The promotion begins this Thursday, and will continue with a different movie weekly from then on. They can also only be downloaded on a Thursday. Once each movie is downloaded it must be watched within the month. If the movie has already been started it must be watched within 48 hours of the play button being pressed. To start receiving the free weekly movies text FILMTOGO to 85060 or visit Orange UK’s Facebook page.

According to 3G, several movie titles have already been confirmed for the promotion, including Che: Part One, The Ghost and the award winning The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke as a has been professional who is forced to retire from his career in the ring, but struggles with his new life. The initial title will be My Blueberry Nights starring Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and Norah Jones. It’s a romantic drama about a woman who embarks on a journey to find answers to her questions about love. It is directed by Kar Wai Wong.

An Orange spokesman, Spencer McHugh believes this offer ‘is a great way to thank them for being a part of Orange.’ This was said when talking in regards to the ‘valued’ customers of the carrier. Orange already has an ongoing movie related promotion available, which has been for a while now with their two-for-one Orange Wednesday offer that allows users to visit participating cinemas and only have to pay for one of two people.

What do you think of this new promotional offer?

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According to a recent article by Darren Allan over at techwatch.co.uk, the ‘Do Some Good’ application – which is free to download from the Apple App Store – is aimed at those who don’t really have an entire day to invest in a charitable cause, but do want to spare some time doing good.

Orange says that lots of little bits of help all add up to create a big impact for different charitable organizations. Rather than reading a month-old magazine while you’re waiting for a doctor’s or dentist’s appointment, you could be taking on a small task on your smartphone instead.

For example, you could take part in a survey for a charity, in order to help them out on the research front. Every action on the app is supposed to take just five minutes to complete. Other than the feeling of satisfaction that you’ve helped out in some way, the app also rewards those who participate.

The network operator will make all those who complete a total of 60 separate tasks eligible for rewards from the Orange RockCorps Collective, including free tickets to music gigs. Orange intends on expanding the ‘Do Some Good’ app to other platforms at a later date.

What do you thinkof the idea of Orange’s ‘Do Some Good’ application?

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Orange has managed to get itself an exclusive for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc; they will have a special black edition available for customers. T-Mobile will also be stocking the Xperia handsets after recently confirming the news according to EuroDroid.

The carrier have also announced some changes to its Android Home screen, which will now include Live Wallpapers according to an article on TechRadar. The images move as your go through home screens, and also have device functions. One of the wallpapers candles, is connected to the device battery life. A candle appears on the screen and slowly burns down as the battery runs out.

According to Orange it wanted to provide customers a more accurate battery life indicator, as it feels the Android icon is not reliable enough. There is also the option to program gestures for various apps and shortcuts. This will save room on the home screen, and there are twenty seven gestures available which can be put on any of the home screens.

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The first hint came a few days ago, when rumors suggested that the White iPhone 4 was making its way to Best Buy and could be available as soon as February 27th. This was followed by reports that claimed the handset had been seen on Vodafone Germany’s inventory system.

Now it appears that the White iPhone 4 has made an appearance on a few more websites, suggesting that a White iPhone 4 release is definitely on its way. According to a recent article by Chris Oldroyd over at tipb.com, UK operators Orange and Three have both listed the handset on their websites.

The White iPhone 4 is also being displayed on AT&T’s Online Account Management (OLAM) system. As John Brownlee from cultofmac.com recently reported, there appears to be two models listed on AT&T’s system, a 16GB model and a 32GB model. However, there’s still no word on a release date.

Are you still hoping to get your hands on a White iPhone 4?

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However, with every device there are advantages and disadvantages. Just a few to mention on the good side are a build that feels sturdy, a responsive touchscreen measuring 3.5-inches diagonally and nice Orange-specific widgets. It you don’t like the Orange skin; it can be removed quite easily.

The disadvantages of the San Francisco include a rather disappointing 3.2-MP camera that features auto-focus, but no flash. When taking stills the result is reasonable, but the video quality is less than impressive.

Another downside is that it doesn’t come with any Twitter or Facebook apps installed, but you can easily get them from the Android market. What do you find is good and bad about the San Francisco Phone?

Source: Techradar.

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As long as you are either an Orange UK or T-Mobile UK customer you will be able to reep the benefits from both network infrastructures, this should give users much better coverage across the UK.

In some areas local to me there are a lot of Orange UK coverage problems, therefore frustrated customers should be able to hop onto T-Mobile’s network automatically and now have great connectivity without having to search endlessly for one bar of signal.

We would love to hear if you have noticed the changes, therefore feel free to let us know if you have had better reception since the merger.

Source: Engadget

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If you scroll down you can see a video showing standard voice vs HD voice, it is a similar jump in quality as CD vs cassettes. I beleive that all carriers will soon begin offering a HD voice service.

At the moment there are only a handful of Orange handsets that support HD Voice, these are the Nokia E5, X6, 5230 and the Samsung Omnia Pro, however I am sure future devices will support HD voice as standard.

To give you a rough idea of how vast the improvement really is a standard phone call transmits audio at 6.6 kbps with frequency range of 300 to 3400 Hz, whereas a HD voice call transits audio at up to 23.85 kbps and a frequency range of 50 to 7000 Hz.

It is thought that this improvement will cause a lot more stress on Orange’s 3G network, let’s just hope Orange’s network is ready.

Do you feel the HD voice will become the standard in the future?

Source: IntoMobile

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The network provider also say that the problem still exists and a fix is not expected to be put into action just yet.

The problem started yesterday when Orange users tried to connect to the data services and were unable to.

Voice remained to be faultless, but for those of you wanting to BBM, use Facebook, Twitter or check RSS Feeds and alike, you were either reduced to extremely slow network speeds or nothing at all.

Orange customers who are still having issues are urged to call 150 (pay monthly), 345 (business) or 450 (PAYG). Although Orange do not promise any sort of refunds, a few customers have been offered token credit to make up for down time.

Do you think Orange should put some sort of ‘network status’ on their website that would make it easier for us to know whether the network was up or not? Are you still experiencing issues?

Source: The Register

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