Well it’s a small update of sorts…. A few days back, I reported on a story from Electricpig, stating that the i7500 Galaxy (an Android handset from Samsung) was due in a week or so. To try and substantiate this, I asked O2 directly, and their spokesman said: “The Samsung Galaxy is currently going through…
UK carriers to block prostitutes’ phone numbers, help curb sex trafficking
There are some out there that might disagree with London’s push to clean up the seedier side of metropolitan life, but wireless carriers in the UK are apparently on board with new program to block phone numbers known to be tied to prostitution rings. The Times Online is reporting that the Metropolitan Police, the Crown…
UK: Samsung Galaxy i7500 on O2 next week?
Electricpig.co.uk is hot on the news trail again, quoting The Register Hardware with a story that O2UK are going to launch the Samsung Galaxy i7500 next week? What’s in a model name – well the key thing here is that it’s an Android handset! We’ve known about the Galaxy for a while, and on the…
O2 partners with Telmap to bring Nav App to Customers
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: 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…
Samsung Galaxy spied in White
The Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500 is Samsung’s first Android smartphone. As such, it would be a shame to see the Galaxy coming to market in just a single shade of Black. It would be, that is, if these new spy pics didn’t confirm the existence of the White Samsung Galaxy. What you see here are real-life…
UK: Now Vodafone throws its hat in the ring for the iPhone!
It wasn’t so very long ago that I wrote a post reporting on the supposed attempts of T-Mobile and Orange to secure distribution rights for the iPhone in the UK. The specifics were that they were looking to sell the iPhone 3G, with O2 apparently retaining exclusivity on the 3Gs. Well now The Guardian Newspaper…
O2 Germany expands Mobile Advertising using targeting
According to Cellular News, O2 Germany is going to expand it’s mobile advertising services to do more targeting of Ads, based on anonymous group classification.Things such as gender, age, and interests will be will be used as indices to target the Ads. As is more and more the case these days, users have to explicitly…
O2 launches landline numbers direct to mobile phones
O2 has announced Fixed Number Anywhere, a new service providing small businesses with a landline number that rings straight through to a mobile phone. The first service of its kind to be offered in the UK by a major mobile operator, Fixed Number Anywhere allows small businesses to take incoming landline calls directly on a…
O2 Expands into Personal Finance with Launch of O2 Money
And to complete my trio of O2 news, here’s perhaps a somewhat surprising move by O2 in to … finance?! O2 has partnered with NatWest to make its debut in the personal finance market with the launch of O2 Money. The first products from O2 Money, supported by NatWest, are two cash cards, designed to…