Smartphone shipments are expected to grow 21% this year to 224 million, according to the latest “Mobile Devices Market Forecast Analysis” forecast from ABI Research, and remarkably the reason for the huge growth has nothing to do with the iPhone or Android. Vice president of forecasting Jake Saunders says, “While there is considerable fanfare and…
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Three to start selling iPhone 4 in July
We just got a text from Three telling us when we can expect the iPhone 4 they have reserved for us and they’ve been texting us about for the last week, and guess what ? It’s the 19 July. Yes you read that right July 19, almost a full month after the launch and it’ll…
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comscore outlines iPhone/smartphone demographic and usage
While the perception and the influence of the iPhone are huge, it is only a small part of the phones out there and Ex-Rapid Mobile CEO and now vp of mobile for Europe at comScore, Jeremy Copp has the figures to prove it According to the latest figures from comScore the iPhone currently represents just…
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68% of companies actively encourage mobile working
A new survey from Citrix that looked at our different attitudes to workforce mobility, show’s the UK leading the way in Europe. The headline figures from the Citrix survey show; 47% of UK businesses have adopted more mobile working habits in the past five years 68% of UK companies actively encourage and enable staff to…
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Mobile web design awards
If you’re looking for some examples of good mobile content then look no further. The latest Meffy award winners have been announced and there’s no better a selection – well that’s what the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) say. The awards were announced on Tuesday and represent, “the most influential players in the mobile entertainment industry…
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Three’s iPhone 4 pricing
Three have published their iPhone pricing and it’s certainly competitive, the only problem is they don’t tell us when the devices are going to be in stock. The web site says “coming soon” and rather confusingly has some 3GS versions available now on £25/£30 and £35 a month tariffs but it’s only available on the…
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iPhone 4 mania hits the UK
Seems like the UK has gone compeletly iPhone 4 mad as queues of, mostly men, form all around the UK to get the best thing since sliced bread iPhone 4 in their sweaty little mitts. Vodafone have sold out, and it looks like the rest are also sold out judging by Twitter accounts. And while…
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iPhone 4 now at Tesco
Tesco have finally launched their iPhone pricing and the pricing is keen as always, with pay as you go it will be cheaper to buy an iPhone 4 with Tesco than Apple. As with the better networks Tesco have gone with a 1Gb monthly allowance and the 1Gb monthly wifi allowance at BT’s Openzone. When…
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BT offers unlimited wi-fi hotspot access
BT has announced that all of their 1.5 million Openzone and FON wi-fi hotspots around the UK will now offer unlimited use for iPhone and BT Total Broadband customers. Previously, BT Total Broadband users had limits on Wi-Fi minutes available to use at BT FON and BT Openzone hotspots depending on their BT Total Broadband…
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Bad news O2 iPhone users it’s first come first served
Not content with telling new users that they’re not going to get an iPhone until after the normal O2 users get their go – which could mean a wait until the end of July (see below) – they’re also letting existing iPhone users fight it out in the queue. O2 has announced that it will…
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Three already reserving iPhone 4s for users
Three have just texted us here at Bmob with an upgrade offer to iPhone 4. The text starts Great news; You’ll get an iPhone 4 upgrade and we’ve already reserved one for you” The text then relays you to a web page which says; “Your iPhone 4 coming soon Following your interest in iPhone ,…
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iPhone delivery dates now 14th July
The Apple pre-order website now gives the delivery date for both the 16 and 32 GB versions of the iPhone 4 in the UK and US as 14 July. The pre-order has now had two huge jumps in less than a week. The site which went live on Tuesday where it advertised shipping dates as…
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Vodafone iPhone 4 pricing
Vodafone has finally launched their pricing for the iPhone 4 and there’s very little in it if you’re looking at pricing. The main difference is that Vodafone ofer 1Gb of data with all of their plans and 1Gb of wi-fi through BT Openzone per month. Cheapest per monthly plan is £25 per month for an…
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Apple and O2 are the perfect combination
If you have an iPhone and you’re on O2 you’re a lucky person. You think that O2 is the best network in Europe by a long chalk, and you think the iPhone is incredible. Customer experience business Satmetrix, released its 2010 European Net Promoter Industry Benchmarks for the mobile phone carriers and mobile phone handset…
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Spoof iPhone 4 video
It’s supposedly a TV promo for the iPhone 4 that they banned, but you’d have to be very stupid to believe that. However it is funny, and it is friday.. [ad name=”Google Text half banner advert “]
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100 million Apple devices by 2011
The FT has published a blog piece with some outrageous interesting speculation from analysts that Apple’s IOS devices could number 100 million in the next 18 months. The piece looks at some of the Wall Street analysts, who seem to be wanting to outdo each other with who can up-chat the iPhone/iPad sales the most.…
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Daily Express creates iPad app
The ghost of Princess Diana’s favourite read, The Daily Express has launched an iPad edition. Designed by PageSuite, the app costs £7.99 to download and will give users an initial 30-day subscription to iPad editions of the Daily Express and Sunday Express. Individual editions, pages and videos can be downloaded to view offline. Additional features…
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O2 iPhone 4 pricing announced
Anyone who pre-registered for the iPhone 4 on O2 should be getting an email with the iPhone tariffs – which we knew already – but they’re now updated with the iPhone costs. The cheapest tariff for the iPhone is £25 per month on a 24 month contract which gives 100 minutes, 500Mb of data, unlimited…
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Glastonbury 2010 stage times on mobile – sort of
Glastonbury Festival 2010 celebrates its 40th birthday this year from Wednesday 23 June to Sunday 27 June at Worthy Farm The full line-ups including all the stage times across the 45 different stages have now been released online at the official Glastonbury site http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/lineuptimes/ and they’re all in simple text format, so that the mud-happy…
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Disney first off the block with trending twitters
Disney/Pixar is the first brand to advertise on Twitter’s new sponsored trending topics. In April Twitter finally announced how it was going to repay all their VC funding, and the first part of a multi-stage commercial model, was promoted tweets, which enables brands to feature more prominently in relevant search results and in people’s news…