Jul
2007
AT&T’s second quarter report has shown some surprisingly disappointing figures for iPhone activations. The first two days of iPhone sales (dubbed iDay) were in fact the last two days of the financial quarter, where analysts predicted some half a million iPhones were sold in Apple and AT&T stores. The actual AT&T activation figures were 146,000 [...]
Jul
2007
Off the back of some excellently quarterly results Samsung have announced a new device, the G600. This latest edition to the Samsung mobile family sports an impressive 5 mega pixel camera. In order to keep up the pace with Nokia and Sony Ericsson, Samsung knew they would have to hit the magical 5 mega pixel [...]
Jul
2007
Luxury sports car manufacturer Porsche have unveiled their first mobile phone, entitled the P9521. The P9521 is actually manufactured by Sagem who, before entering the mobile phone manufacturing market in the 1990′s, actually provided navigation systems for France’s ballistic missiles in the 1960′s. This flip style handset has a 3.2 mega pixel camera, media player [...]
Jul
2007
Mobile phone giant Nokia has acquired a media sharing website called Twango. Twango was set up in 2004 by a group of ex-Microsoft employees and has seen a steady user base grow. As part of their service Twango has a UI which renders efficiently on mobile phones, and it’s likely this was the attraction for [...]
Jul
2007
Having announced that they would not be releasing updates for their troubled P990i, W950 and M600 smartphone devices, Sony Ericsson have taken a massive u-turn on the decision. When Sony Ericsson announced there would be no new updates or fixes for these models, which have been well documented to be problematic, there was a massive [...]
Jul
2007
Samsung have overtaken Motorola to fill the number two spot behind Nokia in the mobile phone handset market. A poor quarter results and job cuts in some areas have not been the most encouraging signs coming out of the Motorola camp recently, and this news will only add to the blows the US giant (and [...]
Jul
2007
PayPal is set to launch a ‘Mobile Checkout’ system for mobile phones which will give users of the service access to a variety of its merchant tools. The new service is designed to support the majority of mobile phones which can make a secure mobile web connection. There are a couple of key criteria that [...]
Jul
2007
Early sales reports are indicating that Apple managed to sell half a million iPhones during the first weekend of sale. Apple had predicted 200,000 units during Saturday and Sunday trading, but with the figures coming in at more than double that, there will be some happy faces in Steve Jobs’ board room this morning. Just [...]
Jul
2007
Unconfirmed reports in today’s press are claiming that the lucrative contract for network exclusivity on the iPhone has been won by O2. It was previously thought there would be a Europe wide contract for Apple’s highly sought after mobile phone/iPod device, however reports claim that O2 will have the UK exclusive, T-Mobile will have Germany [...]
Jul
2007
Apple have confirmed a bug in the iPhone code which means the battery indicator does not accurately display how much power the device has. Users had reported that after several hours of charging the iPhone it would still not show as fully charged. Apple are claiming that a forthcoming software update will fix the bug, [...]
