Archive for October, 2011

Nokia Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ Lumia 800 mobile phone is under £400 on pay as you go deals with Three

From Nokia’s own website

Mobile phone network Three is set to sell the new Nokia Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ operating system based phone, for just £399 and on prepay offers.

Virgin Media offers free Spotify Premium for six months on mobile phones

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Saving £60

One Mobile Ring exclusively broke a story at the start of October about the popular music streaming service Spotify will be free to access on the Virgin Mobile phones, where VM has just announced that very offering.

Sainsbury’s to launch own mobile phone network

Possibly with Orange and T-Mobile

On-line mobile industry publication Mobile Magazine has learnt that the supermarket Sainsbury’s could be partnering with the mobile phone network umbrella company Everything Everywhere, to launch their own network in the UK.

Windows Phone ‘Mango’ update available for all WP7 mobile phones

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Around the world

Seattle based software developers Microsoft has released an update to the deployment of the new Windows Phone 7 OS version known as ‘Mango’, where the platform is now available to all the earlier devices.

Motorola sells 100,000 Xoom tablets in three months

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With 11.6 million mobile devices shipped overall

Mobile phone manufacturer Motorola Mobility has released its third quarter financial results, which highlighted the net revenues of $3.3 billion and that the company has sold 100,000 of their Xoom tablets in 90 days.

Porsche designed BlackBerry mobile phone announced

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With the innards of the Bold 9900

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has unveiled the Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry handset, as a luxury branded smartphone that is set to deliver engineered luxury and performance.

Sony buys Ericsson out of Sony Ericsson

for 1.05 billion Euros

Joint Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturing venture Sony Ericsson has announced that is to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony, whilst being integrated into Sony’s platform of consumer electronics products at the same time.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus on sale November 17th and Galaxy Note hitting stores this Thursday

Official

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has confirmed to One Mobile Ring that the world’s first mobile phone to arrive running Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 will be on sale in two week’s time, whilst the large screen Note arrives on November 3rd.

Mobile Phone Review Round Up: ViewSonic V350, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S, Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet, iPhone 4S, Acer Iconia Tab A100, Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray, HTC Radar

 

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ViewSonic V350 smartphone review

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Monthly Newsletter – October

The month started with One Mobile Ring reporting the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S mobile phone is now available on Vodafone, the new BlackBerry Torch 9810 handset is free on Three and Carphone Warehouse announced a combined contract for tablets and mobile phones. Vodafone offered three months of unlimited data with a new mobile phone and Samsung launched a new Galaxy Android Honeycomb Tablet. We published a hands-on walkthrough and unboxing in pictures of the Huawei Blaze mobile phone, with a hands-on walkthrough in pictures and video of the Nokia 700 handset.