MWC: First Bada phone from Samsung – the Wave

Rating: Pitched as an affordable iPhone
Samsung’s proprietary mobile OS, bada, become a reality with the launch of the Wave. Priced at around € 330, this handset will be pitched as an affordable alternative to the iPhone in a £6 million advertising campaign.
Although bada was painted originally as an OS for the low end, the [...]

Vodafone quietly drops Zyb sync service

Rating: King Zyb is dead, long live King 360
Although Vodafone acquired the Zyb online backup and syncing service back in 2008, as from December 1st the service stopped accepting new subscriptions. That’s because the technology has been redeployed to form part of Vodafone’s 360’s ‘People’ application.
When GoMo News first tested the Vodafone 360 service in [...]

It’s lonely out there in Vodafone 360 world

Rating: Waiting for Vodo to launch more 360 clients
One of the benefits of Vodafone’s new 360 service is that you can keep track of what your chums are up to. There’s only one snag. At present the only mates you can track directly are other owners of the Samsung H1 360 phone.
GoMo News doublechecked this [...]

Struggles with Samsung H1 touch UI

Rating: Canalys report says I’m not alone
It says something about a user interface when you’re forced to trawl Google to look for the handset’s manual. Sadly, that’s what has happened with the Vodafone 360 H1. GoMo News has the correct URL is anyone’s interested here http://tinyurl.com/y9omelp.
You’ll need that URL because there’s currently a bugette on [...]

Vodafone promises 700+ apps on 360 launch

Rating: Biggest shock is that V 360 is cross handset platform and cross network
An ambitious plan to have at least 700 mobile applications up and running for the launch of Vodafone 360 was revealed yesterday [28th October 2009]. This contrasts sharply with the 243 apps which were purportedly available for the release of the first [...]

Vodafone’s 360 showcase handset teaser

Rating: Forgets to mention it’s the first Limo R2 phone
As Press preview announcements – such as the one for Motorola’s Android phone – are now making news, how about Vodafone’s attempt to lure hacks to view the Samsung H1? The H1 will showcase Vodafone’s new 360 Internet services for both mobile and PC environments.
Two days [...]

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