Verizon Wireless Launches the UTStarcom Blitz Smartphone
August 25, 2008 11:23 AM | Smartphone | UTStarcom | Verizon | Comments (0)
Verizon Wireless has launched the UTStarcom Blitz. The smartphone is sesigned for the heaviest of texters. The Blitz comes complete with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and easy access to a dedicated My Messaging key, making this the must-have phone at schools from coast to coast. The Verizon Wireless Blitz is available for $69.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year customer agreement. Customers can sign up for V CAST Music with Rhapsody for a $14.99 monthly subscription. |  |
Additional features of the Verizon Wireless Blitz include:
- Expandable microSD(TM) memory port with up to 4 GB support
- 1.3 megapixel camera features:
- Self-timer: off, three, five or 10 seconds
- Color effects: normal, antique, black and white, and negative
- Resolution adjustment landscape: 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 160 x 120
- Capture mode: portrait and landscape
- Dedicated camera key
- Self-portrait mirror
- Supported Bluetooth profiles: headset profile, hands-free (car kits) profile and advanced audio distribution profile (stereo)
- Media Center-capable downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services and more
- Mobile Web-capable customizable, enhanced wireless access to the latest in news, sports, weather and more
- Mobile Email access to MSN Hotmail, America Online and Yahoo! e-mail accounts
- Mobile IM capabilities
- Picture messaging
- VZ Navigator get visual and audible directions to thousands of destinations, locate businesses and other points of interest, get maps of a location and share directions with others
- Chaperone Child-capable allows the Blitz to have its location shared with family members via the Chaperone Web site, the Chaperone Parent application or Child Zone SMS Alerts
- Speakerphone with dedicated speakerphone key
- Voice commands
- Calculator, calendar, alarm clock, world clock, notepad and stopwatch
- Phonebook with up to 1,000 entries
- Speed dialing
- TTY/TDD-capable
- Display: 220 x 176 pixels, 262K Color TFT
- Dimensions: 3.5" x 2.6" x 0.7"
- Weight: 5.1 ounces
- Headset jack: 2.5 mm
- SAR: head 1.19 W/kg; body 0.694 W/kg
- Handset insurance: yes
- Hearing aid compatibility = M3
- Usage time: up to 280 minutes or
- Standby time: up to 280 hours
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