Nokia release a software update for the 6700 Classic

There's some nifty enhancements made to the software on the Nokia 6700 Classic which will have the following advantages,

- Updated map data along with "voice" turn by turn navigation. Excellent if you're using this device as a sat nav in your vehicle or need it whilst out and about in the town center.

- The camera has benefited from auto focus and rotation improvements making it more like a standalone camera

- The blue tooth connections should be more robust and reliable

Want to update the software on your Nokia 6700 Classic then click here

Advertise your Business to Millions

Formula 1 is known for it's mega bucks advertising but Vodafone are giving their business customers a chance to join in on the action.

If you have a business connection on Vodafone then head on over to this link and register now

Business customers, for one race only, can win the chance to advertise their company logo on the F1 cars driven by Jenson Button and team mate Lewis Hamilton at the British Grand Prix on the 11th July. On top of this exposure you will also be entertained at the event in style.

Guy Laurence, Vodafone's UK CEO said "The chance for business csutomers to feature on a Vodafone claren Merecedes car is unique. It's global television exposeure for free"

Interested in winning then click here

Best of luck

Apple iPhone 4 available on Vodafone & Orange online

If you are thinking of committing your business to the new Apple iPhone 4 then the day has arrived for you to do so.... But which network do you opt for?

Currently only Vodafone and Orange have the handset ranged online whereas O2 want you to visit one of their retail stores (plus will only serve you up an iPhone 4 if you are an existing customer).

The 16gb version of the device is free on both Vodafone and Orange on the £50/mth plan upwards. Vodafone have the edge on the tariff by offering 3000 UK landline minutes and unlimited free texts.

If you were hoping for something cheaper per month then you'll have to pay an upfront cost for the handset with the £30/mth plans attracting an initial £101 fee. To take the sting out of that charge we would strongly recommend that you trade in your old device using sites like Mobile Phone Xchange.

So for more UK landline minutes and unlimited texts then Vodafone wins hands down for your business Apple iPhone 4.

Visit the Vodafone business shop here

Visit the Orange business shop here

Apple iPhone 4 - available to business customers on Vodafone and Orange online

LG Optimus launches on Orange Small Business

Orange launched the LG Optimus this week and are ranging the device in the small business section.

It runs the Android operating system, has a 3" resistive touch screen, 3MP camera, supports WiFi, bluetooth and GPS and has an expandable memory coping well with a 32GB microSD card.

£25/mth on an 18 month contract gets you 360 minutes, 50 texts, a choice of free Orange to Orange calls or free UK landline calls and then a choice out of unlimited texts, 1GB data, International calling or calls made whilst abroad.... Not bad!

It's a nice looking handset which will no doubt turn heads and being free on all plans will make it popular. Compared to the HTC Hero and HTC Desire, the LG Optimus does come in third but at over £10 cheaper per month on the entry level price plan it would be hard not to pass on it.

Visit the Orange website and get your FREE LG Optimus today

LG Optimus - Good value on entry level Orange business plans

How to update your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS to iOS 4

Business users of the Apple iPhone 3g and 3gS can now update the software on the device to the new Apple iOS 4.

It's a free software update that gives iPhone users over 100 new features including multitasking, folders, enhanced mail, iBooks and more.

Here's how you do it,

1, Be sure that you've got the latest version of iTunes® v9.2 on your PC or Mac.

2, Open iTunes, connect your iPhone 3g or iPhone 3gS to the computer using the USB cable and iTunes will prompt you to download the update.

3, After completing the software update select the 'check for updates' button in iTunes once more so that all of the updates have installed correctly.

Please let us know if you have any issues with the above and please leave comments whether the update was all you expected or did it surpass your expectations?

HTC Wildfire - Available from T-Mobile Business

T-Mobile have added the HTC Wildfire handset to their business line up.

The 3.2" touch screen, 5 MP Android device is available free of charge on the £17.02/mth tariff including 600 minutes, 500 texts and unlimited UK data each month.

As a basic smart phone device then you can't really go wrong with the HTC Wildfire but if you were looking for something with a bit more um-pf then the older brother (HTC Desire) looks better, feels better, packs more memory and all this will enhance your overall experience.

Click Here to order yours direct from T-Mobile

Business user + HTC Wilfire = "quietly brilliant" for your business at a very good price!

Super AMOLED Samsung Wave

So what is all the fuss about when it comes to the new Samsung Wave and it's 'super AMOLED' screen

Seeing this device powered up in the flesh shows how good the screen quality, clarity and focus actually is and this is a must for anyone wishing to stream videos.

This is by far the best screen available on the market at present however the size is only 3.3" and if it was me I would hold out a couple of more weeks and snap up the 2nd 'super AMOLED' screen device from Samsung being the Galaxy S (with a 4" screen... size does matter!)

As a business tool it's ok but it's no surprise that this is aimed at the social networker and youth end of the market.

Currently available on O2 and soon to be released on Orange

Samsung Wave - available on O2

Vodafone increase minutes & text allowance

Vodafone have increased the allowance of calls and texts that new business customers will receive during the month of June.

Any customer ordering a handset above £30/mth in rental on a 24 month term will now get unlimited text messaging and 3000 minutes each month to call UK landlines on top of the normal minutes used to call UK mobile numbers. Furthermore, all handsets (except iPhone 3gS) are initially free of charge at these price points so pick from the BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC HD2, HTC Legend and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and you bag them for nothing!

Vodafone, the UK mobile network with the 2nd largest customer base, is keen to take back the crown from O2 and this is another example of their efforts to do so.

Keen on Vodafone for your business then visit them here

Apple iPhone 4 - is it good for business use?

Apple have announced their 4th generation iPhone which will launch in the UK on the 24th June (the same time as it does in the US).

Remarkably thinner than the 3gS version with a larger pixel camera including an LED flash and a new version of software allowing for use with many applications simultaneously (multi-tasking). Above all the new device looks great and if style is your number one priority then this is a must.

But is it a great business tool?

The device lacks some critical functions which would persuade the majority of business customers to stay away,

- No microSD card support so you are lumbered with only the 16gb or 32gb of internal memory depending on which device you went for. Although 16gb is a fair bit of storage, once you are at the limit it's time to start deleting files to create more room. If there was an external card slot like there is in most other smartphones then you wouldn't have this issue.

- No flash player so if you visit a website and it's written in flash or has flash on the page (take for example the BBC website) then the parts in flash wouldn't play and you will not get the full website effect. Flash is available with all other smartphones.

- No physical keyboard so typing emails, instant messages and texts is reliant on the virtual keyboard contained in the capacitive touch screen. Research has shown that business customers with a physical keyboard on their smartphone send more messages.

Although the full costs of the device hasn't been released, you would probably be able to pick up a better business smartphone for far less than you would pay for a glamorous iPhone 4.

O2, Vodafone and Orange have announced that they will be stocking the device by the end of the month

Apple iPhone 4 - is it a business phone?

Orange - Limited 2 day business offer

Orange are offering business customers a FREE Nokia 6303i with a FREE bluetooth headset when signing up for an Orange Solo business plan.

A Solo plan as the name suggests is ideal for the single business user and the Nokia 6303i is an ideal handset if all that's required is a device to make calls, send texts, take pictures and tobrowse the mobile internet occasionally.

The entry level plan at £25/mth on an 18 month term gets you: Unlimited UK landline calling, Unlimited text messaging and 360 additional minutes each month.

To find out more about the specification of the device or to order your handset and headset click here

Nokia 6303i with free blue tooth headset

Dell Streak - Available to buy today

It's here and it's in stock FREE of charge exclusive to the O2 network.

That's right, the handset is free of charge on all business tariffs. The entry level plan at £28.51/mth provides free calls to O2 numbers, UK landline numbers and 300 minutes each month to call other UK mobile networks. On top of this there' unlimited UK data and 100 texts messages.

Although it's a 24 month contract you can upgrade the handset every 12 months which just prolongs the contract an extra year

Want one? Click here

Dell Streak - Out now exclusive to O2

#BlackBerry Bold 9700 with free BlueTooth handsfree visor

Vodafone continue to dominate the business mobile phone offers this month by chucking in a free visor mounted BlueTooth handsfree unit on the £30/mth BlackBerry Bold 9700 price plan.

For your £30 each month you get the handset and visor free of charge, unlimited UK landline calling, 750 minutes to call mobiles, 250 text messages and unlimited mobile internet and webmail.

The BlackBerry it self comes with a 2 year manufacturers warranty and 1st class support from the network. Vodafone aim to have your email synchronised to the device in moments and they offer fantastic helpful online guides to aid you in getting to know your new handset better.

Interested? then click here

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The BlackBerry Bold 9700 with free BlueTooth visor

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro Review

It seems as though all the handset designers out there are keen to flex their creative muscle with slide out QWERTY keyboard form factors.... think back to the HTC Touch Pro2, LG GW620, Nokia N97, Nokia N900 and the Motorola Milestone all which have been released in the last year or so.

Well here’s Sony Ericsson’s hat in the ring with the Vivaz Pro.

Specification wise it is very similar to the Vivaz but with a slide out QWERTY keyboard and a lower spec camera. It’s a slim Jim as well with 109 x 52 x 15mm dimensions and weighing in at only 117g. The 3.2 inch screen is a resistive touch screen and not capacitive but it does have accelerometer sensors for auto rotation and has built in handwriting recognition software. The internal memory storage is a padded out at 75MB and the microSD card slot can operate with up to a 16GB memory card. Other features of the Symbian Series 60 5^th edition operating system device include GPRS, EDGE and 3G compatibility allowing WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, Google maps, Facebook and Twitter integration, MP3 music player and the QuickOffice document reader . Talk time for the battery is upto 13 hours whilst connected to 2G and only 5 hours 20 minutes connected to 3G. The main downside to this device is although it contains a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash this is of a lower specification when compared to the 8 megapixel component that was seen in the standard Sony Ericsson Vivaz.

Hits: Size and weight

Misses: Lower spec camera compared to the older sister

Overall, the device is a descent designed well built machine from a respected handset manufacturer and will appeal to the user who wishes to use text input often in the form of messaging, sms and email

Click Here to view business tariffs options for the Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro with full QWERTY keyboard

Nokia C5 Review

The majority of yesteryear mobile phones over the last decade were designed with a small screen along with a numerical keypad on the front of the candy bar form factor.... Then came the ‘smartphone’ revolution which pushed people into touch screens, qwerty keyboards and much much more. In a day and age where the increase in screen size is important to a lot of manufacturers, developers and end users – does size matter to everyone? Yes if you liked the olden days designs but want a ‘smartphone’ with downloadable applications.

Enter the Nokia C5 to plug the gap.

The handset reminds me of the Nokia 6220 Classic from a couple of years back and contains similar features... Size wise it’s fairly small at 112mm in length, 46mm wide and only 12.3mm thick and weight wise it’s no porker at only 89g. The screen itself is not a touch screen and relies on old skool TFT but does contain 16M colours so the quality is really good as it crams into only 2.2 inches. An improvement over the 6220 is the speaker jack with the more universally adopted 3.5mm size so other manufacturer head phones will work comfortably. Other ports on the device are the charging and data port which is in the microUSB design. Internal memory is kitted out with 50MB storage, 128MB RAM and an external card slot of up to 16GB microSD. The Nokia C5 is compatible with GPRS, EDGE, 3G and Bluetooth but not compatible with WiFi. The operating system is built from Symbian S60 version 9.3 and the built in processor is an ARM 11 600 MHz. The 3.15 mega pixel camera uses an LED flash and is uses a VGA camera for video capabilities. Other features of the device is the A-GPS for navigation/mapping , a stereo FM radio, Java enabled and Facebook/YouTube/MySpace integration. Battery talktime is an impressive 12 hours (going downhill with the wind behind you).

Hits: Free Ovi Maps making navigation utilising the A-GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack and the small slim size of the device

Misses: The screen size makes running some applications difficult, the 3.15 mega pixel camera is lagging behind the competition and the name is somewhat reminiscent of Sinclairs electric car flop

Overall, the device will mostly appeal to the budget user and I’m guessing this will feature free of charge on very low monthly line rental plans.

Click Here to view business tariff options for the Nokia C5

Nokia C5