A cell phone - all about mobile phones » uk http://a-cell-phone.com Blog about mobile phones Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:19:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 HTC Rhyme Exlusive Launch For O2 UK http://a-cell-phone.com/2011/09/23/htc_rhyme_exlusive_launch_for_o2_uk.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2011/09/23/htc_rhyme_exlusive_launch_for_o2_uk.html#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:58:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=33174 HTc Rhyme is heading to UK in October 17th. O2 has managed to obtained the exclusive launch rights for the device. The pre-order is now available for you who interested.

The Rhyme features a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, runs Android 2.3, and the usual stuff like Wi-Fi, GPS and HSPA connectivity. Unfortunately, we don’t know whether the handset’s accessories and cases will be available by then.

[via IntoMobile]

]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2011/09/23/htc_rhyme_exlusive_launch_for_o2_uk.html/feed 0 White iPhone Going To UK in March http://a-cell-phone.com/2011/02/01/white_iphone_going_to_uk_in_march.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2011/02/01/white_iphone_going_to_uk_in_march.html#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:24:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=12941 Another hearsay running around saying that the legendary white version for iPhone 4 is gallery to UK in March. This newsworthiness isn’t something new since Apple has clearly announce that the white iPhone will smasher UK in Spring 2011.

Leaving that aside, we wealthy person also heard the Best Buy system stocktaking news leak which indicates the white iPhone 4 volition arrive in Best Buy on February 27th. The dubiousness is, should we spend money for something that volition be replaced in a few months by better and improve device?

[via IntoMobile]

]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2011/02/01/white_iphone_going_to_uk_in_march.html/feed 0 Lip reading mobile promises remainder to noisy earphone calls http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/03/07/lip_reading_mobile_promises_remainder_to_noisy_earphone_calls.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/03/07/lip_reading_mobile_promises_remainder_to_noisy_earphone_calls.html#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:28:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=12529 “Technology that could see an remainder to the bane of many commuters – people talking loudly on their mobile phones – has been shown off by researchers.”

]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/03/07/lip_reading_mobile_promises_remainder_to_noisy_earphone_calls.html/feed 0 ElleUK launch iPhone App http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/02/09/elleuk_launch_iphone_app.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/02/09/elleuk_launch_iphone_app.html#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:58:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=10732

ELLEuk.com is launch its first base iPhone diligence, giving FREE access to ELLE’s hugely popular Horoscope content. You tin receive on-the-go daily, monthly and yearly astrological updates straightaway to your phone, provided by ELLE’s house physician astrologers, The Saturn Sisters, who apparently have attracted a large and loyal pursuit with daily visitors to the ELLEuk.com site – so much so, that 380,000 monthly horoscopes are read on ELLEuk.com!

Highlights ar:

App to be updated daily Completely free people to download Direct link from app to ELLEuk.com and from ELLEuk.com to app memory board App to include ‘e ring armor to friend’ link

Marcy Ralph Richardson, Digital Brand Manager of ELLEuk.com said: “While manner and beauty is ELLEuk.com’s gist subject, our bounty horoscope distribution channel is extremely popular and has established a cult online pursuit. We’re delighted to be able to engage with our readers in an exciting new means by offering them an sixth sense into their star sign at any time they choose from their iPhone. The application volition also enable iPhone customers to email horoscopes to their friends if they see something that is particularly timely!”

The new Horoscopes iPhone diligence is available for users to download FREE from the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Store on iTunes now!

Elleuk.com Astrology / Јfree [iTunes link]

]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/02/09/elleuk_launch_iphone_app.html/feed 0 Hands-on review: Mobilefun charge & sync rocker for iPhone 3G/3GS http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/29/hands_on_review_mobilefun_charge_amp_sync_rocker_for_iphone_3g_3gs.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/29/hands_on_review_mobilefun_charge_amp_sync_rocker_for_iphone_3g_3gs.html#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:54:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=10036

It’s always good when you get an computer hardware accessory that combines a keen eye on monetary value, with good functional design. Case in distributor point: the Mobilefun mission & sync rocker, available for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. Different than the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) minimalist effort, this unity includes a USB cable television and plug in to the deal also!

The design of the cradle is such that it comes in three pieces:

UK Plug (with female USB connection in it) USB cable television (Male USB to male person mini-USB) Cradle (with mini-USB female connection)

It’s very simpleton to one-armed bandit together, and everything comes wellspring-packaged – which agency less likelihood of there being something missing (even if there were, Mobilefun ar pretty mend goodness on the customer service side!). Other than that, there’s no too much to say, other than perhaps the duration of the USB cable television could be a touching thirster – but it certainly doesn’t bounds custom in any means.

The dock itself is a beefy affair with a open plastic template control panel that sits behind the gimmick and props it up when it’s connected – this I think is a better design than the official Apple bobtail, which relies more on the connection, and a very minimal curved design to hold the iPhone in place. Connecting everything is very simpleton – as you mightiness imagine – and from there it’s either charge or sync – depending on whether you connect the USB cable television to the mains hack, or your PC.

That’s really all there is to say on this, other than the price – deliberation in at Ј9.99, it comes in around half the price of the functionary dock – and obviously comes with a full USB/mains charging pack too – so in world much cheaper, as you’d rich person to bargain those offprint as functionary accessories.

You tin get the Mobilefun charge &ere; sync rocker for iPhone 3G and 3GS from here.

[Note: Mobilefun are also claiming to rich person one of the largest (if not the largest) range of iPhone accessories in their memory board, which is worth a look - there really is quite a draw there indeed!]

]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/29/hands_on_review_mobilefun_charge_amp_sync_rocker_for_iphone_3g_3gs.html/feed 0 Vodafone Navigation App for iPhone Now Available From App Store http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/22/vodafone_navigation_app_for_iphone_now_available_from_app_store.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/22/vodafone_navigation_app_for_iphone_now_available_from_app_store.html#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:22:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=9653

Another one from the launch full point for the iPhone – Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) also announced its Vodafone Navigation App is available from the App Store. The app provides turn-by-twist seafaring, with part instructions and speed camera alerts, for any fix in the UK – as you mightiness expect from a Saturday Nav app

At the remainder of April 2010 customers tin decide to keep the app for the length of their contract for just Ј3 a calendar month, or choose to takings it month by month for Ј5 a month. Customers tin also approach horse opera European maps for an additional Ј5 for each month they ar used.

I’m not century sure how this is departure to fare in the comparison stake, given the world-busting announcement that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) just made for owners of their devices (free Nav!). I’m also not sure about the monthly charging, since Standalone Sat Nav users are used to the one-off charging for their devices – not a monthly fee. On the upside though, there is now definitely no deficit of Sat Nav Apps for the iPhone!!

The Vodafone Navigation App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone or via iTunes

Vodafone Navigation App / ЈFree (for a limited meter, then charging) [iTunes link]

]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/22/vodafone_navigation_app_for_iphone_now_available_from_app_store.html/feed 0 iSamJackson iPhone app puts Samuel L Jackson’s advice in your pouch http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/16/isamjackson_iphone_app_puts_samuel_l_jackson_8217_s_advice_in_your_pouch.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/16/isamjackson_iphone_app_puts_samuel_l_jackson_8217_s_advice_in_your_pouch.html#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:18:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=9344 Imagine having Samuel L capital of Mississippi on top at all multiplication, ready to ballad the verbal smackdown on you and your friends at a moment’s notice. It might not be too comfortable keeping Samuel L Jackson in your pouch, but with iSamJackson, you can keep most of Mr. Jackson’s sometimes insightful, sometimes harsh, always hilarious auditory sensation-bites on your iPhone. The new iSamJackson iPhone app puts a collection of over 150 of original and authentic quotes from Sam Jackson himself. The app works as a soundboard, a harlequinade personality analyser, and an advice giver.

iSamJackson costs $2.99 in the iPhone AppStore, which isn’t departure to be worth it for most citizenry. But, if you’ve got a few bucks burning a golf hole in your virtual pouch, why not spring it a go? We like forcing the app to give us regard by slightly swiping the blind during the personality analyser.

iSamJackson ($2.99) [iTunes link] [clean version]

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]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/16/isamjackson_iphone_app_puts_samuel_l_jackson_8217_s_advice_in_your_pouch.html/feed 0 Google drops Nexus One upgrade monetary value by $one C, offers refunds http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/15/google_drops_nexus_one_upgrade_monetary_value_by_one_c_offers_refunds.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/15/google_drops_nexus_one_upgrade_monetary_value_by_one_c_offers_refunds.html#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:16:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=9346 T-Mobile (New York Stock Exchange: DT) Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has dropped the upgrade price of the Nexus One to $279, which is $one C cheaper than the previous monetary value of $379. Google and T-Mobile River rich person been hit with some harsh critique from Nexus One customers upset over slow-to-respond customer service and unreliable T-Mobile River 3G service leadership up to T-Mobile River’s not-so-coincidental determination to slash $one C of the price of a Nexus One for T-Mobile customers looking to rise their phones. Effective January 14, T-Mobile Google volition charge rise eligible customers just $279 for a Nexus One. The troupe will also be issuing $100 refunds to any T-Mobile client who upgraded to a Nexus One at the previous $379 monetary value distributor point.

If you paid $379 for your Nexus One, you’re 1) obviously an existing T-Mobile River client who upgraded to the Nexus One and 2) due for a $100 refund. Anyone who upgraded to a Nexus One prior to Jan. 14th volition receive their $one C refund within 14 business years. The Nexus One is available for $579 unlocked or $179 with a new 2-year T-Mobile contract bridge. Only existing T-Mobile customers who were eligible for an rise were given the $379 price.

[Update] As the commenter below pointed out, Google is dropping the monetary value, not T-Mobile. Our bad.

[Via: TmoNews]

]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/01/15/google_drops_nexus_one_upgrade_monetary_value_by_one_c_offers_refunds.html/feed 1 Google smasher with second Federal Trade Commission info request over AdMob business deal as consumer groups call option foul http://a-cell-phone.com/2009/12/31/google_smasher_with_second_federal_trade_commission_info_request_over_admob_business_deal_as_consumer_groups_call_option_foul.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2009/12/31/google_smasher_with_second_federal_trade_commission_info_request_over_admob_business_deal_as_consumer_groups_call_option_foul.html#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:47:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=8353 Google’s recent acquisition of mobile ad mesh AdMob for $750 one thousand thousand is a really big deal for the Moutain View, CA-based hunting engine. Aside from the price of the steal-out, the deal volition springiness Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unprecedented influence in the mobile quad. So much influence, in fact, that the Federal Trade Commission has  asked Google for yet more information regarding the AdMob acquisition. The deal also has two consumer groups crying foul and claiming that Google’s AdMob purchase violates anti-trust laws.

Google has confirmed that they have received a second base postulation for information from the FTC. The latest request apparently “may entail tortuous excavation of databases” that will payoff a lot of metre and feat to satisfy. Google says that complying with the Federal Trade Commission’s wishes will delay the finalisation of the AdMob deal until late 2010. Still, Google remains “confident that the Federal Trade Commission will conclude that the rapidly growing mobile advertising space will remain highly competitive after this deal closes.”

To make matters worse, consumer advocate groups Consumer Watchdog and the Center For Digital Democracy wealthy person petitioned the FTC to layover Google from bringing AdMob into its star topology-studded cadre of tech companies. The two groups argue, in their letter to the Federal Trade Commission, that the Google-AdMob deal will harm rivalry in the mobile advertising marketplace. AdMob would springiness Google controller over 24% of the mobile ad space, with its closest competitors wielding no more than 18 market share. The business deal would remnant up gift Google a concerning quantity of mobile ad marketplace share.

To shuffling matters all the more concerning, the mobile ad quad is still growing. As consumers increasing adopt smartphones, mobile applications, and mobile web surfing, the mobile advertising market volition become increasingly more lucrative. If Google manages to nab one of the manufacture’s biggest ad networks, they’d be in goodness place to payoff over the mobile ads much like they did with online ads after their acquirement of DoubleClick in 2007 for $3.1 1000000000.

Check out the two consumer groups’ reefer missive to the Federal Trade Commission below:

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[Via: TechCrunch and DailyTech]

]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2009/12/31/google_smasher_with_second_federal_trade_commission_info_request_over_admob_business_deal_as_consumer_groups_call_option_foul.html/feed 0 O2 to launch Palm Pre in the UK on 16 Oct http://a-cell-phone.com/2009/11/16/o2_to_launch_palm_pre_in_the_uk_on_16_oct.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2009/11/16/o2_to_launch_palm_pre_in_the_uk_on_16_oct.html#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:33:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=5101 Finally, the lauch date of the palm_pre_to_be_introduced_this_workweek_.html’ title=’UK: Palm Pre to be introduced this workweek?’>Palm Pre GSM has been announced week, which will be sold by O2 in UK from Oct 16th next month. The Palm Pre was the first webOS smartphone, it is already available in US via Sprint in CDMA version.

Palm Pre is free people to O2 customers pickings out a 24-calendar month contract and to customers taking an 18-month contract at Ј44.05 or Ј73.41 per calendar month. All customers will receive unlimited UK information browsing over O2’s HSDPA network and unlimited access to 7,five hundred Wi-Fi hotspots through both The Cloud and now BT Openzone.

[via mypre]

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