Author: Morgan
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Blackberry Bold 9900 coming to UK on September 15th
It would appear that we have a UK release date and SIM-free pricing for the Blackberry 9900, thanks to Amazon.com. The online retailer quotes a release date of September 15th 2011 for the original black model, and interestingly a white variant will also be released a month later, on October 15th 2011. Amazon is asking…
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Happy 20th Birthday to the mobile phone call!
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first mobile phone call and the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) standard that was born from it! That’s right folks, on July 1st 1991, the mobile phone era began. Finnish Prime Minister Harri Holkeri made the first ever mobile phone call using (yep, you guessed it) a…
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Cost of calling to and from Europe falls
The cost of call roaming within Europe has fallen for the second time in a few months, thanks to a new regulation coming into place. The new regulation from the European Commission states that mobile phone networks cannot charge more than 32p per minute (plus VAT) to make a call to another country, and 10p…
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Panasonic launches line of London Olympics branded Gadgets
Being an official sponsor of the London 2012 Olympic Games, Panasonic has released something a bit special ahead of the event. A whole range of new and existing products will be released together with some snazzy 2012 Olympics branding, including everything from memory cards to digital cameras. Panasonic has made just 2012 of each product…
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There are now 100,000 apps for the Apple iPad
Apple’s App Store for iPad has just reached an incredible milestone: 100,000 individual apps now available for download. You might think 100,000 isn’t a huge amount, especially given the 500,000+ apps available for iPhone and iPod Touch. If you are thinking that, let’s just go back to April 2010 – just 14 months ago. Steve…
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EA Games LOVE the Wii U Controller, will be making games for release day
We weren’t entirely convinced by Nintendo’s new Wii U console and its fancy touchscreen controller, but it seems some people out there absolutely loved it – namely EA Games who were “blown away” by the device. None other than Frank Gibeau, manager of EA Games, voiced his opinion and undying love for the innovative new…