Posts Tagged ‘ Vodafone ’
How much will an Apple iPhone 4 cost?
Friday, June 18th, 2010
While the iPhone 4 arrives in the UK next week, it’s not yet clear how much it will actually cost to get your hands on the shiny new Apple handset — and that’s not just because T-Mobile and 3 haven’t gotten around to releasing their prices yet.
The price plans that have been released — from O2, Orange and Vodafone — are rather convoluted, with mind-melting, eye-bleeding charts. O2’s announcement even lead to an email exchange between a bewildered Barry Collins and a losing-the-will-to-live myself, as we tried to understand whether they were or weren’t selling the iPhone at the same upfront cost regardless of contract length (they are, but it depends on how you look at it. We think. Maybe.) (more…)
Beware the iPad smallprint
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
I was leafing through the 3G bundles offered with the iPad on Apple’s site when I spotted this lovely piece of small print.

Surely that should read “Unlimited per month – £25[1]”
“[1] Or nearest offer. We’re having a laugh, you might as well, too.”
I mean honestly, what are these people playing at?
Why Britain’s watchdogs have fewer teeth than goldfish
Friday, November 20th, 2009
If there’s one thing that makes me angry, it’s other people not getting angry enough. Britain has swathes of so-called regulators and “watchdogs” monitoring everything from advertising, to telecoms, to the protection of our private data, and they’re all about as much use as a toaster in a bath.
Take the Information Commissioner, for example. Christopher Graham may have started talking tough about cracking down on data leaks when he waltzed into his six-figure salary job this summer, but his feeble actions speak far louder than his fighting talk.
It was the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who revealed that staff at a UK mobile network had illegally sold thousands of customer account details to brokers. That data was used to cold-call customers nearing the end of their contracts, in a bid to convince them to move to a rival network.
Vodafone to charge for Twitter posts?
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Yesterday I recieved an SMS from Vodafone saying that SMS to Twitter will in future be charged at the normal rate. I assume from this that SMS tweets will not come out of your allowance of free SMS. If this is so then Vodafone’s definition of free is interesting to say the least. Anyone else had this SMS ?
The problem with mobile broadband
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
I’m a big fan of mobile broadband. In theory. The idea of a connection wherever you go, the promise of lower costs than fixed broadband, the possibility of even higher speeds than fixed! The reality, which I’m living through right now, remains frustrating.
For the last few days, I’ve had to “rely” on mobile broadband as I wait for my broadband connection to go live in my new house. The trouble is, it doesn’t work at all well. The first problem is reception: I don’t live in central London but in deepest Bucks, and that means I can only get a GPRS connection. (more…)
Hands on with the HTC Magic, the second Android phone
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
I’ve just come back from the launch of the second Google Android phone to be released, and I must say I’m impressed. Its sleek profile and solid build quality are a world away from the dumpy and disappointing T-Mobile G1, which we reviewed at the back end of last year.
UPDATE: Read the full review here
It’s been manufactured by the same company as the G1 – HTC – the firm also behind the Touch Diamond2 we reviewed last week, and it’s available for free on a £35 per month tariff, which gets you 600 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data.
And while I’m none too keen on the fact that it’s only going to be available in white, I did warm immediately to the solid and sleek feel of this new Android phone. It weighs 118.5g and its dimensions - 55mm wide, 113mm tall and just 13.65mm thick – make it extremely pocket friendly. The gloss finish, sculpted lines and oversized trackball all contribute to a sophisticated look that the G1 could only dream of.
Apart from the looks, though, the key difference is the on-screen touch keyboard and I was keen to try this out…
Irony alert: South London teens use mobiles in project on tackling violent crime
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Please forgive me for falling into the stereotype trap here, but in my defence I was born in South East London so feel I do have some right to pass judgement on the place. Anyway, the thing is I got this press release today which was bigging up (that’s me trying to be street, or something, and obviously failing) the use of mobile technology as part of a South London college project to tackle gun and knife crime. The LIFEWISE collaboration involves no less than 200 young people from South Thames College as well as six secondary schools across the London Borough of Wandsworth, who were given 200 Vodafone v1615 handsets with unlimited Internet mobile data access to help them work collaboratively on the project.
Very commendable, but am I the only person wondering how many of them still have those handsets? If the reports that hit the headlines only yesterday are anything to go by, then the answer should be 160, as 40 of them are statistically likely to have been nicked during a violent street mugging. The Design Council survey, on which the headlines are based, revealed that 1 in 5 of youngsters aged between 11 and 16 in London had been victim of a mugging where an item of mobile personal electronics (mobile phone or iPod essentially) had been nicked.
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