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Latest addition to Sony Ericsson’s Xperia range will be one of the first handsets to feature the latest upgrade to the Android Gingerbread platform Sony Ericsson has announced the Xperia Neo V – the latest handset to be added to its Xperia handset portfolio. The Neo V runs off the Android 2.3.4 version of the [...]
BlackBerry smartphone users will be able to build music profiles and share playlists with BBM contacts, with Omnifone providing a back-end solution for it Research In Motion (RIM) has launched BBM Music, a new social media service that allows users to share, discover, play and grow their music collections with their BlackBerry Messenger friends. Users [...]
Three Samsung Wave smartphones, powered by the handset manufacturer’s own updated platform, follow later this year Samsung has launched the bada 2.0 – the latest update for its own mobile platform – in a move the company said said should expand the global distribution of bada smartphones. Three new Samsung Wave smartphones, to be powered [...]
Analysts say new CEO Tim Cook’s experience and close relationship with Steve Jobs will help ensure continuity, but in the long term a new driving force may have to be found The resignation of Steve Jobs is unlikely to hamper Apple’s continued success in the short to medium term, according to analysts. Gartner analyst Carolina [...]
Users say advertising images of “life proof” handset are misleading as dealers question one-year warranty The BBC television programme Watchdog, which investigates viewers’ complaints against retailers and traders, is looking into claims that Motorola is misleading consumers through the advertising of its Defy device. Users of the Motorola Defy (pictured), a handset marketed as ‘life [...]
At least 60 stores fall victim to riots, with some stockrooms “gutted” by looters systematically targeting mobile shops Rioting across the UK is reckoned to have cost mobile phone retailers millions of pounds as stores were left trashed and cleared of stock. Looters have been systematically targeting mobile phone retailers during the violence that erupted [...]
CEO of ethnic MVNO says sale will not be motivated purely by money, but is listening to investors Lebara Mobile CEO Ratheesan Yoganathan (pictured) has told Mobile News he has rejected “several” offers from businesses looking to buy the Ethnic MVNO in the past 18 months. He refused, however, to name which companies the offers [...]
Retailer will partner with Chinese manufacturer to stock its own brand Blaze and Vision devices in Q4 Phones 4U today (August 18) announced it has partnered with Chinese manufacturer Huawei to stock its Blaze and Vision devices in the fourth quarter. The agreement will see Phones 4U have an exclusive lead to market on the [...]
Shenton moves from device portfolio management position and will now lead Everything Everywhere’s devices team Everything Everywhere has promoted Nicola Shenton to the role of director of devices. She was previously responsible for device portfolio management, a position she held for six months. Shenton will report to vice president of trading Neil Macgeorge and is [...]
Spanish city beats off competition from Paris, Munich and Milan to host annual global telecoms event for a further seven years The GSMA has decided to keep Barcelona as the host city for Mobile World Congress from 2012-2018 following an 18 month search. Barcelona, which has hosted the annual event since 2006, beat off final [...]