Mobile Phone Blog

There is nothing new about the Virgin Media £8.50 a month mobile phone tariff – that’s been around in the mobile phone deals market for a few years now. What is new though is the range of free mobile phones that Virgin Media are now offering on their £8.50 tariff. Both new and existing customers [...]

HTC, the mobile phone manufacturer from Taiwan, has stepped up its competition against Apple with the launch of two new Android mobile phones. The company hopes that consumers looking to compare mobile phones will be attracted by the features of their new smartphones. As well as trying to compete with Apple, the unveiling of the [...]

There are rumours flying around that mobile phone company Phones4U, currently owned by Providence, could well be up for sale. There is also speculation that PC World, Dixons Retail and private equity company Providence Equity are showing an interest in bidding for the group. According to The Sunday Times, there have been several approaches from [...]

Ofcom has produced research which suggests that the number of people using their mobile phones to access the internet has tripled in just two years. Media watchdog Ofcom’s Communications Market Report showed that 13.5 million people in Britain now regularly use their mobile phone to surf the web. The number of people using mobile phones [...]

If you are looking for cheap mobile phone deals then at face value you won’t find anything much cheaper than the offer just launched by Tesco. Okay, you don’t actually get a mobile phone. And there isn’t a contract as such. But, how does £6 a month sound for a Sim Only deal? And how [...]

Virgin Media are currently offering Alcatel’s bright pink VM800 smartphone on Pay-As-You-Go for just £49.99 – and that includes a tenner’s worth of airtime as well as unlimited internet access free and unlimited text messages for the first six months. Now, that really is a mobile phone deal to get you thinking! To qualify for [...]

Some mobile phone forum threads are being hammered with posts by iPhone contract users claiming to have been charged for data usage overseas. And this is even when the data roaming setting on their smartphone has been switched off. That should in theory stop such charges being incurred. One iPhone user on holiday in the [...]

Steve Jobs has finally taken decisive action on the iPhone 4 dodgy reception saga – called Anntennagate by Jobs himself – after admitting that Apple are not perfect. He offered owners of the iPhone 4 handset a free case to make amends. There have been complaints mounting since the end of June that the antenna [...]

Folk in Britain are now throwing away £800 million of their hard-earned cash simply by being on the wrong mobile phone deals. Over half of the 2000 people surveyed by Top10.com about their mobile phone contracts revealed that they are not using all of their inclusive monthly minutes allowance each month. If they just took [...]

Wow! It is getting more and more difficult to compare mobile phone deals on the soon-to-be-released iPhone 4 from Apple. Things are moving pretty quickly in the market for this desirable new handset which is due to hit the pavements on 24 June. As always we are trying to keep you one step ahead of [...]