Alltel Wireless, U.S. Celluar and Motorola, Inc. today announced that Motorola’s leading smartphone will be available in two color options, MOTO Q 9c in licorice and MOTO Q 9c lime, expected this summer. MOTO Q 9c and MOTO Q 9c lime provide on-the-go consumers with the tools and applications needed to keep up with their fast-paced professional and personal lives.

While Verizon Wireless and Motorola, Inc. also announced today the April availability of MOTO Q 9c, the newest addition to Verizon Wireless' MOTO Q family, that comes equipped with Verizon Wireless' popular VZ NavigatorSM service.

The smartphones offer innovative features wrapped in a sleek design. Alltel and U.S. Cellular Wireless customers can choose their color preference, MOTO Q 9c in licorice with a silver sail band or MOTO Q 9c lime edged in tin silver. 

The QWERTY keyboard has been precisely engineered for fast and accurate typing and provides the ideal experience for frequent messaging.

Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics today announced the enV(2) by LG will be available in April. The successor to the popular enV by LG, the new enV(2) gets a makeover with a new slim redesign and sophisticated black or maroon finish.

The enV(2) supports a number of features and services that customers have come to expect in wireless phones from LG and Verizon Wireless, including V CAST Music and Video, VZ Navigator(SM), Bluetooth® capabilities, dual speakers and a 2.0 megapixel camera. The phone’s spacious QWERTY keypad with large sized external keys makes messaging easy, while its 2.4-inch internal screen offers crisp, crystal-clear videos and images.

The enV(2) is the ideal multimedia device for music and video lovers. Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music store gives customers access to more than 2.8 million songs from both well-known and independent artists to download and blast on the phone’s dual speakers.

Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone will be available in May.

Packaged in a liquid silver-colored finish with chrome highlights, smooth edges and soft curves, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 is backed by Verizon Wireless' high-speed Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) network. This small and light smartphone has rich multimedia capabilities and is VZ Navigator(SM)-capable. VZ Navigator is Verizon Wireless' location-based service that offers customers mapping, audible turn-by-turn navigation and access to information on more than 14 million points of interest.

The BlackBerry Curve 8330, RIM's smallest and lightest full-QWERTY smartphone, combines stylish looks with the tools people need to manage their professional responsibilities, maintain personal communications and entertain their senses. 

The BlackBerry Curve 8330 offers the following capabilities and key features:

The Alias sports the familiar dual-hinge design of the SCH-u740 but is packaged in a cool silver finish and features an updated easy-to-read full-QWERTY keyboard, making the phone ideal for sending text messages and e-mails. When customers open the Alias vertically, the phone is a sleek and stylish clamshell phone. 

When the Alias is opened horizontally, the QWERTY keyboard is revealed to show its new color-defined numbers and letters. In addition to sending text messages, customers can use Wireless Sync, Verizon Wireless’ proprietary personal information management solution, to synchronize their phones with their home or office PCs for easy access to e-mail, calendar, contacts and task information. The horizontal view is ideal for using the Alias’ multimedia features, including Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music and Video services.

Today AT&T announced the Sony Ericsson Z750a. Available in the U.S. exclusively at AT&T, the Z750a is an affordable and stylish handset with a mirrored clamshell design and a hidden exterior display that illuminates when the phone is in use.

As Sony Ericsson's first 3G/HSDPA handset for the U.S. market, the Z750a features mobile broadband for a high-speed Internet1 connection and access to multimedia content that complements its multimedia player, 2.0 megapixel camera, Internet1 browser and e-mail2 capability using AT&T's Mobile Email application.

The Z750a works hard, offering features such as data download transfer speeds from 600 to 1400 kbps from AT&T's High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 3G network, support for AT&T's Mobile Email, a 2.0 megapixel camera, full HTML web browsing1 capabilities and stereo Bluetooth 3 support (A2DP). The Z750a also plays hard with 3D gaming capabilities, a media player that supports numerous media file types for listening to your favorite music tracks and video. The phone has up to 26MB4 of internal memory and is Memory Stick Micro (M2) compatible, currently upgradeable to 8GB5, providing ample storage space for photos, videos, music, games and more.

Mobile Web 2.0 subscribers can now click directly into the MySpace Mobile Web site from the Connect category on the Mobile Web 2.0 home screen, eliminating the need for customers to type in a URL in order to access the site.

With MySpace on Mobile Web 2.0, Verizon Wireless customers now have the ability to edit MySpace profiles, view and add friends, post comments and blogs, send and receive MySpace messages – all from their mobile phones.

To access MySpace Mobile, Verizon Wireless customers simply open Mobile Web 2.0 on their phones, click on the Connect category from the home screen, and click on MySpace.

On the MySpace site, customers can access a host of features, including:

Cell phones play a much bigger role in helping Americans get work, make money and respond in emergency situations than previously was thought to be the case, according to a first-of-its-kind study by Nicholas P. Sullivan, author of You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones Are Connecting the World’s Poor to the Global Economy and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Released today by the independent New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) think tank, the Sullivan report concludes that providing cell phones to the 38 percent of America’s 45 million poorest households now without them, including millions of seniors, Hispanics, African-Americans and rural residents, could help them get work or make money worth $2.9 billion-$11 billion.

Released today by the independent New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) think tank, the Sullivan report concludes that providing cell phones to the 38 percent of America's 45 million poorest households now without them, including millions of seniors, Hispanics, African-Americans and rural residents, could help them get work or make money worth $2.9 billion-$11 billion.

American consumers have a wide array of choices for personal communication services, but, when it comes to their home, an overwhelming majority, including those who have a cell phone, say they plan to keep and continue using their landline home phone indefinitely. Most often the service's proven reliability and safety were given as reasons in a new nationwide survey commissioned by Verizon.

The telephone survey, conducted by KRC Research last month, polled more than 800 consumers aged 18 and over who pay their landline phone bill. It found that:

• Eighty-three percent of the respondents intend to continue using their landline home phone indefinitely -- a strong vote of consumer confidence for landline voice service in a survey group that included a large number of participants who also have a cell phone (74 percent).

• V CAST Mobile TV is now available in more than 50 markets from coast to coast, including Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Verizon Wireless is continuing to rollout new coverage areas; for the latest information, visit www.verizonwireless.com/mobiletv

ESPN Radio, the nation’s largest sports radio network, offers fans expert analysis and commentary on shows such as “Mike and Mike in the Morning,” “The Mike Tirico Show” and “The Herd with Colin Cowherd,” in addition to the popular “Pardon the Interruption” and “Around the Horn.” Now, fans will be able to take these shows when they are on-the-go through V CAST Mobile TV.