UK network O2 will begin to offer the highly anticipated Android powered Samsung Galaxy handset on their network from this month.

Revealed in the July issue of their phone catalogue, the Samsung Galaxy phone will be the first Android phone to appear on the O2 UK network.

The handset is already available in Germany, and is expected to launch across other European countries in the next few months.

The Samsung Galaxy phone will also mark the first Android phone from Samsung and will feature a 3.2 inch AMOLED touchscreen, 3.5mm audio jack, a 5 mega-pixel autofocus camera (with LED flash), and an impressive 8GB of internal memory with additional MicroSD card support.

Pricing for the Samsung Galaxy is expected to be announced shortly.

[via Android Phone]

The Carphone Warehouse have today launched their exclusive offering of the Titanium Blackberry Curve 8900.

Available on the O2 network, the Blackberry Curve 8900 Titanium will set you back £35 with free handset and 600 minutes and Unlimited text free.

BlackBerry Curve 8900 packs a 65K color landscape TFT display with the nicely sounding resolution of 480 x 360 pixels. It has quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support as well as Wi-Fi connectivity and a built-in GPS receiver. The Blackberry Curve 8900 will be powered by a huge 1400 mAh battery which should provide quite impressive power autonomy.

[via The Carphone Warehouse]

Virgin Media have today unveiled their new 50mb broadband internet service. The new service will give customers the capability to download movies in minutes and albums in just seconds.

Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett described the service as “a step change in how we access the internet,” underlining that “this is not something happening tomorrow. This is happening today.”

The new 50mb service comes complete with an N-wireless router capable of downloading a 1GB movie in just 3 minutes.

As if 50MB wasn’t enough Berkett also revealed that a 100MB service is in the works thanks to their advanced fibre optic network.

“This is a revolution,” he explained, “and Virgin Media will lead it. It’s interesting that within weeks of us talking about 50Mb our competition announced that, in 3-4 years, they would be in a position to compete.

“We’ve taken the risk. We’ve spent our money. We look forward to the competition spending their money, but customers will drive this revolution. They’ll make sure that in a few year’s time 50Mb will not be enough.”

“This is the beginning of a complete upgrade for customers, to the effect that you’re either on Virgin Media or you’re in the slow lane,” he said.

Virgin’s new 50mb broadband service is currently available 1.5 million homes across the United Kingdom, reaching some 40% of Virgin’s network by the end of the month and all 12.5 million customers by mid-2009.

The Carphone Warehouse are today offering the Motorola W180 in black for just £2.88. These sub £3 phone prices are part of a recent campaign by The Carphone Warehouse - with their last bargain phone being the Samsung B130 Black priced at a fiver.

Motorola W180 comes complete with a colour screen, FM radio along with Motorola’s CrystalTalk technology to enhance the sound of the caller’s voice.

This could make for a nice little Christmas gift as either a handset for your Grandma or a first phone for your nephew.

Full details: The Carphone Warehouse

The BBC have announced new mobile channels support across its iPlayer service for the Samsung Omnia and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 with support for the Sony Ericsson C905.

The BBC iPlayer allows internet users to stream recent BBC television shows and news.  Support for the Apple iPhone Nokia will also continue along with the addition of support for the Nokia N85.

Jon Billings, head of technology for mobile for the BBC, says of the decision to offer the platform to Omnia, Xperia and C905 owners:

“These phones have been selected as they hit our requirements of Wi-Fi and 3G support with great browsing and media playback experience (i.e. the video and audio look and sound good), and it’s also great to broaden our platform support out to Windows Mobile as well as our first feature phone offering on the C905″.

The Carphone Warehouse have revealed that from Tuesday 16th December they will be exclusively offering a titanium coloured BlackBerry Curve 8900.

BlackBerry Curve 8900 will be available free from O2 as part of a £35 a month contract. The BlackBerry Curve 8900 handset can be purchased separately for £399.99.

T-Mobile are currently the only carrier to offer the BlackBerry Curve 8900 curve in the UK with a similar free handset deal priced at £35 a month.

The new BlackBerry Curve 8900 is now available from today from T-Mobile.

The Blackberry Curve includes the usual Blackberry features including Wi-Fi and a 3.2 megapixel camera.

BlackBerry Curve 8900 is available free from T-Mobile priced at £35 a month contract complete with unlimited push email and web browsing.

Today’s release makes T-Mobile the first UK operator to start selling the new BlackBerry Curve 8900 with reports that The Carphone Warehouse will make the phone available later this month.