Opera Software announced that its Opera Mini browser will now be pre-installed selected phones through service provider O2’s “Internet-to-Go” initiative. O2’s “Internet-to-Go” will be available on several models with both pre-installed or over-the-air (OTA) versions of the Opera Mini browser. The Samsung U900 Soul will launch mid-summer with the pre-installed version and as early as late July with the OTA version. Opera Mini will be O2-branded featuring a customized skin and pre-set bookmarks.

“Partnering with a leading operator such as O2 is an important step to expanding the Opera brand in Europe. It brings the full Internet experience to millions of cell phone users in Germany,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “We hope to build on our relationship with O2 in the future and use this success to continue to bringing mobile customers across the Europe the most complete Internet experience on-the-go.”

Opera Mini will first be available on the following products:

• Samsung U900 Soul
• Samsung U800 Soul b
• Sony Ericsson C902
• Sony Ericsson C702
• Sony Ericsson W760i

Opera Mini will be available on the following phones over-the-air:

• Sony Ericsson K800i
• Sony Ericsson K850i
• Sony Ericsson W880i
• Sony Ericsson W890i
• Sony Ericsson W910i
• Nokia 6233
• Nokia 6280
• Nokia 6500 classic
• Nokia 6500 slide
• Samsung U700
• Samsung U900 Soul
• Samsung Z400

With wide spectra of advanced features, the new O2 XDA IIi mobile phone has come into the mobile market. The device is very light and user friendly and is also very much helpful when it comes in doing office works that include document ...

I must say I am getting slightly irritated by O2, and their complete and utter lack of a product roadmap. As many of you know I've been after the HTC Touch Pro since before it was announced. Catherine has had the HTC Touch Diamond for nearly two weeks (from Orange). Which when I was in Newport this week obviously checked out quite extensively. The short review: Much better than my expectations. The Touch Pro, is essentially the Diamond, with a hardware keyboard, microSD slot and bigger batter

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If you tried to pre-order a 3G iPhone this morning only to find out you couldn't, don't worry -- it seems like you weren't alone. We spoke to O2 to find out what the dilly-o was

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If you are in love with the Xperia X1 high resolution display screen, you might want to take a look at this O2 XDA Vista too. Reported on it168 chinese website, O2 XDA Vista will be available in China soon with a selling price of around 500 USD.

With a similar design as the Toshiba G900, it has a 3-inch WQVGA display screen at 800 x 480 pixel. Powered by the Intel XScale 520MHz cpu, the O2 XDA Vista will also has a standalone NVIDIA GoForce 5500 GPU. According to the NVIDIA GoForce info, the NVIDIA GoForce 5500 is able to delivers a host of multimedia features, including:

• able playback H.264, WMV9 and MPEG-4 video up to D1 resolution at 30 frames per second (fps)
• Compatible with major mobile TV standards including DVB-H, ISDB-T, and DMB networks
• include surround sound processor to deliver an immersive audio experience in the palm of a hand
• 3X the 3D performance of the previous generation2
• Sharp, crystal clear digital photography
• Rapid multi-shot capabilities so users never miss a photo
• Support for up to 10 megapixel resolution
• Ultra-low power consumption
• Dedicated low-power hardware design delivers more hours of entertainment on the phone with less drain on the talk time

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O2 will deliver the iPhone 3G for free to the U.K. The plans are fairly reasonable £45 for the 8GB and £75 for the 16GB. The 8GB plan is. The £75 monthly for an extra 8GB of storage seem a little exorbitant. For Germany, T-Mobile has a one-Euro plan, whch will set back Germans 89 euros each a month.

I wonder whether O2 isn’t pricing the 16GB iPhone 3G too high with the £75 bundle? Sometimes these contracts bundled with the iPhone doesn’t make much sense. Take the Rogers 3-year sign-up. Being the only GSM provider in Canada, what difference does it make if it ws for 3 years, 2 years or a year?

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The latest mobile phone from O2 is the new O2 Ice mobile phone that holds together a range of modern features that make the use of this device more interesting. Ranging from better Internet connectivity option to Bluetooth and GPRS, ...

Swisscom has launched a new mobile TV network using DVB-H, called Bluewin TV. Meanwhile, O2 and the BBC are reportedly interested in using the MediaFLO based TV network that Qualcomm is looking to establish in the UK.
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The new LG Secret has today been released on O2
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Motorola sticks to its word in its plan of creating a new line of product that would amaze its consumers and be at par with the success of the Moto Razor. With the launch of the Moto's RIZR Z10 from O2, cell phone fanatics would definitely be curious of what this phone has to give.

Well, it looks like 3G iPhone is definitely coming in June.

First - no vacations for AT&T store employees until July, second - the "next month" hint on Monday, third - the upcoming 1 year anniversary, and now this: according to O2's CEO, the anticipated handset will be launched in "...

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Want a 3G iPhone? You might not have to wait much longer. O2 has apparently run out of iPhones, which could mean it's getting ready for a new model

O2 became the exclusive carrier for the new Motorola RIZR Z10 cell phone.

Luckily, once the limited launch period is finished, other carriers will also be able to pick up this handset.

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The latest RIZR series mobile phone from Motorola has been launched as an O2 exclusive handset.
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A new Silver edition of the Samsung U900 Soul has today been released on O2 in the UK
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O2 has picked up the new Palm Treo 500, previously an exclusive to Vodafone.

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After first launching on T-Mobile, the Samsung U900 Soul has now been released on O2 in the UK.
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O2 Wireless's prepaid arm in the U.S. will soon begin selling the Alcatel E206a. The E206a is one of the first phones from Alcatel to be sold from an MVNO in the U.S. It is a dual-band GSM bar-style ...
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O2 Wireless is getting a breath of fresh air with the addition of the new Alcatel OT-E206a phone.
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Available initially for existing customers only, O2 will launch its mobile broadband service today, becoming the last major UK operator to do so

The mobile operator has slashed the price of Apple's 8GB phone to £169, fuelling speculation that a 3G version will be launched this summer

Believe it or not, it looks like British carrier O2 decided to cut a whole £100 from the 8GB iPhone bringing the price down to £169 not depending on the wireless plan you choose.

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Compared to the original O2 XDA Orbit, the O2 Xda Orbit 2 adds some much needed oomph. It won't blow you away in the looks department but it's got it going on underneath the bonnet. If you need to stay connected and have a penchant for getting lost, then this GPS-enabled smart phone might be the perfect match for you

Ericsson and Napster announce the largest European hosting contract for Napster Mobile, with O2 UK. O2 UK's customers will be able to search, browse, preview and purchase full-length tracks from Napster's immense catalog of over 5 million tracks and play them on their mobile handsets and PCs.

With my recent travels I've been a bit slack on blogging about the XDA Orbit 2 that O2 (via VCCP) kindly sent to me recently. A few of my blogger friends are also on this seeding program and have reviewed in depth so I thought I would take a slightly different view than give you an in depth technical assessment. Besides, when it comes to the software I'm biased :) For informed views from others, check out reviews from the likes of Being Lucy Diamond, Blog Til You Drop, Darren Straight, Keit

TrustedReviews has done a review on the O2 XDA Orbit 2 PDA phone, which is the successor of the XDA Orbit. Powered by a Qualcomm MSM7200 400MHz processor, the Orbit 2 has 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM. It comes with integrated GPS chipset and antenna and supports 3G / HSDPA connectivity. The XDA Orbit 2 has a 2.8-inch LCD touchscreen, a 3 Megapixel camera with Auto Focus, Bluetooth, WiFi and a microSD card slot. The phone runs the Windows Mobile 6 OS with TouchFLO technology. TrustedReviews‘ com

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U.K. phone network O2 announced today that it has partnered exclusively with online music vendor Napster to provide a la carte, over-the-air music downloads to O2 customers, direct to their mobile phones. Napster's entire 5 million-track catalog will be available for download from this weekend ...

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This newest candy bar shaped cellular phone features a sleek and stylish new look. The Xda Atmos features a QWERTY style keyboard upon opening the device as well as 3G capabilities for saving all the data you have just typed up with your QWERTY keyboard. Users can also count on being able to capture all those priceless moments with their 2 mega pixel camera that comes standard with this new smartphone.

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The O2 XDA Atmos is an HSDPA capable Windows smartphone with a somewhat unusual keypad arrangement that sets it aside from the competition.

The new Xda Atmos for O2 is now available. The Atmos sports quad-band GSM/EDGE support as well as tri-band UMTS/HSDPA high-speed 3G support. It has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard as well as a 2 megapixel camera, and even supports WiFi.
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The XDA Orbit 2 is O2's version of the HTC Cruise and from the little time we've spent with it, we think it's out of this world (Haha! Ha. No?).Combining aspects from the HTC Touch and HTC P3300 -- aka the original XDA Orbit -- the Orbit 2 offers email, high-speed Internet on the go and GPS with CoPilot 7 navigation software.

O2 just got the nod from Apple to distribute the iPhone in Ireland beginning March 12. It remains to see whether the iPhone will be receive the same hyped-up reception that U.S. iPhone did. To tell the truth, iPhone Europe was pretty lackluster and the Irish are not exactly known to be big spenders on tech.

This is waht O2 will be offering iPhone subscribers: 8GB model for €399 (US$600) and a 16GB model for €499 (US$750). Subscribers could buy their iPhones from Carphone Warehouse or O2 stores. There will be three tariffs on offer starting from €45 for 175 minutes to €100 for 700 minutes. These include anytime minutes, text and 1GB of data.

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I have had the Xda Orbit 2 for a few days now and have used it for car navigation. I am not going to review the phone or list the specifications - other sites have already done this. Instead, here are some more thoughts… I find the touch screen slightly insensitive. You have to press hard compared to most PPCs I have used. CoPilot works very well and is an able replacement for my stand-alone TomTom. The only quirk is that when you go the wrong way it nearly always tries to take you back the

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Better all round as the iPhone contracts surprisingly become some of the best value on the market.

Today O2 announced it's introducing a new pricing structure across the network, which will see six new, apparently simpler, tariffs and free voicemail made available to all existing and new customers from 1 February. This tariff restructuring will also affect the current iPhone tariffs, giving existing users on the cheapest £35 per month contract three times more minutes (600) and double the number of texts (400).

As I mentioned when I joined IntoMobile, occasionally I will be writing commentary or editorial on various areas within Mobile. Today it’s the turn of O2, with their Broadband offering - yes, those tentative steps towards convergence are occurring apace within the industry (as you might or might not know, O2 bought Be - an ADSL2+ Broadband provider). I actually ordered O2 Broadband about 2 weeks before Christmas - the idea being that whilst I was off from work (and having a baby!), that it w

This is the stylish latest edition in Motorola’s MOTORIZR series, the Motorola Z8, the first multimedia mobile phone to bring high definition video and high fidelity radio. With this superb mobile phone you will find in the box a FREE 512MB memory card along with a full length feature film of the Bourne Identity for you to enjoy at your leisure. You will also find a set of S9 stereo Bluetooth headphones which will allow you to connect with your mobile device wirelessly. The Motorola Z8 has a 2

This is the O2 XDA Trion mobile phone a sharp and stylishly designed mobile in stunning silver with one of the best brains you can find and backed by Windows Mobile 5.0 which allows you to view and edit Microsoft Word and Excel documents and check out PowerPoint presentations, and the use of WiFi and 3G keeps you in control. The O2 XDA Trion has a large touch screen which provides access to all its features; however you will also find that the Trion has a slide out QWERTY keyboard as well as a

Samsung's new M110 "Solid" cell phone will soon be available in the UK.

It has a rugged exterior, which only makes the phone look durable, but besides the design the M110 has nothing spe...

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