The 3G mobile phone operator ‘3′ seems to have ground to a halt this afternoon, leaving thousands of people unable to make or receive calls. The outage has been over the last hour or two and is resulting in on-screen error messages such as ‘Call Failed’ or ‘Network Error’.
I phoned 3 earlier on as one [...]
One of the huge features missing from Android at its initial launch was proper widget extensibility — as far as the official SDK was concerned, what you saw on the home screen when you took your phone out of the box was what you got, no questions asked.
Fortunately, this is a marquis addition in 1.5, and the [...]
Apparently some shady hackers and cyber-criminals have recently started offering upwards of $30,000 for the Nokia 1100 which were manufactured at a specific plant in Bochum, Germany. You may ask yourself, “why?” Well, beyond the obvious answer (style), certain makes of the super-popular handset can apparently be reprogrammed to use someone else’s phone number, allowing them to [...]
T-Mobile UK are today announcing a range of Business SIM-Only plans designed to help UK businesses through the ‘Credit Crunch’. The SIM-Plans all come with a whopping 2000 voice minutes to any UK mobile or landline plus Unlimited text messages. You can also add unlimited email and internet for an extra £5 per month.
The SIM-Plan comes in 3 contract forms. [...]
BT will take over as Wi-Fi operator at Starbucks coffee shops in the UK and Ireland, with T-Mobile losing out on revenue from more than 650 hotspots.
Announcing the deal today, BT said it will begin to install service in some stores this week, with rollout scheduled to be completed by the end of summer. The [...]
IntoMobile,T-Mobile lets parents control their kids phone bills with “Family Allowances”,
T-Mobile USA has announced a new service called Family Allowances, to allow parents to easily manage when and how their family members use their phones and service on T-Mobile’s network.
From the official release:
With Family Allowances, parents can give their teens an upfront monthly wireless allowance [...]
IntoMobile,Latest Sony Ericsson Walkman phones previewed,
Lucky folks of PhoneArena had their lucky hands on the latest Sony Ericsson Walkman phones – the W302, W595 and W902. Devices they scored are prototype units, but they drew some conclusions, nonetheless.
Here’s what they think about each on of the devices:
W302 – “a very cute budget solution from the [...]
IntoMobile,Nokia 5610 in white/silver heading to T-Mobile,
We’ve already reported that T-Mobile will be getting the Nokia 5610 XpressMusic. Today we’ve found out that not only Nokia’s music-centric phone is heading to the Deutsche Telekom owner operator in the States, but that it will also be available in additional color.
The image above shows the Nokia 5610 [...]
IntoMobile,Skype now Windows Mobile 6.1 compatible,
Windows Mobile device users who are at the same Skype fans may have experienced problems with their VoIP client of choice. That’s about to change as Skype has released an updated version to fully support Windows Mobile 6.1. I’m not what else is affected aside from the OS compatibility, but [...]
IntoMobile,iPhone Voice Dial app hits AppStore,
In case you’re missing voice dialing on your iPhone, you’ll be glad to know a third party application which enables the mentioned feature is now available on AppStore. I haven’t tried it myself, but I guess there’s no much fuss when it comes to voice dialing. Record your voice, assign [...]