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Talk Talk – the network people love to complain about: Ofcom

September 22nd, 2011 1:56pm 2 comments

Talk Talk - the network people love to complain about: Ofcom

TalkTalk has emerged as the most complained-about broadband and phone services provider in the UK, according to the latest data from industry regulator Ofcom.

The dubious honour was bestowed on them after the company attracted the most complaints over the period from April to June, 2011, while Virgin Media kept their customers the happiest, attracting the fewest complaints.

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Orange Monte Carlo budget smartphone serves up 4.3″ of Android love

July 1st, 2011 9:30am 3 comments

Orange ready Android Monte Carlo smartphone (aka ZTE Skate)

We’ve long been spreading the cut price love for Orange’s long reigning Budget Belle, the ultra cheap San Francisco, and the network looks set to unleash another bargain Android handset in the shape of the Monte Carlo.

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Glastonbury revellers risk ridicule with Orange’s recharging t-shirt

June 20th, 2011 11:03am No comments

Glastonbury revellers risk ridicule with Orange's recharging t-shirt

As more corporates become deeply entrenched with the Glastonbury Festival every year, mobile phone network Orange have unveiled an interesting new way to get their branding all over the site, courtesy of innovative – and quite possibly pointless – way for festival bog dwellers to charge up their phones.

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02 crowned as fastest mobile broadband, Orange squashed

May 26th, 2011 12:38pm No comments

02 crowned as fastest mobile broadband, Orange squashed

O2 has romped home to bag the glory of being the fastest network for mobile broadband, according to the results of a new study by telecoms regulator Ofcom.

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Bag a baguette in double quick time with a Quick Tap NFC mobile

May 20th, 2011 12:18pm No comments

Bag a baguette in double quick time with a Quick Tap NFC mobile

It’s been a while coming, but Orange and Barclaycard have now launched their combined NFC mobile payments system called Quick Tap, which lets users quickly buy stuff from stores just by slapping down their phones.

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Rolling monthly contracts: what’s the best UK SIM-only data deal?

April 21st, 2011 1:09pm 2 comments

What's the best UK data hungry monthly rolling mobile tariff?

With our lengthy mobile contract finally coming to an end and a wide selection of juicy Android handsets looming up, we decided to take a look around to see what kind of deals we could find in the meantime.

We wanted to keep our handset for a bit, so were looking to see what great SIM-only deals we could get, while keeping our options open by only committing to a rolling one month deal.

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Motorola Atrix gets UK pricing on Orange exclusive

April 18th, 2011 3:19pm No comments

Motorola Atrix gets UK pricing on Orange exclusive

Motorola’s intriguing new high end ATRIX smartphone is set to cartwheel into the UK in early May, and will be exclusively available on the Orange network.

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Orange San Francisco Android handset: yours for just £89.99 at Argos

February 22nd, 2011 3:14pm No comments

Orange San Francisco Android handset: yours for just £89.99 at Argos

The Orange San Francisco handset was already incredible value for money at under a hundred quid, but Argos has sweetened the deal further with a ten per cent price reduction, thumping the price down to just £89.99.

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Orange UK offer £199 iPads on two year contracts, other networks to follow

November 29th, 2010 2:00pm 1 comment

Orange UK to offer iPad on 24 month deals

If you’re lusting after an iPad but money’s too tight to mention, then Orange UK is hoping to tempt you into the world of tablet Nirvana by offering a shiny 3GiPad for £199, so long as you sign your life and soul away on a £27 per month, two-year contract.

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Orange intros Mobile Wi-Fi modem for connecting up to five gadgets

November 3rd, 2010 2:48pm 1 comment

Orange intros Mobile Wi-Fi modem for connecting up to five gadgets

Sporting a name that manages to be less snappy than the elastic on Billy Bunter’s ten year old Y Fronts, Orange has announced the Novatel Wireless 3352 Wi-Fi modem.

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Orange HTC 7 Mozart and Samsung Omnia 7 handsets go on sale

October 20th, 2010 5:45pm No comments

Orange HTC 7 Mozart and Samsung Omnia 7 handsets go on sale

Orange has announced that its first two Windows Phone 7 handsets, the HTC 7 Mozart and Samsung Omnia 7, will be ready for your purchasing pleasure tomorrow morning (Thurs, 21st October).

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Orange customers get T-Mobile’s network for free – and vice versa!

October 6th, 2010 8:09pm 1 comment

Orange customers get T-Mobile's network for free - and vice versa!

Orange customers who can’t get a signal can now use any available T-Mobile network connection for free – and vice versa – as part of the two company’s ‘Everything Everywhere’ merger.

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Are you getting the Orange HTC Desire Froyo update?

September 22nd, 2010 2:07pm 56 comments

Orange HTC Desire Froyo update finally rolls out

According to the busy-Tweeting Conor from Orange, the long overdue Android Froyo 2.2 update has started to roll out to their HTC Desire customers.

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Orange ‘San Francisco’ Android PAYG phone: 800 x 480 OLED for £99!

September 21st, 2010 2:08pm 5 comments

Orange 'San Francisco' Android PAYG phone: 800 x 480 OLED for £99!

Aimed straight at the budget end of the market, Orange UK has announced the curiously monikered San Francisco, which is the company’s first own-branded Android phone.

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T-Mobile HTC Desire Android 2.2 update arrives

September 19th, 2010 9:02pm No comments

T-Mobile HTC Desire Android 2.2 update arrives

Vodafone were first off the mark, offering HTC Desire owners on their network the much anticipated ‘Froyo’ Android 2.2 update back in August, and now T-Mobile has followed suit.

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