This Thursday, February 2nd, German discount supermarket Aldi Süd will offer the Android smartphone Medion Life P4310 for € 199.00. The Medion Life P4310 is built by Chinese manfucaturer ZTE and comes unlocked. The smartphone features a large touchscreen, Android Gingerbread and a 5-megapixel camera. The Medion Life P4310 is identical in construction as the Base Lutea 2 promoted by German operator E-Plus.

There is a whole bunch of discount providers offering prepaid SIM cards in the German mobile phone market. While most of them sell their prepaid starter packages at their own web stores, which makes it necessary that the customer indicates a residence and a banking account in Germany, some prepaid SIM cards and prepaid vouchers are available at supermarkets, kiosks and gas stations. This overview shows which low-cost prepaid price plans for mobile phone calls, text messaging (SMS) and mobile Internet access are available at supermarkets, kiosks, gas stations and operators’ stores in Germany.

As of today, Aldi is offering its Android Honeycomb tablet Medion Lifetab P9514. The Lifetab tablet will be available at Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd supermarkets and cost € 399.00. The package includes a SIM card for the Aldi Talk prepaid plan.

N-TV Go! is the first provider in Germany offering a price as low as € 0.06 per minute for mobile phone calls to home phones and other mobiles in Germany. The new prepaid price plan is also a good choice for smartphone users since N-TV Go! does also offer a mobile data flat tariff option with 500 MB data volume for faster transfer speeds of up to 7.2 mbps (download) for € 7.99 over 30 days.

iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S users should get first is a micro SIM card of a German operator or mobile phone provider in order to avoid high roaming charges when using their Apple smart-phone for making phone calls, sending text messages (SMS) or accessing the Internet over GPRS or UMTS networks in Germany. Here is a short overview of recommended pay as you tariffs for iPhone users in Germany.

No-frills provider Fonic will launch a new prepaid price plan called “Fonic Smart” for smart-phone users on October 4th. The new price plan costs € 29.95 per month and includes 500 units for mobile phone calls and/or SMS within Germany as well as a mobile data flat rate tariff for surfing the web over the mobile network of Telefónica Germany (O2).

Telekom (T-Mobile) is now selling the iPhone 4 16GB as prepaid smart-phone. The bundle includes the current Apple smart-phone model in black with 16 GB memory, a SIM card for the pay as you go price plan “Xtra Nonstop Special” and credit of € 30.00 for calls and SMS. It is available at Telekom shops for € 629.95.

Simyo Sync is based on Funambol MediaHub and enables users to keep contacts and calendar on mobile phones, tablets, PCs and other devices in sync with a digital locker in the cloud. It backs up user data, allows easy access across multiple devices and complies with all European data privacy and security regulations.

O2 Germany is now offering an express top-up option to its prepaid customers. With the new top-up service, O2 prepaid customers are be able to top up their credit via direct debit or credit card no matter where they are.

This Monday, German no-frills provider Fonic will launch a call-through service called “Fonic Call Home”. This new call-through service offers Fonic customers to make phone calls from 15 selected countries to Germany for rates of € 0.09 (to home phones in Germany) or € 0.29 (to mobile phones) per minute. However, the Fonic customers cannot make these call-through phone by mobile phone – “Fonic Call Home” is only available at landline connections.