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Last week, we received rumors that HTC’s upcoming flagship the HTC One may experience launch delays due to hardware component shortages. This rumor has been confirmed today, with HTC admitting that its HTC One handset will not be shipping in most markets until at least the end of March. While most customers who have pre-ordered their phones…
About a year ago, we’ve seen that somewhat weird chart streaming service launched by Samsung. Apparently, there’s interest for something similar with O2 deciding to launch its own service, offering Top 40 list for 5 GBP per month. Under the deal, O2 Tracks gives its own customers unlimited streaming access to the UK Top 40…
U.K. carrier O2 is pushing out Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean updates to the Sony Xperia T. The Jelly Bean update will bring the usual goodies we’ve become all too familiar with such as Google Now, Project Butter (for UI smoothness), better voice recognition, enhanced notifications, a better keyboard, and more. In addition the Android 4.1.2 update ushers…
O2 has started offering the HTC One X+ without a charger two months ago and now it released results of this initiative. The prediction that 70% of customers wouldn’t need an extra charge was wrong – the actual figure is 82%. Yup, four-in-every-five handsets sold without a charger! The findings pave the way for the…
O2 UK is among the first British carriers to commit to offer some of the sexy new smartphones announced at CES. In fact, it managed to score at least one exclusive device (for now) – Sony Xperia Z in purple. The operator’s website says that Sony’s high-end smartphone will start selling in February though we…
O2 is finally pushing Jelly Bean update for its HTC One X. The latest Android version has been available for unlocked One X units for quite some time now and we’re glad that O2 customers can now join the party, too. As you probably know, Jelly Bean brings couple of notable changes to the table,…
O2 UK is running what we would call a winter sale, offering few Android smartphones for less. First let’s look at the “big boys,” which are available with a two-year contract and 26 GBP/month plan that comes with unlimited minutes and texts, and 1GB of data: Sony Xperia T is free in this arrangement, and…
O2 is the first operator in the UK to sell the hot-new Nexus 4. The carrier will start offering the latest Google phone starting November 13, giving it away for free to people willing to sign a two-year contract with plans of 36 GBP per month or higher. That’s kinda steep when we know that…
O2 UK is rumored to have snagged a special exclusivity with Google’s newly announced LG Nexus 4. According to Pocket-Lint, O2 has secured a one-month exclusivity period, which gives them first dibs on offering the handset in its stores. Anyone who wants to buy the device to use on another network will have to go…
We’ve already told you how you can get the unlocked Samsung Ativ S in the UK. However, the chances are you’re more interested to sign a carrier contract and save some cash upfront. We’re sure major phone retailers will start offering Sammy’s Windows SuperPhone soon and in the meantime we caught the device at O2’s…