There must be a reason people decide to steal stuff. It must have something to do with not being smart enough to get a regular job. No offense, but I’m about to back those words with some solid proof. This thieves’ story comes all the way from Mexico! The thieves entered a Telefonica Movistar store and stole only replica phones which are basically worth nothing. In fact, these “smart” thieves have overlooked the real phones and the more important real cash which were located in a different part of the shop.

Well now we heard them all folks! The moral of the story, don’t steal if you’re not up to the challenge. As a matter of fact, don’t steal at all!

via Huffington Post

Tags: mexico, Mobile News, movistar, Telefonica, thieves

The GSM Palm Pre is closing in and Europeans will finally be able to purchase it. Spanish carrier Movistar will launch the new Palm phone from the looks of this press photo. Considering that Movistar is owned by Telefonica, and Telefonica signed an exclusivity agreement with Palm, we were expecting it to launch the Pre in Spain, just like O2 will launch it in the UK. Let’s home that the phone will be available sooner rather than later. The press release says that:

Palm Pre is scheduled to be available initially in the UK, Ireland and Germany exclusively on the O2 network, and in Spain exclusively on the Movistar network, in time for the holidays.

What does that “in time for the holidays” mean actually? We’ll be looking forward for some prices and some clear release dates and we’ll get back to you once we get them

via Palm

Tags: Europe, GSM, movistar, O2, Other Brands, Palm, Palm, pre, spain, Telefonica, UK

Telefonica has decided to rebrand all its services around the world as Movistar. The carrier uses Movistar in various markets already but it is also operating under different names like Wireline, O2 and Vivo. O2 and will survive the change and it will continue to operate under the O2 brand in the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia and Vivo in Brazil.

via uberphones

Tags: Mobile News, movistar, O2, Other Brands, Telefonica, Vivo

We don’t have all the details yet but it looks like Telefonica has scored the deal of the year with Palm. The Spanish carrier will bring the Pre to Spain this year but the deal doesn’t stop there. The carrier also operates in the UK as O2 and in Latin America as Movistar. That means Telefonica will have quite a market to sell the Pre to. What say you Vodafone? Are you going to get the Pre too?
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Tags: Mobile News, movistar, O2, Other Brands, Palm, Palm, pre, Telefonica, Vodafone, Vodafone

Looking for a new Windows Mobile phone? Movistar has one for you. It’s the ZTE E810 which comes with a 2.5 inch QVGA 65K color screen, 64MB of RAM, Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera and support for up to 4GB of external memory space. As you can observe, 3G and WiFi support are missing. The phone’s specs didn’t impress us from the beginning and the fact that it lacks at least one of the fast connectivity options won’t do Movistar much good either. Looking forward to purchase the phone? We’d advise you to reconsider as you have still time to do it. We have no idea when the ZTE E810 will be launched and how much it will cost.

via Intomobile

Tags: E810, Mobile News, Mobile Software, movistar, Windows Mobile, ZTE

The iPhone invasion continues with carriers world over inking agreements with Apple to provide the famous device on their networks. The latest in the ever growing list of dominoes falling is Movistar, a major cell phone provider in Spain. What is not clear though is if they would be offering the first-gen iPhone or the eagerly awaited 3G iPhone. Either way, as with most of Apple’s cryptic press releases, there is no release date and until either Movistar or Apple has mercy and lets it slip, we will have to wait in the dark, don’t we?
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Tags: 3g iphone, Apple, Cell Phones, movistar, spain