Virgin Media goes mad for Android

March 17th 2010

Virgin Media is giving Android a boost with four handsets now on offer from the network. These are the LG InTouch Max, Samsung Galaxy Portal, HTC Desire and Sony Ericsson X10. more...

Opera launches Opera Mini 5 beta for Android

March 11th 2010

Opera Mini 5 is now available for Android users, in beta form to begin with, giving a fast and cost-effective web browsing experience to any Android handset. It is available now from Android Market or the Opera website. more...

Samsung Diva hits the high street

March 3rd 2010

Samsung announces the arrival of the Diva mobile phone, as part of its sponsorship of the 'Elite Model Look UK 2010' competition. more...

Skype released for Nokia smartphones; Sony Ericsson to follow

March 3rd 2010

Skype has finally released an official app for Nokia Symbian-based smartphone users via the Ovi Store. more...

Baddiel and Skinner return for World Cup 2010

March 2nd 2010

This would be big news even if there wasn't a mobile phone angle to the story - but, don't worry, there is. Sony Ericsson is working with Absolute Radio to offer a fantastic competition for free tickets to the tournament and a chance to report with Baddiel and Skinner. more...

Motorola Milestone now available at Carphone Warehouse

March 2nd 2010

The Motorola Milestone officially hits The Carphone Warehouse stores today. It is available on 12, 18 and 24 month contracts. more...

Nokia enters affordable smartphone arena with C5

March 2nd 2010

Nokia might be struggling to fight it out at the high-end, but the company doesn't have a huge market share because of the premium models. The new C5 marks the debut of the new Cseries range - bring affordable smartphone models to the masses. more...

T-Mobile/Orange merger cleared by Europe

March 1st 2010

The joint venture between T-Mobile and Orange in the UK has been cleared by the European Commission. The combined network operator will become the UK's number one with 37% of the market. more...

Palm Pre gets webOS 1.4 update

March 1st 2010

Palm has issues an update of its operating system, webOS, to 1.4 - with video capturing, faster apps and new alerts being some of the new features. more...

LG shows off prototype Windows Phone 7 handset

March 1st 2010

LG has used the Engadget show in New York to show off the first manufacturer branded phone running Windows Phone 7 Series. more...

Virgin launches EU net surfing 'travel passes'

February 22nd 2010

Virgin Media has launched a series of 'travel passes' to offer discounted mobile data usage within the EU. Passes start at £4 and can be purchased by sending a simple SMS. more...

Nokia X6 gets exclusive b@TV content via Phones 4u

February 19th 2010

The Nokia X6 16GB will come with exclusive music content from b@TV when you buy from Phones 4u. The service offers streaming content from the best music clubs, DJ sets, festivals and lifestyle venues. more...

3 to sell HTC Desire in UK

February 18th 2010

3 is adding the HTC Desire to its portfolio, with a release in the Spring. This follows news that the Desire is coming to all of the other major networks in the UK. more...

MWC: T-Mobile unveils Pulse Mini on prepay for under £100

February 17th, 2010

The Pulse Mini, a slimmed down version of the T-Mobile Pulse, will be available from April on prepay for £99.99 more...

MWC: Sagem launches Puma Phone with solar charging

February 16th 2010

PUMA and Sagem Wireless have unveiled the Puma Phone, a smartphone that will be available from April and has a few innovative features, like an integrated solar panel to charge the phone. more...

MWC: Motorola introduces the Quench

February 16th 2010

Motorola has announced the Quench, which essentially takes the Dext and removes the keyboard. Equipped with Motoblur and an optical navigation pad, it's a worthy addition to an ever growing range of Android phones from Motorola. more...

MWC: HTC unveils new handsets with enhanced Sense

February 16th 2010

HTC has launched three new handsets today; The HTC Legend, HTC Desire and HTC HD Mini. The first two models are Android based, while the HD Mini uses Windows Mobile. more...

MWC: Industry unites to form Wholesale Applications Community

February 15th 2010

The creation of the 'Wholesale Applications Community', consisting of 24 leading mobile operators, aims to build an open platform that delivers applications to all mobile phone users. more...

MWC: Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7

February 15th 2010

Microsoft has finally announced Windows Phone 7, the operating system that could finally make Windows Mobile everything it should have always been. Following the announcement comes news that most networks and handset makers are fully backing the OS. more...

MWC: Nokia and Intel merges software platforms to create MeeGo

February 15th 2010

Intel and Nokia will each work together to work on a combined platform for future computing devices, called MeeGo; a merger of Maemo and Moblin. more...

MWC: Toshiba unveils two new handsets

February 15th 2010

Toshiba announces two new handsets, with both featuring capacitive touchscreens and speedy processors more...

MWC: Sagem Wireless launches Cosyphone for over 50s

February 15th 2010

Sagem has joined a limited number of handset manufacturers to produce mobile phones for senior citizens, or in this case, the over 50s. The Cosyphone combines simplicity with new technology like NFC. more...

MWC: Symbian Foundation announces latest platform and gives it away!

February 15th 2010

Symbian Foundation today unveiled its latest platform, Symbian^3 (S^3) that will be used on devices in the second half of 2010. It is totally open-source and has been given away for free to everyone. more...

MWC: ZTE launches T-Mobile Vairy Touch II

February 15th 2010

T-Mobile will shortly launch the Vairy Touch II, the follow up to the Vairy Touch that was launched in March 2009. The handset is built by ZTE and will be available to prepay users for £59.99 more...

MWC: Acer launches new line-up of Android and WinMo phones

February 15th 2010

Acer has launched a new range of devices, including an updated Acer Liquid with Android 2.1. more...