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Exclusive: Nokia Asha 201 and Nokia Lumia 710 available on Vodafone now
12 hours ago | POSTED IN News
Ahead of any kind of official announcement, we spotted the Nokia Lumia 710 and the Nokia Asha 201 in white loitering about on Vodafone’s Pay Monthly and Pay As You Talk pages. The Nokia Lumia 710 needs no introduction; it’s Nokia’s second Windows Phone phone to hit the UK and is a pretty smart little package. It’s got a 5-megapixel camera, 8GB of internal storage and is poered by a 1.4 GHz processor. Like the Nokia Lumia 800 you get Nokia’s bespoke Nokia Maps, Nokia...
Nok Twice
Samsung Apps giving away free games and apps for Valentine’s Day
17 hours ago | POSTED IN News
Say it with flowers, chocolates or some free Samsung Apps; Samsung is feeling the love and has decided to make all of the paid apps available in its store free to download from now until Valentine’s Day. That’s next Tuesday, the 14th of February for those of you who’ve forgotten to book a table and give Interflora a ring. There’s free apps available for a wide number of Samsung Galaxy Android phones like the Galaxy S2, tablets like the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Bada-based...
Appy Valentine’s
Sony PlayStation Vita coming to Vodafone Feb 22nd
17 hours ago | POSTED IN News
Vodafone has confirmed Sony’s new handheld gaming console the Sony PlayStation Vita 3G edition will be available to buy from February 22nd for £279, confirming a rumour we first heard last year. The Sony PlayStation Vita is the latest version of Sony’s handheld console, it includes a 5-inch OLED touchscreen with multitouch support, 16 million colours and front and rear touchpad's and is powered by a quadcore ARM Cortex A9 processor. NEAR is an application pre-installed on...
Vita on Voda
Nokia Belle update: Not available on all networks, check yours here
18 hours ago | POSTED IN News
The Nokia Belle update has started to roll out, bringing the latest version of Symbian to users with a Nokia N8, E7, C7, X7, E6, C6-01 and Oro. While word of the update spread like wildfire yesterday (7 February 2012), there have been a few disgruntled Nokia users across forums complaining about not being able to update on their device. For anybody who's handset isn't updating, it's well worth scoping out this update checker tool. Just select your country and the tool will tell you...
Update. Check.
Motorola MOTOLUXE coming to the UK late February
18 hours ago | POSTED IN News
The Motorola MOTOLUXE smartphone was announced earlier this year along with the DEFY mini and has just had its launch in the UK confirmed for late February. This Android 2.3 powered handet is a great combination of style and value, with its 4-inch touchscreen and slim, attractive build coupled and suggested price of around £250. With its single core 800MHz processor, the Motorola MOTOLUXE isn't going to be aimed at the power user, though it does offer some more advanced features such...
LUXE be a lady
LG Optimus Vu: 5-inch 1.5GHz dual-core phone squares up to Galaxy Note
20 hours ago | POSTED IN News
Looks like LG’s preparing something of a fightback; the LG Optimus Vu, outed in a YouTube clip, is reportedly an Android phone with a big 5-inch screen and a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor. The short, 30-second YouTube video shows that the screen has a 4:3 aspect display ratio as well but is otherwise a little short on the details. The Verge has information that points to there being an 8-megapixel camera, 8GB of internal storage space and 1GB of RAM. So far, so respectable. That...
Voulez vu?
LG Miracle: Windows Phone 7.5 handset expected at MWC
yesterday | POSTED IN News
After posing for a host of shaky cam shots towards the end of last year, the LG Fantasy is back, only this time under a different guise, the LG Miracle. Renders from PocketNow illustrate the curves and crevices of the Miracle in full CGI detail. Other specs include a 1GHz Snapdragon processor with 8GB RAM and a 4-inch WVGA screen as well as a 5-megapixel rear facing camera, placing the Fantasy in the mid-range category. Despite its mid-range spec-sheet, the LG Miracle does have a couple of...
Fantasy -> Miracle
Windows 8 Store: An insight into the next mobile Marketplace?
yesterday | POSTED IN News
Windows Store, the Windows 8 app market is being readied for a public preview as we type, and those sharp shooters over at The Verge have managed to get some exclusive info on games which will be making their way to the platform. Why does this matter to the world of mobile? Simple - given the latest word on Windows Phone 8 apps sharing a whole lot of code with Windows 8 itself, there's every chance that games on the list which aren't already on the Windows Phone platform will make their...
One Store to rule them all?
Samsung Tocco Lite 2 coming to the UK in March
yesterday | POSTED IN News
Samsung has announced that the Tocco Lite 2 will be headed to UK shops and e-tailer sites next month. The super-small touchscreeen phone has a 3-inch 320x240 (QVGA) TFT screen, a 3.2-megapixel camera and supports Samsung’s ChatON IM client - think BBM but for multiple phone platforms. Running the TouchWiz UI (but not Android) the Tocco Lite looks to be a pretty basic feature phone. No prices have been announced as of yet, but we can’t expect the Samsung Tocco Lite 2 to cost a...
Tocco in D
LG to announce two Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phones at MWC?
yesterday | POSTED IN News
LG is apparently announcing a pair of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-running phones at Mobile World Congress this year, a high-end offering alongside a lower-specced, mid-level entry. Codenamed the LG-P800 and LG-P700 respectively, the former is thought to be the internal name for the rumoured LG X3 phone which is said to have an 8-megapixel camera, 16GB of internal storage, microSD slot and a huge 4.7-inch 1280x720 (720p) screen. Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core CPU is also mooted, alongside a...
Ice Cream for Two
Toshiba AT200: World's thinnest 10.1-inch tablet out now
yesterday | POSTED IN News
The Toshiba AT200, known as the Toshiba Excite X10 in the US has just had its UK announcement with no fanfare to speak of beyond a comprehensive email from Toshiba's press office. Announced today, this is the thinnest 10.1-inch tablet on market and will be available in UK stores from the 15 February 2012, with availability online right now. Available with 16GB or 32GB storage on-board and expandable by an additional 32GB, this ample memory doesn't stop it being a skinny slate at just...
It's a thin,
BlackBerry App World 3.1 to support carrier billing as standard and allow app gifting
yesterday | POSTED IN News
BlackBerry App World 3.1 will support carrier billing when it launches later this year. Alec Saunders, RIM’s vice president for Developer Relations & Ecosystems Development, said at DevCon Europe that carrier billing will be the default setting for paying for your apps in countries and networks that support it. The previous update to BlackBerry App World supported carrier billing, but only as an optional setting - 3.1 will make this the default setting as standard. So you’ll pay...
Planet of the Apps
BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 and BlackBerry Bridge 2.0 demoed at BlackBerry DevCon
yesterday | POSTED IN News
RIM’s new CEO and President Thorsten Heins and head of RIM software EMEA product management Vivek Bhardwaj have just given us a glimpse of some of the new features coming to BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 and showed off BlackBerry Bridge 2.0. Though there’s still no launch date for PlayBook OS 2.0 (at the time of writing) we got treated to the three key areas - messages, contacts and the calendar - that’ll be getting some attention with OS 2.0 The new ‘unified inbox&rsquo...
Berry Good
White Nokia Lumia 900 appears on Facebook
yesterday | POSTED IN News
Yesterday Nokia officially revealed a white version of the Lumia 800, well it appears a white Nokia Lumia 900 could be on the way soon too. A picture of the phone is on Nokia’s Facebook page, you can clearly see the top edge with exposed micro USB port and front-facing camera. The caption reads ‘Find out how our designers came up with the perfect pigment for the white Nokia Lumia 800, so it’s clearly a mistake. Currently only cyan and black versions have been announced....
900 white
Samsung Galaxy S3 launch event: 22 March 2012?
yesterday | POSTED IN News
**Updated** Pinning down the unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S3 has been a difficult process to say the least, however Samsung have just started sending out invitations for an event in France on 22 March this year as unveiled by Frandroid via SoMobile. It's likely this date will mark the announcement of their upcoming flagship given the fact it was originally expected to launch at Mobile World Congress a month before. If this is a Samsung Galaxy S3 event, one of two things are probable...
22.03.2012
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