Orange UK has revealed plans to ditch a number of handsets in the coming months. At the end of January, you won’t be able to buy the HTC Flyer tablet on Orange any more – and that’s because it is on the network’s end-of-life list. Similar in size to the original Samsung Galaxy Tab, the [...]
Continue reading...Archive for January, 2012
Orange Drops iPhone 3G S, HTC Flyer and BlackBerry Torch 9860
January 31st, 2012 by Caroline
T-Mobile Introduces Full Monty: The No Limits Tariff
January 30th, 2012 by Caroline
There’s some great news for smartphone addicts who spend the majority of their time glued to their handset – talking, texting, browsing – as T-Mobile has launched its Full Monty tariff. This new two-year plan comes with “no fair use restrictions”, meaning you get unlimited minutes, texts and internet data each month. Describing it as [...]
Continue reading...Samsung Launches Galaxy S Advance
January 30th, 2012 by Caroline
With MWC almost within touching distance, Samsung has introduced the newest member of its popular Galaxy gang – the Galaxy S Advance. Constructed along similar lines to the original Galaxy S model but with a curved design, the Advance version packs a decent punch for a smaller price. The phone boasts a 4-inch Super AMOLED [...]
Continue reading...Leaked RIM 2012 Roadmap Reveals New Budget Curves Coming
January 27th, 2012 by Caroline
RIM’s plans for the coming months as well as upcoming products for this year, have been revealed via the company’s leaked 2012 roadmap. Detailing what you can expect this year from the BlackBerry maker, the roadmap includes new entry-level handsets as well as a couple of new smartphones coming in white, a 3G version of [...]
Continue reading...Q4: Galaxy S2 Boosts Samsung’s Profits, Motorola Reports Loss
January 27th, 2012 by Caroline
Samsung has acknowledged that “strong sales of Galaxy S II” smartphone has contributed to its big boost in net profit during the last financial quarter. In the Q4 announcement, the company revealed it had achieved a 17% increase in net profit compared to the last quarter, hitting $3.6billion (£2.3billion). Smartphone sales, and especially the Galaxy [...]
Continue reading...Nokia Reports Q4 Losses But Strong Windows Phone Lumia Sales
January 26th, 2012 by Caroline
Nokia has announced Q4 losses and a decline in mobile phone sales – but also reported strong sales of the Windows Phone-based Lumia range. During the last financial quarter, Nokia made a post-tax loss of €1.08billion (£905million). Phone sales were down 29% compared to Q4 2010. In total, 113.5million devices were shifted by the company [...]
Continue reading...Apple Sells Record Breaking 37M iPhones and 15M iPads in Q1
January 25th, 2012 by Caroline
Apple has published impressive sales figures for the last financial quarter, confirming record sales for both its iPhone and iPad. In the 14-week period up to 31 December 2011, Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones. This represents a 128% increase in sales from Q1 2011 and a 117% increase on the previous quarter. With the latest [...]
Continue reading...O2 Fixes Data Issue and Apologises For “Concern”
January 25th, 2012 by Caroline
O2 has fixed its security issue, and apologised for “the concern we have caused”. The UK network was earlier found to have been revealing the phone numbers of users who accessed its mobile data. As TNW points out, O2 had been “sending your mobile number to every website you visit on your mobile phone”. It [...]
Continue reading...MWC Rumours: HTC Primo, Galaxy S3, Lumia 900, Huawei “Diamond” Range
January 25th, 2012 by Caroline
Brace yourself for rumours galore, as we have a quartet of leaks for you! You can certainly tell Mobile World Congress is only around the next bend… First up, is the HTC Primo. An “anonymous tipster” has kindly spilled the beans to Stuff about this upcoming HTC handset. Joining the queue that includes the quad-core [...]
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