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Android Phone Sales Quadruple in UK

April 30th, 2010 by Caroline

Nearly 20% of all smartphones sold in the UK are now Android phones. Yes, it seems Google’s Android OS is really rather popular in the UK – the number of Android handsets sold in the last month have increased fourfold, retail watcher GfK has reported. And we can believe this, given all the reports recently [...]

RIM Now One of Top Five Smartphone Makers

April 30th, 2010 by Caroline

Thanks to an impressive 45% sales increase, BlackBerry maker RIM has become one of the five largest mobile phone manufacturers in Q1. Ousting Motorola from the top five, RIM is now tied with Sony Ericsson on market share, according to research company International Data Corp (IDC). A London-based analyst at IDC, Francisco Jeronimo, in a [...]

HTC Teams Up with Microsoft: Back for Round 2

April 30th, 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts

HTC is playing with two major giants of the mobile phone industry –proving to Apple that they chose the wrong small business to step on. In many ways, it is pretty hard to imagine HTC as a small business in the truest sense of the word. After all, the Taiwanese mobile device manufacturer has been [...]

WP7 Coming to VAIO?

April 30th, 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts

Sony is playing mind games with the tech industry as it released a small image teaser that states that a new VAIO ultra mobile device is coming out, and the iconic (and ever annoying) MS Office Paperclip is telling us all that a Microsoft based operating system will be running on the device. The big [...]

Hewlett-Packard Acquires Palm

April 30th, 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts

In a surprise, move major printer and netbook manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has acquired Palm for the cost of 1.2 billion US Dollars –that’s around £783 million. Investing a large sum like this, there is no doubt that HP is pretty intent about making a pretty solid stand in the mobile device market. The acquisition comes as [...]

Google Android Gets Flash and Air

April 30th, 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts

Adobe took a big financial loss after the declaration from Apple that their new Flash Professional CS5 would not be the iPhone app development “wundertool” it was meant to be as Apple declared the specifics of the new license agreement of the iPhone 4.0 OS SDK. Adobe did not go down without a fight however, [...]

Linux Symbian Combination OS is Coming Straight from Japan

April 30th, 2010 by Simon

Only the Japanese can think of such a thing. After all, were they not the same society that invented the concept of combining cars to form a giant robot to fight giant alien monsters from outer space? Pop culture references aside, the mobile industry certainly has something to be inspired about in regards to the [...]

Bloggers and Journalism: Drawing the Line in Between

April 30th, 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts

We all know that the digital versus analog debate is pretty senseless, as each channel and form has its own advantages and disadvantages. In the past few years, humanity has learned to live peacefully without having another heated discussion about digital cameras versus standard SLRs (though there are a few forums that still thread on [...]

What Happens to Adobe Now?

April 30th, 2010 by Simon

The biggest problem that Adobe currently has is that many developers still highly rely on the fact that Apple provides the mobile industry with the largest market of users that actually pay for content. While the Android Marketplace is a great service, it is still Apple’s App store that generates the largest income in terms [...]

A Snapshot: Nokia X3

April 29th, 2010 by Caroline

While we know this little budget music phone has been around for a few months now, we wanted to have another look at it – and bring you our detailed thoughts together with some close-up snaps. Being the logical sort, we’ve started at the beginning: Get the X3 out of its box and the first [...]