Madonna to Mobiles

Vodafone is going to manage a music show with Madonna for it's customers. The name of show will be Madonna to Mobiles. Show will be live in 14 countries.

The performance will take place on Wednesday in New York’s Roseland Ballroom, for which Vodafone has secured exclusive rights outside the US.

The operator’s customers will be able watch the show on mobile through Vodafone Live! or on their PCs via a unique streaming platform.

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Sony Ericsson P5i Smartphone

While Sony Ericsson are busy teasing us with the specs of their forthcoming XPERIA X1 smartphone, they're also working quietly on another smartphone currently codenamed the Sony Ericsson Paris. The phone will probably be called the P5i when it's launched, and comes with some serious firepower.

For starters, it'll have a touchscreen (which is par for the course these days), together witha 5 megapixel camera, GPS, WayFinder 7.0 software, and a curious weather application as well. From the sounds of it, this will give you a heads-up on what the weather will be doing where you now, by combining your current position with an online weather service.

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5 Megapixel Motorola Zine ZN5..

Motorola has been working on a 5 megapixel camera phone in collaboration with Kodak for what seems like years. Finally, the partnership might be about to bear fruit with the launch of the new Motorola Zine ZN5 camera phone at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas tomorrow.

The Zine will be the first phone released since Motorola split itself in two in an attempt to stop the company's mobile phone division slipping even further into the red. This won't make the Zine any good, though, as it still comes from a company whose last innovation was to paint the RAZR pink and sell it as a new phone!


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New Nokia N-Gage Gaming Service..

Those of you longing for a better mobile gaming experience will be pleased to know that Nokia have now made the new N-Gage gaming service live on their web site. Currently only of any use for owners of Nokia N81, N82, and N95 phones, the N-Gage service will be rolled out to N73 and N93 owners in the coming months.

N-Gage, of course, used to be a phone in its own right, but after performing dismally, it was pulled by Nokia. The new N-Gage platform seeks to resurrect the concept of mobile gaming, but on existing phones, rather than on a dedicated gaming phone.


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Dramatic Price Cuts on Prepay Handsets in UK

Meanwhile, according to the latest figures from market research expert GfK, high-end phones are making up an increasingly small part of prepay handset sales.

Despite the fact that operators say they are targeting the high-end market, they have also been paying heavy prepay subsidies.

Two thirds of all prepay phones sold in February cost less than £50; one year ago, it was less than half.

As a result, the value of prepay sales has fallen. In November last year the value of all prepay phones sold was 14% less than in the same month in 2006, despite an increase of 26.6% in the number of phones sold.

One GfK analyst said: ‘With contract sales slowing down, operators are focusing their energies on the prepay market, and the increased competition is manifesting itself in falling prices.’

Orange, for example, has been selling half-price mobile phones for a few months.

The falling prices culminated recently in Carphone Warehouse’s £2.95 Sony Ericsson J110i offer. Unsurprisingly, the low price boosted sales of the J110i, which has featured in the top 20 of Mobile’s prepay handsets chart for the past few weeks.


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LG Viewty KU990 Review..

Features:
Camera resolution: 5 megapixels
Digital zoom: 16x
Screen size: 3"
Available colours: Black
Weight: 112g

Pros: 5Mp camera with plenty of modes and features; large, responsive touch-screen; innovative software tools

Cons: Jog wheel takes some getting used too, unable to upload mp3s to Muvee Studio

Unfortunately, the results are usually lacklustre at best, with the majority of models suitable for nothing more than a handful of grainy caller ID pics. In recent months, this trend towards mediocrity has thankfully begun to fade, with models such as the Sony K810i and Nokia N95 offering impressive in-built cameras. Now, with the LG Viewty KU990, LG is attempting to raise the bar even higher.

This eccentrically named gadget is a touch screen tri-band 3G-capable mobile phone equipped with a 5 megapixel sensor. In addition to taking stunningly vibrant images, it can be used to record video at up to 120 frames per second and is equipped with a host of advanced photography features, including auto and manual focus, an image stabiliser, multiple ISO and shutter speeds, a continuous shot mode and a professional Scheider-Hreuznach lens. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, it could almost be classed as a camera first, and a mobile phone second.

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Again iPhone sales graph is going up..

Sales of the iPhone have been given a big kick after refreshing it's tariff plans.It is because of advertising flow has been increased .

Interest in the device had dropped significantly after the much-hyped launch led to an early spike, but changes to the contract prices appears to have re-sparked consumer interest.

When we go over the tariffs with customers now, it’s much less of a stumbling block. The new prices have put it on a much more level playing field with phones like the Nokia N95.’

The changes occurred at the end of January, when O2 responded to criticism of the Apple iPhone high tariff costs by tripling the minutes and doubling the number of texts available to the device’s users.


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