Today, Vodafone has launched the first Blackberry on a prepaid plan in Germany. Vodafone customers can now combine the prepaid plan “CallYa OpenEnd Smartphone”, which costs € 2.49 per month, with the new tariff option called “CallYa Smartphone Blackberry”, which costs additional € 9.99 per month. The new Blackberry prepaid plan offers unlimited mobile Internet access, email and Blackberry Messenger over the German Vodafone network.

At home you are used to having access to email, apps and the web and when traveling you want to have it, too. Depending on the destination country and on how often and how long the user wants to connect to the web, it might also be ok to keep the SIM card of the German provider in the smart-phone during the trip. Here is a short overview of what users of a prepaid SIM card of a German provider pay for mobile Internet access on their smart-phone when being in another country.

Consumers get an LTE connection with 10 GB of data volume per month for data transfer with the maximum speed of up to 7.2 mbps (download) for a monthly fee of € 29.90 over the first six months. After the first half year, Telefónica Germany raises the monthly for the LTE connection for private customers to € 39.90. Freelancers, self-employed and small businesses pay the same amount of money for their LTE connection, but get 12 GB of data volume per month for data transfers with maximum speed.

On June 18th, Vodafone will launch a specific pay as you go tariff for users of a Blackberry smart-phone. The new Blackberry prepaid tariff will be called “CallYa Blackberry Smartphone” and come with a fee of € 9.99 over 30 days. This tariff includes 200 MB of data volume per month for surfing the web, instant messaging, e-mail and the use of social networks. Customers with the “CallYa Blackberry Smartphone” will be able to use web and WAP services as well as the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS).

Here we go: The next wave of tablets rivaling the Apple iPad and iPad 2 hits stores. These new devices such as the Motorola Xoom, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the HTC Flyer, the LG Optimus Pad and others come with different touch-screen sizes of 7 inches, 9 inches or 10 inches and are running on Android 2.0 at first and will get an update to Android 3.0 Honeycomb as soon as this Android version is officially released. Here is a short overview of four tablets are now or soon available at stores in Germany.

From today on, the current model iPhone 4 is available not just in black, but also in white. It seems crazy that there has been such a hype about a white iPhone 4 for months since this is all just about color: The white iPhone offers the same features as the black one. Here is a short overview of where to buy the white iPhone 4 in Germany and how much it will cost.

This Friday, March 25th, at 5 p.m. sharp, the new Apple tablet iPad 2 will go on sale in Germany and 24 other countries around the world. It will be available at the four Apple stores in Hamburg, Munich, Frankfort and Oberhausen as well as at selected retail stores such as Saturn and Media Markt, Gravis and M-Stores. Here is a short overview of the iPad 2 features, its purchase prices, stores selling the touch-screen tablet and suitable pay as you go tariffs.

The smart-phone Vodafone 553 addresses social networking fans. Vodafone Germany is offering the budget smart-phone as part of a prepaid package including a SIM card with pay as you go tariff CallYa for € 79.90. Buyers of the prepaid package and the smart-phone built by Chinese manufacturer ZTE may even get mobile Internet access over the Vodafone network for six months for free.

HTC Flyer, LG Optimus Speed and Samsung Nexus S - Vodafone Germany is showcasing new smart-phones, tablets as well as LTE surf sticks and applications at CeBIT 2011 in Hanover. Here is short overview of what devices and services you can see at the Vodafone pavilion 32 at the CeBIT fair.

Tonight, the first mobile phone manufacturers will show their upcoming smart-phones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We will get to see devices such as the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play or the LG Optimus 3D, just to name two examples. I am visiting Mobile World Congress and will give you a short overview of the most important announcements after the show. For the time being, here is a tip for people looking for an good pay as you go tariff for connecting to the web in Spain via GPRS or UMTS.