Mobile

Virgin Media is offering the most competitive pay monthly deal for a BlackBerry smartphone, claims the company. Virgin Media has slashed the cost of owning the BlackBerry Curve 8520, now available free on a 24-month contract for just £12 per month.

NASA has released NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad. The application is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.

Apple has announced the new iPod touch which can be called an iPhone 4 without calling capabilities. As usual the iPod Touch has borrowed Retina display, FaceTime video calling, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 chip, 3-axis gyro, iOS 4.1 and Game Center.

Nokia has completed the acquisition of Motally. Apps are now critical to the success of any mobile device. Nokia has its own app store called Ovi, which is quite behind in comparison to Android and iOS app stores. With the takeover of Motally, it seems Nokia is taking app stores seriously.
 

According to a recent study commissioned by Best Buy Mobile, more than half of American mobile phone owners do not know the month and year when their current mobile phone contract expires.

Google sometimes makes changes to its products without much hoopla. Have you noticed any changes to Google Mobile YouTube channel?

Clearwire has announced Rover -- pay-as-you-go 4G mobile broadband service.

Tata DOCOMO has introduced an affordable weekly subscription plan on MySong service for both prepay and postpay subscribers.

Amazon claims that more new generation Kindles were ordered in the first four weeks of availability than in the same timeframe following any other Kindle launch, making the new Kindles the fastest-selling ever.