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Sony Ericsson Satio Deals now available on PAYG

Want a feature packed super-phone, but don’t want to enter into any onerous contractual obligations? If so, you’ll be glad to hear that the Sony Ericsson Satio (formerly the Idou) is now available on PAYG.

In a recent audit of Omio’s search traffic we found that the Satio was our third most popular phone -  attracting more clicks than the iPhone 3GS and only marginally less than the top two – the HTC HD2 & Hero.

Feature phones don’t come much more feature laden than the Sony Ericsson Satio, the centre-piece of which is a peerless 12.1 MP camera. Around that you’ve got 8GB of on board memory (upgradeable to 32GB), a massive 3.5 touchscreen, HSDPA-enable 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth, so you’re able to share with ease all the photos you take with all your social networks.

Suffice to say that when we first got our hands on the Satio last month we were mightily impressed.

Vodafone’s Customer Service Inhand

Vodafone will soon be rolling out their new customer service which will be featured on the handset itself. This now means that customers have access to promotions and tutorials, step by step guides on various mobile related topics.

SNAPin SelfService will be the name of this new service and recent trials in the UK and Spain have proved the service successful. We should see this new service rolled out later this year.

source: slashphone

Toshiba Portégé; G910 / G920

Toshiba revealed their first Portégé branded handsets last year, but their new creations are very different. Top of the new range is the Portégé G910/G920. It’s a folding smartphone with touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard. The G910 and G920 both feature built-in GPS, but on the G920 this has been upgraded to Advanced GPS. The G910 has an 800 pixel wide display, making the device ideal for web browsing. Of course, the G910 and G 920 are much more than pocket computers. They both feature HSDPA high-speed data, 3G, tri-band GSM with EDGE and GPRS support and WiFi. The lack of quad-band might mean limited coverage in the US. If you like your phones businesslike and big on features then the one of the new Portégé smartphones could be right up your street.

Source: Mobile Gazette

Panasonic’s 32GB SD Card

Released in April, Panasonic’s 32GB SDHC memory card is the biggest yet. At £356 ($700) it doesn’t come cheap, but it’s a speedy chap, with a 20mb/sec transfer speed.

A SanDisk 32 GB card will also be released in April, costing half as much. It only has a transfer speed of 15mb/sec, which could be a deciding factor for people wanting such a big card.

Source: CNET

5,000 Texts Per Second

57 billion text messages were sent last year by Britons alone, according to data released by the Mobile Data Association. In December alone there were 6.1 billion messages sent which works out just short of an astonishing 5,000 text messages sent every second.

In other figures released, more than 17 million people accessed the Internet on a mobile phone in December, partly thanks to flat-rate mobile broadband packages by companies such as T-Mobile and 3.

Picture messaging has also taken off with 448 million photo messages being sent in 2007.

Source: MDA

Nokia To Buy Yahoo?

There are enough rumours about the Microsoft/Yahoo deal that we don’t need any more. But Stephen Wellman of ‘Information Week’ has looked at the proposed buyout in an interesting light, suggesting that Nokia would be smart to buy Yahoo while they have the chance. As phones become an increasingly participatory presence online, internet functionality will play a large role in future mobile dominance. He gives the following five reasons:

1. If Nokia wants to be a Web company, it needs a stronger desktop presence to complement its push into mobile applications.

2. Navteq + Yahoo = Nokia’s dominance of mobile location.

3. Nokia needs to grow its U.S. market share and Yahoo is a brand that could help it.

4. Nokia is a mobile ad company that needs to grow its share of online advertising.

5. Nokia cannot afford to let Microsoft or Google gain any more online market share.

Would such a bold move make Nokia the dominant player in the telecommunications field or send them way off course? As this is pure speculation, not even time will tell.

Source: Information Weekly

Nokia N96 Specs Have Surfaced

Last year, 7 photos of the elusive Nokia N96 emerged. Now a German webmaster has published details of the specifications. If these are genuine then it looks to be very impressive, and not just an N95 in a different shell as previously feared.

Quadband EDGE
Dualband HSDPA 850/2100 MHz
DVB-H Class C
92 cc volume
125 gram weight
103 x 55 x 18 mm
16 GB internal memory AND a microSD slot; 24 GB total if you spend an extra £40
950 mAh battery
6.1 cm (2.8 inch) 320×240 display with 16 million colors
3.5 mm headphone jack
WiFi (802.11b/g)
AGPS
5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens that also allows VGA video recording at 30 FPS
Dual LED flash that can also be used when video recording!
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (Flash Lite 3 enabled web browser included)
microUSB

Source: CrunchGear

Medio On-Device Portal

Medio’s On-Device Portal (the one-click solution for those who don’t have smartphones) is giving T-Mobile’s T-Zones something of an upgrade. The Portal is a stripped down but feature-rich launchpad for finding mobile content on handsets. It can find sports scores, weather, news and more without the user having to navigate a load of menus.

The downloadable portal is available on some T-Mobile handsets already, with the rest to follow in the first quarter of this year. More information can be found at www.medio.com

LG KF510 – LG’s Newest Model

Introducing…the LG KF510.

Is your current phone a little too fat for its own good? The KF510‘s trim 10.9-mm thin handset might be enough to make it a little envious. And just because its tiny doesn’t mean it isn’t feature-rich: you’ll want to get your hands on the tempered glass touchscreen to play about with the 3 megapixel camera and mp3 player (though the number of songs you’ll be able to fit on it has yet to be disclosed). Style hasn’t been sacrificed either – you can pick up either handset in either ‘Stardust Dark Grey’ or ‘Sunset Red’.

Premiering in Spain on the 11th of February, it will reach our shores, and Omio, in March.

via: LG Press Release

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