If you’re familiar with the European music service Spotify then you might like a future Spotify-based phone made by INQ. The phone should be launched by Telia as soon as Spotify and INQ finish building it. At this point there aren’t that many details about the future handset but things seem to check out. Both INQ and Spotify are backed by Li Ka-Shing, one of the wealthiest persons on Earth which also happens to be interested in mobile technology and social networking (he’s also one of Facebook’s well known investors.)

We will probably find out more about INQ’s future Spotify phone in the near future, but unless you live in Europe, it’s less likely that you’ll get a chance to be interested in it anytime soon.

via TechCrunch

The lack of MMS on the iPhone was one major disappointment. According to recent news, the MMS is certainly happening for iPhone users too. Telia customers might be the first ones to get a MMS application developed by Telia itself.

Independently from that Mobispine says that the application will be branded to each carrier and it will be distributed from the App Store. Is Apple OK with someone else providing a feature they should have included from the start? We’ll keep you updated on this

via Engadget

Tags: Apple, Apple, iPhone, mms, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Mobispine, Other Brands, Telia

It’s always fun to compare cell phone plans between different continents, especially when we are talking about the same device. And when the device is the 3G iPhone, a handset everyone keeps buzzing about, we simply have to report plans and prices when we hear about them. We are going to take a quick look at iPhone plans in Denmark and the Netherlands.
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