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Satio & Aino pulled off the shelves

thehumanmanual — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:35:25 +0000

Satio & Aino pulled due to software issues

The troubled manufacturer Sony Ericsson once known for its excellent reliability and camera technology has been plagued by software issues which has seen its latest devices pulled off the shelves by both Carphone Warehouse & Phones 4U. Both devices have been reported the be suffering from software issues ranging from freezing to the device resetting itself.

Sources close to Sony Ericsson told Mobile that morale within the company was low and another said that this set back is going to kill them. Sony Ericsson have lost market share and 3rd place to other manufacturers and was hoping that the launch of the Q4 devices – Satio and Aino would help them to regain some of that market share and help to put the company back in to black.

The retail staff are becoming reluctant to selling Sony Ericsson’s because of the massive issues with software surrounding them. Staff remembered the C905 and the K850i both of which were flagship devices and they too had some software troubles.

A spokesperson for Sony Ericsson has stated that they are working extremely hard to resolve any issues and hope to have the handsets back on sale very soon.

Samsung! Watch who's copying who

thehumanmanual — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:00:13 +0000

Well here’s some news that probably won’t surprise you as we know that as soon as LG launch a new handset Samsung aren’t that far from launching something similar if not almost identical. Samsung have now launched the World’s slimmest Watch phone which has stolen the crown from their South Korean rivals LG.

The S910 will launch with The Carphone Warehouse in Ireland initially and we doubt it will drum up much interest or not as much as the LG GD910 which launche recently with Orange’s high end feature store in London. To get your hands on the world slimmest watch mobile phone you’ll need to part with â‚¬399.99 oh and you’l need to jump over to Ireland to get it.

Carphone get's MiFi'd

thehumanmanual — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:56:58 +0000

CPW offer MiFi

Mobile communications specialist The Carphone Warehouse will launch a new mobile broadband offering called MiFi which will be bundled in with a Dell laptop for around Â£400.

What is MiFi?

MiFi is a new product launched by Novatel which will enable up to 5 WiFi enabled devices including mobile phones, laptops, netbook, etc to connect to your very own mobile WiFi hotspot. The credit card sized gadget has an expandable slot for MircoSD HC memory cards up to 16GB which will allow you to share files more easily whilst on the move and according to Novatel the gadget also has built GPS.

The device known as the MiFi2352 plugs into your laptop via a USB connection and then connects to the internet with just one click through the Connection Manager. Just like the new style dongles, no CD is necessary, just simply plug and play. It requires to be charged and will give you 4 hours worth of internet surfing joy with connection speeds supported up to 7.2Mbps and uploading of up to 5.76Mbps.

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