O2’s long hold over the iPhone in the UK may be about to come to an end if the latest round of speculation proves true, T-Mobile UK has confirmed that they are currently in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in the UK. It doesn’t stop there though because rumour has it that Orange [...]

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O2 UK are now set to support NFC mobile payments, but are holding off on doing so for the moment. NFC technology allows for short range communication between devices and is being used to trial mobile payment systems using mobile phones. The user would swipe his mobile phone near an NFC terminal, which would debit [...]

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British network O2 is dipping its toes into the world of finance with the launch of pre-paid payment cards. In conjunction with Natwest O2 will offer two pre-paid VISA cards, ‘Load and Go’ and ‘Cash Manager’. The cards will only be available to O2 customers and O2 will send you text updates whenever they are [...]

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Good news for those who simply must be able to use their mobiles on a plan … Orange and Vodafone have agreed to allow it. Previously only O2 and T-Mobile had allowed their networks to be used by customers on planes with Orange and Vodafone having been worried over ‘bill shock’. With costs as high [...]

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UK carrier O2 has disabled a web-based system for viewing MMS messages without an MMS-capable phone, according to a company spokesman. The move follows allegations that photos, messages and even phone numbers have leaked to the web through Google indexing, putting the privacy of its customers at risk. A person claiming to be a victim [...]

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Pricing has not be announced for the 3G iPhone in the U.K. but O2 has something special already prepared for existing iPhone customers. Quote below:
The 8GB model will cost just £99 on a new £30 per month tariff and the existing £35 per month tariff. Consumers choosing either the £45 or £75 per month tariffs [...]

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O2 Wireless, a division of Locus Telecommunications, will soon begin selling the Alcatel E206a. The E206a is one of the first phones from Alcatel to be sold from an MVNO in the U.S. It is a dual-band GSM bar-style phone with an internal antenna. It supports SMS, but lacks GPRS, EDGE, 3G, a camera, Bluetooth [...]

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Mwg, formerly O2 Asia, are set to release two Windows Mobile smartphones soon. The two devices are the Atom V, and Zinc II. You can read a press release on the Atom V here.

Here are the technical specs of both devices:
Zinc II:

Connectivity: UMTS Tri-band, GSM Quad-band HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, WLAN (802.11 b/g) [...]

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O2 operator has confirmed the info that it will become Apple’s partner and get exclusive right to sell the iPhone in Ireland. The phone arrives to Ireland on March 14 and will be available through O2 sale networks and Carphone Warehouse, like it is now in the UK. The iPhone 8GB will be priced at [...]

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Digitimes.com with the reference to the Commercial Times reported that such mobile vendors as MWG (ex. O2 Asia), i-mate and Palm had recently resumed smartphone cooperation with High Tech Technologies (HTC). Thus HTC’s share in ODM-business will be over 10% of total income in 1Q 2008.
At the same time HTC got less than 10% of [...]

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Apple’s decision to price the iPhone for UK residents at £269 may have reflected a serious misjudgment of the local cellphone market, according to a new survey of Christmas buyers conducted by the analyst group GfK NOP. Of the respondents, 46 percent simply refuse to consider the phone at its existing price; just over a [...]

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HTC has officially announced the Touch Cruise communicator, the third device of the HTC Touch series with TouchFLO finger-oriented interface. The device previously known as HTC Polaris has been rumored much for a long time. Last week O2 operator released its version of HTC Touch Cruise – O2 Xda Orbit 2 (with different design). The [...]

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We’ve already mentioned that O2 operator is working on an HTC Polaris version (O2 site has accidentally posted its picture). This time the German operator has announced a product dubbed O2 Xda Orbit 2, which looks this way. The new communicator got the support of TouchFLO interface (finger-oriented input). The operator has scheduled the shipments [...]

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O2 Germany site has posted pictures of an unknown Xda communicator. The picture of it opens when enlarging the photo of an upcoming Xda star. It seems that it leaked accidentally. The device looks like a successor to Xda orbit (HTC Artemis communicator) and O2’s version of HTC Polaris GPS-communicator. The device is powered by [...]

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O2 has announced details and pricing for its new UK standard data plan, O2 Web Bolt On.While the £7.50 monthly fee is in-line with offerings from 3 and T-Mobile, its idea of ‘unlimited’ is not. Whereas both 3 and T-Mobile set their ‘unlimited’ plans’ ‘fair use’ limits at 1GB per month, O2 is launching its [...]

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