In yet another round of “Deal, or No Deal” rumor regarding the UK launch of the Apple iPhone, it seems that O2 has secured the exclusive rights for UK distribution of the iPhone – again. Speculation has already pinned the UK iPhone carrier as O2, so we’re not too surprised by this report. Nic Fildes…
Get your FREE Motorola RIZR Z8 on O2
UK provider O2 has started offering the slick Moto RIZR Z8 (Media Monster) for the amazingly low price of FREE! It’s a pretty good deal if your willing to tie yourself down with a minimum £35 per month contract. With HSDPA, 2 megapixel camera, and microSD (up to 4GB) all running under the Symbian UIQ…
UK carriers T-mobile, 3, and Vodafone set to launch HSUPA networks by year end
Sure, having an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) 3G network is nice and all, but only being able to pull down super-fast data just feels a little lop-sided. A real complete 3G network needs to serve up data on HSDPA as well as HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) protocols. It seems the Brits…
O2 Germany announces Windows Mobile 6.0 upgrade for XDA Trion
O2 sure is making good by its customers recently. Hot on the heels of the release of their Windows Mobile 6.0 upgrade for the XDA Zinc, the company has opened up the upgrade for its German XDA Trion (HTC TyTn / Hermes) customers. It’s nice to see O2 actually keeping its word on device upgrades,…
Asus makes good on Windows Mobile 6.0 upgrade promise, O2 follows suit with XDA Zinc upgrade
Windows Mobile 6.0 is the new hotness, so it makes sense for handset manufacturer to appease the masses and give them free upgrades – doesn’t it? Unfortunately, not everyone is getting their WM6 upgrades as quickly as they’d like (HTC, what’s the dealio?). So, it’s nice to hear that Asus made good on their promise…
i-mode just doesn’t work anymore outside Japan
While it’s still being used by nearly 50 million Japanese subscribers, a forerunner of the mobile Internet i-mode is fading in the rest of the world. Apparently, there were two main problems with the i-mode: first, i-mode was not supported by the major handset manufacturers and the carriers ended up offering a small number of…
O2 iPhone spotted in the UK!
We’ve got another development in the “deal, or no deal” saga between O2 and Vodafone vying for the privelige to work with Apple in the exclusive iPhone distribution deal for the UK. Apparently, TUAW got reports of some Brit tipster giving them the down-low on having spotted an iPhone, on the O2 network, out in…
O2 – Helen to replace Stealth?
There’s a word on the street that 2.5G O2 Stealth is about to be replaced by the 3G beauty you can see on the right part of the screen. As you can see, this smartphone resembles the slider mechanism of Nokia’s uber-cool 8600 model, thus looking much better than most of the other smartphones today.…
O2 Cocoon – the sleek and curvy musicphone
O2’s music-oriented Cocoon is curvy and sleek, just like the name would suggest, but there’s a lot more to it than that. The white, cocoon-like (makes sense, doesn’t it?) clamshell’s seemingly opaque outer shell lights up from underneath with LED lights that show time, caller ID, and music functions. And, as any decent musicphone does,…
HTC Touch coming to Germany – Tmobile, Vodafone, O2
We’re excited to see how well the HTC Touch is doing in overseas markets. Now it looks like German wireless operators Tmobile International, Vodafone Germany, and O2 Germany will be picking up the hot, new HTC Touch for a late June or early July rollout. Of course, those finicky Tmobile and O2 execs weren’t willing…