Sep
2007
In response to reports of iPhone owners not getting their unlocked devices repaired under warranty, Apple released a statement confirming “We are not doing anything proactively to disable iPhone’s that have been hacked or unlocked.” While this may come as a sigh of relief to some owners, there was a sting in the tail of [...]
Sep
2007
Samsung have been working on a fashion phone in collaboration with Giorgio Armani. This new handset was officially unveiled at a press conference in Milan before Armani’s Spring Summer 2008 Women’s fashion show, which of course allowed for maximum exposure. This stylish handset, appropriately name the Giorgio Armani-Samsung Mobile, sports a 262K colour QVGA touch [...]
Sep
2007
Apple have released the much anticipated 1.1.1 firmware update for the iPhone. This is perhaps the most comprehensive update to the device yet, and includes Wi-Fi access to the iTunes music store, TV Out support, manual control over switching EDGE/GPRS on and off, along with some tweaks to the loudspeaker and volume controls. All of [...]
Sep
2007
The new BlackBerry 8310 Curve is now available on Vodafone from airtime manager. This update to the existing BlackBerry 8300 Curve now brings about the addition of embedded GPS (first introduced on the BlackBerry 8800). The 8310 looks identical to the existing Curve device, however, the graphite grey casing gives it away as an updated [...]
Sep
2007
HTC have finally released a Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for their S620 Excalibur smartphone. The update has been on the cards for some time now with HTC promising to bring out the upgrade before the end of summer. It seems they’ve done it just in time, and for those users running Windows Mobile 5 on [...]
Sep
2007
We thought a few of our UK BlackBerry devices were playing up this week when they reported an EDGE signal instead of GPRS, but we appear to have not been alone in this discovery. Users on the O2 network have been experiencing the same enhancement, but the question remains why? It would appear that O2 [...]
Sep
2007
Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, has arrived in London for a press conference at the Regent Street Apple store. Seeing that Jobs only attends (and heads up) the important announcements, this has fuelled speculation that this could in fact be the iPhone announcement for Europe. The official invitation to the event states only six words “Mum [...]
Sep
2007
Details are now starting to emerge on the UK iPhone front. Confirmation has now been received that O2 has won the exclusive contract to sell Apple’s iPhone in the UK. “We are coming to the UK and wanted to pick the best carrier and that is O2,” Apple boss Steve Jobs has said at a [...]
Sep
2007
Research In Motion have launched a new website dedicated to applications for BlackBerry. The new site “Built for BlackBerry” contains six application categories: News, Sports, Travel/Weather, Games/Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Navigation/Mapping. Some of this is designed for the US market (especially the sports applications) and clicking on your selection will take you to the software vendor [...]
Sep
2007
Palm, in conjunction with Vodafone, have announced the Treo 500v smart phone. This is a 3G device running Windows Mobile 6, and comes complete with a 2.0 mega pixel camera, 256MB of Flash memory and a microSD memory card slot for media storage. Aside from 3G connectivity the Treo 500v also supports Bluetooth 2.0 with [...]
