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Global smartphone market is set for recovery, says new forecast

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Vodafone and Three plan to merge their UK businesses

Vodafone and Three plan to merge their UK businesses

New Hutchison/Vodafone network would be biggest UK operator

Vodafone Group plc and CK Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings Limited have agreed to combine their UK telecommunication businesses, respectively Vodafone UK and Three UK. The merger will create a large new network operator to compete with Virgin Media O2 and EE.
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UK mobile payment service Paym to close in March 2023

UK mobile payment service Paym will close on 7th March 2023. The service, which allowed users to make and receive payments using their mobile phone numbers, was launched in 2014.
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Qualcomm legal action moves forward in the UK

Qualcomm legal action moves forward in the UK

Which? seeks payout for Samsung and Apple smartphone owners

Consumer protection organisation Which? has been given permission by the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal to represent Apple and Samsung smartphone buyers in a legal case against chip manufacturer Qualcomm.
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Friday, February 18, 2011

This week at The Fonecast: 19th February 2011

Mark Bridge writes:

This week has been dominated by the media frenzy that is Mobile World Congress. James Rosewell and I were at MWC for all four days… but even a podcast every day wasn't enough to include all the news, so expect more reports from us next week.

Sunday night saw product announcements from Samsung and Sony Ericsson. If that didn’t make the evening busy enough, the ShowStoppers showcase invited us to meet the great and the good… along with the small and the new.

On Monday we packed in LG's 3D mobile phone and more about Samsung’s new devices, MACH's innovative roaming billing, the future of Symbian, the Wholesale Applications Community and listening to Steve Ballmer.

Our adventures on Tuesday – included in Wednesday morning’s podcast – centred on privacy and personalisation, with help from Qualcomm, the Mobile Marketing Association and Eric Schmidt’s keynote speech.

The following day we talked about a mixture of platforms and products, covering MeeGo, webOS, ViewSonic and Motorola Mobility.

And we rounded things up yesterday with an application focus, thanks to C-CallerID, Nuance FlexT9 and Cortado’s mobile printing.

Other product news this week came from Acer's new tablet range and HTC’s Facebook phones, not forgetting flagship devices from Huawei and ZTE. Talking of Facebook, Gemalto has managed to squeeze it onto a SIM card – a solution that’ll probably go down very well in markets where smartphones are hard to find.

Anyway, that’s it. Mobile World Congress is over for another year. And next year it’s moving to the last week of February, which means the event will no longer clash with Valentine’s Day. Still, a picture message is almost as good as being with your loved one, isn’t it?


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