Want to spice up your cell phone voicemail capabilities?  Then you have to checkout YouMail.  YouMail replaces your cell phone carrier default voice mail with free (for now) advanced new features like personalized greetings for each incoming caller, online voice mail access, and the ability to save and share voice mails as audio files.

YouMail can also download voicemails to your PC to save them forever, un-delete old deleted messages, save time by going right to the message you want and download free voicemail message clips (like ringtones).

YouMail enables on-click sharing of voicemail messages just like a YouTube video or Flickr photo. YouMail users can share and publish voicemails easily via email, instant messaging (like AIM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and Skype), or social networking services (like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Pownce).

The BlackBerry Curve 8310 features integrated GPS functionality that works with pre-installed Vodafone Navigator software so mobile users can easily know exactly where they're going. The software displays the user's precise location on a local map and also integrates directly with their address book.

Thanks to Vodafone Navigator on the BlackBerry Curve 8310 smartphone, Vodafone customers can avoid traffic problems caused by bad weather, traffic jams or road closures as known problems are automatically taken into account when the route is planned. The Vodafone Navigator is an off-board navigation system, which downloads route planning information from an up-to-date central server.

The BlackBerry Curve 8310 is an excellent choice for mobile users that want a feature-rich smartphone for use in both their work and personal lives. A built-in 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom and LED flash delivers sharp images on the BlackBerry Curve 8310. 

Yesterday we reported that Apple and AT&T are being sued by Jose Trujillo, an iPhone owner, over the fee consumers must pay to replace the iPhone battery. 

Replacing the iPhone battery isn’t easy and to maintain the warranty you have to send it back to Apple at a cost of $79 to replace the battery plus another $6.95 for shipping. You may want to try to change the battery yourself. SHOP.BRANDO.COM.HK is selling an iPhone Replacement Battery Kit for US$20 which includes a rechargeable battery, assembly tools, and instructions on how to replace the battery. 

Apple has stated that the battery replacement process requires solder (using heat to join metal parts) so it's not understood how the kit would work.  Of course if you take the risk and dismantle your iPhone you will void your warrantee.  So be careful.

Online dating service Match.com is launching a new application via matchMobile for cell phones which allows subscribers to keep track of their love interests while on the go.

According to Frost & Sullivan, approximately 3.6 million U.S. cell phones subscribers used a mobile dating service in May of this year and that by 2009 mobile dating services revenue from will grow to $215 million.

MatchMobile will first be available in the United States, UK and Canadian markets, and will extend to nine more countries by the end of the year.  MatchMobile provides subscribers with text messages when they have an e-mail from another Match.com subscriber and allows them to search for potential matches from their cell phones.

For an extra fee of about $5 per month, MatchMobile subscribers can receive and answer e-mails from suitors on their mobile phones.  An earlier version of Match.com for mobile phones was used by nearly half a million subscribers. The new application will allow subscribers to tap into Match.com's database of nearly 15 million registered users.

Today Verizon Wireless announced that it will acquire Rural Cellular Corporation, for approximately $2.67 billion in cash and assumed debt. Rural Cellular, which markets its service under the Unicel brand, serves about 716,000 customers in 15 states in New England, the Plains states, the Southeast, and the Pacific Northwest.

The acquisition will expand Verizon Wireless’ network coverage in markets adjacent to its existing service areas. The combination will increase Verizon Wireless coverage by 4.7 million licensed POPs (population), and increase its customer base by more than 700,000.

So here is the three real prepaid mobile cell phone card deals to check out:

• Dinner for 2 gift card: Yes, it’s the real deal. Dinner for two, with this $25 dinner certificate that’s valid at over 7k restaurants around the US.
• $25 merchant gift card: These gift cards are good at some fun stores from steak, lobster, cookies, cigars, gift baskets. In total there is 9 online merchant partners that you can use these gift cards for to get an extra treat.
• Free magazine gift card: Pingo has about 30 plus quality magazine subscription offers that you can get for free. Yes free.

Now that SunRocket has claimed for bankruptcy. You start to see a tone of offers for SunRocket customers. Which makes sense since 200k customers lost there VoIP service overnight! Which meant they could have prepaid $199 and only got like a month of service out of it.

So now VoIP customers are scrambling to get there phone line back on. Some will remember Vonage but the ones that do there research will realize that Vonage VoIP service has also had some issues with its stock.

So who do you turn too? Well do your research and really compare offers for sunrocket customers. You’ll find that some may just be too good to be true.

One Sunrocket Special Promotion that I liked, is from a service provider that’s not really a landline VoIP solution. But something that compliments your current cell phone or VoIP provider to help reduce your call and let you call while you on the go.

Planning on buying a new phone?  You may want to donate, sell or give it away.  But first make sure you completely erase all your personal information before discarding your old cell phone.  You could find your cell phone manual, but most likely you threw it away or can't find it.  You could call your cell phone carrier or manufacturer, but who wants to go through the trouble.  Or the easy was is to use the online Cell Phone Data Eraser which offers instructions on how to erase all your sensitive data from your cell phone with individual PDF instructions organized by manufacturer and model. 

The Cell Phone Data Eraser is offered free from WirelessRecycling.com; owned by ReCellular Inc. who is the a recycler and reseller of used wireless phones and accessories. WirelessRecycling.com also allows visitors to find the nearest drop off location via zip code to donate their cell phones.

The issue of wireless information security has grown exponentially with the expanding popularity of multi-function smart phones that contain e-mail messages, contact information, calendar entries, and photographs.

Do you want to build a mobile website? Wapple is now offering a totally free way to design, host and manage a mobile website as long as you agree for them to post relevant, targeted third-party banner ads that Wapple delivers through mobile advertising companies AdMob, Admoda and Millennial Media.

Free website hosting is nothing new, however, as mobile phones become more like computers, more services are being developed towards meeting user's needs. Wapple even has a blog that people can design and customize himself/herself. There are several templates with a step-by-step wizard to make the process simple. There is also a Delivery Engine to make sure the site is configured for best display on any mobile phone, on any network and from any country.

Those that prefer not to incorporate banner advertising can still use the standard Wapple Canvas Free package, with a small cost incurred for the Wapple Delivery Engine when the site goes live.

Want a scanner, copier or fax but just can't afford it?  Well if you have a cell phone you are in luck.  Now you can use an online application called scanR to turn your cell phone into a scanner, copier, and fax machine. 

The application is very easy and best of all its free for now.  All you have to do is to take a picture of whatever document, whiteboard or business card you want to scan, copy or fax.  Send the picture to scanR by e-mail, MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), upload or widget from iGoogle. scanR will then save your scans online or optionally will send them as PDF files to your email address. To send a copy to someone else, add their email address in the subject of the message you send to scanR.

scanR has recently enabled users to find and share notes from school on Facebook (see video).

Microvision recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Motorola to develop pico projector display solutions for mobile applications leveraging Microvision's ultra-miniature laser based display engine, called PicoP.

(See Related Article with Video: Cell Phone Video Projector is Coming Soon - Texas Instruments DLP pico-projector)

Tiny laser-based projectors are expected to enable a "big screen" viewing experience from mobile devices. By projecting content displayed on the device screen onto a wall, object or even a curved surface, mobile users could easily share Websites or multimedia applications such as movies, personal videos, mobile TV, photographs and presentations with friends or business colleagues.  (See Video of PicoP).

Live coverage starts at 11:30 a.m. Pacific on Thursday, Aug. 2 and concludes at 3 p.m. Pacific on Sunday, Aug. 5. Highlights of previous years’ X Games also will be shown on the dedicated channel from July 22 through Aug. 1, and “Best of the X Games” and X Game 13 replays will air Aug. 6-7. Viewers can expect to see:

• Live coverage of events provided by ESPN for eight hours each day from Aug. 2-5
• Everything from practices to qualifying events to event finals
• A daily “Best of the X Games” segment that will show viewers all of the extreme highlights
• An ESPN debut of an innovative double box segment during the rally car races, giving fans the opportunity to see the race from each driver’s viewpoint as they compete side-by-side