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T-Mobile January Sales: Even Cheaper G1 Deals Coming!

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T-Mobile UK are planning to reduce the cost of the T-Mobile G1 for the second time since the Android-powered handset’s October release.

T-Mobile’s January sale (the first of its kind, credit crunch maybe?) will see the G1’s Combi 30 monthly charge reduced from £35 month to just £31.50.

That’s a free G1 with an 8GB memory card, 700 cross network minutes and unlimited texts for only £31.50, pretty impressive!

Only last month T-Mobile announced their first set of G1 price cuts and freebies, and this new reduction must be a last ditch effort to drive sales before the new batch of Android handsets from Sony Ericsson, HTC and Australian entrepeneurs come along…

The G1 isn’t the only handset to reach bargain status on T-Mobile, there are other mobile phone deals coming our way in January:

• Samsung i900 Omnia - down from £90 to FREE on Combi 30 tariff
• Samsung U900 Soul - down from £69.99 to FREE ON Combi 30 tariff
• Sony Ericsson C902 - down from £107.65 to FREE ON Combi 20 tariff

Source: IntoMobile

Sony Ericsson Presents: James Bond In Quantum Of Solace

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If the plethora of Sony Ericsson product placement in Casino Royale wasn’t quite enough for you (Sébastien Foucan’s T68 cameo brought a tear to my eye…), be glad to know that there are plenty more coming your way on October 31st when the new Bond movie, Quantum of Solace comes out.

Pretty much every major character in the movie has some cellphone enjoyment, but we are ensured that it will not be jarring or distracting from the film’s events in any way.

The following handsets will be getting top billing:

C902 in Titanium Silver - only the best for Bond, James Bond.

W350i in Graphic White - for the obligatory Bond love interest. She’s clearly a big fan of music on the go…

G700 in Mineral Grey - M (Judi Dench) can’t run MI6 without that 3G connectivity and touchscreen!

G700 - Mathis may have betrayed Bond, but it doesn’t mean that he has a poor choice in mobiles! Also the phone for the big baddie of the piece, Villiers.

W910 -The handset of choice for the CIA (apparently). Perhaps music shake control was a necessity for the spies in Langley.

G900 -Another Sony smartphone for new character Green.

W707 - this handset may have sadly been cancelled, but it will live on for all eternity on celluloid as the phone of new character ‘Elvis’.

What, no Xperia? It took nearly as long for the X1 to come to market as this movie took to make, so it could have easily snuck in there… I guess that nice limited edition boxset needs to sell some more C902s.

Sony phones and James Bond are actually quite a good fit, as this new ad shows!

Lenovo Presents P960, A Phone Fit For A Spy

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Now this is a phone suitable for a member of MI6…not that Sony C902! The hit laptop maker Lenovo has turned their hand to making mobiles with the P960, an seemingly very underwhelming handset.

Dual band, a very basic 1.3 megapixel camera, a built in MP3 player, a 2.8″ display, all sounds like a prime Pay As You Go handset from your local supermarket. However, there is a lot more than meets the eye with this stealthy device…

The Lenovo P960 has a (probably quite illegal) automatic recording feature which logs entire calls from certain VIP phone numbers, and prevents the wrong people accessing sensitive data with a biometric fingerprint scanner.

Not the most subtle way to prevent illicit texts from getting read by your significant other, Atrua Technologies have provided the high tech biometric reader on the side of the phone to prevent any such accidents from happening.

May be old hat security on a laptop, but Lenovo are obviously trying to target the discerning counter-terrorism agent about town with their first foray into the mobile phone market.

If you need a phone like this to keep your life in order and your surname isn’t Bourne or Bond, you might want to think about changing your line of work…or getting a less nosey partner.

James Bond/Sony C902: Not A Car Remote Control

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Not content with turning Casino Royale into the most product placement filled extravaganza since some other film full of product placement, Sony Ericsson will be continuing the James Bond love-in by releasing a limited edition C902 Titanium mobile phone.

Out in November to coincide with the release of the 22nd Bond movie Quantum of Solace, the new phone will be equipped with gadgets fit for MI6’s finest:

- a single level (WOW!) from a spy-style game. The rest? You’ll be paying for that.

- screensavers, wallpapers, and all manner of Bond-y stuff on a memory card.

- it’s titanium! Coloured!

So this phone which will commemorate the biggest gadget freak ever committed to celluloid, a man whose watch was also a steel cutting laser, who rocked an awesome jetpack, whose car turned into a submarine, has no special gimmicks beyond a dynamic screensaver.

The rest of the 5 megapixel snapper’s specs are largely identical, a good handset but not compatible with microfilm, which is disappointing.

Sony needs more good product placement like that guy in the Living Daylights who killed people with a Walkman. He was awesome. Also, where is my real James Bond phone which is also binoculars and gun and an electromagnet to take a sassy, strong, yet hopelessly smitten woman’s dress off?

Q would be ashamed.

Source: T3

What’s In A Mobile Phone Name?

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Whilst we were sure that Nokia’s steam-powered Differential Engine was on the blink when it spewed forth classic numbers like the 7210 and 6650 for the second time, apparently there is an elaborate science as opposed to a tombola for naming new phones.

Thanks in large part to the awesome resource for research that Wikipedia is, the Gadget Blog has shone light on the algorithms that go into choosing a number. The conventions that Sony Ericsson and Nokia utilise to stratify their mobile phones are looked at in detail, showing the difference between minutiae like a W850a and a W850i.

How interesting the article gets after the jump depends on how far down the rabbit hole you are prepared to go…

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