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Real tech-heads no doubt already having ordered Google’s impressive looking Nexus One, and we here at Xingtone HQ feel your excitement. In anticipation of the day when the world’s newest and most exciting communications gadget drops onto your doormat, we thought it was high time we gave an overview of the best contract options on [...]

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Mobile phone operator Orange has announced its intention to introduce high definition phone calls in 2010, accompanying their announcement with the claim that with the new system callers will sound like they’re in the same room, with a special set up that allows the phone to eliminate background noise and enhances the clarity of the [...]

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With Tesco now involved in the iPhone market, and Vodafone also due to join in early in 2010, now is a great time to take stock of the relative deals available in to those who want to get hold of the iconic handset. Tesco’s promise to bring some ‘Tesco value’ to the iPhone has led [...]

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Despite numerous consumer complaints about Orange’s download restrictions following the announcement of the company’s iPhone tariffs, Orange have sold in excess of 30,000 handsets in the first day of trading, a new record for a mobile launch, surpassing even O2’s initial handset sales. The considerable sales come as quite a surprise when the current economic [...]

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Orange has announced it’s pricing plan for the newly launched iPhone, a move that has made it immediately apparent that any price war with O2 is far from the company’s collective minds, with The Guardian calculating that the total difference in price over the course of two years on the two standard contracts will be [...]

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Perhaps it will come as little shock that the date Orange have chosen to launch the iPhone is only a day after O2’s exclusive contract ends. The first handsets will go on sale through Orange on the 10th of November, through both Orange’s own stores and website and Phones4U, and will probably be stocked by [...]

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Microsoft have recently announced the launch of their ‘Windows Phone’ platform, which – in collaboration with numerous major manufacturers including LG, Samsung and Toshiba – is likely to be a major new rival to the iPhone and Google Android platforms, and is due to appear on the UK market almost immediately.
The initial launch will feature [...]

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Only a day after Orange’s announcement that it’ll breaking O2’s exclusive hold on UK sales of the iPhone, Vodafone has followed them into the arena, whilst also picking up permission to sell the phone in the Republic of Ireland. The deal is understood to have been concluded somewhat urgently in the immediate aftermath of [...]

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Since its launch two years ago, mobile network provider O2 has had a lucrative and exclusive deal to distribute the heavily coveted iPhone in the UK. Manufacturer Apple have succeeded in selling a mammoth 20 million iPhone units worldwide to date, while an impressive one million of these have been via O2’s UK contract. Demand, [...]

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