Storm Brewing On Vodafone 11th November

Vodafone has priced up Research in Motion’s touchscreen BlackBerry, the Storm 9500, and it’s going to be giving it away.

Well, sort of. The iPhone-like handset will come free of charge, provided you’re willing to cough up £35 a month for two years to get access to Vodafone’s network.

RIM’s BlackBerry Storm: yours for up to £500

Pay less per month, or choose a contract of 18 months’ duration, and the price of the Storm itself rockets to £300. Only go for a year-long contract and you’ll pay £500 for the phone.

RIM and Vodafone announced the Storm’s UK debut earlier this month. The handset sports a touch-sensitive 3.25in, 480 x 360 display, and can connect at HSDPA speeds of up to 7.2Mb/s.

Storm has a 3.2-megapixel camera and GPS. It’ll play music and movie files stored on Micro SDHC cards.

Source: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/31/vodafone_rim_blackberry_storm_9500/

Vodafone UK Launch Facebook App

Vodafone have launched a facebook application which you can use to text your mates directly from facebook itself, without the need of your mobile phone. It will soon be able to send MMS messages from the same app, it will come with a complimentary 25 SMS credit initially and further credit can be purchased through pay4it.

The application allows users to send messages not only to their online Facebook friends but also to non-Facebook users and groups. Vodafone Connect to Friends can be used by anyone regardless of their choice of UK mobile operator.

Try it here http://apps.facebook.com/connecttofriends