While Verizon is handling the 3G for the Samsung Series 5 and Acer Chromebook in the US, Three has stepped in to offer free UK 3G to UK Chromebook owners for, appropriately, three months. Read to find out what’ll you’ll pay after that…
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Yesterday RIM went on a press release rampage, announcing the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 along with a host of other software-centric updates. Today, two UK operators have stepped up to the plate, confirming they’ll land their own BlackBerry Bold 9900s. Both Vodafone and Three are signed up for RIM’s latest flagship, but don’t be surprised if Orange and T-mobile also join in the fun.
The white iPhone 4 is here! Well, tomorrow it is anyway, and only 326 days after it was first revealed back at WWDC in June last year. Better late than never, eh? Here’s everything you need to know about the launch tomorrow.
What does the future of online shopping hold? Mobile network Three may have found the answer, after unveiling a new live video customer service that quite frankly looks like something out of Minority Report.
We make it bang on halfway through the working week, which seems as good a time as any to take stock of what’s been happening. We’ve got new phones, bonkers tech and unreleased software galore for you here in the lunchtime lowdown.
Mobile network Three has unveiled an extraordinary new sales tool: live video customer service. ‘It’s like advanced video calls, but so much smarter and with more interaction, around a custom built touchscreen’ say B-Reel, the Scandinavian digital gurus who built the bizarre-yet-brilliant tool.
Imagine a Skype video call – except that the sales person on the other end can drag or drop photos of the latest Three phones onto the screen, using a specially-made, multi-touch display. It’s all very Minority Report, you really have to click through and see the video….
The iPhone 4 Personal Hotspot is one of the best new features rolled out in last week’s iOS 4.3 update. If you’re running an iPhone 4, you can simply turn it on, and share that 3G connection with other devices in your immediate vicinity, by way of the smartphone’s built in Wi-Fi. It’s seriously useful if you want to hop online with your laptop on the go, or let someone with an iPad jump online with you.
Swell, right? Unfortunately, the extra charges for tethering in this way are not, and more confusingly, not every network charges for it – or even offers Personal Hotspot at all. Read on, and we’ll breakdown where you get the best deal, where you definitely do not, and your other smartphone options for sharing the data you’ve already paid for, for free.