Bad news for anyone who was excited about the Nokia N9 — the MeeGo-powered mobile will not be coming to the UK, Nokia has confirmed in a statement to mocoNews. The statement says the decision to axe the phone, which we were actually quite excited about, says, “Although we are delighted with the very positive …
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Want a tablet but can’t stomach the thought of the off-the-rack Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or the despicably mainstream iPad 2? The Pierre Cardin PC-7006 designer Android tablet might be for you. Straight out of the Pierre Cardin stable, this 7-inch Android tablet actually looks rather chunky. It’s 14mm thick, much girthier than the 9.7-inch iPad 2, which measures a …
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Images and specifications of the iPhone 5 have appeared online, taken from a video of a user browsing Apple’s German website. But we have good reason to suspect the whole thing is an elaborate ruse. The video shows a user visiting the German site, then clicking an invisible link at the bottom of the iPhone’s page, which zips through to …
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In an unlikely — and potentially extremely fruity — coupling, Orange is teaming up with Apple to bless Orange customers with a free iTunes movie rental every Thursday. The service is called Film to Go, and is a bit like a trendy, digital, one-day-later version of the popular Orange Wednesdays service, which scores you two-for-one cinema tickets every Wednesday. Here’s …
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Magnifying glasses out! Another photo purporting to show Apple’s iPhone 5 has appeared, and seems to show a thinner mobile, with a slimmer bezel and rounded edges. The sneaky photo was posted to MacRumor’s forums, and supposedly was shot in the office of a French phone network. It’s much clearer than the spy photo that popped up last week, but …
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Finally. After months of waiting and watching Apple’s iPad 2 dominate, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is ready for the UK, delivering robot-hungry Brits a sweet, dripping spoonful of Android Honeycomb goodness. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 starts at £399 for the Wi-Fi only 16GB model from Currys and PC World, who have it exclusively for the rest of the month. …
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Google has lashed out at Apple, Microsoft and other companies, saying that leading tech companies are ganging up on Android, with the aim of driving up the prices of Android devices through crafty patent acquisition and endless lawsuits. In a ferocious blog post entitled ‘When patents attack Google’, Google senior vice president and chief legal officer David Drummond accuses companies …
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A new phone network has sprung up for tariff-hungry Brits. Alpha Mobile offers unlimited international calls with a £30 pre-pay SIM card. Your 30 squids will let you make unlimited calls to more than 75 countries, for 30 days. You can make unlimited calls to landlines in almost all of those countries, and unlimited calls to mobiles in some countries, …
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HTC’s legal ruckus with Apple is coming to the UK — the Taiwanese phone maker is suing JobsCo in our own back garden, with a lawsuit filed in London, Bloomberg reports. The nature of the lawsuit isn’t yet clear, but this latest strike comes just a few weeks after Apple scored a major win in the US, with the International …
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Virgin Media is holding its mobile tariffs upside down and agitating them by the ankles, shaking loose a slew of new bolt-ons and — joy of joys — some 12-month contracts. Contract lengths have crept ever upwards in recent years, like some kind of expensive spider, with 24-month contracts sadly now the default. That’s annoying, because advances in the mobile …
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