Mobile games publisher PopCap has just launched a D2C (direct-2-consumer) WAP portal, selling it’s selection of mobile games. If you wanna get in on the PopCap games goodies, then hit up http://m.popcap.com in your mobile browser, or text POPCAP to 85585 (in the UK – in Ireland, the code is 54722 apparently). There are…
UK: Tesco does Mobile VoIP with a little help from WiFi
Tesco (UK Supermarket) has launched a new service called ‘Talkwifi‘, which allows customers to make cheap mobile calls, via VoIP, over WiFi. The offering makes use of a service developed by Australian company Freshtel, and requires an app download to get things going. Once that is done, and the user is in a ‘free’ WiFi…
UK: Samsung to empty £5m in to Omnia Advertising!
We’ve known the Omnia has been coming for some time – we’ve even seen the Ads in the sunday newspaper today – but what is the total cost of all that marketing and advertising in the UK? Well, according to Mobile News, we now have an answer…… ….. and the answer is nearly £5m! The…
Nokia N96 and BBC iPlayer – a match made in heaven!
I was just mentioning about the SIM-free price-point of the N96, and immediately following that… here comes the fact that the BBC have announced iPlayer support for it! N96 users will be able to both stream and download programmes from the popular service, which will be delivered in a purpose-built application. Luckily, it will be…
Longcheer Holding does Mobile TV…in a slightly different way
Remember I mentioned about Mobile TV at IBC 2008 the other day? Well read on, and expect to see a lot more of these types of announcements over the next 2 weeks or so….. Longcheer Holdings (a Chinese Mobile handset design house) has apparently selected Newport Nedia to provide middleware for multiple Mobile TV variant…
Nokia UK – a selection of prices
Tis the season of Nokia madness, when it gets a ton of devices out there for purchase – nope, hang on, that’s all the time! Anyhoo, just a quick round-up of “prices and devices” on the Nokia UK site right now – check out some keenly priced devices, plus one very interesting pre-order….. First out…
Nokia 3109 Classic: “lived in” review
As I mentioned before in my follow-up article on the Nokia 8800 Arte, I used the Nokia 3109 in parallel with the more expensive luxury device, only to find out that, on balance, I liked the 3109 more! The 3109 is not the newest device out there, nor the prettiest – but crucially, it’s cheap,…
UK Recap: who, what, and where for the Blackberry Bold
As Dusan previously reported (here and here), the Blackberry Bold 9000 (RIMs new HSPA email uber-phone) is now for sale with Orange and Vodafone in the UK. But where else can you get it? Well apparently, 3 is going to be carrying it in November. That only leaves T-Mobile and O2, who we’ve not really…
Vodafone prepped to sell Dell Mini 9
PC Pro is reporting that Vodafone has signed a deal with Dell to sell it’s Mini 9 Laptops with integrated mobile broadband only a day or so after the “netbook” was launched! The XP-loaded Mini 9 costs £299 and features an 8.9in screen, 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB solid state drive. There’s…
Samsung to purchase SanDisk?
A South Korean businss paper has reported that Samsung is persuing SanDisk, for acquisition purposes. Both companies would not confirm or deny the report, which to me sounds like it’s on baby! Samsung currently supplies NAND flash memory chips to SanDisk … which is the world’s largest supplier of flash storage card products. Samsung is…