O2 confirm Palm Pre UK launch date / pricing

by Ben Smith 24th September 2009

This morning O2 have confirmed the release date for the Palm Pre in the UK will be Friday, 16th October. The device will be free on 18 month contracts of £44.05 per month or more and £96.89 on cheaper 18 month contracts with an included ‘unlimited’ data and WiFi deal similar to the iPhone package. Full [...]

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Mobile Geeks of… Marks & Sparks? [UPDATED with QR Code Quick-Reference]

by Ben Smith 22nd September 2009

Marks & Spencer, long-time staple of the British high-street and department store choice of the middle-classes has been enjoying a bit of a revival of fortunes of-late… changing its image from the place where your Nan bought her undies to amongst other things, a high-end food retailer. — NOTE: This post has been updated - [...]

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Guest Feature: Android Donut - What does the end user get?

by Ben Smith 22nd September 2009

Friend of the site Richard Hyndman (@GeekYouUp in all the places that matter…) knows Android. He’s Mr Android and he lives on Android street (kinda). Actually, he’s CTO at Mippin (the mobile-web gurus), but when he’s not doing that, he’s a well-known Android virtuoso. In this guest feature he cracks the lid on the much [...]

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Samsung Galaxy i7500: First look & unboxing

by Ben Smith 21st September 2009

I’d been looking forward to seeing the Samsung Galaxy for some time… Having fallen in-love with Android on my G1, but out of love with its poor build quality and chunky dimensions HTC’s Hero was looking like the only option for a better-made, better-specified device (until LG and Motorola‘s announcements last week) and even that [...]

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The N97 Mini: Comparison shots

by Ben Smith 21st September 2009

Whilst in Budapest watching (and occasionally being-in) Nokia’s latest viral video shoot I got to play with some of their most-recently announced products and I’ll be writing more about them shortly. However, the device I managed to leave Hungary having barely looked at and not even photographed (I really am a terrible blogger) was the [...]

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Looking at the Nokia Booklet 3G with an N900

by Ben Smith 18th September 2009

In a break away from filming (well, real actors were doing the filming… I was just an extra) a set of new viral videos for Nokia in Budapest, I snagged an N900 and a Booklet 3G and tried to answer two questions in one go: What’s the N900′s video like and how does the Booklet [...]

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Touchnote goes iPhone

by Dan Lane 18th September 2009

Touchnote make postcards from your cameraphone photos and deliver them worldwide, we recently caught up with Ed Hodges, Head of Mobile at Touchnote and someone you may remember from “a previous life” Touchnote is available right now, for free, from the iPhone app store and cards cost £1.49 delivered anywhere in the world, if that [...]

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A Q&A with Movirtu's Nigel Waller

by Vikki Chowney 18th September 2009

The first in a series of interviews with Founders/Managing Directors of mobile-centric businesses, we kick off with a brief chat with Nigel Waller. We’ll let Nigel tell you more about Movirtu below, but in brief, it’s a for-profit organisation that provides innovative mobile technology and business models for wireless telecommunication service providers servicing rural poor communities [...]

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