Palm to Announce Palm Pre Release Plan for UK Next Week

Kim Poh Liaw — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:21:11 +0000

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. The service provider could be either Vodafone or O2, both provides its mobile service with GSM network.

Earlier this week, Palm Pre GSM has been spotted in a Vietnam website, if you are considering a Palm Pre in the near future, check out this review on My Pre.

[via My Pre]

Vodafone UK Now Offers Twitter Updates via SMS

Kim Poh Liaw — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:22:13 +0000

Vodafone UK has signed an agreement with Twitter allowing customers to send updates to and receive SMS notifications from twitter. As of today, Vodafone customers will be able to receive text messages from people they choose to follow via SMS on Twitter and send text messages to a short code (86444) for their “tweets”, @replies, or to follow someone on the go.

The SMS updates posted on Twitter will be free of charge for the first few weeks from launch – then they will be part of customers’ bundles. After the free period regular charges will apply to customers without bundles but all text message updates sent from Twitter will remain free of charge.

“Mobile texting extends the power of Twitter’s real-time network in a simple but significant way,” says Kevin Thau Director of Mobile Business Development at Twitter. “Twitter is the messaging network you didn’t know you needed until you experience it over SMS.”

[via unwiredview]

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