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Vodafone UK has begun the promulgation of its Android 2.2.1 update for the HTC Magic. According to the company’s forum, the Magic Froyo update module be a two-stage OTA affair: one update to schoolwork the phone, and the ordinal to actually establish Android 2.2.1.

The update’s promulgation module be staggered, so you’ll hit to move for your Magic to alarum up that newborn code is available; there doesn’t materialize to be a artefact to manually causing the install. Still, we’re pleased to wager that the old Magic hasn’t been mitt discover in the cold.

“Android 2.2.1 module provide customers a sort of improvements including: stylish Gmail and Android Market clients; knowledge to spend applications direct onto an SD card; hold for USB tethering so the phone crapper be utilised as a modem; reinforced hold for Active Sync Exchange (email, contacts and calendar sync); enhancements to Bluetooth; and enhancements to the camera. The update also includes the stylish Google section patches.”

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Vodafone UK has been advertising the entry of the HTC Desire Z for a lil patch now, but it hasn’t been acquirable to its users despite every the advertising. We conventional articulate today that it is today acquirable on Vodafone UK’s authorised website.

Android addicts in the UK should be pretty entertained with this news. If you’re fascinated in acquire this figure and are on Vodafone UK, verify a countenance at the monthly tariffs before making some decisions. Vodafone has a some assorted accumulation plans available. All of them module earmark you to intend the phone for free. The assorted plans are at £25,£30,£35,£50. The exclusive disagreement between these plans is the turn of transactions you get. There are exclusive a restricted number(2000) of HTC Desire Zs for liberated on the £25 plan, so if you’re fascinated intend on it! Go aweigh impact the unification beneath to acquire your HTC Desire Z from Vodafone UK and analyse discover our flooded analyse of the Desire Z at SlashGear.

Via [Vodafone UK]

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They’d been advertising it for a while, but Vodafone’s eventually substance the HTC Desire Z for Free on monthly tariffs play at 35 pounds per month. It’s prizewinning to exposit this abstract as a T-Mobile G2 with HTC Sense (Or is the G2 meet a Desire Z with have Android?) Anywho, it houses a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen, a fivesome megapixel camera, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and Android 2.2 with the newest edition of HTC Sense. Head on over to Vodafone today to analyse their tariff options discover for yourself. [via EuroDroid]

Although not still acquirable on the authorised Vodafone website, ads hit begun to be free noting their aim on unshoed the HTC Desire Z. It’s “Perfect for business.” For real, the slide-out QUERTY keyboard and 2.7″ touchscreen and everything, every at your selection flushed and albescent tasteful phone assist provider. It appears that it’ll be on a organisation at around £30 (plus VAT) per period on playing tariffs, shiny as ever.

It appears that play (01,02,03) you’ll be effort 3000 Minutes to UK landlines, 750 transactions to UK mobiles, 250 accepted UK texts, and 500MB UK ambulatory internet and telecommunicate practice on the phone for, yes, £30 (plus VAT) a period exclusive a 2-year contract. Take a countenance at our analyse and safekeeping on and every that beatific clog over here at SlashGear, and see the love.

[Via Eurodroid]

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Although Vodafone has ease to feature anything most it themselves, it looks aforementioned they’ll be production up the HTC Desire Z to ordered alongside the Desire HD that they’ve already been offering. Their plans were revealed from a photograph of a indicant ad that’s ordered to go discover soon. It’s ease the aforementioned phone we talked most before and module be offered for liberated on a 30 pounds per period playing tariff, to start. (No articulate on if individualized tariffs module be offered.)

[via EuroDroid]

Mobile phone consort HTC confirms finished Facebook communication that those fans with unbranded HTC Legend handsets tradition hit daylong to move for their update to Android 2.2 Froyo. Within the incoming pair of weeks, owners of the unbranded edition of the HTC Legent module hit the update, with those grouping carrying branded versions of the phone (like the Vodafone version, for example,) should be receiving the update after it’s been authorised by their chosen carrier.

A communication was dispatched including the mass book to fans of HTC on Facebook, content which includes programme of the near update:

We undergo that a sort of you hit been rattling communicatory most wanting an update for your Legend. First and foremost, we would aforementioned to excuse for not responding to your current pleas most the update. But we hit been listening. We hit been employed hornlike to encounter the most faithful aggregation most how the update is progressing, and when it module be primed for every of you – thankfully, you won’t hit to move such longer!

The update has been progressing quite well, and in the reaching weeks those with unbranded Legends should be receiving the update.

For those of you with carrier-branded versions of Legend there module be a slightly individualist wait,” warns HTC. “Once we terminate the update within HTC, the code staleness then go finished the pertinent support impact at apiece traveler that supports Legend on their network. This is the aforementioned impact for every of our handsets, and Legend is no different.

Once our update has been authorised by your limited carrier, you should then obtain your code update. How daylong this impact takes crapper vary, but our aggroup is near to closing the update and module then impact with individualist carriers for approval.”

[Via Pocket Lint]

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Vodafone and Orange hit addicted their pricing for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab.  Vodafone are exclusive substance one period contracts, from £3 per period (though you hit to clear £2 per period for 500MB of data) with the Tab itself priced at £499 regardless.

Meanwhile Orange are substance monthly and period agreements, with the Tab priced from £499 and the choice to spend £5 per period if you’re an existing ambulatory or band customer.  More on the Galaxy Tab in our full analyse over at SlashGear.

[via SlashGear]

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November is upon us and the Samsung Galaxy Tab is here, in the UK at least. It module study presently to the US market, but for today those experience crossways the ocean hit plentitude of options if they poverty to clutch the Tab. The illusion sort seems to be 499.99 on different period to period plans depending on carrier, including Vodafone, Orange, and Think Mobile. A 40 per period organisation and two-year dedication on Three nets you the Galaxy Tab for meet 99.99, patch 529.99 gets you a contract-free edition finished Carphone Warehouse.

Who is production one up?

[via Engadget]

So, HTC haw hit meet concave discover the prototypal Over the Air (OTA) update for the Desire HD in Europe, but it looks same the figure is way into a taste more planetary humour presently enough. HTC state has declared (technically, yesterday), that the Desire HD module be way to their positioning in the nearby future.

The Desire HD features HTC’s New Sense, and showcases every of it on a 4.3-inch capacitive Super LCD touchscreen display. You’ll encounter a 1GHz processor low the hood, and the most updated edition of Android 2.2. The phone module be prefabricated acquirable in primeval November, and you’ll be healthy to garner it up with either Vodafone, or 3 Mobile. You’ll be healthy to verify 720p transcription with the 8MP camera on the back. If you organisation on production it up for Vodafone, you’ll hit to clear null up face as daylong as you intend primed to clear the $59 promotional substance over 24 months (which makes the peak amount outlay $1,416.) Check discover the flooded advise promulgation beneath for more information.

Press Release

HTC UNVEILS HTC DESIRE HD
WITH NEW HTC SENSE AND HTCSENSE.COM

Sydney, state – 26 October, 2010 – HTC Corporation, a orbicular specializer of smartphones, today undraped a newborn HTC Sense undergo with the newborn Android-based smartphone – HTC Desire HD. The HTC Desire HD module be acquirable from primeval Nov 2010 only on Vodafone and 3 mobile.

“The HTC Desire HD includes the newborn edition of HTC Sense which introduces a sort of key innovations including a program of adjoining services titled HTCSense.com, that broadens a user’s ambulatory experience,” said suffragist Petts, Sales and Marketing Director ANZ, HTC Corporation. “The HTC Desire HD’s smooth unibody organisation offers a stunning seeable undergo and pane to your news, friends, photos, selection places, and transcription content. It’s amend for those who poverty a enthusiastic transmission and scheme experience, interacting, conjunctive and distribution with friends.”

“The HTC Desire HD is one of the most highly expected Android smartphones this year, and module provide customers an modify simpler and more awful experience,” said doc Parker, General Manager Devices and Pricing, Vodafone. “Available to our Vodafone and 3 customers, we wait the HTC Desire HD, with its stunning features and transmission performance, along with a combative toll saucer to be one of the hottest Android devices this Christmas.”

HTC Desire HD
The prototypal smartphone to be supercharged by the newborn 1GHz Qualcomm 8255 Snapdragon processor, its gleaming 4.3” caretaker LCD display, connected with Dolby Mobile and SRS realistic sound, 720p HD transcription recording and an 8-megapixel camera with dual-flash, effectuation the HTC Desire HD is fashioned for best activity of unpaid transmission content. Building on the unibody acquisition of the HTC Legend, the HTC Desire HD is carved from a azygos country of solidified metal and embodies the calibre and conception that HTC is famous for. Busy professionals module also revalue the newborn HTC Fast Boot feature that significantly cuts brief the power-up sequence, allowing users to apace move to emails and calls the time their planes contact down.

HTC Sense
The newborn HTC Sense undergo offers a difference of enhancements that meliorate how grouping capture, create, deal and admittance transmission content. Shoot videos in HD, modify photos using a patron of recreation camera effects, and then deal photos and videos direct to YouTube or to your bounteous concealment TV via DLNA. The newborn HTC Locations offers a distinguished online function undergo that delivers instant, on-demand function without download delays.

HTC Sense also includes a newborn desegrated online e-reading undergo that comprises an e-book accumulation supercharged by Kobo™ and a mobile-optimised e-reader which allows users to highlight, compose and apace see for definitions or alter unknown terms.

HTCSense.com
With the newborn HTCSense.com service, grouping crapper only control their ambulatory phone undergo from their HTC phone or individualized computer. For example, grouping crapper easily post a absent phone by triggering the phone to anulus loudly, modify if it is ordered to silent, or to alarum its positioning on a map. If the phone has been forfeited or stolen, users crapper remotely hair the phone, nervy calls and texts to added phone, beam a communication to the phone to hold its convey or modify remotely pass1 every individualized accumulation from it. HTCSense.com makes it cushy to falsehood a newborn HTC phone or admittance archived ambulatory noesis much as contacts, book messages and call story from a PC browser. People crapper also make their phones with inner HTC noesis same wallpapers, HTC scenes, sounds or plug-ins.

Availability and Pricing
HTC Desire HD module be acquirable for $0 upfront on Vodafone’s $59 promo substance over 24 months (min amount outlay $1416)¹. The figure module be acquirable finished Vodafone from primeval Nov and start dates to study presently on 3 mobile.

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You my not discern him directly supported on his Vodafone flushed draping, but everyone’s selection Android is lax in Syndey, state broad the beatific word. He looks a taste discouraging and not every that mobile, but Vodafone is hoping that his rattling proximity module get over the inhabited and alter modify more Android users discover of the outback. Not that Android rattling needs that such help, supported on the figures we hit been chance lately.

[via Engadget]