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iPhone and Palm Pre owners locked to Britain’s patchiest 3G network
Ofcom has published detailed maps of Britain’s 3G mobile data coverage – and they make grim viewing for owners of the iPhone and the forthcoming Palm Pre. Both Apple and Palm have decided to lock their...
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Why you’re better off on LLU than BT broadband
Ofcom’s latest research into broadband speeds might have been spectacularly indecisive on the surface, but when you start digging through the 113 pages of the full report, some interesting nuggets of...
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Will you hit the Orange iPhone “unlimited” cap?
Orange’s big unveiling of its iPhone tariffs has caused a bit of a kerfuffle, not least because its prices are almost identical to those of O2. A lot of people are up in arms about the promise of...
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Sky Mobile TV app brings live sport to the iPhone
Spotify generated huge excitement when it launched with its offer of unlimited music for £10 a month, but this simply blows it out of the water. Sky has today launched a new Mobile TV app which offers...
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O2 data charges: punishing the many to pay for the few?
O2 has delivered some astonishing statistics to justify its controversial decision to scrap unlimited data plans. In a blog post published by chief executive Ronan Dunne, the company claims that only...
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How much will an Apple iPhone 4 cost?
While the iPhone 4 arrives in the UK next week, it’s not yet clear how much it will actually cost to get your hands on the shiny new Apple handset — and that’s not just because T-Mobile and 3 haven’t...
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How I got Android 2.2 by de-branding my phone
I’ve lost patience with O2. I’ve been waiting like a good boy for two and a half months for it to pass on the Android 2.2 update to O2-branded HTC Desire handsets (such as mine). Now I’ve had enough of...
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Why you won’t get the mobile broadband speeds Ofcom claims
On first inspection, Ofcom paints a rosy picture of the state of mobile broadband in Britain. O2 (somewhat surprisingly, given our past real-world tests) tops the charts with average speeds close to...
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Mobile phones: 15 years and a world apart
Fifteen years ago – almost to the day – I got my first mobile phone, a Motorola mr20. It was a chunky thing, with a two-line black-on-green LCD display and a battery that lasted for up to 12 hours (so...
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Roaming data: make the networks pay back every penny
I was on a stag-do this weekend in Dublin – the Irish capital that’s about 50 miles away from the British mainland, but a whole world away in terms of how much it costs to access mobile data. I’d...
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