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Ocean Telecom are pleased to announce that the new BlackBerry Bold 9790 will be available from Ocean Telecom from 20th January 2012.

This high performance smartphone incorporates a QWERTY keyboard for precision and accuracy yet still provides the speed and responsiveness offered by a touchscreen. With its smooth lines, superior finish and BlackBerry 7 technology, this dynamic handset provides an exceptional experience to users.

BlackBerry Bold 9790 Specifications

At a glance:
•    2.45″ display size
•    5 Megapixel Camera
•    107g Weight
•    BlackBerry 7 Operating System
•    5h 20min Maximum 3G Talk time
•    Up to 33h Music playback time and 6h 20min Video Playback time

Display:
•    640 x 480 Colour Display with high resolution TFT capacitive touchscreen
•    16M colours supported (24-bit)
•    Optical Trackpad

Camera:
5MP Auto Focus with LED flash, 2x Digital Zoom, Geo-tagging, image stablilization and VGA Video Recording (640 x 480)

Connectivity:
Wi-Fi: 2.4 GHz b/g/n | 5GHz a/n

Other Features:
•    GPS with A-GPS
•    768MB RAM Memory, 8GB eMMC
•    Up to 32GB expandable memory available via uSD card
•    NFC Capable (Network dependant)

For more information or to order this device, please contact our team on 01284 729869

With Christmas almost upon us, it’s time to consider that often forgotten shut down message. If you’re using a voicemail or just a simple answer machine, you need to amend your message so your customers know when you’re closed.

Don’t leave it to the last minute, call us and we’ll advise you how to make the changes needed. If you have a complex voicemail setup we will remotely access the system and amend the programming for you. If you have a current maintenance contract with us, this service is completely free.

With its seamless design, glass touchscreen and 8 megapixel camera; the Lumia 800 is a great new edition to the Nokia phone range

Phone Specifications

At a glance:
•    3.7″ Dislpay Size
•    8 Megapixels Camera
•    142g Weight
•    9.5h Maximum 3G talk time
•    55h Maximum Music playback time
•    7h Maximum Video playback time

Seamless Design:
Curved 3.7″ AMOLED ClearBlack glass touchscreen display seamlessly integrated into a smooth one-piece body    People Hub:
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, email, Chat, SMS

Internet:
Bing, Internet Explorer 9, HTML5, Wi-Fi

Camera:
8 MP Auto Focus with Carl Zeiss Optics, 2x LED Flash and HD Video

If you’d like more information about the new Nokia range, contact one of our team on 01284 729869

From November 1st to December 24th 2011, iPods & iPads are up for grabs with new business mobile contracts.  To find out if you would have a qualifying contract, contact us today on 01284 729869

After months of speculation Apple have finally announced their iPhone event will be on the 4th October at 10am. As always Apple have masterfully kept everyone guessing about the content, so we’ll have to wait and see if we’re getting the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 5, or something else altogether………

Mitel have announced they are withdrawing support for the 8602 IP Softphone and so licenses will no longer be available for purchase after 30th September 2011.  Follow this link to read more about this Mitel news and more Mitel product update Mitel product update

Companies today are in the midst of significant transformation into more global, collaborative workforces that are becoming increasingly more diverse and mobile. In order for businesses to thrive in this environment with today’s global economic pressures, a well-defined unified communications strategy is a must. This will certainly help companies reduce the overall cost of communications, streamline business processes, and increase employee productivity. More importantly, deploying unified communications will help companies improve customer satisfaction and increase customer loyalty, thereby driving up revenues and profitability.

UC Advanced provides a single client interface with a rich feature set and access to all of Mitel’s communications applications, including video. UC Advanced delivers voice, rich presence, video, messaging, call history, conferencing, collaboration, rich contact management capabilities, and mobility options. UC Advanced is suitable for businesses of all sizes, across all vertical markets.

For the very first time Mitel customers will be able to have Unified Communicator Advanced Server component embedded in the Mitel Application Suite software. This means that instead of having to dedicate two servers in the data center for MAS and UC Advanced, customers can now run a single server for both applications. Customers will have the same options when running virtually with VMware. A single virtual appliance will now include both MAS and UC Advanced where previously a customer would have had to deploy two separate virtual machines to accomplish the same thing. This means that now more than ever Mitel customers truly have the power of “freedom of choice” when choosing to add value rich applications like Mitel Application Suite and UC Advanced.

For more information on this product, please contact one of  our team on 01284 729869

Google will acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, in a surprise move that for the first time puts the company squarely in the smartphone hardware business.

“The combination of Google and Motorola will not only supercharge Android, but will also enhance competition and offer consumers accelerating innovation, greater choice, and wonderful user experiences,” Google CEO Larry Page wrote in a post on the company’s official blog.

Google will acquire Motorola for approximately $40 per share in cash, or around $12.5 billion dollars, “a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011,” according to Google’s press release.

“This transaction offers significant value for Motorola Mobility’s stockholders and provides compelling new opportunities for our employees, customers, and partners around the world,” Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha said in a statement.

Over the past three years, the smartphone arms race between a handful of companies has been cutthroat. Research in Motion (RIM), once the dominant player in the handset space, has been bleeding share since the introduction of Apple’s iPhone and the Android operating system. A dwindling Palm was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2010, hoping the backing of a massive company will help its handsets and operating system gain share in the competitive space. And of course since Google and Apple entered the ring in 2007 and ‘08, respectively, nothing has been the same since.

But this is a landmark moment for Google, a company which has not had a part in owning any of the hardware on which its operating system runs thus far. Apple, RIM and HP, by contrast, all own both the software and hardware aspects of their respective product offerings.

Google and Motorola have a history of working together since Android debuted in 2008. While HTC was the first manufacturer to produce an actual device for Google’s mobile platform, Motorola’s 2009 Droid release was the first true Android handset to stack up against competitors in the smartphone wars. Over a quarter of a million Droid handsets sold in the first week of the phone’s release, according to analyst estimates.

Interesting times ahead for the smartphone market!

Mitel have announced that following the success of their client software for Blackberry and Android, a new client for both the iphone and ipad is set for launch in September this year.

The new client software will enable the growing number of businesses who use the iphone and ipad to take full advantage of the powerful Mitel Unified Communications suite.

Mitel says:

“UC Advanced Mobile for iPhone and iPad is the perfect complement to our UC Advanced windows desktop client and allows users to make changes to their Dynamic Status from their mobile device as well as retrie voicemail, view their call history and corporate contacts with presence information. UC Advanced Mobile for iPhone/iPad can be used in conjunction with UC Advanced for windows or as a stand alone application for users who only need a mobie solution or have non windows based computers.”

Ocean Telecom look forward to adding this latest enhancement to our portfolio and will bring further updates when the product is in full release.

UCA for ipad

Mitel Product Bulletin

We are pleased to announce that V5 software is now in full release for the Mitel & Inter-Tel 5000 system range.

The new software brings a number of enhancements to improve productivity and efficiency

The enhancments include:

• Hot Desking
• Meet-Me Conferencing
• Expanded Conferencing Capacity
• Unified Voicemail Messaging / Email Synchronisation
• User Web Portal
• Embedded Reporting
• Database Reporting
• Mitel 53xx Desktop Applications

To read more about the V5 enhancements please click here