Anyone holding off on renewing their 4G Android phone contract with T-Mobile can probably renew without worry. Rumors that the company was on the verge of merging with AT&T were both confirmed and cast into question at the same when on Wednesday the Justice Department announced they would be suing AT&T in an effort to [...]
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Contract lengths Set to Tumble in the UK
12 Month Phone Contract deals are getting immense popularity again as they don’t bind you to specific company for longer periods such as 18 – 36 months as some price plans. You have the liberty to change you mobile after 12 months like the old days. While selecting a 12 months plan you must make [...]
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The Problem With Skype Is…
Back in the pre-Internet era, people living far away would more often than not keep in touch via the mail, sending an occasional letter or package. In fact, many elementary schools took up pen-pal programs in order to communicate with cultures on the opposite ends of the world. Sure, the telephone was around and people [...]
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Why And When Is Tracing a Phone Number Used?
Have you ever wondered who that anonymous caller who is calling you repeatedly is? It is very annoying and frustrating to get a call, and not get any response from the caller. They would call up, but not speak when you receive the call. It must have happened with most of you many of times. [...]
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Smartphone wars – OS is the key
The mobile industry has seen a galore of models with several price ranges from the outnumbered manufacturing companies in the world. The never ending catalog of cell phones with the features people ever wished has flashed their stylish lifestyles and catered their all social needs as well. The associated high price tags may have limited [...]
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Micro-USB phone chargers get ITU approval
The whole telecom industry was just congealing about micro-USB as universal charging standard for some time, and just to inform our readers, that there is a big step done by Samsung within this direction toward completely ridding the world of connectors with ITU ratification. The UN-backed International Telecommunication Union isn’t just making the move to [...]
Owners of touch phones are dreaming about buttons
The research company Canalys surveyed more than 3000 European mobile phone users. The result revealed that 53% of owners of touch phones are going to choose a device with usual buttons while purchasing a new phone. The proportion of satisfied users with touch features of smartphones is high among the owners of HTC and Apple [...]
Disney iPhone application
Today the official Disney iPhone application was released by Walt Disney Co. and is now available for all iPhone and iPod touch users. This application is free and is coming with a ”Click2Life” feature, which offers bonus animations and wallpapers to users who visit Disney’s official website and take photos of famous characters from movies [...]
The Opera Mini 5 beta available for download
Yesterday we were telling you that Opera Mini was going to release a new version and today Opera Mini 5 beta was officially launched, bringing “a new, sleek look and feel.” The fifth generation of Opera Mini is developing the concept of a complete Internet access on any device. The main specifications of the browser: [...]
Opera Mini 5 to be released soon
The fifth version of the most popular mobile browser Opera Mini will be released soon. According to Opera, at this moment 20 million people uses this browser. The information about the release of the next version of Opera Mini is already on the official site of the company. The members of My Opera Community have [...]
T-Mobile UK and Orange to merge businesses
In the month of November British telecommunications market may have some rearrangements. Company France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom reached an agreement to merge their business in the United Kingdom. In the late fall, T-Mobile UK and Orange will make a joint venture. The result will be new company with a turnover of about 9,4 billion [...]
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Smartphones displace personal GPS receivers from the market
iSuppli has published it’s forecast on personal GPS-navigation. According to it, almost all new smartphones will have built-in GPS-receivers by 2011, and by 2014 specialized PND (Personal Navigation Device) may disappear from the market at all. It’s a quiet loud statement, but it’s based on certain reason. Just a year or two ago a few [...]
Casio, Hitachi and NEC are going to merge mobile businesses
The new edition of Wall Street Journal reported that the representatives of three Japanese companies – Casio, Hitachi and NEC – are discussing the merger of their mobile subdivisions into one big company. Such an agreement will help the companies to use common strengths for their own interests and will allow them to compete with [...]
Mobile Phones sales down 6%, smartphones – up 27%
Gartner reports that in the second quarter of 2009 worldwide sales of mobile phones are 286.1 million units total, which is 6.1% lower than in the 2nd quarter of 2008. However, sales of smartphones in this period increased by 27%: overall 40.9 million of such devices were sold, while in April – June 2008 only [...]
1.5% of all smartphones are infected
A study conducted by SMobile Systems, revealed that about 1 out of 63 used throughout the world smartphones are infected by any kind of malicious software. These data was obtained after checking the availability of 1958 devices against spyware, viruses, «worm» or «Trojans». Analysts predict that the number of infected phones worldwide is estimated in [...]
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