to the Android Market’s 160,000 apps.
Just like Three’s MiFi, the Samsung Galaxy Ace creates a personal Wi-Fi hot spot for other devices, such as iPads, laptops or handheld games consoles, giving you the flexibility of getting more than one device online when on the go.
Sylvia Chind, Head of Branded Devices, commented: “We’re delighted to be bolstering our handset portfolio with this new device. Doubling up as a personal Wi-Fi hot spot, the Samsung Galaxy Ace offers unique smartphone functionality and our customers can use Three’s high speed 3G network to enjoy Google Maps, social networks, downloading apps, shopping online and much more.”
Key features include:
- 800MHz Application Processor
- Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot, so you can use the Galaxy Ace just like a Three MiFi
- Android Froyo+ version 2.21
- 3.5″Capacitive touch screen
- 5MP Mega Pixel Auto Focus Camera and LED flash
- GPS
- Wi-Fi
- Live Wallpapers
See a video from Three after the break:
Nokia is the world’s biggest handset manufacturer but is not the most favoured amongst tech journalists and phone enthusiasts. Nokia is trying to change that with the release of the Nokia C7. Announced back in September at Nokia World, the handset runs the brand new Symbian 3 and that is a great improvement on past versions.
But can this new version compete with the likes of Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry and Web OS, or does the C7 not even keep up with its brother, the Nokia N8?
Read on to find out.
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