The Nokia N8 may have only just become available on pre-order but it’s already a hit – making it into the top ten most popular phones on MobileShop.com.
While the N8 is the funnily enough number eight in the chart, the top spot has been held by the BlackBerry 8520 Curve.
It has held big guns the Samsung Galaxy S, iPhone 4 and HTC Desire at bay again.
Mid-rangers are also proving that size and cost, compact and cheaper, are as important to some as powerful processors and clever operating systems. The HTC Wildfire, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro, X10 Mini and Samsung Tocco Lite are all in the top ten. Read the rest of this entry »
The BlackBerry 8520 Curve is the most in demand phone amongst people visiting MobileShop.com to compare the latest deals on mobile phones.
The traditional QWERTY from Research in Motion is proving more popular than the giants that are the Samsung Galaxy S, iPhone 4 and HTC Desire (second, third and fourth most popular respectively).
Some great, competitive deals have helped the 8520 Curve to the top – including one from T-Mobile that costs just £15-month and includes a free phone, 300 free minutes and 300 free texts.
While the phone does not have the iPhone 4’s design or an Android operating system, it does have the trademark BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard for easy texting and messaging. Read the rest of this entry »
It seems like only yesterday that we thought Steve Jobs owned the future of the mobile world and beyond. Anti-Appleites lobbied against his walled garden approach and despaired at his unstoppable tech machine. That was until that little green robot came along, of course. Then the anti-Apple world, plus me, rejoiced in their new hero. And now it’s predicted Google’s Android is on course to become the leading mobile operating system (OS) in the world by 2014, according to industry analysts.
A report by Gartner claims that the OS will be the second most used platform in 2011, before becoming THE most used in 2014.
It goes on to say that Nokia’s main OS Symbian will also dominate the market, with the two platforms set to account for 59.8 per cent of the market within four years. Read the rest of this entry »
Google has just announced its new real-time search feature, which they call ‘Google Instant’. The technology will be rolled out to Android mobile phones from December onwards, although it’s been tested on some smartphones in the techie sphere already.
How this works is as you type in a word, Google will deliver results based on the characters you’ve typed in on your Android phonem, such as the HTC Desire or Motorola Milestone.
Earlier today Eric Schmidt made a post on his twitter page stating:
“I predict big things happening today at Google. We’re already fast… fast is about to get faster.”
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Apple is at it again – inviting the world’s media to an ‘event’ tomorrow. Can you feel the tension? Nope, me either.
Now true to form Apple has not said what this ‘event’ is really about, although everyone has an idea that the new iPod Touch 4 will be unveiled and some iPhone 4 updates announced.
The predictability is a shame and a sign that Apple has lost some of its magic.
You see once upon a time not so long ago the announcement of an ‘event’ in a kingdom called Cupertino would have been met with gasps and excitement. Read the rest of this entry »
In short, it’s not mine or my colleague Gary’s – although that could be down to our shocking texting skills… where’s the dash symbol again?
Only earlier this week Salford resident Melissa Thompson broke the speed-texting world record using her Samsung Galaxy S to text a sentence with her Swype keyboard in 25.94 seconds. Samsung’s advertising gurus must have been rubbing their hands with glee – she could have been a star, clad in some sci-fi jump-suit, a superhero sms-er, Swyped-up and out-texting her iPhone 4 rivals before scooting off in to the future on a giant Galaxy S … or something like that.
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A step-by-step guide to updating your HTC Desire to Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) has been published on the internet.
If you’re yet to get your update and are fed up with waiting for it read on because we’ve done a summary of the guide produced by the wonderful people at Pocket-lint.
We all know what’s great about the update: the operating system turns phones into Wi-Fi hotspots so files can be passed between phone and computers; offers faster connectivity; supports Flash 10.1; and allows users to store and install apps with a MicroSD card. Read the rest of this entry »
Some photographs that are reportedly of the Nokia C7 are circulating the net – and there causing a lot of excitement as the phone has an eight-megapixel camera and the same operating system as the Nokia N8
And while it may not quite measure up to the flagship Nokia N8 with its groundbreaking 12-megapixel camera, it does have some impressive specs.
The photographs on Nokia Blog were taken from Daily Mobile, an internet forum, with the poster unsurprisingly claiming the photographs were real (no really…) and speculating it may cost €270 (£240). Read the rest of this entry »
Not much is known about the HTC Glacier yet but what we do know is that it could be one of the fastest, most powerful smartphone on the market when it launches.
The phone’s performance is proving to be extremely impressive if we’re to believe internet reports that claim to have seen a test results on a database at GLBenchmark.com. Read the rest of this entry »
Not that anyone has noticed (sniff, sniff) but I’ve had just over two weeks off. And it was two weeks away from the world of mobile phones – I may as well have been stuck in Lost or something. Really.
And it seems that you can’t even take two weeks off without heaps of things happening in the world of mobile. Rather than seek out a round-up of all that’s happened – I can’t bear to miss out on a thing – I’ve spent days holed up with a laptop and pen to create my own. I could have written some of it before I started trawling the last few weeks news – iPhone 4 scapegoat named, more HTC phones rumoured, more manufacturers rip into Apple, more Android 2.2 promises etc. Read the rest of this entry »
A mobile phone phone and digital media veteran, TechnoLiz started her career working at a news website in 2000. Having covered all manner of wierd and wonderful news from around the globe, she moved into the world of wap working on a host of multi-media products at Orange. TechnoLiz helped launch video and Mobile TV on the network and remembers testing pre-Java games. But she's now going back to her news hound roots and writing about phones and technology, when she's not keeping TechnikalMarkus in check that is.
The Nokia N8 may have only just become available on pre-order but it’s already a hit – making it into the top ten most popular phones on MobileShop.com.
