Cut price Android on steroids: OnePlus One – should we look gift horse in the gob? [Tue Aug 12 2014]

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Telefónica bids for Vivendi's Brazilian bits: Telecom Italia gasps
A Spanish firm, a French firm and an Italian firm all meet up in
Brazil...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/08/telefonica_gvt_bid_to_make_it_brazils_top_broadband_player/

BT offers vanilla mobile deal to biz bods
Apps, cloud, Wi-Fi – let's play tick-box bingo
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/05/bt_offers_vanilla_mobile_deal/


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*** Handsets News ***

'Up to two BEEELLION' mobes easily hacked by evil base stations
Android, BlackBerry, and Apple fall to OMA-DM flaw – claim
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/08/two_billeeon_mobile_phones_easily_hackable_with_dummy_base_station/


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*** Reviews ***

Microsoft: A $25 Nokia dumbphone – just what the world needs
Behold, an MP3 player that does phone stuff is unveiled
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/11/nokia_130/

New iGasm: Apple to unveil not one but TWO iPhone 6 models on 9 Sept
What will you be doing that day? What should we be doing?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/06/iphone6_september_9/

BlackBerry boss John Chen: We're FINISHED (with the job cuts)
Now things are looking rosy, says chief exec – new leak
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/05/blackberry_restructuring_memo/

Cut price Android on steroids: OnePlus One – should we look gift horse
in the gob?
Caveat emptor
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/05/review_oneplus_one_cyanogenmod_android_smartphone_can_you_look_this_gift_horse_in_the_gob/

Home-grown Xiaomi crushes Samsung in world's biggest market
Android smartphone startup tops Chinese table
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/05/screw_you_samsung_xiaomi_steals_superior_sales_crown_in_china/


*** Software News ***

Wait, an actual QR code use case? TGI Friday's builds techno-restaurant
Flop out your mobe and get it over with as quick as you can
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/08/tfi_fridays_go_tech_in_manchester/

Nanu nanu! Mork calling Orson on VoIP over 2G
Another player tries to crack free VoIP over mobile data
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/06/nanu_nanu_mork_calling_orson_on_voip_over_2g/


*** Regulators News ***

Ofcom sees RISE OF THE MACHINE-to-machine cell comms
Study spots 9% growth in IoT m2m mobile data connections
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/11/ofcom_study_growth_in_machine_to_machine_mobile_data_connections/

Verizon to FCC: What ya looking at? Everyone throttles internet traffic
'Such practices are widely accepted' telco responds to watchdog's
probing
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/05/verizon_to_fcc_everybody_throttles_data_traffic/


*** Suppliers News ***

O2 vs Vodafone: Mobe firms grab for GCHQ, gov.uk security badge
No, the spooks love US best, say rival firms
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/11/mobile_networks_vie_for_security_credentials/

'POWER from AIR' backscatter tech now juices up Internet of Stuff Wi-Fi
gizmos
Batteries not included required
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/06/leccy_from_air_rf_harvesting_goes_wifi/


*** Retailers News ***

Ancient pager tech SMS: It works, it's fab, but wow, get a load of that
incoming SPAM
Networks' main issue: they don't know how it works, says expert
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/11/mobile_networks_spam_problem/

POW! Sprint kills T-Mobile US bid ... BAM! CEO Hesse is out
And new head honcho talks up 'extremely cost efficient' future... hmmm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/06/sprint_makes_it_official_no_tmobile_merger_hesse_out/



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