Another one from the launch period for the iPhone – Vodafone also announced its Vodafone Navigation App is available from the App Store. The app provides turn-by-turn navigation, with voice instructions and speed camera alerts, for any location in the UK – as you might expect from a Sat Nav app 🙂 At the end…
Vodafone 360 People Sync App For iPhone Now Available From App Store
On the day of the iPhone release, Vodafone announced the availability of its free Vodafone 360 People Sync App on the App Store. Since I’m going to cover off a stack of Vodafone / iPhone news, I thought I’d slot this one in right here. The app was developed to help customers easily move mobile…
Update: clarifying Vodafone UK’s iPhone pre-order stats
I wrote a post the other day on Vodafone UK’s iPhone pre-order stats – which to be fair perhaps wasn’t as clear as it could have been – I blame that on duff info I cam across, but then a bad workman blames his tools blah blah blah … Anyway, VFUK have been in contact…
Straight comparison of network download speed with iPhones in the UK
So, our buddies over at fonehome.co.uk have conducted a download speed test using the iPhone 3GS on three different networks (O2, Orange, and Vodafone), side-by-side, to see which is the quickest. And the result – well, let’s just say Vodafone didn’t lose! Now of course there is some criticism you could level at the test,…
LG launches InTouch Max GW620 and comes over all Android!
LG  has just launched the InTouch Max GW620, which is the company’s first Android mobile handset. LG have been slower off the mark than the likes of Motorola and HTC with their multiple Android OS devices, but could quickly get up to speed if this is an example of what’s to come The LG InTouch…
Vodafone UK gets in to Femtocells with launch of ‘SureSignal’
Vodafone UK has relased some PR to talk about it’s new(ly branded) SureSignal product, which is a Femtocell that plugs in to your broadband connection, and backhauls your mobile connection over the InterWeb. Why would you want to do that? Well maybe you have a poor signal in your house for example – that would…
CoPilot Live v8 Windows Mobile app update released
ALK Technologies have released an update to their popular CoPilot Live Sat Nav application, for users of the Windows Mobile variant of it. The update brings a variety of enhancements, including: Improved timing of turn instructions. Customers can now choose exactly when they would prefer to receive spoken turn instructions, based on distance or time…
Samsung CorbyPRO comes to UK as the Genio Slide
Why do some handsets have so many names? Confused I am! Anyway, now the Samsung (ready for this?) B5310 CorbyPRO, or Samsung Genio Slide as they are calling it in the UK, is now for sales on the Vodafone UK shop site. Got all that? Then you’ve done well! The B5310/CorbyPRO/Genio Slide is aimed at…
The most downloaded app in the UK? A beer simulator!
This is one of those frightening stories that makes you wonder about the state of the world we live in. ComScore presented recently at the Mobile Games Forum in London, and within that presentation was the news that iPint (which is a beer/glass simulator for the iPhone, by Carling) is the most downloaded app in…
GrooveMaker for iPhone/iPod Touch surpasses over 500K downloads!
GrooveMaker has announced that its range of style-based paid apps has surpassed the 500,000 downloads marker, and has become one of the most downloaded loop remixing applications for the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. The first Groovemaker app was released in August 2009, but the range of today comprises of 11 style-based versions covering all types of dance…