According to Cellular News, Vodafone UK has announced it is getting rid of roaming charges between June–August this year – which means calls/texts/MMS sent from 43 countries (!) will be charged at the same rate as the home tariff! (It should be noted that data services are not part of the promotion) Sound good?…
UK: Vodafone Mobile Clicks deadline extended…
The deadline has been extended for UK mobile developers to get in entries for the Vodafone Mobile Clicks contest. Now you might be wondering what that contest is all about – well: Vodafone Mobile Clicks is an international, high profile contest for the best mobile internet startup. The best mobile internet startup is selected by…
Yahoo! loses exclusive Vodafone UK Ad-serving deal
Vodafone is not going to renew it’s 2-year old deal with Yahoo!, when it ends in June. They are apparently going to look to as many partners as possible to grow its Ad sales. That one has gotta bite just a little for Yahoo! – having Vodafone on your books in the Mobile…
Vodafone Moving Forward With App Store Plans
Looks like the world’s largest carrier (by revenues) is getting in on the whole App Store gig. Word from Reuters is that Vodafone plans to launch their very own store that will house games, utilities, travel apps and more. No doubt their version of an App Store will come preloaded on all Vodafone devices right…
Official OS Update: 4.7.0.141 for the BlackBerry Storm 9500 from Vodafone UK
Looks like I let this one slip through my fingers a bit… But hey, better a few hours late than never! 😛 This one is actually an official (can you believe it) OS update from Vodafone for BlackBerry Storm users. That’s right, Vodafone UK has officially launched 4.7.0.141 for the Storm 9500 series. Being ‘official’…
LG BL40 with 345×800 pixels screen coming to Vodafone?
LG seems to be cooking a strange device for Vodafone called LG BL40. The “strange” part comes from the upcoming phone’s screen resolution, which according to two documents found on LG’s website will be 345×800 pixels. Kinda awkward resolution, gotta admit. As for the other specs, all we know is that this phone, when/if released,…
Coming Soon: Nokia XpressMusic 5800 Star Trek Edition!
Calling all Trekkies. Your touchscreen smartphone has arrived! There’s likely a pretty significant overlap between Trekkies and mobile enthusiasts. Case in point, myself. I’m not ashamed to admit that I have an almost debilitating affinity for mobile phones, nor am I ashamed of being a Star Trek fan. For those of you like me, Nokia’s…
Vodafone Spain first out of the gates with Android-powered HTC Magic
The earliest we thought we’d see the HTC Magic on market was May 5th on Vodafone UK. Turns out, the Android-powered HTC Magic is ushering in the second-generation of HTC Android devices today in Spain! That means those lucky Spaniards will be playing with the slate-based Magic more than a week before the rest of…
UK: Vodafone: Nokia: N97: July!
Yep. It’s a comin’ very soon indeed – and now there are nice new and shiny Vodafone UK website pages showing the N97 device in all it’s glory (see pic above). Yum. The uber-device does come with quite a spec list, but rather than repeat previous posts we have written, I’ll throw this one out…
HTC Magic Shipping May 5th at Vodafone UK
In case you missed it yesterday, all of the lucky Android users over in the UK can now pre-order the HTC Magic thanks to the folks over at Vodafone. Not only that, but the device comes free on a minimum £30/mth contract. Sheesh, I can’t get over how lucky those folks are… Such a nice…