If a new mobile phone, not including the two-year contract, costs you one hour of work, it may be a better choice than a phone that costs twenty hours of work.
Not being a gadget lover, the idea of a gizmo-fuelled Christmas normally fills me with horror but this year I am hoping that Santa might leave a new mobile phone in my stocking.
However, among the 42 percent of traditional handset customers who indicate they are likely to purchase a new mobile phone in the next 12 months, 76 percent say they "definitely will" or "probably will" upgrade to a smartphone.
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Just last week on the World Service radio show Go Digital, we interviewed Christian Ogoo from Datatel GSM, and Peter Bedimer from Gateway Communications, who are both involved in launch of a new mobile phone service in Sierra Leone.
Those digital assets will also create a "context" around you that will make it possible for your devices to know and recognize your preferences and needs, so that when you go to buy a new mobile phone or PC, everything you need to get up and running will be instantly on tap.
London, UK: 1st August 2011 T-Mobile today announces the launch of You Fix, a unique new mobile phone plan that combines the benefits of pay monthly with the flexibility and spend control of pay as you go.
ENGADGET: T-Mobile's You Fix gives budget-minded Brits a new approach to pay-as-you-go
Now the government wants it to connect all the islands to a new mobile-phone network.
Tucows, best known for its global internet services, launched a new set of mobile phone features for business owners.
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If you stumble across a product you like say, a particular brand of mobile phone or a new restaurant chain then it might be reasonable to assume that others will feel the same way.
Maybe they should form a deal with the new mobile phone provider Ting that I wrote about earlier this week.
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Two companies have recently been demonstrating a new type of mobile-phone headset they hope will challenge Bluetooth by supporting existing mobile phones and cordless home telephones.
On Tuesday all bidders dropped out of the auction in Turkey for a new digital (second generation) mobile phone licence.
HTCSense.com makes it easy to setup a new HTC phone or access archived mobile content such as contacts, text messages and call history from a PC browser.
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When one considers the 12 to 24 months cycle of mobile phone releases and updates (12 months for a new phone to be upgraded, 24 months for the user base to fully move to the more recent models), the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be competing with its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S3, and with the iPhone 5 and its modest update, slated for the fall.
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O2 is making customers' mobile phone numbers truly mobile with the launch of TU Go, a new service that is open to Pay Monthly customers.
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Sometimes described as a 2.5G technology because it acts as a bridge between mobile telephony and the full-fledged mobile Internet, the service has spawned a whole new style of phone usage, particularly among Japan's youth (see accompanying story).
Every 12 years or so there's a new generation ("G") of mobile phone technology.
T-Mobile and Microsoft have unleashed a new Windows Phone 8 update (version 8.0.10211.204, if you must know) to polish the OS for HTC 8X devices.
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They are also worried that a new kind of rival, such as mobile-phone operators or web-based portals, may be able to operate more cheaply and with less supervision.
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This prompted the Kindle team to devise a new business model, striking deals with mobile-phone operators to allow Kindle users to download e-books without having to pay network fees.
Riley Hassell and Shane Macaulay, two researchers with mobile security-focused Privateer Labs, plan to present two theoretical attacks on Android at the Black Hat security conference next month, both demonstrating new ways that a piece of mobile malware downloaded to a phone can surreptitiously exploit unexpected functions to gain control of the device, steal data, or make expensive phone calls.
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Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is tinkering with a new version of its Windows Phone 7 software that will allow mobile payments.
Driving while chatting on a mobile phone is common, though specifically forbidden by the new rules.
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But in the developing world, Samsung is the phone of choice, according to a new report from mobile marketing firm Upstream.
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Opportunity really came knocking in 1994, when a series of restrictions on the mobile phone industry were lifted and new carriers started up.
Though the company didn't announce new phones, a Microsoft mobile director told the Seattle Times that Windows Phone 7 products would be available on Verizon and Sprint by June 30.
Facebook is meanwhile suspending a new and controversial feature that allows developers to access the address and mobile phone numbers of users, something which could have been exploited by rogue app developers.
Telefonica, the Spanish mobile phone operator and owner of O2, is launching a new division to sell information about its customers.
The two new Indian entrants are Sunil Mittal of the Bharti group, a leading mobile phone service provider in India, and Anil Agarwal of Sterlite industries.
Nokia is refusing to comment on rumors that the mobile phone giant is looking to partner with Microsoft on a new line of handsets that would run on Windows Phone 7.
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