The Samsung Delve has come to Alltel Wireless and is available for pre-sale at Alltel.com as of the 30th of October. The Samsung Delve offers the user a touch-screen which is highlighted by a virtual QWERTY keyboard along with tactile feedback.

The Alltel Samsung Delve incorporates Samsung’s unique TouchWIZ interface with specially designed widgets which allow the user to customise and personalise the Samsung Delve whereby the user can drag and drop widgets onto the main screen.

The Samsung Delve also offers up a 2.0 megapixel camera, MP3 player, Alltel Mobile Advisor, Alltel Pic Transfer, City Id, Bluetooth, Collapse Chaos and Wallpaper Universe, 3.5 millimetre headset jack, and microSD and all for $199.99 after a $100 rebate, and will be in retail stores as of November 6th.

Source – slashphone

Three complaints made about a recent ad campaign by Vodafone have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Agency; said complaints related to Vodafone adverts which promoted Vodafone’s mobile broadband service.

The main reason was the boast that Vodafone offered “The fastest, most reliable mobile broadband in the galaxy. Only £15 a month.” A member of the public along the 3 and T-Mobile made the complaints stating that Vodafone has no right to claim to be the fastest mobile broadband operator.

The Advertising Standards Agency requested LLC International to find out if Vodafone’s claims to be the fastest held any substance, the result was LLC International found competitor broadband services were actually faster than Vodafone’s for downloading a page in 6 out of 10 regions.

Source – pocket-lint

Verizon Wireless must be jumping with joy as finally the Department of Justice has given its approval for Verizon’s $28 billion deal to purchase Alltel Communications subject to required divestitures of wireless assets in 100 markets and across 22 states.

Assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division, Thomas Barnett, said: “The divestitures required are necessary to protect wireless customers and are among the most extensive required by the department in a wireless case.”

The Department of Justice has said the divestitures will cover the entire states of North Dakota and South Dakota, sections of Arizona, Alabama, California, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, and major areas of Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Montana, South Carolina, Utah and Wyoming.

Source – RCR

Vodafone has announced its plans for the RIM BlackBerry Storm along with pricing for the European BlackBerry Storm, below you will see four of Vodafone’s Perfect Choice 100, 200, 400, and 600 plans expected to be on the BlackBerry Storm.

First the Perfect Choice Access 100 plan offers the BlackBerry Storm for €109.99 with a monthly fee of €49.99 with 100 minutes, 100 texts, mobile TV, 10 music downloads and 1GB of BlackBerry email.

Next is Perfect Choice Access 200 which offers 200 minutes and 200 text but data remains unchanged and costs €64.99 per month with the BlackBerry storm costing €64.99

The Perfect Choice Access 400 offers 400 minutes and 400 texts with same data for €84.99 per month and the handset will cost €69.99.

Finally the Perfect Choice Access 600 offers 600 minutes 600 texts, same data and at €99.99 per month while the BlackBerry Storm will cost €49.99.

Source – mobilewhack

Opera Software, who distributes the Opera browser across multiple platforms, is apparently being blocked from becoming a version for the Apple iPhone by Apple not allowing the Opera iPhone app into the Apple App Store.

Mr. von Tetzchner said that Opera’s engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won’t let the company release it because it competes with Apple’s own Safari browser.

This could be something to do with the Javascript interpreter, or Apple restricting applications which compete with their built in iPhone applications such as Safari. With Apple restricting apps, especially alternative browsers, iPhoner will probably not be seeing an alternative such as FireFox anywhere on the Apple App Store very soon.

Source – nytimes

A special time for music loving iPhoners out there in Apple iPhone world, as Apple iTunes may finally be seeing the Beatles coming its way. The word is The Beatle’s label Apple Corps is to join MTV for a London based announcement to unveil plans to bring the Beatles catalogue to the Rock Band video game.

This is more than MTV scoring the world’s most valuable music catalogue, it actually signals a shift by Apple Corps to embracing digital distribution, and this could well mena the possibility of new discussions with Apple Inc with a view to bringing the Beatles to the iTunes store.

In the past, the Beatles label has held back from going digital, while there has always been animosity between Apple Inc and Apple Corps which has probably put a block on this move, maybe now the Apple iTunes store will soon be able to offer iPhoner’s the Beatles catalogue.

Source – cnbc

The great American presidential election got to give it to our buddies stateside they sure know how to put on a show. The bottom line is it’s a face off between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.

And as this is the modern age those presidential candidates are utilising whatever methods they can to scrape in the votes, and it seems the Obama camp has now launched an official application for the Apple iPhone which will obviously be for Obama supporting iPhoners.

In retaliation, a 3rd-party unofficial program has come out on the republican side in support of John McCain and there is a video you can view below.

Source - iphoneworld

Apple iPhoners that have MobileMe subscriptions have been waiting for Apple to finally get their push-email service up to scratch and in line with most of Apple’s top line products; and the constant struggle to find a silver lining in MobileMe is beginning to ease as Apple techs refine the service.

In trying to improve MobileMe for the Apple iPhone and Apple iPhone 3G, Apple has implemented a few side server updates which should now make the MobileMe experience more enjoyable for the iPhoner.

According to Apple these side server updates should improve experience when viewing Galleries on an iPhone/iPod touch…improve localization for MobileMe web applications…and resolve an issue when attempting to Reply All to some messages.

Source – Apple

On October 29th one hundred music fans embarked on the biggest FanWalk in history, which is the Sony Ericcson FanWalk to the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008. The FanWalk will cover 400 kilometres from London to Liverpool between October 29th to November 6th and to arrive at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

One hundred music fans were selected from three thousand applicants who went through a vigorous casting stage to locate the most passionate, creative, and dedicated music fans available.

One lucky FanWalker will receive the opportunity to go on stage at the MTV Europe Music Awards to present an award to one of the famous music acts.

Got to give it to Sony Ericsson for being extremely inventive with marketing campaigns as I’m sure the media exposure will be immense.

Source – intomobile

Phone Giant BT (NYSE:BT) shares plunged 20 percent due to the warning the company issued warning share holders regarding poor performance in its global services unit. BT Finance Director Hanif Lalani will be the new Global Services divisions head after the resignation of Francois Barrault.

Group chief executive Ian Livingston said that BT’s global service division results “are particularly disappointing” he also added that the quarterly earnings for the division of some £120 million would be “significantly below expectations”.

Mr Livingston made it clear that they acknowledged the unsatisfactory performance in the group and that they will be committed in taking decisive action to rectify the situation, adding that the they will also speed up plans to implement cost efficiency plans for the division.

Analysts from Cazenove said that BT is likely to remain depressed for a while so they now have to make the move to underperform.

BT shareholders will be concerned about the risks of the ailing UK economy and what effect this will have on BT’s future operational performance, also in recent months the pension schemes funding position looks like it’s taken a sharp hit. In morning trade shares in BT were down 29p to 112.8p. We will see BT’s half-year results on November 13.

Source: BBC