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AT&T Launches Pay-Per-Use Push-To-Talk
A little over a year after launching its innovative Push To Talk (PTT) service, Cingular Wireless, now part of the new AT&T, today gives customers the option of experiencing the service on a pay-per-use basis.
Customers using one of several wireless phones can now use the company's PTT service, as needed, for $.15 per minute. In addition to having access to the largest PTT network coverage area, a customer can receive several enhanced PTT features unavailable on similar services offered by some other carriers including:
- Availability- unique icons allow PTT users to see if other PTT customers are available before making a PTT call.
- Convert to Cellular - enables a PTT call to be converted to a regular wireless voice call. Calls with up to 30 participants can be converted effectively creating a mobile conference call.
- Voice Messaging - allows customers to send a voice message to one person or a whole group.
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Motorola Unveils The MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Mobile Phone
Motorola, Inc. recently unveiled the new MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition. The MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition is a unique handset with HSDPA capability and offers a series of exclusive features:
- Ferrari emblem on the exterior glass,
- oar of the Ferrari F1 eight-cylindre engine accompanies the switching of the handset on or off,
- Images of the Ferrari F430 engine on the mini external display
- Image of the Ferrari emblem on a grey Ferrari in the internal display.
- Thirty photographic images showing Ferrari F430 and Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli USA.
The MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition comes with a soft, hand-made carry case in Ferrari-red leather and delivers the capability to listen to music, browse the Internet and download content at extremely high speed, in a futuristic mix of metal and tempered glass. | 
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Motorola Presents 3G Updates To Investors
According to a presentation Ron Garriques, Motorola will be launching 3G versions of a number of popular models this spring. Additionally, the company will introduce the high end SCPL platform. Mr. Garriques recently gave a presentation (see it) to investors last week via a presentation. The presentation showcased a 3G KRZR, the K3, as well as a redesigned 3G RIZR called the Z8. as well as a redesigned 3G RIZR called the Z8.
Additionally, the presentation stated that a GSM/EDGE Q is still in the works, and a second generation model, the Q2, will be announced in both HSDPA and EV-DO versions at 3GSM next month. Mr. Garriques also mentioned the upcoming SCPL (Scalpel) line of handsets. He stated that these devices will be broadband capable, but didn't mention a launch date. Motorola has been talking about SCPL for over a year and it was originally believed to be the successor to the RAZR. However, KRZR became the successor to the RAZR | 
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Limo Foundation Started to Create Linux Mobile Software
The LiMo Foundation have been formed by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone have been established to develop a Linux-based open mobile communication device software platform. The LiMo Foundation will focus primarily on the joint development of a competitive Linux-based mobile platform, built around a common source code tree that can adapt to the evolving international market requirements. Members will work on the following:
- Establishment of safeguards to minimize fragmentation
- Collaboration on a mobile Linux developer ecosystem
- Co-operation with existing industry organizations
- Securing new members from across the industry: device manufacturers, operators, chip set manufacturers, independent software vendors, integrators and third party developers
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Book Published ViaText Messaging (SMS)
Want to read a book on your cell phone? Well according to a recent report by the Assocated Press, a novel consisting entirely of cell phone text messages has been published in Finland. The story, "The Last Messages", written by Finnish author Hannu Luntiala, tells the story of a fictitious information-technology executive in Finland who resigns from his job and travels throughout Europe and India. He keeps in touch with his friends and relatives only through text messages.
His messages, and the replies (approximately 1,000) are listed in chronological order in the 332 page novel. The texts have grammatical errors and abbreviations commonly used in regular SMS traffic. Finnish publishing house Tammi is considering translating the book into other languages. So maybe we will get a chance to read it! | 
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Want A Cell Phone Personal Assistant?
Ok, it seems like everyone is trying to make a buck from the proliferation of mobile phones. Think of something unique and bring it to market! Another company offering a unique cell phone service is Voce. Voce is offering the world’s first all-inclusive premium wireless service. The major selling point is access to a personal assistant 24/7. Dial 611 on your Voce phone and you'll get a live person that can help you with a variety of tasks. From asking a question about your phone to helping you make dinner reservations, requesting a wake up all, updating you with sports scores, and researching any topic, a Voce personal assistant will help you. You can receive the information by voice, e-mail or text messaging.
Additionally as a Voce subscriber you'll get a brand new phone every year with any additional charges. Available cell phones include the Nokia 8801, Motorola PEBL, Nokia 7380, the Dolce and Gabanna version of the Motorola Razr, and the Palm Treo 650 & 680 (coming soon). | 
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China Mobile Has More Subscribers than US Population
Can you believe there are more cell phone subscribers at China Mobile than people in the entire United States of America? This is according to numbers posted by China Mobile on its website. China Mobile finished last year with 301.2 million cell phone subscribers, just above the U.S. population of 300.9 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
That is absolutely phenomenal! Growth at China Mobile has exploded since it first hit the 100 million subscriber mile stone back in July 2002. It only took the company a little over 1.5 year to add an additional million subscribers to 201 million subscribers. How does the company keep pace with such an aggressive growth rate?
There are still millions of potential subscribers to sign up. China currently has a population of 1.4 billion. The company is currently aggressively marketing their services to continue the unreal growth rate! India is not too far behind! India is signing up over 6 million cell phone subscribers per month over the past few months, compared to 5 million per month in China. | 
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Record Your Cell Phone Conversations
Want to record your cell phone conversation so you can go back and prove someone told you something? Or maybe you just have a really bad memory. Or maybe you are a politician who one day would like to write his/her memoir, so you want to record your conversations when you are out of the office. Well buddy you are in luck!
A new service has been launched by Record Cell Phones.com. The service enables cell phone users to keep digital audio recording of their cell phone conversations without the need for extra equipment. The service is available at RecordCellPhones.com.
The ability to record cell phone conversations have always meant plugging in a bulky extra piece of equipment to your phone. | 
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Get The O'Reilly Factor on Your Cell Phone
Now you can get Fox News on your cell phone. Fox News has started a new service that will let cell phone users access an audio feed of the cable channel. The live feed will be available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week by dialing "#FOXN" on your cell phone. The service starts with Cingular at a costs of $2.99 per month plus applicable per-minute airtime charges.
Fox News has partnered with Single Touch Interactive, an Encinitas, Calif., which has existing deals with BET (Black Entertainment Television) and Univision. However, Fox News will be the first news channel to have a Single Touch audio stream.
It's far from the first mobile deal for Fox News. There is a special mobile Internet site that allows cell and BlackBerry users to access a quick-loading site. The channel has been available for more than a year as a live video stream on Sprint, with almost a million subscribers. | 
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NYC Cell Phone Users To Deliver Cell Phone Pics/Video to 911 Operators
New York City will be developing a system for accepting cell phone pictures from citizens in its 911 and 311 call centers. PowerPhone, a 911 training and technology company, unveiled the first system for delivering cell phone pictures from 911 callers right to call handlers last August at the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials Annual Conference. Called Incident Linked Multimedia (ILM), it is part of PowerPhone's Total Response Computer Aided Call Handling software.
In a recent study conducted in Europe, over 50% of cell phone users said they would use their camera phone to record evidence of a crime and 47% said they would take pictures of a crime in progress. While some public safety agencies have started accepting cell phone pictures to a generic e-mail address, PowerPhone's ILM system is the first that integrates these photos directly into a 911 call record.
PowerPhone's ILM system works as follows:
1 - A cell phone user calls from their cell phone to report an emergency or suspicious activity (i.e., a suspicious man lurking outside an unoccupied house).
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Alltel Changes Wireless Phones with Celltop
Alltel Wireless today announced the launch of Celltop, an exclusive, patent-pending technology, built on Qualcomm's BREW uiOne platform that offers customers an easier way to access, manage and organize a wide range of information already available on their Alltel Wireless phones. Celltop gives customers more control over their wireless experience through a unique and fully-customizable technology similar to the desktop on a personal computer.
Now available on select Alltel Wireless handsets, and on all new phones by late-2007, Celltop is free-of-charge and features 10 "cells" that come pre-installed and via download. Each cell is a category-specific half screen comprised of graphics and text that provides shortcuts for wireless users to navigate through information and applications including: call log, weather, news, baseball, basketball, football, rodeo, stocks, text messaging inbox and ringtones.
As part of Celltop's extensive array of customization options, users can also modify the appearance, presentation and organization of information within each cell.
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Nokia Has Proven Cell Phone Didn't Cause Fire
After earlier news report that a cell phone critically burned a man nd damaged the man's apartment, a California fire investigator reversed the earlier finding and said today that the cell phone was not the cause.
According to investigator William Tweedy's written report issued Saturday claimed that a cell phone malfunctioned, igniting the fire, however, today Tweedy stated in an interview that the phone was not to blame, based on a test conducted by a Nokia phone expert.
The victim Luis Picaso, 59, remains in critical condition at the University of Cailornia at Davis Medical Center. Picaso has undergone surgery yesterday and is recovering. Fire officials have not been able to interview him since the surgery. Tweedy said he called Nokia for assistance in the investigation and did not feel compelled by any source to revise his findings. "I called Nokia and their expert performed the test in front of me," he said.
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LG & Prada Unveil the LG (KE805) Touch Screen Mobile Phone
Today LG Electronics and PRADA unveiled the first completely touch screen mobile phone, the PRADA Phone by LG (KE850). (Apple's iphone and NTT DoCoMo Inc. D800iDS recently announced their phones also has a touch screen)
The PRADA Phone by LG introduces eliminates the conventional keypad making the overall usage experience a highly tactile one. An extra wide LCD screen maximizes visual impact, allowing the user to benefit from several key features of the phone, including the 2 megapixel camera featuring Schneider-Kreuznach lens, video player and document viewer capacity. Above all, these features contribute to the phone’s beautifully sleek and simplistic appearance.
Glowing icons on the face of the phone disappear when not in use to reveal a pure, un-adulterated black exterior. The phone is ultra thin (just 12 mm), nonetheless it hosts an array of additional multimedia functions, including an MP3 player and a music multitasking function for messaging. It also boasts an external memory slot, allowing the user to increase memory capacity for images, music and film clips.
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NTT DoCoMo Inc Unveils Cell Phones W/ Touch Screen & Aroma
Today, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's top wireless operator, unveiled the D800iDS, a mobile phone featuring a touch-sensitive screen, like the popular Nintendo DS portable game console, and another model that gives off a relaxing scent.
The D800iDS by Mitsubishi Electric Corp., is a clamshell equipped with screens on the upper and lower halves. Users input characters by writing on the touch screen with their fingers or a stylus. They can also call up an on-screen keypad to dial a number or type a message, or touch the buttons shown on the display to browse the menu screens. The recently announced Apple Iphone is also a touch-screen.
NTT DoCoMo unveiled nine other mobile phones today, which includes a model by Sony Ericsson that features a 3-inch Bravia flat-panel screen.
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Cell Phone Seriously Burns Man
| According to a recent report, last Saturday in Vallejo, CA, a man who was seriously burned after his cell phone caught fire and ignited his clothing. Apparently, this is no unusual. The 59-year-old resident of The Travelers Hotel on Georgia Street in Vallejo suffered second and third-degree burns on half his body. An activated sprinkler confined the fire to the immediate area and firefighters found Luis Picaso on the floor of the bathroom. It was possible a button on the phone inside Picaso's pocket was depressed for a long time causing overheating, a short circuit or other malfunction. A couple other cases were reported in California in the past few years. In 2004, Ontario, CA, a 16-year-old girl suffered second-degree burns when her cell phone in her back pocket caught fire. | 
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T-Mobile Launches the White BlackBerry Pearl
T-Mobile and Research In Motion today launched the new white BlackBerry® Pearl, featuring a stylish new color for the award-winning phone. The new white BlackBerry Pearl is now available in the United States exclusively from T-Mobile.
The BlackBerry Pearl is myFavesSM-enabled, allowing customers to have quick, one-touch access to their favorite five friends and family2. In addition to calling, instant messaging and texting, consumers are also just a tap away from sending an email to one of their five myFaves contacts – helping people stay effortlessly connected to the people who matter most.
Key features of the BlackBerry Pearl include:
- BlackBerry® Internet Service - allows access to up to 10 supported personal and corporate email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts
- Popular instant messaging clients: AOL®, Yahoo!® MSN® and ICQ®3
- 1.3 megapixel camera with 3 zoom levels (up to 5X) and built-in flash
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Cisco Systems Sues Apple Over iPhone Name
Not surprisingly Cisco Systems is suing Apple over the iPhone name. As we recently reported, "iPhone Unveiled by Linksys". We assumed that Cisco Systems, owner of Linksys, had the name trademarked. Well I guess we were correct. The Apple iPhone was unveiled earlier this week after 30 months and millions of dollars in top-secret development. But the sleek new iPod-phone combination could wind up costing the company a lot more.
Cisco today announced that it has filed a lawsuit to forbid Apple from using the name "iPhone." It obtained the iPhone trademark in 2000 after the acquisition of Infogear, which previously owned the mark and sold iPhone products for several years.
Infogear's original filing for the trademark dates to March 20, 1996. Linksys, a division of Cisco, has held the trademark to brand a line of its own Internet-enabled phones that began shipping last spring and officially launched three weeks ago.
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Samsung Launches GPS Navigator in Korea
Samsung Electronics recently launched Bluetooth Navigator (STT-D370) which is connected to mobile phones via Bluetooth. It also adopts the latest technologies, such as Transport Protocol Experts Group (TPEG) and terrestrial DMB.
The Samsung STT-D370 is the first Global Positioning Systems (GPS) navigator to connect a mobile phone via Bluetooth® feature. The microphone and speaker phone, embedded in Bluetooth Navigator enable the users to make or receive phone calls and SMS text messages, without using a mobile phone.
The Bluetooth Navigator also offers a built-in Real 3D map developed by Samsung, ensuring that the driver sees the road ahead in crystal-clear 3D graphics. The latest maps can be updated through Anycall Land (www.anycall.com).
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Motorola & Sony Ericsson Showcase New Bluetooth Headphones
Motorola recently announched the Motorola Bluetooth Active Headphones S9. This new headphones leverages Bluetooth Stereo technology by making it easy to enjoy the freedom of wireless music. With an easy-to-wear and stable behind-the-head design, the ultra-light (barely one ounce) S9 stereo headphones are comfortable and let users listen to their favorite tunes and stay connected to a compatible Bluetooth enabled mobile phone. And listening could never be easier. Music mutes or pauses when calls come in and resumes when the call ends.
Additionally, Sony Ericsson showcased the MBR-100, a Bluetooth receiver that makes it easy to play music wirelessly through a conventional hi-fi stereo system. It can connect into an audio system with either RCA or a mini jack. It should ship later in the first quarter.
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