Mobiles reviews - vodafone

3G iPhone details from Vodafone employee, leaked iPhone 3G firmware confirms tri-band HSDPA and GPS

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:07:15 +0000

And they just keep rolling in like unstoppable forces of nature. The iPhone 3G (or 3G iPhone / iPhone 2, call it what you want) rumors are starting to get dizzyingly out of hand. Late last night we saw some purported marketing material leaked out for all 3G iPhone hopefuls to drool over, but it [...]

Vodafone wants more of Vodacom

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:08:02 +0000

South African telecoms market is in the middle of a shake-up, following MTN's admittance last week that it is in merger talks with India's Reliance Communications. That being said, the country's fixed-line operator Telkom said it has received a non-binding proposal from Vodafone to sell piece of its 50% stake in the largest mobile operator in [...]

Vodafone, O2 bring Secret to the UK

Mon, 26 May 2008 08:49:50 +0000

Vodafone and O2 recently announced that they'll launch the third of LG's black label series of devices, the KF750 also known as the Secret in the British market. The 5 megapixel camera equipped device has a slider form factor, and among other things sports the QVGA screen, HSDPA, Bluetooth, media player and a microSD memory [...]

Vodafone now owns 100% of German fixed-line carrier Arcor

Tue, 20 May 2008 08:10:34 +0000

Vodafone announced that it now owns 100% of German fixed-line carrier Arcor. The Big Red giant paid 474 million EUR in cash to get the 26.4% interest from Deutsche Bahn AG and Deutsche Bank AG. With full ownership of Arcor, the leading alternative fixed-line carrier in Germany with 2.6 million DSL lines, representing 14% market share, [...]

Vodafone acquires ZYB; Proves it's not a dumb pipe?

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:28:43 +0000

Vodafone announced that it has agreed to acquire 100% of Denmark-based ZYB for 31.5 million EUR. We've already wrote about ZYB in the past– to recap, it's a social network and an online management tool that enables mobile phone users to back-up and share their phone contact and calendar information online. The acquisition of ZYB is [...]

UK: Vodafone outreaches mobile broadband network

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:57:23 +0000

Vodafone UK is extending it's HSPA coverage for mobile broadband to 6 new cities - Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading. This will give users downlink speeds of up to 7.2 Mb/s, with up to 1.8 Mb/s on the uplink. Right now, HSPA is only available in London and major UK airports, so [...]

Vodafone Chief: VF not a dumb pipe

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:29:53 +0000

Arun Sarin (Vodafone CEO ) has said any content providers wishing to launch D2C (direct to consumer) services will always have to work with Vodafone. Apparently, speaking to the Financial Times, Sarin stated that the 'unique gift' of billing secures it and other operators against becoming "dumb pipe" for data - for examples from those such [...]

Vodafone to offer iPhone in ten markets: Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, Sout

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:49:04 +0000

Following "the Canada announcement," Vodafone issued a press release saying it scored a deal with Apple to introduce iPhone to ten other countries: Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, [...]

China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone team up to establish Joint Innovation Lab

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:59:00 +0000

Three giants — China Mobile, Softbank, and Vodafone — have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to "promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services." The JIL will focus on the rapidly growing areas of mobile internet services, such as mobile widgets. Initially, the JIL plans to develop a platform for mobile [...]

UK: Vodafone: knocks 10 squid off tariffs…

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:29:58 +0000

Vodafone UK is offering a £10/month discount on two of their tariffs (£35/month and £40/month) when customers sign up for 18 months - they have even done a bit of research to show why this is so important! Apparently, 52% of us Brits say that on at least one occasion, £10 had made a significant difference [...]

Vodafone to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2020

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:26:35 +0000

In a recent release, Vodafone announced that by 2020 it will reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% against its 2006/7 baseline of 1.23 million tonnes. In addition, the Big Red mobile operator will be focusing on developing products and services which will help customers limit their own emissions. The idea here is to leverage improvements in [...]

Swiss to get access to more TV channels

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:39:36 +0000

A new service is to be added to Swisscom's mobile TV menu - Bluewin TV mobile will available on the new DVB-H network that is being rolled out, giving a quality that is claimed to be as good as home TV sets, with customer having access to 20 channels! Swisscom already has a pedigree in mobile [...]

Amoi lands orders to make Windows Mobile smartphones for Vodafone

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:46:09 +0000

According to sources in Taiwan's handset industry, China-based Amoi Electronics has landed orders to make Windows Mobile smartphones for Vodafone. The move will make the Chinese company the third supplier of Windows Mobile-based mobile devices for the UK-based telecom giant, which at the moment purchases such devices from HTC and Asustek. Amoi will start shipping the [...]

Madonna's underground remix of "4 Minutes" coming to Verizon, Vodafone

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:44:08 +0000

Verizon and Vodafone announced that they've teamed up with Madonna, Timbaland and Justin Timberlake to deliver the "mobile underground remix" of Madonna's highly-anticipated debut single "4 Minutes" from her upcoming album "HARD CANDY." Starting today, the underground version of the song is available to Verizon Wireless customers through V CAST Music as a full-song download, ringtone [...]

iPhone on Vodafone India by September?

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:46:24 +0000

At least that's what folks supposedly in-the-know are saying. While the US the Europe are waiting eagerly for the 3G iPhone to make its global debut, Indians on Vodafone could have an iPhone 8GB to look forward to later this year. More specifically, the 8GB iPhone is purportedly slated to drop on Vodafone India in [...]