Virgin prices BlackBerry Q5 at £20pm for existing customers

 

MVNO’s customers using its other services will pay £5 a month less and receive 200 minutes, unlimited texts and 500MB of data, as well as unlimited calls and texts to other Virgin users

Virgin Media has announced that its TV, broadband and home phone customers can get the BlackBerry Q5 with a bundled deal starting from £20 a month.

The MVNO’s existing customers who choose the smartphone will get £5 off their mobile tariff, unlimited calls and texts to other Virgin Media mobiles and insurance worth £799 a month.

The Starter tariff costs £20 a month for these customers and comes with 200 minutes, unlimited texts and 500MB of data. Calls to UK landlines are included in the total minutes.

The most expensive tariff, VIP, costs £30 a month for existing customers and offers unlimited mobile minutes, landline calls, texts and data. All are subject to customers signing up to a 24-month contract.

Non-Virgin Media customers will receive the same allowances but pay £5 a month more.

Twelve month contracts are available and cost £10 a month more. Alternatively, the Q5 costs £259.99 on prepay.

The Q5 follows the Z10 and Q10 smartphones to run the BlackBerry 10 platform, which launched in January.

Similar in appearance to the Q10, it has a 3.1-inch touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard. It features BlackBerry Time Shift, which lets users take a range of photos and choose the best one, and BlackBerry Story Maker to enable users to create a story and join together multimedia into a film.

It also includes BlackBerry Messenger, which since the launch of the new platform, lets users have video conversations and share screens.

Virgin Media director of mobile Jamie Heywood said: “We’re delighted to offer the BlackBerry Q5 smartphone on our market-leading VIP tariff. There are even more incredible deals, exclusively available for Virgin Media broadband and TV customers, who won’t find a better offer elsewhere.”

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New BlackBerry A10 handset details leaked online

Leaked internal memo appears to show  full specifications of new BB10 handset (full details enclosed) 

BlackBerry is readying the launch of its next BB10 smartphone, the ‘BlackBerry A-10′, according to a leaked document posted online this week (see attached image below).
The post, which appeared on the dedicated BlackBerry news website ‘CrackBerry’, shows a slide said to have come from the Canadian firm, listed as ‘confidential’ and should only be shown ‘under NDA’.
The slide provides full specification of the next instalment, which follows the Z10, Q10 and Q5 all released this year.
Features according to the document include a five-inch screen, NFC, 4G capability, BB10.2 OS, 16GB internal memory expandable by 64GB, 8 megapixel camera (2 megapixel front facing), quad core processor.
BlackBerry declined to comment on the story, stating it does not comment on rumour or speculation.

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iPhone 6 M design release would prompt hate mob

One of the most important factors to think about when it comes to the iPhone 6 expected to be announced in 2014 is the design, and if Apple ever decide to release the shape we have here for you would surely get the hate mob on its back.
We know for sure the iPhone 5S will be coming around September time, but as for the iPhone 6 this we are sure will come some time in 2014. The iPhone 6 M concept design shown below is just pure crazy and even looking at it for 20 seconds sends shivers down our spine, might as well call it the iPhone 6 Sci-Fi.
The iPhone 6 will most definitely come with a specs bump and the design will be dramatic, but please Apple do NOT go this far.




This mentalist iPhone 6 concept mock-up was designed by M, and funny enough this Apple smartphone is called the iPhone 6m. The corners have been removed to provide a wacky shape that looks nothing like the iPhone, ok we want change but this would be the wrong change.
Futuristic yes, classy no! The sharper angles on this design looks ghastly and we would love to know if you agree or not, the iPhone 6m does not have the physical Home Button and the volume and power buttons   have been replaced by sensors, which is a move Apple should consider


Getting rid of the buttons in favor of sensor buttons is a must; the iPhone 6m is also said to feature dual face speakers, four speakers in fact with two on the front and two on the bottom
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Other specs on this new concept include an 18-megapixel camera on the rear, 20 percent thinner than the iPhone 5, new panorama feature, special low-light mode and something called ring flash for cool lighting effects.
  ? Would you like the official iPhone 6 shaped like the 6m concept    

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iPhone electrocutes bride-to-be, Galaxy S4 injures teen

A couple of recent incidents have seen phones catching fire or delivering electrical shocks while in a pocket or charging, injuring a Swiss teenager and killing a 23-year-old Chinese iPhone owner.
In Abu Dhabi, Sarah Shurrub, the owner of a Samsung Galaxy S4, awoke in the small hours to look after her toddler and found the charging phone burning, Emirates 24/7 reports.
No other damage was caused in the incident, which occured last month. Samsung has agreed to replace the phone.
More recently, Swiss teenager Fanny Schlatter was shocked when her S4 caught fire in her pocket -- the melted phone pictured above -- leaving her with second- and third-degree burns on her thigh, according to L'Essentiel.

Chinese woman electrocuted 

And in a separate tragic incident, 23-year-old flight attendant Ma Ailun was electrocuted in her Xingiang home while answering her iPhone 5 after getting out of the bath, Reuters reports. She was due to marry next month.
Ma Ailun's family say the phone and accessories were bought in an official Apple Store. Apple says it will investigate the incident.
A shock of 36V can kill, but mobile phones alone can't generate anything like that kind of level. A damaged charger can -- like any damaged electrical device -- produce a shock though. We're pretty fond of you guys, so don't handle your gadgets with wet hands, keep an eye out for damage, and don't forget to insure your stuff.
Stories of phones exploding or catching fire have been with us since phones first met pockets, but it's worth pointing out they're not always what they seem. Sometimes people just don't want to hold their hands up and say, "Yup, I put my phone in the microwave."
Has your phone ever spontaneously combusted or broken in an unexpected manner? Tell me your thoughts in the comments or on our Facebook page.

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India may ban Android over adult content

With instances of frisky content allegedly available for free via Android applications in India, the country's Telecom Minister, Kapil Sibal, has reached out to the media for suggestions on how to deal with the issue:

“I want you people to suggest how can we close it. If we want to close it, you will attack us. I want all the media to come together and tell the minister how to deal with it so that if I do something about it, you don’t attack me” 

This comes after the Indian government recently came under fire for censoring certain websites for their adult content. With porn already endangered, it does appear that an extreme measure such as an eventual ban on Android is not out of the question, or so it seems.

Groundless? Google seems to agree. According to Indian iGyaan, a spokesperson for Mountain View stated that its policies do not allow any content that contains nudity or any sexually explicit material on its Play Store:

“Google Play developer programme policy does not allow content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. Google has a zero-tolerance policy against child pornography; […] Similarly for Android, we offer content filtering. Google Play requires developers to label their applications according to the Google Play ratings system, which consists of four levels"

If that is indeed true, then the culprit has got to be third-party app stores that are known to host content indiscriminately of its nature – an issue, however, hardly warranting the ban of the world's most popular mobile OS in the third biggest smartphone market

Source: iGyaan

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BlackBerry reportedly cutting Q10 and Z10 production by 50%

It seems that the hits just keep coming for BlackBerry. The company was already in a troubling position after it watched Android, iOS, and even Windows Phone eclipse it in the marketplace. By the time BlackBerry 10 made its debut, the company was fighting an uphill battle. Its latest earnings reports were disappointing, and now it seems that the company has had to cut production of handsets by 50%.

The news is coming from Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek who is saying that BlackBerry has had to cut production of the Q10 and Z10 handsets from 2 million devices per month to just 1 million per month. Apparently, this is a reaction to "poor May Q sell-through", although Misek had expected the move sooner, because BlackBerry had raised build plans even after seeing the troubling May numbers. 

Recently we've seen the BlackBerry Z10 price being cut, but CEO Thorsten Heins has brushed that off as being a normal part of the device life-cycle. With the next flagship BlackBerry A10 expected in November, it's far too early to be slowing production in preparation for a new device, so it will be interesting to hear what Heins has to say on the production cut news.

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