Vodafone UK launches its Vodafone 555 Facebook mobile phone with a bar-type form factor and QWERTY keyboard. Like HTC’s ChaCha and Salsa, the 555 has a dedicated Facebook button that lets you access Facebook directly and it streams news feeds directly to your homescreen. The Vodafone 555 features a 2.4-inch display, a 2 Megapixel camera with flash and video recording, FM radio, and Bluetooth. It comes with Opera Mini for easy web browsing. The phone is powered by 800MHz processor and supports external memory card. The Vodafone 555 Facebook Phone is priced at

Nokia freaks, this one is for you! Who doesn’t know you were all eagerly waiting for the Nokia E7 smartphone to make a retail appearance? The wait seems to be waning as Nokia UK has put the device on pre-order. With the device now getting official and placing itself on pre-order mode, let us get into a few more details. We hear the Finnish phone maker has clicked open pre-orders for the Symbian^3 slider phone and will get it ready for shipping by April. Oh, that means it is just round the bend! What do you expect to pocket once you decide to get hold of the device? Let us

When we say ‘March Release’ and ‘Vodafone’, we are obviously taking about Europe and Asia. There is still nothing confirmed by Samsung on who the carrier will be in the US for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 or when exactly will it cross the Atlantic. But with the Xoom set for a release shortly, it might be fair to expect a March release even in the US. For now it is certain that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is going first to Vodafone who plan to cash in on it starting March across the globe. This after the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 made its official debut at the Mobile World Congress 2011

We needn’t tell you how excited the tech world is with all roads leading to Barcelona at the moment. Even as the hype for February 13th builds, here comes a leak that has all in it to keep us engaged. It isn’t just one phone that has been leaked – a carrier inventory has been found in the wild as a whole and listed are many a device that are raring to go. Images of what appear to be the Vodafone inventory list have brought to the fore a handful of upcoming devices.  Among them are smartphones and also a tablet. We get to see the HTC Flyer, HTC Pyramid and LG Star Tab

The Google Nexus S will soon be available over the Vodafone network. An official confirmation in this regard has come about from the carrier and it has been announced that the carrier would be stocking the Google Nexus S worldwide. Vodafone has said that Google’s Nexus S will be offered direct through their stores. Made by Samsung for Google, the Nexus S smartphone was earlier available as an unlocked version at The Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy. The two retailers had started offering the device around Christmas. Vodafone, in the meanwhile, will be the first network to

In another shocking revelation that comes from Egypt on the communications front, Vodafone Egypt have revealed that they were forced to send ‘pro-government’ messages from their network to all their users by the authorities in charge. The statement comes from Vodafone Group PLC after people grabbed the screenshots of these messages and put them up on Twitter. In another attempt to curb free communication and use technology to their advantage (and may we say, a failed one) the government in Egypt impose the emergency laws under its Telecom Acts to force Vodafone to send

Remember the teasers of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc that had been spotted around the CES 2011 venue at Las Vegas last month?  The immensely attractive, ergonomically alluring piece of smartphone had then been presented as a slim handset, laden with a single-core Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a  4.2-inch touchscreen that packs 854 x 480 resolution. The Android  2.3 Gingerbread device is now being readied for release in the UK over the Three network. Carrier Three has confirmed that the phone with an 8 megapixel back-illuminated camera that sports HD capabilities

Yesterday, we had brought you the teaser video of the upcoming LG Optimus 3D handset. Now, the latest info suggests that the device is headed to Three and Vodafone in the UK. Three has confirmed that it will be stocking the Optimus 3D when it is launched in the UK later this year. Vodafone will also be offering the handset and is saying that it would be “selling the eye-popping smartphone as soon as it’s available”. But unfortunately, both the carriers have not given out any hints regarding an exact release date for the device. And as you might know, yesterday’s video

We have great news for our UK readers who are waiting anxiously for the arrival of the HTC 7 Pro handset on Vodafone. Expansys is now offering the new device and the phone will be yours for free provided you sign up for a contract with Vodafone. If you are buying the device SIM-free, the HTC 7 Pro will have a price tag of £459.99. But, if you are signing a contract, you could have the Windows Phone 7 handset for free for a 24 month period. The contract includes 500MB per month, 300 minutes and unlimited texts for £30.65. The retailer is saying that the new phone will be

Here’s something that would excite our readers in the UK! Your wait for the Dell Venue Pro is finally racing to an end. The Dell Venue Pro will finally arrive in the UK in just 5 days. Launch issues in UK had made the company delay the device from the earlier announced November date. With issues having been addressed, the phone will now make it to UK online retailer Expansys. The device would be available as a contract-free, unlocked version and would cost €439.99. The phone is also up for pre-order on monthly deals with O2, Orange and Vodafone for €26.81/month. The Dell