Alex Kinch

‘SMS is dead’ is a cry we’ve heard all too often in the mobile industry – usually followed by the name of a new technology and the immortal words ‘is the future’. Instant messaging, push email and more recently applications like WhatsApp and PingChat have all vied for a share of the 6,936.8 billion text [...]

With big events such as the Royal wedding and 2012 Olympics predicted to bring a huge increase in traffic to London’s already overcrowded mobile airwaves, are mobile operators networks heading for meltdown? According to The Telegraph, Vodafone and O2 have been busy installing portable 3G base stations in key Royal wedding areas in Central London [...]

There’s a deluge of scam emails doing the rounds at the moment, purporting to be from Vodafone or Verizon with a subject of ‘your credit balance is over its limit’ – and containing a dangerous looking file purporting to be a balance checker that it says you should run. Of course it’s not a genuine [...]

Sony Ericsson unveiled its first Android-based handset today – the Xperia X10. Due out in the first quarter of 2010, analysts will be closely watching the sales performance and market response. But with Sony Ericsson’s other brand new handset – the Satio – in stores before Christmas, is it worth the wait til after the [...]

3G operator 3 have slashed the cost of their MiFi Mobile wi-fi device and the new INQ Mini 3G handset in the UK in a bid to increase sales in the run-up to Christmas. The MiFi device, which allows you to setup a personal hotspot with Internet connectivity via 3′s 3G network, is now £49.99 [...]

Apple’s iPhone 3Gs and iPhone 3G will be available to Orange UK customers from next Tuesday, 10th November 2009. According to the companies site, you’ll need to shell out at least £29.36 on a 24 month contract or £44.04 over 18 months to get the 3G ‘free’, whilst the 3GS 16GB is only available for [...]

12 MegaPixels is a lot – it doesn’t seem that long ago we were all foaming at the mouth over the Nokia N95 and its then ‘revolutionary’ 5MP camera (with the rather gorgeous Carl Zeiss optics). Only a few years on, and Sony Ericsson’s 12MP Satio is hitting the UK, and is available on 3 [...]

You can’t have failed to hear that Apple had a little get-together last night – unless, of course, you don’t use Twitter, don’t watch the news or have spent the past 14 hours or so with a tin foil hat on your head. New iPods – and the second coming of Jesus first public appearance [...]

It may have only been unveiled a matter of hours ago, but the PR teams at both T-Mobile and Orange have been busy assembling a veritable ream of information about the proposed merger of their two businesses. And some video too (at the end of this post). First, some headline figures. As mentioned in the [...]

Just in: Reuters is reporting T-Mobile UK and Orange are set to announce they are in exclusive talks to form a joint venture. Whilst neither party will comment on the report, sources close to both companies said an official announcement could happen as early as tomorrow (Tuesday). Reports over the weekend in the UK Sunday [...]