O2 has announced an agreement with Telmap which will see its personal navigation and mapping service made available to O2 customers on the majority of GPS-enabled handsets sold by O2. O2 has worked closely with Telmap to optimize the application for use on the O2 network and will be providing first level customer support and…
UK: eXpansys selling N810 for £129.99!
Do you like a bargain? I do – in fact I love a bargain, especially when it involves Mobile Devices! That’s why I was very chuffed to receive an email from eXpansys, telling that they are now retailing the Nokia N810 for £129.99! We’ve written quite extensively on the N810 previously, particularly around the O/S…
UK: Orange expands its mobile broadband portfolio
Orange has expanded its mobile broadband portfolio with a selection of new price plans which includes a new offer of mobile broadband for less than £5 a month for existing Orange customers – the lowest pay monthly mobile broadband price plan on the market. This builds on Orange’s commitment to offer UK customers greater choice…
UK: Mobile Wi-Fi – coming soon to 3…
3UK will launch a Mobile Wi-Fi service – also known as MiFi® – in time for Christmas this year, allowing you to use Wi-Fi wherever you can access the 3 network with a small wireless modem. The wireless modem sends out a Wi-Fi signal so that you can connect a range of Wi-Fi enabled devices to…
Monotype Imaging FlipFont now supports N97, 5800, and Omnia HD
Monotype Imaging Holdings has enhanced its FlipFont™ mobile font download solution to support the Nokia 5800 and N97, and also the Samsung Omnia HD i8910. The three touchscreen phones, in addition to the Nokia E52, E63 and E65-NG models, bring the total number of FlipFont supported handset brands to 52. Additionally, 10 mobile-optimized fonts have…
CoPilot Live Satellite Navigation arrives for iPhone
ALK Technologies has announced that its CoPilot Live satellite navigation system has been approved for sale via the iPhone App Store and is now available in UK for Apple iPhone 3G and 3Gs for a one-off fee of £25.99. Running in portrait or landscape display mode, CoPilot Live brings full featured turn-by-turn navigation to iPhones, complete…
Samsung C6625v: hardware good; software bad!
In the post the other day, I received a Samsung C6625v – which is a QWERTY candybar form-factor device, running WinMo 6.1. The sales proposition behind it is that it’s a value solution for the Mobile workforce, and packs a reasonable array of features – the key one obviously being push email, natively supported by…
MiFi 2352 – what a fab bit of kit!
Sometimes, you just have to be impressed with a bit of mobile tech when it is put in front of you. You think, hmmm, that’s actually a really neat idea, and actually it looks like the manufacturer/vendor has delivered on the solution really well. That’s what I thought about the MiFi 2352. The MiFi 2352…
HTC Hero has Adobe Flash platform technology
In a press release that was somewhat low-key a little while back, Adobe and HTC announced they would have Flash support in the browser on the HTC Hero. That info sailed by largely unnoticed, but in actual fact it has big implications for the browsing experience! (At this point, you might want to have a…
UK: O2 iPhone exclusive to end in October?
Well yes, according to Mobile Entertainment. They are claiming to have seen docs that state October 9th is ‘end of days’, so to speak. Apparently O2 has the rights to sell iPhones for 5 years, but only has exclusivity for 2 years. What this would probably mean is that T-Mobile and Orange (who have been…