Deal not going so smoothie? Orange’s exclusive deal to distribute the iPhone in France may not be as solid as claimed, with the handset strangely absent at the Apple Expo in Paris, and a French newspaper reporting that the revenue share details are still under discussion. Continued

Interview TI predicts market surge Rumors of the demise of Texas Instruments’ (TI) Hollywood mobile TV chip are exaggerated, according to Yoram Solomon, director of strategic marketing, industry, and standards at the company. Continued

One handset, two SIM cards Keeping your work and private calls separate without carrying two handsets around could soon be a real possibility. Samsung yesterday unveiled its DuoS D880 handset, which allows owners to use two SIM cards in a single phone. Continued

Will Head writes… RIM is soon going to be rolling out a version of its much prized instant email software that will run on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform. The company has offered similar functionality in the past through BlackBerry Connect,… Continued

Creates DRAM team Japanese electronics giant Sony has teamed up with German-based chip maker Qimonda to design dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips for consumer and graphics applications. Continued

Pictures claiming to have been taken on Apple’s forthcoming iPhone have tipped up on the internet. The image, showing a man tucking into some jam on toast, was spotted by Mobile Guerilla, after constantly typing taken with an apple iphone… Continued

Interview TI predicts market surge Rumors of the demise of Texas Instruments’ (TI) Hollywood mobile TV chip are exaggerated, according to Yoram Solomon, director of strategic marketing, industry, and standards at the company. Continued

Exclusive You and whose portal? Nokia is being handed a sharp lesson in business basics: don’t compete with your biggest customers. Continued

At a price Orange is to charge customers for extending network coverage into buildings with limited or no coverage, while still billing them for calls carried over their own broadband connection, according to the firm’s picocell strategy, announced today. Continued

Following on from Orange’s new pre-pay tariff yesterday, 3 has announced a new pricing structure for its Pay As You Go customers, with calls now from 5p per minute - the cheapest any network any time call rate available from… Continued

Vodafone aims to encourage customers to sign up to its family tariff by selling two Samsung C300s, or two Nokia 1600s, in a single bundle. The Samsung deal costs 75, and the Nokia deal costs 50. They’ll be sold in… Continued

The propaganda Not everyone wants - or indeed needs - a super phone in their pocket, loaded with features and raring to satisfy any and every multimedia whim at a moment’s notice. Some just want a decent enough camera, a… Continued

Mobile Clinic Your problems answered by the experts In our final mobile clinic, The Register’s resident experts return to provide their opinions on the questions you’ve raised. Continued

Is there anybody out there? A network glitch left Vodafone UK customers travelling abroad without data and voice connectivity this morning. Continued

Deal not going so smoothie? Orange’s exclusive deal to distribute the iPhone in France may not be as solid as claimed, with the handset strangely absent at the Apple Expo in Paris, and a French newspaper reporting that the revenue share details are still under discussion. Continued

At a price Orange is to charge customers for extending network coverage into buildings with limited or no coverage, while still billing them for calls carried over their own broadband connection, according to the firm’s picocell strategy, announced today. Continued

Vodafone aims to encourage customers to sign up to its family tariff by selling two Samsung C300s, or two Nokia 1600s, in a single bundle. The Samsung deal costs 75, and the Nokia deal costs 50. They’ll be sold in… Continued

Ready or not It may still be baking as a technology, but that hasn’t stopped Silicon Valley’s vanguard from trying to squeeze rich internet applications (RIAs) on to mobile devices. Continued

Red Herring has reported that Vodafone and Orange has blocked customers from using Internet telephony services such as Skype over their networks. Phones are being shipped that have specifically had their VoIP capabilities disabled. One such phone is the Nokia… Continued

Samsung has unveiled another smartphone - the SGH-i400 - which should debut in Europe sometime in late summer. It’s a slider handset, using the Symbian S60 operating system. Details confirmed so far include a two megapixel camera, dedicated MP3 keys,… Continued

LG recently announced a tie-in with Google, offering pre-loaded Google Maps, Gmail, and Blogger mobile applications with selected new handsets. And it looks like the first of these is the LG KS10. It’s a slim slider phone with HSDPA connectivity… Continued

Samsung has unveiled another smartphone - the SGH-i400 - which should debut in Europe sometime in late summer. It’s a slider handset, using the Symbian S60 operating system. Details confirmed so far include a two megapixel camera, dedicated MP3 keys,… Continued

Leaves flatlanders to T-Mobile France Telecom has sold its Orange NL operation to rival operator T-Mobile for 1.33bn, moving itself right out of the Netherlands market and leaving T-Mobile with hoped-for savings of 1bn once they combine the networks over the next six years. Continued

The propaganda Nokia is touting the N95 as a multimedia computer, rather than just a simple old phone. While that might be pushing it slightly, it’s certainly a feature packed handset. It supports 3G, HSDPA, GPRS, GSM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and… Continued

Orange is jumping on the talent show bandwagon, but on mobiles phones with Play-Off, which claims to offer the nation s never-ending queue of wanabees a platform to pit their talents against one another. You need to submit 10-15 second videos… Continued

The propaganda Nokia is touting the N95 as a multimedia computer, rather than just a simple old phone. While that might be pushing it slightly, it’s certainly a feature packed handset. It supports 3G, HSDPA, GPRS, GSM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and… Continued

We told you some time back that Vodafone had done an exclusive deal with YouTube. Well, now you can try it for yourself - as it’s just launched. Before you feverishly reach for your mobile handset to check out all… Continued

If you’ve been holding a meeting and found you’ve had to compete with the allure of mobile email for your colleagues’ attention, you’re not alone. A survey of senior executives found that 86 percent said it was common for people… Continued

If you’ve been holding a meeting and found you’ve had to compete with the allure of mobile email for your colleagues’ attention, you’re not alone. A survey of senior executives found that 86 percent said it was common for people… Continued

The propaganda VoIP may be great for keeping calling costs down - but it does mean you’re shackled to your PC by a headset, which doesn’t lend itself to long conversations. ZyXEL is hoping to change all that with the… Continued

Ireland’s State Examination Commission has come to the conclusion that we all knew already: the rise in text messaging is a contributing factor in the decline of writing standards. The emergence of the mobile phone and the rise of text… Continued

We told you some time back that Vodafone had done an exclusive deal with YouTube. Well, now you can try it for yourself - as it’s just launched. Before you feverishly reach for your mobile handset to check out all… Continued

Down-stream royalties hit choppy water The US Supreme Court will review a patent dispute between LG Electronics and a group of Taiwanese computer makers over whether various degrees of separation can exhaust licensing terms. Continued

Personal view The web in the palm of your hand We’ve already reviewed Apple’s iPhone, so why are we taking another look? There are several reasons. First, a different reviewer means a different opinion. That applies to any product, of course, but Apple’s claim that the iPhone is “revolutionary” perhaps justifies an alternative appraisal. Continued

Leaves flatlanders to T-Mobile France Telecom has sold its Orange NL operation to rival operator T-Mobile for 1.33bn, moving itself right out of the Netherlands market and leaving T-Mobile with hoped-for savings of 1bn once they combine the networks over the next six years. Continued