Mobile Phone Insurance News

Sources close to Apple (makers of the very popular mobile phone – the iPhone) are predicting they are going to launch an Apple TV service and an iTunes video rental service.

They are due to hold a media event on the 7th September to announce new products, according to reports.

The annual event, held in San Francisco, has become a platform for launching new products in recent years.

The prediction is that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will unveil an updated version of Apple TV to be previewed at the event, a new iPod Touch and an iTunes video rental service.

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Apple are not allowing the iPhone mobile phone to be part of the UK’s first green ranking scheme for handsets, according to reports.

The scheme launching today, gives mobile phones a ranking of 0 to 5 based on their environmental credentials. Major manufacturers such as Samsung, Nokia and Sony Ericsson have already signed up to join.

An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on why the company had decided not to join the scheme, but highlighted its environmental reporting online.

The green scheme, which will launch in partnership with Forum for the Future, will assess handsets based on the environmental impact of their raw materials, manufacturing processes, packaging, energy efficiency and ease to recycle.

The good news is that no matter what the green ranking of your mobile phone you can still insure it here at www.insurance2go.co.uk. We offer mobile phone insurance on all phones at only £4.49 without loss or £5.99 including loss. We also give you 3 months free in the first 12 months.

The global mobile phone app market was worth £1.4 billion during the first half of 2010, this is more than the total value for the whole of 2009 according to a new report.

Mobile market research specialist Research2Guidance estimates the smartphone app market was worth £1.1 billion last year, meaning the first half figure for 2010 has already gone passed that.

The number of smartphone applications downloaded has also beaten the 3.1 billion recorded over the whole of last year and has reached 3.9 billion in the first half of 2010.

Research2Guidance’s Global Smartphone Application Report 2010 also found the average price paid for applications reached £2.31 in the first half of this year.

Research2Guidance said its results show the app market is continuing to gain momentum as more smartphone users get direct access to app stores. It predicts more specialised app stores to come on line in the future.

A spokesperson for Research2Guidance said: ‘Apple’s competitors like Nokia and BlackBerry started to leverage their global reach and increased the traffic on their app stores’.

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15% of over 65s say they like to break major news to their friends and family by text message using their mobile phone. 71% say they regularly keep loved ones updated by email.

Nearly half of the same group of people questioned said they would send good news by text message, with 24% saying they prefer to text when they have bad news to break.

The main reason for this is that the more mature person can plan what they are going to say and then use their mobile to send the message.

Facebook is not just for the younger generation either, with research showing that 4% of the over 65s saying they regularly sent big news by this method of communication.

An expert in all this sort of stuff has said – ‘Advancements in technology over the last 20 years mean how we send and receive news is different across all generations’.

The same expert then said ‘It’s not just teenagers who are sharing life changing news by text, those in their 60s have become more at ease with this form of communication, and prefer in some situations to break big news in one simple, short message. In many cases, this is because they can keep in close contact with those who have grown up with texting as the norm’.

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The founder of JAG Telecom, John George, is to leave the mobile phone industry after 21 years.  George set up the JAG Telecom chain fo shops and at one point it was the largest independent chain of mobile phone shops in the country behind Phones4U and The Carphone Warehouse with 100 stores.

The 75 stores will pass to Go Mobile, run and managed buy Iain Humphrey, who also runs the Shebang in store Epos and stock management system.

The operations will move from Perranporth in Cornwall to Daventry. Sadly some people in Cornwall will be made redundant as a result of the closure of the Perranporth office.

Both parties have said that the move is amicable and they hope to have all the details finalised by the end of the month.

George has said that he is considering setting up an Air Taxi business but wil leave the mobile phone industry for good.

O2 are to launch a new business product called International Favourites sometime in mid September.

The product involves two add on products; the first at £8.51 a month allows business customers to call three international numbers at no extra charge, for an extra £17.02 per months the customer can call upto five numbers at no extra charge. The numbers can be international landline or mobile numbers.

Customers can also benefit by setting up one inbound ‘Call Me’ number so contacts in an overseas country can call a customer in the UK at their local rate.

International Favourites is compatible with all 2010 and 2008 mobile tariffs as well as My Business, Best for Business Pay and You Use and Mobile Extension.  An O2 spokeswoman said: ‘The launch date of International Favourites isn’t yet confirmed but we expect it to be mid-September.’

The move comes after a raft of changes to O2’s business tariffs and bolt-ons – the second of its kind this quarter. The B2B market is still seen as vital to all the network operators who all try to be more competitive than the others to attract business from this lucrative market.

The same goes for mobile phone insurance - our B2B rates are excellent and more and more business customers are taking out policies with insurance2go.co.uk to protect their high end Smartphones.

The repairs outfit Regenersis have won the contract to become LG’s ‘Care Centre’ for the UK. The dedicated call centre will be at the companies Huntingdon facility and offer support for all LG’s products including mobile. The support will be manned by 50 operators and offer support by phone, email and webchat. Over half a million enquiries are expected every year.

CEO of Regenersis; Gary Stokes said: ‘The solution we are delivering to LG demonstrates the breadth and depth of our service offering. Our strategy to focus on delivering total solutions in the after-sales market is yeilding significant results.’

Strong support is vital for companies, especially  companies based in technology. Our support team are available in office hours and offer ful suppport to our customers who have taken out a mobile phone insurance product with us.

BelAir networks have launched the picocell which is a small outdoor unit which delivers mobile broadband and is a fraction of the cost to install compared to that of erecting new masts.

The units could be a cost effective way to solve the problem of lack of capacity which is causing the network operators headaches with the incredible rise in the use of Smartphones.

The units are very flexible in where they can be put, posts, street furniture, the side of buildings or even underground.

Thus far using smaller boosting stations has presented three issues for network operators, firstly lack of power, locations and backhaul requirments. The new unit get around these issues.The units can help mobile or cable companies route traffic. It can route traffic straight to the 3G network or the Wi-Fi function can direct traffic to the networks 3G core or finally the Wi-Fi can be used to send traffic to the internet bypassing the 3G network altogether

Vodafone, the UK telecoms giant,  have launched a Wi Fi product that allows a PC to become a Wi-Fi conduit for up to five users. The unit fits into a PC or Laptop and allows five users to log onto the surf the internet.

It is ‘free’ on an 18 month contract of £25 per month which includes 5gb of data. The device is called, somewhat blandly: Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi (R201).

A spokesperson for Vodafone said: ‘More and more devices are coming with Wi-Fi capability and there is a demand for consumers to connect on the move’.

The Carphone Warehouse launched a similar device from Novatel called ‘Mobile Hotspot’ operating on Vodafone and t-Mobile. 3 have had a product out since September 2009 called ‘Mi-Fi’ (Best name).

Orange iPhone uers lose unlimited data

Orange have become the second UK operator to drop the offer of unlimted data for iPhone users. O2 dropped the offer in June of this year. It means that users might face a higher bill in future if they go over the standard limits of 500mb or 1gb. Would it be cynical of us to ask why this move was made on a Monday in the middle of the holiday season in August?

All the network operators are under pressure to upgrade their networks to make sure that customers can use their mobile devices as often as possible.

The increase in Smartphone use has put pressure on capacity of the networks as more and more people use their handsets to download information from the internet.