Posts Tagged ‘o2’
Windows Phone 7 Irish launch round-up »
Microsoft has officially unveiled its new phone OS - Windows Phone 7 - with three handsets (compared to 10 in the US) running the platform to be available in Ireland in time for Christmas. All three devices have a lot in common - not least because of Microsoft's strict rules about minimum specifications. For example all three run on a 1GHz ...Read On »
HTC HD7 coming to O2 in Ireland »
HTC have announced that their HD7 smartphone - which runs on the new Windows Phone 7 OS - will be available exclusively on the O2 network in Ireland. The handset - which is a follow-up to the behemoth that was the HD2 - will be the company's first to run on the new Microsoft platform and is part of a deal with the network that also covers ...Read On »
Competition: Win a Sony Ericsson Vivaz »
To help mark Teic.ie's first year in existence Sony Ericsson have kindly given the site a slick Vivaz phone to give away to one lucky reader. The touch-based handset boasts a 3.2in HD touchscreen, an 8mp camera, plenty of storage space, Twitter and Facebook integration, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and much more. The device is currently ...Read On »
iPhone 4 to launch in Ireland on 30th July »
The iPhone 4 should be on sale in Ireland on the Friday 30th July, if Apple CEO Steve Jobs is to be believed. Until now Irish customers - along with those in a number of other countries - have been given nothing more than a vague 'end of July' time-frame and this is the first time a precise date has been officially confirmed. At the time ...Read On »
Three announce plans to announce iPad plans »
Three mobile has announced that it will announce dedicated iPad price plans in the coming weeks - though it has so far given no indication on what they will look like when they do. At present there is no exact release date for the iPad in Ireland with Apple saying nothing more than 'late July'. This is later than originally intended but the ...Read On »
O2 clients can leave without a penalty fee »
Bill-pay customers on O2 have a rare opportunity to leave their contract without penalty thanks to some little-known European legislation. The network recently announced call tariff changes and, under EU law, it is required to give customers the option of leaving their agreement as a result. The rule is part of a 2003 regulation on ...Read On »
Irish Apple Store offering sim-free iPhone »
The Apple Store update that brought the new unibody Mac Mini has also given Irish users an interesting option - a sim-free 8GB iPhone 3GS. The device costs €499 direct from Apple - €20 cheaper than the pre-pay version from O2 and Vodafone (though their versions are 16GB rather than 8GB). The iPhone 4 is also now listed on the Irish ...Read On »
Three to offer iPhone this summer says report »
Three mobile will start selling the iPhone in Ireland this Summer, according to a report in The Sunday Business Post. The phone, which was originally only available on the O2 network, has recently gone on sale from Vodafone and is rumoured to soon have a third carrier. The report carried in yesterday's edition of the newspaper says talks ...Read On »
Xperia X10 to be available on O2 next month »
Sony Ericsson's new touch-screen smartphone, the Xperia X10, will launch on the O2 network in Ireland early next month. The phone will be available to customers from 8th April and will be free for some, assuming they sign up to the right bill-pay package. The X10 is latest of many Xperia handsets released by Sony Ericsson in the past year ...Read On »
Vodafone to carry iPhone from 25th March »
Vodafone Ireland will offer the iPhone to its customers from 25th March as O2's exclusivity deal comes to an end. Vodafone had previously announced that they would carry Apple's successful smartphone late last year but no launch date has been set until now. When it arrives Vodafone's iPhone will be available at a number of price points, ...Read On »
