O2 have released details of an eco rating system for mobile phones, part of their Think Big strategy that they hope will put them at the forefront of sustainable business ideas.
The scheme is based on information that O2 have used internally for a while now, and is worked in conjunction with a host of major [...]

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Google have been busy recently, delivering some updates to their existing mobile applications, with promise of more to come.
Firstly, Google have updated their iPhone mobile app, bringing push alerts from your Google account, notifying of new email from your Gmail account and appointments from your Google calendar.

The Google experience on the iPhone is generally not [...]

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There are various reports out today, detailing the incredible growing popularity of smartphone devices. Firstly, iPhone sales in the UK are predicted to rise by an amazing 195% this year, taking Apple’s share of the UK market to 7.9%, with forecasts suggesting that by the end of 2012 the iPhone will account for one in [...]

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On Saturday, 7th August, the doors will open on Apple’s 300th retail store, based in Covent Garden, London. As well as being the 300th, it will also be the largest Apple store yet, with multiple levels, and rooms dedicated to specific Apple products.
Located at No. 1 The Piazza, Covent Garden, the store will be staffed [...]

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First up, whether jailbreaking your iPhone is legal or not is a debatable point. In essence, when you buy a mobile phone in the UK on contract, the phone belongs to you, straight away. Your contractual agreement with the network is for the supply of airtime, the phone is subsidised as an incentive to sign [...]

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Back when the iPhone 4 was first confirmed in June, one of the more interesting updates for UK consumers was the arrival of the iPhone on all 5 major UK networks, with both Three and T-Mobile joining O2, Vodafone and Orange supplying the iPhone 4 on their networks, as well as bringing the iPhone 3G [...]

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It’s hard to keep away from Apple these days, as the iPhone continues to hog headlines for all sorts of reasons. But looking at facts and figures, it would seem that whilst the iPhone 4 antenna has been the focus of many over the last few weeks, it hasn’t had much of an impact on [...]

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With all the talk in the last few days surrounding the flaws in the design of the iPhone 4 antenna, it is easy to begin to overlook the positive impact that the iPhone in all its guises has had on the mobile industry as a whole.
The iPhone is mainly responsible for kick-starting the whole mobile [...]

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Following on from the Apple press conference on Friday, it seems that Apple have ruffled the feathers of rival manufacturers, by trying to implement them in the issue of reception problems.
You may recall, that during the conference, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs came out to defend the iPhone 4, amongst growing criticism of the iPhone Death [...]

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Apple have just concluded a hastily convened press conference, to respond to the growing bad press the new iPhone 4 has been receiving, in regards to the now infamous reception issues, popularly known as the ‘iPhone Grip of Death.’
The press conference started with a short presentation, led by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and he started [...]

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