A low-end messaging phone was quietly announced on Orange UK recently. The LG C300 Town is a candybar with a full QWERTY keyboard, 2.4″ QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0, and comes with social networking and instant messaging apps. Most of the attention LG gets these days are surrounding their Android endeavors, but many…
HTC Desire HD (Ace) spotted in the wild with Android 2.2 Froyo
The HTC Desire HD, also known as the Ace, was outed by retailer SuperETrader last month. With the customary leaked introduction out of the way, we can now turn our eyes to potentially the first spy shot of this rumored handset. The surprisingly clear photo is consistent with the leaked specs of the Desire HD…
BlackBerry Torch 9800 Coming to UK Through Vodafone
The U.S. and Canada aren’t the only ones getting RIM’s latest little bundle of techno-joy. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is coming to Vodafone UK sometime soon, and boasts a feature we hadn’t heard much about elsewhere: a “zero shutter” camera. That apparently means there’s no lag between hitting the key and taking a picture, which…
Google sees Android sales increase 350% in UK compared to previous quarter
You’ve likely been sleeping under a rock if you hadn’t notice Android OS has been growing at a rapid pace. The Q2 numbers from the UK illustrate just this, showing the Google mobile OS growing around 350% from Q1. That’s impressive, no matter what the absolute numbers are. In just three months, Android has gone…
BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 Headed to Vodafone
The rather unexciting BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 rumoured to be going to T-Mobile, Verizon, Bell, and Rogers will be finding its way to Vodafone UK around Q3, if this source of this internal document is to be believed. BlackBerry OS 5.0.0.832 has been approved, so it seems unlikely that the Kepler will be launching with…
HTC Desire HD (Ace) Gets Rumoured Specs, Due October in UK
The UK is set to get an upgraded version of the HTC Desire sometime in October called the Ace, according to retailer SuperEtrader. Though there aren’t any pictures of the phone, we’ve got a handful of specs to work with: 4.3 inch WVGA Touch Screen 8 Mega Pixel Camera 1 GHZ Qualcomm Processor Android 2.2…
Modu 1 Launches in UK, Ready to Plug Into Companion Devices
British electronics retailer PurelyGadgets has just picked up the Modu 1, an interesting little phone that can plug in with larger devices all Voltron-like to provide tailored functions. This is the first time the device has left its native Israel, and though it’s a pretty far-fetched idea for a mobile phone, you gotta admire its…
T-Mobile UK Gets Official with iPhone 4 Pricing
Vodafone, Orange, and O2 are already offering the iPhone 4 in the UK, and soon T-Mobile will join them. Monthly rate plans are available in £25, £30, £35, £40, £45, £50, £55, and £60 bundles, starting with a meager 100 minutes of talk, 100 text messages and 500 MB of data, and capping out with…
Queen Elizabeth II gets BlackBerry to PIN Subjects
While visiting Canada for our national holiday on the 1st., Queen Elizabeth II swung by Waterloo to visit our country’s most successful company, Research in Motion. She got a white BlackBerry Bold 9700, and stayed at the RIM assembling facilities for less than a half hour. The Queen’s not the first one in the royal…
Orange Launches HD Voice Trial
Orange UK is trying out a new service with a select sample group across southern England that will provide dramatically increased sound quality in voice calls. To get these results, HD Voice uses a wider range of sound (50–7000 Hz) versus traditional voice (300–3400 Hz) with the help of the Wideband Adaptive Multi-Rate code (WB-AMR).…