Vodafone encouraging family tariff, and business mobile recycling

Vodafone aims to encourage customers to sign up to its family tariff by selling two Samsung C300s, or two Nokia 1600s, in a single bundle. The Samsung deal costs 75, and the Nokia deal costs 50. They’ll be sold in… Continued

Ready or not It may still be baking as a technology, but that hasn’t stopped Silicon Valley’s vanguard from trying to squeeze rich internet applications (RIAs) on to mobile devices. Continued

Red Herring has reported that Vodafone and Orange has blocked customers from using Internet telephony services such as Skype over their networks. Phones are being shipped that have specifically had their VoIP capabilities disabled. One such phone is the Nokia… Continued

Samsung has unveiled another smartphone - the SGH-i400 - which should debut in Europe sometime in late summer. It’s a slider handset, using the Symbian S60 operating system. Details confirmed so far include a two megapixel camera, dedicated MP3 keys,… Continued

LG recently announced a tie-in with Google, offering pre-loaded Google Maps, Gmail, and Blogger mobile applications with selected new handsets. And it looks like the first of these is the LG KS10. It’s a slim slider phone with HSDPA connectivity… Continued