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UK mobile phone operator sees major data theft

A UK mobile phone operator has seen a data leak of millions of records from thousands of customers, the information commissioner has revealed.

Staff at one of the UK's major mobile phone companies sold on the customer information to other phone firms, Christopher...

Limited "unlimited" claims should be banned

Lawyer: Mrs. Simpson, what did you and your husband do after you were ejected from the restaurant?

Marge Simpson: We pretty much went straight home…

Lawyer: Mrs. Simpson, you are under oath!

Marge Simpson: We drove around until 3AM looking...

T-Mobile and Orange 50:50 joint venture finalised

The deal that will see Orange and T-Mobile merged in the UK to form the biggest mobile phone operator has been finalised.

Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have now signed the final agreement to combine their respective UK operations into a 50:50 joint venture...

Who'll be selling the Motorola Droid in the UK?

We've been doing a little bit of digging to find out who, in the UK, will be offering Motorola's forthcoming Droid handset. The Android 2.0-sporting QWERTY slider scored a whopping 9/10 in its Pocket-lint review, but given that it's supposed to be due on Friday in the...

T-Mobile to offer BlackBerry Bold 9700

T-Mobile has announced it will be offering the BlackBerry Bold 9700 online and via telesales from 6 November and in T-Mobile stores across the UK from 10 November.

The Bold follow-up is a slimline QWERTY handset with HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, BlackBerry's...

T-Mobile to offer "HTC Touch HD2" with Android Market

It appears the HTC HD2 has found a home with a UK operator as T-Mobile has revealed via its website it is to offer the new device.

The new Windows Mobile 6.5 handset offers a 4.3-inch multi-touch display, speedy Snapdragon processor, 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi,...

VIDEO: Flip does a T-Mo with flash mob dance on Bondi beach

Pocket camcorder brand Flip has emulated T-Mobile's popular Liverpool Street Station dance event with a similar effort in the decidedly more sunny setting of Australia's Bondi Beach.

Performed as part of a promotion for the launch of the Flip Mino HD video camera,...

T-Mobile to offer Comes with Music Nokia 5800

T-Mobile and Nokia have announced the launch of a "Comes with Music" handset with the introduction of a special chrome version of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

Angled as perfect for music-lovers, the Nokia 5800 Comes with Music lets customers download unlimited...

T-Mobile Pulse now available in the UK

Said to be the first pay as you go Android-based smartphone, the T-Mobile Pulse is now available to buy in the UK for £179.99.

A Huawei-made handset, the new Pulse is an HSDPA device, packing in Wi-Fi and GPS while around the back is a 3.2-megapixel autofocus...

"Most, if not all" Sidekick data now recovered

In a happy, if unexpected, twist to the Sidekick data-loss fiasco, Microsoft has confirmed that it's managed to recover pretty much everything.

Roz Ho, Microsoft's VP of Premium Mobile Experiences, posted on the Sidekick forums that the company has managed to...

"Thousands" of iPhones on 3

There are "thousands" of iPhones running on the 3 network across the UK, a spokesperson for the operator has told Pocket-lint.

The comment came in response to our query following a report from The Telegraph that all five mobile carriers in the UK are currently...

Google introduces quick search box for Android

Google has written a blog post and put together a video about one of the biggest new features that comes with the Android 1.6 update (better known as "Donut") - the Quick Search Box. This is a system-wide search engine for your device, meaning that it can look through...

Sidekick data lost in server crash

Danger, the Microsoft-owned company which produces the T-Mobile Sidekick, has admitted that it's managed to lose every single scrap of data that was being held on its servers. For good. Everything. Contacts, calendars, photos, to-do lists - if they're not locally backed...

HTC Magic to eat Android 1.6 Donut update within days

Vodafone has confirmed that HTC Magic customers in the UK will be getting the latest Android OS update on Monday 19 October.

"Donut (Android 1.6), the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, is making its way onto the HTC Magic, with the UK...

Donut rolling out to US MyTouch users

T-Mobile's US branch has put out a press release that gives details of the rollout of Donut to owners of the G1 and the myTouch 3G - the latter of which is known in the UK as the HTC Magic. The company says that it's accelerated the rollout of the update after reports...

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition takes wooden approach

T-Mobile has announced that it will be launching a wooden myTouch 3G in connection with Guitar maker Fender for the Holiday season.

Called the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition, the handset, which is supposedly "perfect for music lovers", is a reskin...

Microsoft Windows Phones: What phones are available

Microsoft has officially launched Windows 6.5 or Windows Phone to you and me on Tuesday, but what phones can you get with the new operating system and what phone can you upgrade?

If you've already bought a HTC Touch Diamond II, HTC Touch Pro II, HTC Snap S552...

T-Mobile G2 HTC update released

T-Mobile has finally released the firmware update for its T-Mobile G2 handset in the UK HTC has confirmed.

Although Orange customers have been using the new Orange HTC Hero firmware update for over 2 weeks for their version of the HTC Hero, T-Mobile customers...

T-Mobile US to sell Android-equipped Samsung Behold II

Samsung has announced another Android handset to follow up the Galaxy i7500. It's called the Behold II, and as far as we know for the time being, it'll only be available in the US - carried by T-Mobile US. As well as Android, it'll carry Samsung's TouchWiz UI.

T-Mobile offers free Recycle Guide mobile app

T-Mobile has launched a new mobile application, the Recycle Guide, which it says "takes the confusion out of what you can recycle and where, both at home and on the go within the UK".

The app offers users info on exactly where the nearest recycling points...

T-Mobile offers mobile broadband gift bundles

In time for Christmas, T-Mobile has unveiled mobile broadband "gift packs" with 3- and 12-month bundles available.

The bundles include a T-Mobile 150 mobile broadband USB stick and "unlimited" browsing for a single payment.

However, a glance at...

Orange HTC Hero ROM update out

HTC has released a ROM update for Orange customers using the newly launched HTC Hero.

Although the official HTC update has been available for almost a week for Hero owners who bought the phone outside of an Orange or T-Mobile contract in the UK, the two UK...

Carphone Warehouse details MiFi products

Carphone Warehouse has detailed the mobile Wi-Fi, or MiFi range it is now offering.

Creating portable Wi-Fi hotspots, the devices can connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices to the Internet at any place, any time and without any need for dongles or other software...

Orange and T-Mobile holding back HTC Hero update

Following our post about HTC releasing its ROM update to UK HTC Hero owners, we were inundated with a hail of comments saying that the software update - which promises considerably improved performance and touch-to-focus functionality for the camera - wasn't available for...

T-Mobile/Orange gunning for the iPhone

A top Orange exec has said that the recently announced merger with T-Mobile will give the new network a "huge advantage" in bidding for the iPhone, as well as other high-end handsets.

Apple's iPhone is currently offered exclusively through O2 in the UK, but...