Archive for November, 2008

G1 Now Available on All Plans

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

It didn’t take T-Mobile long to drop the exclusivity on the G1 from the original two plans: it’s now available on every plan that they offer, although you’ll pay up to £99 if you want to take it away on a cheap plan.

The best O2 have done in response to this is to make the iPhone available to buy online at last: something that’s been a long, long time coming.

It looks like the G1 has been a big success, expected to sell 1 million before the end of the year, and some really exciting apps are showing up on the Android Marketplace.  I can’t wait to see what the future of Android phones is going to be.

The floodgates are open

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Oh, wow, BillMonitor is public!  It’s been busy here at the Optimor offices but I’m proud to announce that our public beta is now ready for your consumption.

We’ve got plenty of exciting features for you to check out:

  • Automatic bill monitoring – we’ll analyse your phone bill and show you exactly how you could save.
  • Self assessment – estimate your own usage and we’ll tell you which mobile tariff is best for you.
  • Graphs help you to understand exactly how you use your phone.
  • Over 48 thousand combinations of tariffs and bundles available.

Of course, if you were one of the lucky ones who saw the alpha, none of that will be new to you. Here’s the new bits that’ll blow you away:

  • Select from over 200 handsets and jump straight through to the operator websites to purchase the tariff of your choice.
  • Personalised results pages give you the information that matters.
  • SIM only plans – more plans for us means better results for you.
  • Region support – travel around Europe a lot?  That’s cool, we can handle that.
  • Uservoice – an awesome feedback system so you can tell us what you want to see on the site.
  • For the tech-heads among you, we are now running our maths in the Amazon Cloud.

So what are you waiting for?  Get stuck in and grab a recommendation from BillMonitor now.  Keep an eye on this blog too, we’ve got plenty more cool stuff coming up.