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Freesat passes 1 million customers
15/04/2010 Clive Woodyear
Freesat has claimed it is winning over BSkyBcustomers – with almost 400,000 defecting to date – and Ofcom's pay-TV reviewis expected to provide an additional surge in new signings for the fledglingdigital satellite TV service.
The joint venture between the BBC and ITV announced todaythat it has passed 1 million customers. The company, which provides afree-to-air alternative to Sky's pay-TV digital satellite service, claimed that40% of Freesat customers are former Sky subscribers.
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Nokia E51
User rating:
4.0
Possibly the closest Nokia currently comes to the ideal non-qwerty business smartphone, the E51 ticks all the boxes with HSDPA, A2DP bluetooth, a good-sized internal memory and expansion card support, and a clear screen. What’s impressive is that it does all this in a light and slim package, while still boasting a very reasonable battery life for a smartphone. For business users the E51 features support for push email, office document viewing, and extras like an unzipping utility. Its outstanding feature, though, is WiFi capability with support for making VoIP calls built in, which is excellent to see. On the downside, the included camera is nothing special, there’s no front-facing video camera for video calls, and oddly A2DP is mising. If you prefer this phone in a slider design, see the E65, which drops HSDPA but features a slightly better battery life. Or for Nokia’s just-about-perfect qwerty smartphone, see the E7
A very basic phone, the 1200 is ideal if all you’ll need to do is make calls and send SMS messages. This lightweight handset has decent battery life, and a bright mono screen whose extra-strong backlight can double as a flashlight. The ease of use is excellent, and customisable quick navigation keys make reaching functions fast and simple. The 1200 is completely lacking in advanced features, however, and while inclusions like a stopwatch and calendar are nice, it suffers from missing basics like a voice recorder. The phone comes with preloaded polyphonic ringtones, but any more must be added over the air, since it can’t be connected to a PC or via WiFi. Talktime battery life is very good at seven hours. Essentially, this looks like a phone from about 10 years ago but design basics have held true into the present. At the right price such an old-school phone could still be attractive to some consumers, as given the lack of features - not even a colour screen - the 1200 really shouldn’t cost more than any phones from the competition. Watch out for the dual-band capability if you are planning to travel.
Fransat, the new French DTH platformfor distribution of digital terrestrial channels, will announce full launchdetails at a June 24 press conference.
The service will offer a fullbouquet of all the so-called TNT channels as a free-to-view service on theEutelsat Atlantic Bird 3 satellite. The channels will start broadcasting on June 19.
