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Coughlin, who has amassed over 20 years experience in the mobile indiustry, joins from Samsung Telecommunications Europe, where he was global account director for over four years.

“I bring with me a long career in the mobile industry and experience that I’m confident will support LG’s strong proposition in the smartphone market.”

Coughlin said: “I’m very excited to be joining LGE UK as head of mobile and looking forward to working with the team to continue re-energising the LG Mobile brand in the UK and Ireland.

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Prior to joining Samsung, he held a managerial position within Carphone Warehouse’s wholesale team for eight years,China handy, where he dealt with customers in Hong Kong, selling end of life stock and returns.

Previous to that, he was global account manager at the company for a year and was a national account manager of Samsung Electronics UK for almost three years.

Former Samsung and Carphone Warehouse veteran replaces Warren Lewis to drive business in the regions

LG has appointed Andrew Coughlin as its new UK and Ireland head of mobile. He replaces Warren Lewis, who left the company in February after just five months in the job.

The decline in prepay customers took net customer additions to 204,000 with contract customers now making up 51 per cent of its total UK customer base.

O2 has added 204,000 customers to its UK base in the first half of 2012,Günstige Tablet PC, but still showed a 5.3 per cent drop in revenues in its Q2 results.

O2 also reported smartphone penetration had increased by eight per cent compared to the first two quarters of last year with 42 per cent of customers now using the devices and almost 90 per cent of contracts sold in the period including Smartphones.

Operator reports drop in revenues on Q2 2011, but takes its customer base to 22.4 million?

Revenues in its second quarter fell to ?1.3 billion in the UK, attributed to a fall in average revenue per customer.

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O2 CEO Ronan Dunne said: “We have maintained our commercial momentum in Q2 by building on our Q1 performance in a highly competitive market. At the same time we continue to grow our broad portfolio of innovative services that are attracting and retaining more and more customers every day.”

The joint venture with Tesco also reported growth in customer numbers with an increase of 136,000 in the second quarter. Tesco Mobile had 3.2 million customers by the end of the quarter, a 20 per cent rise on June 2011.

Its number of customers increased one per cent to 22.4 million by the end of June, a rise largely attributable to the addition of 482,000 new contract customers in the first half of the year.

Phones 4U will exclusively sell the Samsung Omnia M for two months when it goes on sale in the UK tomorrow (August 1).

Retailer becomes the first to sell latest smartphone from Samsung to run the Windows Phone 7.5 operating system

It will be available free on contract from ?20.50 a month or SIM-free from ?289.95. Customers ordering the Omnia M from Phones 4U’s website today will also receive the smartphone tomorrow.

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“,Günstige Tablet PC;Our track record of launching Samsung devices and Windows Phones is incredibly strong and our dedicated Samsung zones in our Oxford Street and Westfield London stores provide the ultimate destination for anyone wanting to buy this Samsung device with Windows Phone. Our retail team is extensively trained on, and passionate about all Samsung products.”

It has a four-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen, five megapixel autofocus rear camera, VGA front-facing camera for video calling and 4/8GB of internal memory.

The Omnia M, which runs off the Windows 7.5 operating system and comes with 7GB of free online storage with Windows Live SkyDrive, is powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor.

Phones 4U chief commercial officer Scott Hooton said:?“We are delighted to exclusively offer the Samsung Omnia M, Samsung’s latest handset running Windows 7.5, two months before it will be available via any other UK retailer.

The manufacturer posted revenue of $35 billion, up 23 per cent from the same quarter a year ago. Wall Street had predicted revenues to be as high as $37.22 billion.

Apple’s net profit for the quarter was $8.8 billion, which was an increase of 21 per cent from the corresponding quarter in 2011.

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Samsung posted a second quarter profit rise of 48 per cent compared to the same period last year, heavily driven by success within its mobile business.

It sold 26 million iPhones in the quarter, up from 28 per cent a year ago but down 26 per cent from the previous quarter.?iPad sales hit 17 million during the three month period, which was a year-on-year increase of 84 per cent and up 44 per cent from the previous quarter.

Apple posted its own results on Wednesday for the three months until June 30, and in contrast were deemed below expectations by Wall Street,tablette tactile pas cher.

Last week the manufacturer announced that it had sold 10 million Galaxy S III handsets worldwide, averaging 190,000 in sales a day, just two months after the device went on sale.

Net profit reached 5.2 trillion won, up from 3.1 trillion won from the previous quarter last year with revenue of 47.6 trillion won, an increase from the 39.44 trillion won posted a year ago.?Operating profit hit 6.7 trillion won, matching guidance the company issued earlier this month.

Samsung said its mobile business was responsible for more than 60 per cent of its operating profit. Analysts estimate that Samsung sold around 50 million smartphones in the quarter.

Mobile business accounts for 60 per cent of electronics manufacturer’s operating profit after selling an estimated 50 million smartphones in Q2

YouGov said this has been a strategy that undermined it position and hampered the brand and now HTC has also decided to follow the same tactic with its new ‘One’ range (pictured).

“The brand needs to act, and fast, in order to prove their worth in the fast paced industry that is the smartphone market. Marketing and advertising,tablette tactile pas cher, as well as branding need re-evaluating in order to re-tempt churners and win new custom – which? is currently going to Samsung.”

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Its ‘Smartphone, Mobile Internet eXperience’ (SMIX) tracker states that HTC’s consideration levels fell to 30 per cent in June, a drop from 42 per cent in June 2011.

Each interview was conducted online and tracks consumer perception on handset and mobile operator usage, attitude and satisfaction; renewal; churn; operating systems and applications.

It argued that Samsung has had an impressive year with innovative products and ranges within its Galaxy portfolio, which have proved popular among consumers. It said Samsung is now the Android future choice of destination with high loyalty, consideration and expectation rates increasing year-on-year.

In the same period, expectation levels for the company also fell, from 16 per cent to nine per cent.

Russell Feldman, associate director in YouGov’s telecoms and technology team said:?“The latest SMIX findings are not surprising; HTC has long been falling out of the rat race. Our research also found a small number of HTC owners considered their make and model of HTC before purchasing it significantly lower consideration rates compared to rival brands a worrying sign.”

Quarterly YouGov study says manufacturer needs to reconsider its marketing strategy in order to win back consumers and compete with market leaders Samsung and Apple

Consequently, YouGov said Samsung has been able to take advantage of HTC’s losses, taking its mantle in the market and monopolising on its custom, tempting HTC customers to its brand.

It added that HTC’s Desire and Wildfire ranges won consumers over and brought the brand to the smartphone market. However, since then, it has launched a plethora of handsets within the same range (Sensation, Sensation XE and Sensation XL), which many consumers struggle to differentiate between.

HTC’s consideration and expectation levels amongst smartphone owners have fallen significantly in the past year, according to a new study from YouGov.

YouGov said that HTC, which was once a key brand and a serious threat to Apple, needs to differentiate between handsets, and market accordingly.

It added that whilst HTC retain 34 per cent of its loyal customers, the majority (66 per cent) of its customers will not get a HTC handset again but will churn elsewhere, with Samsung being the smartphone of choice.

The quarterly SMIX study took place from June 1-6 with a total sample size of 3,985 nationally representative British adults and 1,936 targeted smartphone owners.

The monitoring is designed to help EE meet its Carbon Reduction Commitment to the government.

CloudApps said the suite will allow EE to measure energy consumption across its 720 stores in?realtime?and easily collate the?information.

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EE director of property and workplace Matthew Wherry said:“The work we have embarked on with CloudApps underlines our commitment to working with the government to meet the UK’s carbon reduction targets.

Operator to use energy consumption measurement software to help meet government?commitments?on carbon output

Everything Everywhere EE is to monitor the carbon footprint of its locations across the UK using a tool developed by sustainability software developer CloudApps

The CloudApps suite (pictured) enable firms to measure energy consumption in terms of?kWh, carbon equivalent in CO2e, as well as?a measure of data centre efficency called?Power Usage Effectiveness.

“The wide-ranging remit we have jointly developed with CloudApps now covers everything from our 720 Orange, T-Mobile and Everything Everywhere retail stores to the diesel in our data centre back-up generators,tablette tactile pas cher, enabling us to reduce our carbon emissions across the whole business.”

CloudApps CEO Peter Grant said: “CloudApps’ relationship with Everything Everywhere is symbolic of the type of customer opportunity that we are increasingly seeing for our business. Everything Everywhere is a complex business with strong commitments to the environment specifically carbon management.”