I’ve been hinting that we’d have a new competition for a few weeks and I am pleased to say that the time has come!
Thanks to our friends at Sony Ericsson we have an Xperia X2 to give away. James picked up the X2 at MWC last month and Sony Ericsson are letting us use it as a competition prize.
If you’ve been following the progress of the X2 you’ll no doubt be aware that SE have decided not to make the Xperia X2 available in the UK, indeed it’s only going to be available to buy in a limited number of countries so entering this competition may in fact be one of the only ways of having a chance of getting your hands on the X2!
So have a look at the details on how to enter after the jump…
I just popped over to the coming soon pages on the Vodafone site and they have some seriously cool devices heading their way.
I posted earlier that the Sony Ericsson Vivaz is now available and this will be followed shortly by the Xperia X10 which looks set to be very popular with its Android OS and 8mp camera.
Vodafone are also to have the HTC Legend, HTC Desire and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and, later on, they will also have the Nexus One. Interesting that they will carry the Desire and the Nexus One as they are so very similar.
You’ll find full details and the official press release after the jump. There is one thing that we will want to check out is the Vodafone version of the HTC Legend as Vodafone will be adding Vodafone 360 to it and that can be very much a love/hate thing!
There is a new wave of Sony Ericsson handsets coming over the next month or two and the first one, the Vivaz is now available on Vodafone.
The device is free on contracts starting at £30 per month and I think this device will appeal to not only Symbian users, but everyone. Sony Ericsson have put a nice overlay on top of the traditional Symbian one so its almost like not using a Symbian handset.
Sporting HD video recording and a 8.1 MP camera the Vivaz is certain to get a decent number of sales. Lets just hope Sony Ericsson have less issues with this device than they had with the last one, the Satio.
Matt unboxed the Vivaz last week and I now have the device so keep you eyes peeled this week for the full review.
HTC have confirmed that the HTC Tattoo will be getting the upgrade to Android 2.1, Eclair. 
No date has been announced yet as HTC are still in the process of porting Sense UI to the version.
So if you have a HTC tattoo sim free then be patient, the update is coming.
Here in the UK, if you have the Orange branded version I’m afraid it could be a much longer waiting game. I will pop an email over to Orange but I would imagine an update, if any, could be some way off.
Posted by: James
Unlockers are finding iPhone 3G S models manufactured this year over-ride their software hacks when re-booted. New models with the latest version 3.1 3software update return to their original set up when they are re-booted after being switched off, removal of the SIM or the battery dies.
Some unlockers have been supplying customers with a PC program to enable them to ‘jump-start’ their 3G S when this occurs by connecting the device via a USB cable and unlocking it again themselves within a minute.
One said: “This has been problematic for us and it’s been frustrating not being able to overcome this. We’re continuing to look for a good commercial solution for this and there are rumours on forums that one may come to light soon, so it looks promising.”
Another unlocker said: “There’s no solution for this and with the availability of the 3G S now a lot wider due to Orange and Vodafone now selling it, more of the newer devices are getting out there. It’s therefore becoming a real problem. The various software houses will be working on this so hopefully there will be a solution for this soon.”
The INQ brand isn’t particularly well known at the moment, sure there have been a few handset from INQ, all of which have been exclusive to the 3 network here in the UK I believe, but they seem to have a fairly small following.
We reviewed the INQ1 last year and we felt that although it was far from being the most sophisticated phone it offered good social networking integration social with Facebook, Windows Live Messenger and Skype being pre-installed. This on top of the excellent data bundles that 3 were offering at the time, £10 per month for ‘unlimited data’ meant that it was a phone worth considering.
The INQ Chat 3G aims to expand upon what the INQ1 had to offer with a QWERTY keyboard, larger display and 3G connectivity. There are also some new pre-installed apps such as Twitter, to further enhance this handsets social appeal.
We’ll be reviewing the INQ Chat 3G over the next week and will have the review live for you soon. You can see the handset in bit more detail in the unboxing video below.
I found an interesting chart on the internet today showing the Smartphone market share for the last quarter in the USA.
As you will see it was good news for BlackBerry and iPhones and even better news for Google Android (which had the biggest percentage growth).
However things are not looking good for both Windows Mobile and Palm. Both companies had a big decrease in market share. Microsoft will clearly be able to turn that around later this year with the release of Windows Phone 7 Series but can Palm do the same? Although they introduced the new Web OS last year it clearly didn’t work. They are going to have to put there thinking hats on this year if they are going to continue to play with the big boys!
Chart from Comscore
Posted by: James
Finally you can preoder the most sophisticated mobile device on the planet: iPad.
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The Blackberry Bold 9700 has been around for a few months now so I thought I would record a short video just to show you a few things that I think a BlackBerry is good for that are perhaps not quite so obvious as just email.
Everyone knows that the Blackberry is fantastic for email but maybe not everyone knows that you can do most things on a BlackBerry that you can do on the other platforms.
Sure, it’s never going to beat the iPhone for games but it’s not designed to. Its primarily a messaging device, but as you will see the 9700 not at all bad at the things that a lot of us use every day on our phones.
If you want to see more video features of the BlackBerry or have any questions you can let us know via the forum.
You may also want to check out my Blackberry Bold 9700 review that I wrote a few months ago.
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