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After Steve Job’s confirmation on Wednesday that the new Apple iPad will have a 3G option, British mobile phone operators and high street stores are scrambling to win the much-coveted contract AT&T have already snapped up prior to the product’s launch in the US. Major mobile service providers Orange, Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile and the high [...]
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With the ever-popular Spotify currently dominating the market for ‘listen online’ applications in Europe alongside the more expensive but ultimately more flexible service offered by Apple (and making a notable impact on the iPhone, too), MusicStation – an Omnifone product – has made a significant deal with Hewlett Packard that may see the company develop [...]
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Vodafone today shipped 50,000 iPhone handsets to customers who have pre-ordered the phone through their website, making the company the 4th in the UK to stock the iconic handset, following the originally exclusive stockists O2, Orange and Tesco Mobile.
Vodafone have been concerned about customers defecting to other networks in recent weeks in order to get [...]
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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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Having already managed to extract plenty of information on Google’s new and ‘top secret’ Nexus One phone over the past few months – including a full on photograph and some pretty extensive details – Google have to date kept almost entirely silent on the handset. Until now, that is. This week’s launch – not confirmed [...]
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Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia – a long time market leader that could once lay claim to over 40% of all UK handset sales – has announced its first loss since 1996, and it’s a big one, too. The nearly one billion Euro loss has cancelled out a similar profit last year, with the [...]
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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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The ongoing electronic ‘turf war’ between Vodafone and national phone service provider Eircom in Ireland has recently gone public and personal. With Vodafone entering the landline and broadband market (ironically, through an Eircom connection system), the mobile provider have been seducing customers with free local and national calls, as well as a limited number [...]
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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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