Andy Conway, Head of Radio Engineering at O2 UK, recognises how O2’s research resounds with today’s mobile data study from Cisco.

According to an announcement from Cisco this morning, world-class devices and changing customer behaviour will drive the equivalent of one billion DVDs of content over our mobile networks by 2014.

This seems a considerable and startling amount, but when you make a direct comparison with voice call traffic volume, it becomes understandable.

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Apple’s baby might finally be growing up

Bigger iPhone already?

Those looking forward to the iPhone nano will be disappointed to hear that the next Apple mobile might actually be bigger.

iPhone repair site iResQ has posted photos of what it ‘believes’ to be the next case for the fourth-generation iPhone – and it’s bigger than the Apple template we’ve been used to.

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And that’s all she wrote

Android – sweet tooth

The next version of Android will be codenamed ‘Gingerbread‘, although details of the actual feature set of the next version of the mobile OS remain a mystery.

Google’s sweet food themed codenames have caused widespread amusement, and the theme has now continued with Gingerbread.

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The best and the brightest in the card payments industry gathered in London on Tuesday 2nd February for The Card Awards. And it turns out 02/02/2010 was definitely O2’s night.

The Card Awards, set up to recognise customer service, excellence and innovation in the UK and Irish card payments industry, held their annual awards at Grosvenor House last night. Hosted by Rhod Gilbert, the awards were given out to companies who shook up the market and really wowed the judging panel.

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Another phone aimed squarely at the mid range

The Samsung Monte S5620

Samsung has announced the launch of the new Monte S5620 mobile phone for the UK.

A 3-inch touchscreen device with a widescreen QVGA capacitive display, this phone is once again about making social networking on the go a simple task.

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And that’s just in December alone

Adobe and Apple’s tiff rises up once more

Adobe has announced that it has received a huge number of download requests for Flash on the iPhone OS platform.

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Orange and London Transport Museum today announced that they will host a live debate on the value of connectivity and its impact on Britain. Taking place on 3 February 2010, a panel of some of the UK’s leading commentators will debate how our lives – both at work and at play – will change, as technology continues to remove boundaries and gives us greater flexibility to live, work and travel the way we want to.
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