Orange UK Secretly Charging for WiFi?

orange_logoA little article at msmobiles caught my eye: It turns out Orange UK is sending small bits of info over UMTS even when users are using WiFi to browse the web…

Although Windows Mobile phones have WiFi and allow you to connect to WiFi, they (i.e. Orange) are actually sending some data through their UMTS connection and charging for all of it. So, you could be sat at home, downloading email or streaming music off your own computer and Orange are secretly cashing in. Interestingly if you burn into your Windows Mobile phone a ROM image that is not coming from Orange, then this problem is no longer occurring.

Sneaky, Orange. We’ll see how this plays out…

Video: Tour of AT&T's spring lineup for 2009

AT&T has provided us all with its own hands-on video of three of its most anticipated phones of their spring line up – one of which is the Samsung Propel Pro – a Windows Mobile 6.1 device featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, and enterprise applications. The Samsung Propel Pro will be on sale for an expected $149.99 in April (customer’s pay $199.99 and after mail-in rebate, receive $50 AT&T promotion card).

The other two phones featured in the above video are both Symbian devices (Nokia’s E71x along with Samsung’s Impression) and will also be released as part of AT&T’s spring lineup.

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