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The Samsung Pixon 12 is the first all Touchscreen handset to be released incorporating a 12 MegaPixel digital camera and is on sale now exclusively with Phones 4U with 3G network deals from Vodafone and Orange .

Get the best in class image capturing technology within this slimline handset and we’ll give you £30 of free credit to spend meeting new friends at the 3G Dating Agency… what are you waiting for!

Peter Svensson has a story today on ABC News about how Verizon Wireless is apparently looking into ways to prevent accidental data charges for “fumble-fingered subscribers” who rack up charges of $1.99 in fees EVERY time they start up the web browser on their phones.

I suppose when the only tool you have is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail but here are a couple of much more customer friendly ways of limit customer complaints, deliver value AND encourage the adoption of the highly profitable mobile web industry:

1) Stop putting hotkey links to the mobile web on your phones.

2) Change the hotkey settings so they point to your white listed “operator portal”. Make access to your this operator portal completely FREE. This way customers won’t be penalised for accidentally pressing the wrong button and you might sell some of the content (Screensavers, ringtones etc) that you have advertised there.

3) Reduce the charge to a more reasonable per day maximum to drive interest in exploring this new and profitable opportunity for your company to expand its offering.

4) Start mobile web engagement campaigns to educate the market about the potential. A good example of that is offered today by Vodafone your sister network in the UK.

Leading UK 3G Mobile Operator Vodafone have announced a “Free Friday” promotion to coincide with the start of the bank holiday weekend. The offer makes it COMPLETELY FREE to browse the Internet on the Vodafone Network ALL DAY on Friday 28th August. Story here.

But forget about crazy ideas like checking the weather or browsing ringtone/wallpaper stores… sign up to The 3G Dating Agency before Saturday and not only can you create a free profile, browse and contact other members but in the Bank Holiday spirit we’ll also chuck in £5 of free credit!

As a committed petrol head it’s great to find that one of my favorite Motoring news sites has gone mobile…

Big congratulations to the teams at Haymarket and YOC for making this happen…. but why not use mobile detection instead of the “mobile.” prefix?

BBC Dragon Duncan Bannatyne has got himself in a hol lot of trouble after The Sun’s Richard White found he was twittering about his jet trips to and from his holiday in the South of France whilst working on the making of a TV show to promote UK tourism…whoops!

Check out his Twitter stream here… I wonder if this mean’s he changed his mind about the investment opportunities in a mobile community that has a profitable business model?

James Middleton at Telecoms.com reports on a recent study, by US based marketing intelligence firm Pear Analytics, into what the social networking platform Twitter is really used for.

Apparently they’ve “discovered that it’s not the marketer’s dream many think it to be. In truth, the research suggests, it’s really just used to spout senseless babble”

I made the following pie chart to try and help visualize what all the noise is about…

In these tough times were most of us are grateful to be able to hang on to our jobs… might the possibility for open social networking sites to jeopardize our chances be a risk less of us are prepared to take?

Facebook has already caused untold damage to the career opportunities of Policemen, Teachers, Students, Medics, Job Applicants, and even the next head of Mi6…. but the latest find by Jonathan MacDonald just goes to show how easy it is to find yourself out of work following a late night – possibly drunken – posting…

At The 3G Dating Agency we’re confident that as more people become aware of the issues of open access one-to-many networks the need for a highly personal moderated 1-2-1 community will continue to grow… after all it’s very unlikely that the things you might say to an admirer would be something you’d want your mother, employer, customer or students to be able to find on Google!

Something Mobile Network, a new 3G Mobile Network Operator offering multichannel services (including Mobile, Broadband, TV, Radio and WiFi Hotspots) has announced plans to launch and The 3G Dating Agency has been confirmed as their exclusive Dating partner.