We’re just a few weeks away from the launch of the Apple iPad 2 and the networks are starting to come out of the woodwork. The first is Vodafone. Vodafone have opened up their web registration for the iPad 2 launch – it’s the 25th March just in case you have forgotten or live...
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Everything Everywhere, have a poor last quarter and reveal that smartphone devices on the network now account for 82% of all Pay monthly phones Badly-named, twin-headed telecomms company Everything Everywhere, announced their results today, and as part of the results revealed that smartphone devices on the network now account for 82% of all Pay monthly connections...
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In an effort to get more developers to build apps for their app store – yes they have an app store – Orange are trying to make the development and approval process more streamlined, and they’re offering a 70/30 split, at last.. Orange’s new Orange Partner Connect, is designed as a “one-stop shop” for...
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Subsidised iPads are here, and we have to admit we got it wrong, we predicted that they wouldn’t be on sale until after Christmas, yet here we are a week or so later eating humble pie, yes, they’re on sale before Christmas, how mad is that? However to help you choose the best deal...
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As we announced earlier subsidised iPads are now on sale at Three, and they’re now joined by Orange and T-Mobile. iPad on Orange Orange’s pay monthly subsidised iPad plans start at £199 for a 16Gb wifi + 3G, with a data plan offering 1Gb a month any time and an additional 1Gb “quiet time”...
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It now seems like everyone is in the race to get a subsidised iPad out before Christmas, or are they? The releases on the subsidised iPads all point to subsidised iPads in the New Year, not pre-Christmas. In the running and in “negotiations” with Apple about delivering a subsidised iPad with a contract data...
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Users with T-Mobile and Orange networks – now combined and renamed Everything Everywhere – can now officially use both networks to make and receive calls from today. Orange customers are now able to make calls and send texts on the T-Mobile network and T-Mobile customers are able to do the same using the Orange...
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A study by network Orange has found that “european” mobile users prefer mobile websites to apps. The Orange “Mobile Exposure 2010″, annual independent study, measures how mobile media users are engaging with mobile content and the mobile internet. The research, covers mobile users – including iPhone users - in just the UK, France, Spain and Poland rather than...
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One of the key problems with building the mobile web and mobile apps is the speed at which the data arrives at the phone. What’s the point of building a mobile video website if the user has to wait ten minutes for the video to start? If you were to believe the networks they...
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Microsoft has announced that the big five mobile operators and two retailers will offer Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphones when the new OS launches later this year, possibly October but nobody is willing to say exactly when. The list of operators includes Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3, along with retailers Carphone Warehouse and...
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O2′s iPad customers are up in arms at O2′s decision to cut their monthly data allocations. O2 customers who signed up for the iPad were initially told they could choose from plans with a 500MB cap, a 1 GB cap, or a 3 GB cap, but O2 has changed it’s terms and those caps...
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Seems like Orange have ordered too many iPhone 4s or they’ve got their iPhone pricing policy badly wrong, as we’ve just received an email from Orange saying “Now that the rush to get the iPhone 4 has slowed down a bit, we have a good stock of the very popular iPhone 4 Black 16GB...
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Experian Hitwise have published their 4 Year Anniversary Edition of the IMRG Hitwise Hot shops list and Apple are at number 4 a jump from their 17th position in May last year, and all on the back of the launch of the iPad. If the iPhone 4 traffic was added in who knows it...
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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...
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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...
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Orange has launched it’s iPhone 4 plans and they’re offering an unlimited browsing capacity of 750Mb per month on both internet and wi-fi through BT. Why don’t they just come clean and say 750Mb per month? This is NOT unlimited in any shape or form. Additionally they also fail to say what the costs...
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First we had 02, then we had Orange and Vodafone, and now we have Three and possibly T-Mobile but probably not on the 24th June. So it can’t be long before Jobs brings the tablet iPhone 4 down from the mountain and hands it to Tesco. The positions are O2 You can register now...
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O2 are to announce an upgrade deal for iPhone users who want to get hold of the latest iPhone 4.0. Just moments after Steve Jobs completed the announcement of the device we’ve all been calling “the device that the guy left in the bar”, and that we’ve all seen for the last month on...
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Hot on the heels of the iPad UK pricing comes the data plan pricing and quick off the mark we have O2, and rumours from Vodafone and Orange and a spat from BT. O2 On O2 all iPad data tariffs will be available without a long contract and include unlimited access to BT Openzone...
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Orange new tarriffs yawn fest
The mobile internet has slowly been bubbling to the surface in the UK for quite some time and it’s been interesting to see how the mobile networks deal with it. Orange has ignored the Internet, and in fact did everything in their power to make sure that their mobile users had a hard time...
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