O2UK has taken on 4000 business subs from Vodafone and Orange after winning a contract with Homeserve Plc, which is a home emergency provider. The Operator will run voice and data in a three year deal, which includes a VPN to help reduce call costs. Apparently O2’s coverage was a major factor in it’s win. I

Filed under: News : Value Motorola has revealed 3 new low to mid-range handsets yet again in 3 different form factors.

Brando, who have just launched this 6x Zoom Telescope for the iPhone 3G. Now I am not being funny here but who is going to want one of these or for that matter risk being laughed at for using it. Apparently you can overcome the short comings of mobile phone cameras and now take

As usual, the ofcom report released this week has lots of great data. Thanks to Dean Bubley of Disruptive Wireless for pointing this to me Some interesting insights as per Disruptive wireless: * Quite a lot of discussion of the resilience of fixed-line comms in the face of the mobile onslaught. Rather than direct fixed-mobile substitution, it appears that the UK sees more mobile-initiated incremen...

A Japanese survey of mobile phone users, translated by What Japan Thinks, reports that only about 10% of Japanese mobile phone users say they have mastery (or a good command) over all the functions of their mobile phones (link). About 75% of users say they have mastered less than half of the functions in the phone. The most confusing functions were e-wallet, applications in general, music player, ...

Reception problems with the iPhone 3G are occurring in towns and cities across the US, based on readers' responses last week to a request for more information about their experiences with the handset.

Toysgadget had this exclusive pic of an iPhone running on AirTel. Some tipster sent them this image showing an iPhone running on AirTel with EDGE. Pretty cool!!! Just 4 days are remaining when AirTel will launch the much awaited iPhone 3g in India. [Image Via: ToysGadget]

CALIFORNIA, USA - It's always excited to hear about Nokia pushing more attention and investment towards innovation, quite simply because as users we're ultimately set to benefit from the final products and services that emerge. So today's announcement sees Nokia committing a further USD 150 million in Nokia Growth Partners (a global private equity and venture capital management firm), with a visio...

INTERNATIONAL - Recently we've been a little obsessed with getting under the skin of Nokia Chat, the new beta app for instant messaging with GPS elements mixed in for good measure. On my mission to understand this sliver of software inside-out I spoke in depth to the man behind it, product manager Kristian Luoma. Well, now he's popped up on the Beta Labs blog as a guest author to teach us how to c...

INTERNATIONAL - Following my little Ovi pronunciation experiment earlier in the week, I got tipped off to an interesting new website that Nokia is sponsoring dubbed lovetheaccent.com. Focussed on Britain's wildly diverse mishmash of accents, the site has been created to celebrate and shame those accents that are pleasing to to ear or like nails down a blackboard. Smartly interactive, the idea is t...