The "Le Million" mobile phone probably isn't available on PAYG

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Earlier today I wrote about an iPhone app for the wealthy called “I am rich“, and stupidly suggested that the iPhone is the phone that rich people would go for. I’m now preparing to eat my words.

It turns out that luxury communications firm Goldvish have come up with “Le Million”… a million dollar mobile phone, which qualifies it as the world record for the most expensive mobile phone in the world…

IKEA Family Mobile – the new phone service from the Swedish furniture flogger

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Yes. Yes, it has. It really has. IKEA has just assembled itself a piece of the UK mobile phone market, thanks to a newly-announced tie-up with T-Mobile.

IKEA Family Mobile, as the service will be known, will be available to members of the IKEA Family loyalty scheme. Once you’ve bought £10 of IKEA pre-paid airtime you get fixed-price calls and texts – 9p per minute for calls and 6p per text…

BenQ eyes up the BlackBerry market with their E72 Windows Mobile 6 smartphone

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It’s been a while since we’ve seen a BenQ product, but the company has come out in top form with the launch of the E72 smartphone. Running on Windows Mobile 6, it’s aimed at the low-end market.

One attractive feature about the E72 is that it’s the first mobile with an integrated IM client that will allow you to chat on MSN Messenger, Gtalk, Yahoo, ICQ, AOL and Jabber. Whilst it lacks 3G internet capabilities, it does have Wi-Fi for browsing in your local hot-spot, and the usual WM6 programs, such as Outlook email…

Google says Android development is proceeding as was foreseen – 2008 release IS ON

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It seems like – and actually was – just yesterday that the internet, even this bit of it, was thrown into chaos by a boring old business report suggesting that Google’s much-wanted Android mobile OS stood between ZERO and F-ALL chance of coming out in 2008.

Well. It is. It really is. Google itself issued a statement on the web-sweeping Android delay rumours last night, a statement we’re only too happy to copy & paste into this here web browser for your information.

“We are on schedule and we’re very excited to see the momentum continuing to build behind the Android platform among carriers, manufacturers, developers and consumers…