I’m really pleased with my iPhone, it does everything I want it to for personal use (but not for work, see here for my thoughts on HTC’s Hero) but it has one weak link – O2’s dreadful 3G service.
I live in central London but my phone is often slipping into sub-3G connectivity, around the home [...]
UK mobile operator Orange has confirmed it’s to sell Apple’s iPhone 3G and 3Gs models later this year.
Owners of T-Mobile’s G2 branded HTC Hero phones have been using the operator’s forums to express disappointment at a delayed update to the phone’s firmware.
There’s been a lot of scaremongering in the 24 since T-Mobile and Orange announced plans for a merger. It seems very much misplaced to me for reason’s I’ll touch on below but I do worry about the impact on T-Mobile’s business support team.
The owners of UK mobile operators T-Mobile and Orange have announced they’re in exclusive negotiations to combine the two operations in a new 50:50 joint venture. The resulting entity will have around 37% of the UK market with more than 28 million customers.
Orange has confirmed it is to offer the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 on both pay as you go and pay monthly tariffs from August. Talking up the social networking capabilities of the handset, manufacturers RIM say it will support mobile access to both Facebook and MySpace, as well as offering the usual email and messaging services.
Orange business customers can now opt for the HTC Touch Pro2 smartphone which combines multimedia and powerful business tools with smart styling.
Orange has become the first UK network to offer the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone to Pay As You Go customers. Retailing at £249.99, the 8900 follows Orange’s previous launch of a PAYG BlackBerry Pearl 8120.
Orange has announced the launch of the Vegas, “the cheapest full touch screen” mobile on the market, retailing at just £48.50 on pay as you go. The company says when combined with its Dolphin price plan users will receive 300 free texts and £10 credit to spend however they wish.
Orange has announced a new offer which will see clients who who sign up to the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) in February or March the receive the service completely free for the life of their mobile voice contract.
