Opera Software plans on releasing Opera Mini for the iPhone as an App Store application, according to the company's co-founder, who publicly states that he anticipates no problems with Apple allowing the move. Opera has been disseminating Opera Mini to as many smartphone platforms as possible, including Google Android and Windows Mobile, as it attempts to preserve and maybe grow its market sh...

Along side the free 6PM early evening calling add-on, Bell has launched an activation fee waiver promotion and are waiving the $35 activation fee that customers are usually charged when starting up a new account. Eligibility & Restrictions The offer is applicable to new 3-year term activations on the following rate plans: Voice Plans for phones Combo Plans for Smartphones iPhone plans Share Pl...

Orange today announced it will shortly launch the much anticipated Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) Xperia X10, the first Android device to be unveiled by Sony Ericsson. Available from early April across all Orange retail channels, the X10 will be free on select pay monthly price plans and is exclusive to Orange in white. The 3G+ enabled ...

UK network Virgin Mobile has announced in a press release that it plans to release 2 more handsets to its Android range showing theyre starting to embrace Android. They currently stock the LG intouch Max and the Samsung Galaxy portal but are adding the HTC Desire and the Sony Ericsson X10 to the line up

Over the past few weeks Ive done a number of podcasts relating to the prepaid sector. The one question everyone has asked is of whether prepaid data will ever catch on. I said I was pessimistic, but that a few developments could change everything. We might have seen one yesterday, as Sprint teamed with Telespree to provide prepaid data solutions to its wholesalers. The product, dubbed Mobile Broad...

Canada's Public Mobile -- one of the wireless start-ups to benefit from the country's AWS spectrum auction -- has started detailing its launch plans this week behind its contemporaries at WIND Mobile and Mobilicity. These guys are being totally forthcoming about the fact that they're targeting the lower end of the market, a segment they claim to be "underserved" by the big guys (we&...

On the heels of Rogers launching a 6PM early evenings calling promotion, Bell is now doing the same. Until March 31, 2010, Bell has launched a free 6PM early evening add-on for all new activations and possibly existing customers. The 6PM early evenings calling bonus is available on the following 3-year term in-market plans: Voice Plans for phones Combo Plans for Smartphones iPhone plans Share Plan...

Samsung Moment and HTC Hero owners will be excited to learn that Sprint plans to roll Android 2.1 out to their customers in the "coming weeks".  As the carrier gears up for the Nexus One and,  presumably,  the HTC Supersonic, subscribers will soon have their pick of cutting edge phones and hardware form factors.  You

A couple of reports around the Web have surfaced today claiming that Verizon Wireless' plans to deliver an OTA firmware update to Android 2.1 have been delayed.

Telstra, Australia’s largest mobile operator, announced that it plans to start LTE (Long Term Evolution) trials as soon as May this year. The Australian carrier has teamed-up with Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei, which will all provide equipment for the 4G / LTE trials. Although “LTE will be an important evolution” for Telstra’s Next G