BREAKING: INQ to launch Android handsets [UPDATED with Video]

by Ben Smith 11th September 2009

At the Mobilize 09 conference in San Francisco, INQ‘s CEO Frank Meehan has announced that they will launch an Android-based handset by the end of 2010. To-date INQ has produced it’s low cost ‘social mobiles’ on a BREW platform - something that allowed them to develop handsets very quickly on a popular platform - but [...]

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Nokia World 2009: Really Rapid Round-up

by Ben Smith 10th September 2009

The Really Mobile team discuss the big news from the Nokia World 2009 event held in Stuttgart last week and offer opinions on the major announcements. Oh… and we’re back by the way…!

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Love your N95? Get the Nokia N86.

by James Whatley 10th September 2009

That’s right, I’m back… and I’m bringing my N86 review with me.
In short, as the title suggests, if you were a fan of the N95 - then the N86 is for you.

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Freak Like Me

by Martyn Davies 9th September 2009

Returning once more to the Ovi Store, I’ve been exploring some of the offerings related to music. Some of the app reviews on the Ovi Store are damning indeed. I enjoyed that some of the reviews featured the word ‘crapp’. I wasn’t sure whether this was a typo, or whether this a conflation of ‘crap’ [...]

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Really Mobile goes walkabout with WOM World

by Vikki Chowney 8th September 2009

Some of you may have seen the announcement last week that along with Phil Campbell and Rupert Howe, I’m going to be heading off to Helsinki (and a ‘yet to be confirmed’ second city) this Thursday for a bit of a European ‘Twestival Local’ tour. Twestival, in case you don’t live, breathe and sleep Twitter, [...]

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Confusion Over Rival Claims to 'MiFi' Name

by Ben Smith 8th September 2009

At least it wasn’t just us who was confused when 3 announced the launch of their portable hotspot product, calling it ‘MiFi’. We asked if they’d been mistaken in using the name of hardware manufacturer Novatel’s product (which we gave a first look last night) also called ‘MiFi’, whilst 3 themselves had selected a device [...]

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Novatel MiFi 2352 Portable WiFi Hotspot: First Look [UPDATED]

by Ben Smith 8th September 2009

This new Novatel device first broke cover at Mobile World Congress in February and is intended to be a replacement for the 3G data dongle. The MiFi’s both a dongle (you can plug it into a PC or a Mac via USB) and a WiFi hotspot that’s about twice the size of a normal dongle. [...]

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Vodafone pay as you go is down for the weekend

by Dan Lane 5th September 2009

We’re hearing that Vodafone UK’s pay as you go top-up service has been completely unavailable since some time yesterday and that the fault most likely won’t be rectified until at least midday tomorrow. While those with sufficient credit won’t notice the outage anyone planning on topping up their credit will be left unable to top-up. [...]

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