Amit Chowdhry | November 17, 2009 | 181 views | Comments Categorized under Orange, Twitter
Orange UK has added a photo sharing feature to their service in the form of SMS and picture messages (MMS) through Twitter. Through a website that Orange UK created called Snapshot, Twitter users in the UK can share photos using MMS and SMS. To use the service, take a photo using your Orange phone, select the Send via MMS or Send multimedia message option, and then send the photo to 86444. Twitter will not charge extra for the service, but carrier messaging rates apply. Send the word “START” to 86444 to get started with the service.
Orange UK, a major telecommunications company is expected to get the Motorola DEXT in October. The DEXT is also known as the CLIQ in the U.S. For those who make a two year commitment with Orange in the UK, the Motorola DEXT will be free with at least a £34.26 per month ($56.43) contract.
Motorola announced that the CLIQ mobile phone will be available on T-Mobile by 4Q of this year, just in time for the holidays. Why some companies to choose to announce products that won’t be coming out for months, I have no idea. The CLIQ runs on the MOTOBLUR operating system based on an Android skin. In PR terms, Motorola is calling this phone, the “first phone with social skills.” The phone will be available in Winter White and Titanium colors. The CLIQ has a 3.1″ screen based on a 320×480 resolution. For quick downloads the phone has WiFi and a 3G connection. The phone has a built in 5 megapixel camera and it can shoot 24fps video. Across international waters, the phone will be known as the DEXT. The phone will be available on the following mobile networks: Orange, Telefonica, and American Movil.
The U.K. operations of Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile and Orange are planning to merge as long as government regulators approve of the plan. If T-Mobile and Orange merge, then both companies combined will have 28.4 million customers combined and will be making about 9.4 billion Euros per year.
This would make the combined company the largest provider in the United Kingdom. This would even beat Telefonica’s O2 subsidiary. O2 has about 37% of the U.K. mobile phone market. This is the second largest proposed deal that took place in the U.K. this week. Kraft Foods offered £10.2 billion to take over chocolate company Cadbury’s earlier this week too.
Orange CEO Tom Alexander would become the head of the combined CEO. T-Mobile UK head Richard Moat would become the COO of the combined company. Combining the companies would cost roughly £800 million. More details to follow as they come in.
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) and HTC have announced the Hero mobile phone. The HTC Hero is the first Google Android powered phone to support Adobe Flash.
“As the first Android device with Flash, the new HTC Hero represents a key milestone for Android and the Flash Platform. With close to 80 percent of all videos online delivered with Adobe Flash technology, consumers want to access rich Web content on-the-go.” stated Adobe Platform Business Unit VP and General Manager David Wadhwani. “The collaboration with HTC offers people a more complete Flash based Web browsing experience today and presents an important step towards full Web browsing with Flash Player 10 on mobile phones in the future.”
Other features include 512MB/288MB ROM/RAM, 3.2″ TFT-LCD, 320×480 pixel resolution, 900/2100MHz HSPA, Quad-band GSM, GPS, 802.11b/g WiFi, trackball, G-sensor, compass, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, microSD, and 3.5mm audio jack. The Hero will be available on T-Mobile and Orange in Europe this July, Asia later this summer, and North American quite a bit later.
Telecommunications company Orange has created what they believe could be the “tent of the future.” The concept Glastonbury Solar tent uses photovoltaic fabric, glo-cation technology, a wireless control hub, and groundsheet heat. This concept tent was built with help of American design firm Kaleidoscope.
The photovoltaic fabric uses solar energy to produce energy for powering gadgets plugged in to the tent, allowing wireless Internet to work, and powering a flexible LCD screen.
Glo-cation technology of the tent gives campers the ability to identify their tents using mobile phones, SMS messages, or RFID. Sending the tent an SMS message, a phone calls, or some sort of RFID notification would trigger it to glow, identifying it from a distance.
A wireless hub on the LCD screen displays how much energy is generated and consumed. The hub displays the wireless Internet signal strength. And the hub has the ability to charge up your mobile devices. The heating of the tent is controlled by the hub. The groundsheet gets heated automatically once the interior temperature falls to a certain limit.
This tent makes the term “roughing it” while camping no longer apply. I really do hope that this does become the tent of the future and become available for sale. I know I’d buy it and want to go camping a lot more.
Consumers of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone lined up in front of stores by the hundreds when the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G was released in the United States. However, in Poland several actors and actresses are being paid to line up in front of the stores that will start selling the iPhone tomorrow.
“We have these fake queues at front of 20 stores around the country to drum up interest in the iPhone,” according to a spokesman with Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom SA (ADR) (NYSE:FTE) in an interview with Reuters. In the opening weekend, telecomm provider AT&T (NYSE:T) did not have to worry about whether it would the iPhone 3G would sell on the opening weekend or not. On the opening week, one million iPhone 3Gs were sold in the U.S.
There weren’t any lines at the T-Mobile Era stores. Should Apple be concerned? Probably not. Consumers will probably wait till the stores open and then start crowding.
