Mobile Phone Blog

The big guessing game in the mobile phone world at the moment is the launch date of iPhone 5. Will Apple launch the new version of its very popular mobile phone before the end of the year? Well, it certainly looks like it. Some people in the mobile phone industry are predicting that iPhone 5 [...]

Could it be the end of the road for cold, hard cash now that the technology is available to make payments using your mobile phone or smartphone. It’s only just the beginning, but Samsung have partnered with Orange and Barclaycard so that shoppers can pay for their goods with their mobile phone. The Samsung Tocco [...]

There have been a couple of incidents recently which highlight just how much people can lose their marbles when combining cars and mobile phones. Everyone knows that you shouldn’t use your mobile phone while you are driving – but it is a rule that seems to be flaunted on quite a regular basis these days. [...]

The international market for mobile phones rose sharply in the first three months of the year as consumers seem almost unable to satisfy their craving for new smartphones. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), sales of mobile phones rose by just a fraction under 20 per cent in January, February and March. A press [...]

It could become cheaper to call mobile phones from landlines after Ofcom have laid down the law on termination rate charges between rival mobile network providers. Termination rate costs will be cut by 80 per cent by Vodafone, O2, Everything Everywhere and 3UK – and Ofcom has said that savings of around £650 million could [...]

The auctioning off of the 4G spectrum for mobile phones could start as early as the beginning of 2012 after Ofcom has launched a consultation on the next generation mobile technology. 4G should bring faster download speeds for audio and video to the mobile phone network by using up different parts of the spectrum. As [...]

Anyone worried about how long they chat for on their mobile phones will take comfort from a new report by scientists at Manchester University. The research was done over the course of nine years between 1998 and 2007 and concludes that, contrary to popular belief, mobile phones do not lead to the risk of cancer [...]

Vodafone are to make it cheaper to use the internet on your mobile phone when abroad. This will come as good news to anyone looking for mobile phone deals who have had their fingers burned in the past when reading their emails on holiday. It is also worth considering if you are heading off travelling [...]

A mobile phone comparison site reckons that there are more new mobile phone customers searching its site for HTC smartphones, Nokia’s N8 and Samsung’s Galaxy S than there are looking for iPhone 4 deals. Good Mobile Phones claim that the iPhone 4 only limps in at 6th place with the HTC Wildfire, HTC Desire and [...]

There was a good interview with the owner of a Scottish mobile phone recycling company in The Herald yesterday. Richard Johnston, the owner of S3 Interactive, based in Clydebank, was interviewed by the newspaper and came out with some interesting quotes and thoughts about the mobile phone recycling industry. It would seem that most mobile [...]