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BlackBerry Torch Touchsceen Phone Offically Outed

by Jay Garrett on August 5, 2010

Say a big hello to RIM‘s latest – The BlackBerry Torch.

The new BlackBerry Torch features a 360×480 touchscreen, a slide-out keyboard as well as the groovy BB OS 6.

The Torch is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera which is kept company by a flash.

It all runs along on a 624MHz processor with 512MB of memory. You get 4GB for storing all your stuff on and there’s also a microSD slot which can give you an extra 32GB of room.

You can run the new BB for up to six hours of constant chatting or 30 hours of tunes.

Connectivity-wise the BlackBerry Torch can hook up via Bluetooth and WiFi B/G/N.

I’m not usually a huge fan of the BlackBerry’s aesthetics to be honest and, whilst the brands renowned QWERTY boards do a fantastic job, I think they generally spoil the look of the handsets.

The Torch has a decently sized keyboard which is partnered with a clickable trackpad but it gets better……

Slide that keyboard in and the Torch becomes a touchscreen phone – there’s even an on-screen keyboard if you don’t feel like unfurling the QWERTY board :)

It looks like if you’ve used a top-end multi-touchscreen phone before everything will seem familiar. Perhaps some of the gestures (like spreading your fingers to zoom) may be a little too familiar for the litigation department at Apple ;)

You can register your interest via the Vodafone website.

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UK Gets Very Own Kindles in Grey Business Suits

by Jay Garrett on July 29, 2010

The Kindle is coming to the UK – it’s official!

Amazon is treating us with brand spanking new versions of the ebook reader.

The pair of Kindles aren’t that scary pricewise either. If you opt for the one loaded with 3G and Wi-Fi it’ll cost you £149 and the Wi-Fi only version will hit you for a reasonable £109.

The free 3G connection taken care of by Vodafone and should you take your Brit Kindle (UKindle?) on a trip to foreign parts you’ll be able to instantly browse and download ebooks as long as they have 3G. I reckon that it’s worth that extra £40 compared to the Wi-Fi only version.

Especially as the Amazon Web site for pre-ordering states that the new Wi-Fi browsing is “experimental”!

Both of these new Kindles wear stylish graphite coloured suits and sport a higher contrast eInk screen, 4GB of memory which is said to equate to “up to 3,500″ eBooks and a claimed battery life of up to one month even when frequently used.

For you social networkers – you’ll love that you can highlight sentences and passages and then bounce them off to Facebook and Twitter to share with all :)

Click here to pre-order the Kindle with Free 3G + Wi-Fi or here for the Kindle Wi-Fi only version.

Both will ship on 27 August along with a UK specific ebook store featuring over 400,000 titles, newspapers, magazines and over 1 million free books.

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3G Mobile TV Being Tested in London and Slough

June 22, 2010 Click to read more →
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TV on your mobile is a regular thing over in Japan and a few years ago T-Mobile tried it and so did Virgin Mobile with its Lobster. Three brave operators by the names of Orange, O2 and Vodafone are set to start a three month trial in the exotic environs of Slough and West London. [...]

Vodafone iPhone 4 not as Cheap as Expected

June 18, 2010 Click to read more →
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Vodafone – why oh why? After an evening of complex maths (well, for me anyhow) basing my findings on your leaked prices to show who was the cheapest operator to get your iPhone 4 from you go and release your official tariffs and iPhone 4 costs – and they don’t match!! NOOOooooooooooooooooo! OK, so your [...]

UK Networks Reveal iPhone 4 Pricing – It’s Time to See Who Has The Best Deal

June 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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MY HEAD HURTS! I’ve tried looking at the tariff’s and handset prices to try and decide if O2 gets to keep me or if I should shuffle off to Vodafone or Orange. I hate maths but I hate spending too much money even more! What makes things worse is that T-Mobile, Tesco and 3 have [...]

UK iPhone 4 Prices and Tariffs Leaked

June 14, 2010 Click to read more →
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Well, it had to happen given the iPhone 4′s history. As we’re all waiting for details of price and tariffs ahead of tomorrow’s pre-ordering frenzy Vodafone has ‘accidently’ let slip the deets. It seems that the 16GB iPhone 4 will retail for £189 on their cheapest 18 month contract which costs £30 a month, whilst [...]

How to Get Your UK iPhone 4

June 8, 2010 Click to read more →
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Ok – now that we’re over the shock of getting iPhone 4 at the same time as our American cousins on June 24th, how do we actually get our mits on one? Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U have already launched pre-registration pages for the newest Apple blower and O2, Orange and Vodafone will be handling [...]

Nokia N8 Ready to Register at Vodafone

May 27, 2010 Click to read more →
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The Nokia N8 is coming to Vodafone. You can now go and register for the Symbian ^3 12 MP camera rocking handset. The N8 brags a multitouch AMOLED screen chuck out HD video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound – that 12MP will shoot stills as well as recording HD clips. Have a look at [...]

Brit Bin-Men Bought Blackberrys

May 21, 2010 Click to read more →
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Yup – if you want to grab one of RIM’s finest for free become a refuse collector. I’m just getting over the idea that the Police are handed the Canadian QWERTY phones as part of their kit but now so are our bin-men and women. Biffa covers 25 local authorities around the UK and has [...]

Apples and Oranges: Orange UK iPad Tariff and MicroSIM

May 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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More flat Apple news. You will have read that the iPad comes to Blighty on May 28 and now Orange has let the news out that they have special tariffs for the new Apple. First thing first – you’ll need a MicroSIM to get your iPad hooked up and Orange will give those away for [...]

Microsoft Hopes You’re all for KIN Social Networking

April 13, 2010 Click to read more →
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If you watched the webcast yesterday you will have seen Microsoft finally out its two new ‘Pink’ handsets whose mission is to offer the most complete social networking experience around. Taking the baton from Danger‘s Sidekick these “KIN” are squarely aimed at the younger users (under 25) that Microsoft has dubbed the “social generation.” Microsoft’s [...]

Sony Ericsson Vivaz HD Recording Camera Phone Release Date Outed

February 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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More phone news – well, the Mobile Word Congress aint far off is it? It appears that Sony Ericsson’s latest lovely, the Vivaz, has cropped up on Vodafone’s website with a UK launch date. The new 8.1MP camera phone will be available on Vodafone from March with prices still under wraps but you can register [...]

Vodafone Compass Squares up to be Next 360 Phone

February 8, 2010 Click to read more →
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Mobile-Review seems to have a bit of a scoop – this, they say, is the new Vodafone 360 phone. Dubbed the Vodafone Compass (which may confuse people as Vodafone Compass is also the name of a GPS app), it could well be the third Vodafone 360 social networking phone. What makes this interesting, apart from [...]

Apple Tablet will be Subsidised by UK Phone Networks

January 21, 2010 Click to read more →
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Well, lovers of all that is shiny and gadgety! Looks like the UK will be getting some Apple-styled Tablet love as it appears that the fruity tech maker is chatting with UK operators over network partnerships for its much talked-about tablet PC. Orange, O2 and Vodafone are all claimed to be drooling in anticipation of [...]

Nokia London Flagship Store To Close Before its Second Birthday

December 4, 2009 Click to read more →
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The Finnish flagship presence on Regent Street is due to close after only opening in February 2008. A familiar trend in these times of the crunch, the store is closing for the same reason most stores are closed: it’s not paying for itself. A Nokia spokeswomen declared that it’s “not been as efficient or as [...]

Eyes Wide Open Extended – Sony Satio with Jillian Edelstein

November 25, 2009 Click to read more →
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OK – so the Satio is having a bit of trouble at the moment but, to quote, “Sony Ericsson confirms that it has been made aware that a small number of consumers have experienced software issues with its Satio handset when using certain applications. Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4u have temporarily removed the handset from [...]

Sony Ericsson Satio – Dropped By Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U due to Software Problems

November 24, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you have the 12mp camera equipped SE handset and things seem to be a tad odd or, hopefully, yours is working just tickety-boo you should read on. The Satio has now been removed from the shelves of both CPW and Phones4U. Word is that the problems stem from a “software fault” so perhaps it’s [...]

O2 Officially Unlock Your iPhone for £15

November 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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Yup – if you’re coming to the end of your contract, such as I, then the world could be your lobster! O2 has confirmed that iPhone users are “entirely free” to move to another network after their contract is up for £14.97 – thus allowing customers to unlock their iPhones to work on different networks. [...]

Nokia N97 Mini Gets UK Release Date

October 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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We’ve seen pictures and heard the rumours but now the official word is that the Nokia N97 Mini will drop in the shops on October 23rd right here in the UK. The news comes live and direct from Nokia via Twitter :”Flagship News: N97 Mini to be sold in store from 23 October.” A quick [...]

Voda iPhone – Another Network Joins O2 and Orange to Sell Apple iPhones

September 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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Following on from yesterday’s news that Orange will be flogging Apple’s iPhone soon here in the UK Vodafone has gloved-up in the red corner. Vodafone has announced this morning that it will sell both the iPhone 3G and 3GS in the UK and Ireland in “early 2010″. Vodafone, just like Orange, is still playing things [...]