Finally, the lauch date of the Palm Pre GSM has been announced week, which will be sold by O2 in UK from October 16th next month. The Palm Pre was the first webOS smartphone, it is already available in US via Sprint in CDMA version. continued »

Although the GSM Palm Pre was spotted in early this year during the Mobile World Congress, it looks like it will be finally launched by few service providers in Europe soon. The GSM version had already officially announced for UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain, and now the O2 Germany has put up the email notification page on their site. According to nimsso ... continued »

O2 has today announced My O2 for iPhone, an app designed to help make viewing the amount customers spend  their phones even easier. The app is now available as a free download on the Apple App Store. continued »

Samsung today announces that its Galaxy handset (i7500) is now available on the O2 network in the UK through the O2 network. Google services will be preinstalled on the i7500, including the Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and Google Talk. It also has an integrated GPS receiver meaning you can make full use of Google Maps to guide you in the car ... continued »

O2 today announces an agreement with Twitter which will allow O2 customers to receive SMS alerts from Twitter for free from August. The Twitter deal allows O2 customers to receive tweets from chosen friends, @mentions, and direct messages via SMS. They can also send and reply to tweets by text which will come from their bundle or be charged at ... continued »

Palm today announced that the Palm Pre phone is scheduled to be available initially in the UK, Ireland and Germany exclusively on the O2 network, and in Spain exclusively on the Movistar network. Both service providers will start selling the Palm Pre by Christmas and pricing for the phone has not yet been determined. continued »

300,000 units of Palm Pre, is what the analyst estimated on the sales result this week. Palm is said to have confirmed to deliver its Palm Pre to second service provider in UK and will announce the full detail next week. According to T3, the announcement will also include the date, price plan and selling price of the Palm Pre. ... continued »

O2 announced that its mobile broadband customers will have access to BT Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots, which can be used after an upgrade to O2’s Mobile Broadband Connection Manager software. The deal with BT Openzone offers an additional 3,000 hotspots (including most branches of Starbucks), and builds on the unlimited Wi-Fi all O2 customers benefit from with their O2 mobile broadband tariff. continued »

O2 today announced that the new iPhone 3G S handset will go on general sale from 8.02am on Friday 19 June in O2, Apple and Carphone Warehouse retail stores. The iPhone 3G S will be available from free on a variety of 18 and 24 month Pay Monthly tariffs with unlimited UK web browsing on the O2 network and Wi-Fi. It ... continued »

O2 today announces that from April 3rd it will introduce a new 24 month tariff option for its new iPhone customers. Customers who sign up to the 24 month tariff can get the 8GB iPhone 3G for free at £34.26 per month and the 16GB iPhone 3G for free at £44.05 per month. continued »