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This Friday, 20 November, all Vodafone customers can enjoy free international texts all day long.

All Vodafone customers  (Your Plan and Anytime price plans) will automatically benefit, you don’t need to do anything! All texts sent from the UK to international mobile numbers on the day will be free.

If you are a customer with text packs or free texts within your price plan you will also benefit, as no international texts you send on Friday will come out of your allocation/bundled texts

Happy texting

This year marks 10 years since a small Canadian firm named Research in Motion, launched the first BlackBerry.

Blackberry 5810

One of the first Blackberry wireless devices

In reality the device was a far cry from the smartphones  we so heavily rely on nowadays. This first BlackBerry was known as the Inter@ctive Pager and essentially that’s all it was, a simple pager device that allowed for two-way messages to be sent and received. Built for use over the very early 1G data network, they didn’t feature any voice capability so you had to carry around a normal mobile phone as well. In fact it was another 2 years until the first real BlackBerry phone was released and that was the “5810”.

The 5810 was a giant leap forward as now it allowed phone calls to be made therefore becoming one of the first “converged” devices around.At the time (2002), this was amazing technology and therefore attracted similarly high prices. However some early adopters couldn’t resist being able to have email facilities and mobile phone capabilities in one box (despite the brick like appearance) and the “BlackBerry”
was born into our lives and language.

New features were added, such as a calendars, tasks lists and of course games which took advantage of the large monochrome screens. In fact colour screens were not added until the 7000 series became available in the UK from 2004 onwards and even then it was only the slightest hint of colour on the strangely reflective screens.

Whilst other mobile phone manufacturers were equipping their devices to play mp3 ringtones and flash games, BlackBerry stayed true to its original ethos with its unique “push email” system, to this day the easiest and still the most secure way to receive your emails on the phone and indeed the industry standard within the Business sector.

As we embrace the newly launched Blackberry Bold 2 and Storm 2, with hi-resolution full colour screens, Wi-fi access, cameras and everything else we demand from the modern mobile phone, it is clear that the BlackBerry has come of age and really does tick all the boxes.

bb-curve-8520

After much anticipation, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 into the market.

Now available from OneStream, this is the new ‘affordably priced’ device from RIM which combines the successful Curve design template, allowing for secure email and with 3 multimedia playback buttons you can accompany those spare moments in the day with music or video.

One significant addition to the Curve 8520 is the new ‘trackpad’ which has been designed for fast scrolling though web pages, emails and documents. The new trackpad uses optical technology (like many modern computer mice do), allowing for “an experience similar to the trackpad on a laptop” according to RIM. The trackpad will perform the same function as pressing on the previous trackball, confirming a task or function.