Today, Vodafone confirmed in-store sale of aesthetic Nokia Lumia 800 across the United Kingdom. Its release has stimulated the Finnish company’s hope for smartphone, especially in the spell of iPhone and Android.

The England based, world’s largest mobile-phone company, Vodafone Group Plc disappointed its investors by claiming that its annual profit dropped by 7.8% on Tuesday. Moreover, the report revealed that Earnings after tax dropped to £7.97 billion in the 12 months to the end of March in comparison to 8.65 billion in 2009/2010.

Vodafone has sold 44% of its stakes to the French mobile phone group SFR to partner Vivendi, in a new deal. The new deal has been welcomed by the investors. Some analysts believe that the deal could lead to a merger between the Vodafone and US group Verizon.

As announced on Thursday, Vodafone will buy the Essar conglomerate for $5 billion from the UK group’s Indian business. For the $5 billion, which will be paid in cash, Essar will sell 33% of its stake in Vodafone Essar.

Vodafone Group PLC (VOD. LN) was on the top of the list of London's FTSE 100 Index on Monday morning because it is believed that the firm will benefit from AT&T Inc.'s (T) proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE. XE).

World’s one of biggest telecom operators, Vodafone, claimed that their official website was never hacked. The management was clueless when few posts appeared on its World of Difference website blog, stating that the company has skipped a huge amount of tax which comes around £6 billion. That time this telecom giant indicated that their official website has been hacked.

Willy Strothotte, who is the Chairman of Xstrata since 1994 will retire on May 4, at the conclusion of Xstrata's Annual General Meeting on May 4. Mr. Strothotte will be replaced by the Chairman of Vodafone, Sir John Bond. Vodafone is the world’s second-largest mobile phone operator by market capitalization.

According to Techradar, Vodafone will get the white version of Google’s last-year-launched flagship Samsung Nexus S handset in the UK when the phone appears in the channel in the coming months.

With the recent leak of the private details of more than 4 million Vodafone Australia customers this week, it is being reported that the company may have to recompense the affected customers.

Despite the fact that Vodafone, and some other operators, have had a notoriously troublesome time in pushing Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ upgrades to users, the network is bringing on ‘Froyo’ upgrade for the HTC Wildfire users straightaway.