Vodafone Offering Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray For Free

Vodafone has officially taking orders for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. It comes with a 2-year 26 GBP/calendar month contract, which includes 300 minutes of talk time and one-half a gig of mobile data per calendar month. This means you can get the device for free.

The Xperia Ray features a 3.3-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera on the back, HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, 1GHz processor, GPS, Bluetooth and a memory card slot.

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Vodafone 555 Facebook Phone Available Now

Vodafone budget Facebook handset is now available for sale. The twist was announced back in July. Priced at Ј62.50 which equivalent to $102 for SIM-free people.

It has a full QWERTY keyboard and 2.4-inch non-touch display. The Vodafone 555 will let you synch Facebook news, photos, chat, messages and contacts over EDGE. Since it’s a Facebook phone, it has Facebook dedicated push like HTC ChaCha. It volition allowed the users shared the picture

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Update: clarifying Vodafone UK’s iPhone pre-ordering stats

I wrote a spot the other twenty-four hours on Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK’s iPhone pre-ordering stats – which to be carnival perhaps wasn’t as clear as it could rich person been – I blame that on duff info I cam across, but then a badness working man blames his tools bombast bombast bombast …

Anyway, VFUK have been in contact (thanks Dan B!) and let me have the exact quote they gave:

“Vodafone UK CEO

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Vodafone Navigation App for iPhone Now Available From App Store

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

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Vodafone dropping HTC HD2 ahead of iPhone launching

Following directly on from the shoemaker’s last firearm I wrote on the iPhone launch on Vodafone UK on January 14, it would also appear that HTC ar dropping the HD2 from their kitchen range before that date!

According to our buddies over at Electricpig, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) rich person confirmed they will not continue to stock the gimmick:

We’ve had official tidings from Vodafone on the destiny of the HTC HD2 this afternoon, with a

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Vodafone to sell Bharti Airtel stake

Vodafone (New York Stock Exchange: VOD) has put its 4.39% indirect stake in India’s Bharti Airtel up for cut-rate sale in a move which could potentially lift $2 billion for the troupe.

Vodafone brought an indirect 4.39% stake in Bharti Airtel through Bharti Enterprises Private, and a 5.61% direct stake from buck private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. This move gave Vodafone decade of Airtel for which they paid $1.5 one thousand million. Later on in

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Samsung unveils CorbyPlus B3410 and CorbyPro B5310 in India

Samsung is delivery another pair of Corby phones to Republic of India. This time the handsets launched ar the CorbyPlus B3410 and CorbyPro B5310, both of which come with a QVGA touchscreen, 3.5mm headset jackass, and Samsung’s TouchWIZ UI that includes quick approach to popular sociable networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

In addition, the CorbyPlus B3410 comes with a 2-megapixel camera, whereas the CorbyPro B5310’s photographic camera is 3.2 megapixels and it

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O2 to launch Palm Pre in the UK on 16 Oct

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

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UK: Palm Pre to be introduced this workweek?

Everythingpre.com is coverage, based on a PC Advisor article, that there is going away to be an announcement this week regarding the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre!

Now it’s not centred clear what the specifics of the annunciation volition be, but it’s quite possible that it could include a engagement for freeing of the curiosity-twist  - now how cool would that be?!

Of course, O2 (New York Stock Exchange: TEF) (the so-called ‘home of smartphones’) has

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Mobiles.co.uk awarded Orange River Specialist Partner status

In another first for the award-winning online retail merchant, Mobiles.co.uk has become the first distance reseller to be awarded Specialist Partner status by Orange.

Access to the exclusive programme is determined by resellers consistently achieving Orange’s Francis Scott Key Performance Indicators on caliber.

Mobiles.co.uk’s achievement is all the more remarkable as it demonstrates for the first base time that length resellers with the right policies, processes and procedures tin sports meeting the stringent caliber requirements laid

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