Samsung claims it is aiming for a “more mature” fashion market with the purple variant of its 3.2 megapixel U600 slider phone.

Wireless peripherals supplier Parrot has struck a retail deal with John Lewis that will see the Parrot PARTY go on sale in its stores.

Mobile content provider Gorillabox has today launched a mobile TV service that enables advertisers to stream video content across any handset in Europe and the US.

Advantage Cellular’s sister company Centernet has been awarded Poland’s fifth mobile network licence.

Handset buy-back scheme Mobile Phone Xchange (MPX) has signed a deal with Phones 4U to provide a secondhand phone trade-in service.

T-Mobile and 3 have confirmed they could be sharing parts of their networks by the end of the year.

Data Select has appointed six new account managers to bolster its growing retail division.

Brightstar has struck a deal to supply Tesco with around 3,000 Motorola RAZR V3s ahead of the Christmas rush.

Phones 4U has appointed Brendan Sweeney to a newly-created managing director role to free up Phones 4U chief executive Tim Whiting to focus on more “strategic issues”.

Dealers last week called for a common network database of bad connectors to rid the channel of them for good.