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GSM Palm Pre this Autumn in Germany

Gareth | September 20, 2009 |

Kindly tipster eMd points us to this O2 Germany site for the Palm Pre, which lists the Pre as "Exklusiv ab Herbst bei O2." That’s "Autumn" to you English-speaking folk, and it’s just a bit more specific than the "before the end of the year" target we’ve heard before. As we’ve said more than a […]

Microsoft showing off two new phones at CES

Gareth | September 20, 2009 |

It isn’t really our area of expertise, but we’ve gotten word that Microsoft will unleash two new Smartphones, probably at CES in January 2010.  Developed under the project "Pink" moniker, these two slider phones stem from the aquisition of Dangerand will continue to use Sharp as the manufacturing partner (not HTC as previously rumored by […]

Nokia 3720 Classic unboxing video

Matt | September 20, 2009 |

We’ve recently had some requests from readers to review some more entry-level handsets as not everyone wants a smartphone. It’s a valid point and not everyone wants a large touchscreen phone. So I got in contact with Nokia to see what they had that fits the bill. They sent me the Nokia 3720 Classic. To […]

Vodafone’s twitter exploits

Gareth | September 19, 2009 |

  With O2 customers receiving free SMS alerts from Twitter, it’s understandable that Vodafone wants to offer a perk for Twitter users. We’re not sure that the "first interactive real time top 40 for music lovers" is the way forward, however. Vodafone commissioned developer Ben Marsh to "create a live top 40 chart of what […]

B2B dealers slam O2 delays

Gareth | September 19, 2009 |

B2B dealers connecting O2 are experiencing "unacceptable" delays of up to a week to action dealer requests, including new contracts. A number of dealers claim the current SLA (service level agreement) for O2, is experiencing delays of between four to five days, from the standard 24 hours  stated by O2, with all actions requested via […]

CoPilot Live 8 Review

James Richardson | September 19, 2009 |

Introduction: CoPilot has been around for some years now and so I thought I would test out there latest version and compare it with some other mobile navigation applications. The big question though is will it be as good as TomTom? CoPilot Live 8 I have been using sat nav since the very first TomTom […]

Palm publishes Q1 revenue

Gareth | September 18, 2009 |

Palm just announced revenues in the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, ended Aug. 28, 2009, were $68.0 million. Gross profit was ($2.8) million, and gross margin was (4.1) percent. These results include the effects of subscription accounting applied to Palm webOS products as required by GAAP. In accordance with this methodology, revenues and direct […]

Palm leaving Windows Mobile behind

Gareth | September 18, 2009 |

Agh. More bullets for Windows Mobile. Today Jon Rubinstein, CEO at Palm, confirmed in a financial resultsconference call that Windows Mobile was no longer part of their future line-up. He stated that… "Due to importance of webOS to our overall strategy, we’ve made the decision to dedicate all future develoment resources to the evolution of […]

Sony Ericsson W205 review

Matt | September 18, 2009 |

The W205 from Sony Ericsson is a Walkman phone with all the features you would expect from the great brand of Sony Ericsson but can almost be described a trimmed down version and before you go thinking this a bad thing when I say trimmed down I also include the price in that statement. The […]

3D iPlane Pro for iPhone released

Gareth | September 17, 2009 |

Here comes low budget flight simulator that costs just one buck and is also available in a limited free version.