Now you can get free radio on your Apple iPhone via iheartradio.com. Stream your favorite American radio station to your iPhone or iPod Touch. iheartradio is free to download and free to use. There are no additional charges to use it beyond your mobile carrier or WiFi provider's standard data rates.
The service works on the Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G or iPod touch running iPhone OS 2.0.2 or later. iheartradio is available to customers in the United States and can be downloaded via the iPhone App Store.
Now you can rent cell phones with Rentobile. No contracts needed and you can try multiple cell phones before you settle on one. To rent a cell phone visit www.rentobile.com and browse there selection of the latest cell phones. Prices range from $24/month to $51/month depending if you are a member or guest and the type of phone you are renting.
Your rented mobile device is carefully packaged and delivered to you in like-new condition. You can keep the phone for as long as you wish. You can rent by the month, or for as long as you like. There are no late fees.
If you want to try the latest phone, you simply return your current phone for the new phone. Returns are easy and shipping is free. To return a phone, just repack it in a return box with pre-paid return label and ship via UPS.
Sprint announced the availability of local, 10-digit phone numbers for internet-based Relay (IP), Instant Messaging Relay (IM), Video Relay Service (VRS) and Federal VRS customers. Sprint Relay's 'Call Now' service allows IP and VRS users to be assigned a local 10-digit phone number to receive calls directly and make 911 calls based on their geographic location.
Callers will no longer be required to dial a toll-free number to reach Sprint Relay users. VRS numbers are available now and IP numbers will be available on Dec. 31, 2008. Federal VRS and Federal Relay Online also will have 'Call Now' numbers prior to March 31, 2009.
With 'Call Now,' Sprint Relay users can be contacted directly by their family, friends and colleagues by dialing their personal 10-digit phone number and will automatically connect with a Relay operator or VRS interpreter. In addition, customers can set up their account profile including their physical address with city, state and zip code. The account profile will be ready for VRS or IP relay users to make 911 emergency calls.
Phenom Communications Inc. today announced the Phenom Watch Phone! The Phenom Watch Phone is an unlocked GSM cell phone, an MP3 and MP4 player, a digital and video camera - all in one cool and compact watch.
The Phenom Watch Phone has up to 2GB memory and features a touch screen, built in Bluetooth, USB port and speaker phone. With just a switch of the SIM card, the Watch Phone works with almost any cell phone carrier in the world.
With a simple switch of the SD card, customers never run out of their favorite music or video. Phenom Spokesperson Jane Levit adds, "It's perfect for everybody - teens, tweens, sports and outdoor enthusiasts, men and women. We have a variety of models, styles, and colors just right for your personality. Boys and dads feel like special agents, girls keep up with the latest trends; moms never miss a call from the kids. And, starting at just $195, the Phenom Watch Phone even offers big savings for the new year."
Iphone application developers are making a killing writing software for the iPhone, not to mention Apple who gets 30% of the revenues. Thousands of people are writing iPhone apps and selling them through Apple’s App Store fir $1 to $10, which is part of the iTunes online market.
Several small software companies have switched to exclusively writing software for the iPhone because it’s so lucrative. Smule, a small software company created 4 small programs for the iPhone – voice changer, virtual firecracker, virtual lighter, and virtual wind instrument. The virtual wind instrument is named Ocarina and is the winner of the group with 400,000 downloads in less than 1 month. Smule had hoped to generate a $100,000 in revenue this year, but will generate close to $1 million.
One person can literally become of millionaire almost over night by writing an iPhone app and easily selling it via the Apple App Store. Case in point is Steve Demeter, a 30 year old programmer, who created the iPhone game Trism in his spare time.
Mail on Ovi, the free email account from Nokia, is now 'live' and can be set up directly on Nokia phones without requiring a PC to get started. People who use Nokia Series 40 devices can create their own email address directly on their mobile phones.
The Ovi email account gives a person all the features and functionalities of a typical PC-based email account. During the Beta period, consumers will be able to choose from 12 languages based on the settings of their device, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hindi, Bengali, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia.
Mobile phone users from India, Malaysia and the Philippines have been able to use the Beta service since November, with extremely encouraging results, and the availablity is now being extended to the rest of the world.*
Nokia has launched more than 35 Nokia Series 40 device models which immediately enable the creation of the Mail on Ovi email account**. As of October 2008, Nokia has shipped more than 110 million of such devices globally.
Now you can use your iPod or iPhone to make sure you aren't too drunk to drive. Over at our friends at DavidSteele.com, they are selling the iBreath Alcohol Breathalyzer for $79 which is an iPod/iPhone accessory that allows you to take your own alcohol breath test so you drive home safely.
The iBreath also doubles as a FM transmitter that transmits your iPod tunes to any FM tuner.
According to the National Center for Injury and Prevention Control every 31 minutes there is an alcohol-related motor vehicle accident that kills someone and every 2 minutes injures someone. The need for safety devices including breathalyzers has never been stronger.
Alltel Wireless customers going over the river and through the woods can now also go wireless. Outdoor enthusiasts can now take full advantage of advanced GPS features directly on their GPS-capable phones with the Trimble Outdoors application from Alltel Wireless.
The Trimble Outdoors application turns a wide range of Alltel GPS-enabled handsets into a versatile, off-road navigation and journaling tool for hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, hunting and many other outdoor activities.
The application, available for a daily rate of $1.99, allows customers to review and plan trips online. It also enhances user safety and navigation by sending trekking routes, maps and waypoints wirelessly to the phone for use as a guide during trips. Customers can track their current and previous routes with a GPS “bread crumb trail,” mark and edit waypoints during their journey, and utilize a built-in digital compass to display coordinates, speed and heading.
MetroPCS has launched the Samsung Byline (SCH-R310) push-to-talk handset. The clamshell-style Samsung Byline SCH-R310, encased in a stylish red finish, is designed for the user wanting quick access to friends, family and colleagues. The Samsung Byline offers easy one-touch communication via with the simple push of a button (ChatLINKSM), along with a bevy of messaging features, including text, email and IM. Users can stay on top of the news and the latest information by using the Samsung Byline’s Web browser. For easy, hands-free communication, the Samsung Byline comes equipped with Bluetooth® wireless technology.
Nokia has announced that the Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 (announced last August) has hit the United States. The Nokia N85 delivers a striking fusion of design and entertainment that bursts through its stunning 2.6" OLED display, while the Nokia N79 is bound to turn heads with its three seasonally colored Xpress-on smart covers in, red, white and brown, to automatically customize the device's theme to match your holiday moods.
Both devices will now be available unlocked through retail channels in the United States, including the Nokia Flagship stores in New York and Chicago, on www.nokiausa.com and from a number of independent retailers and e-tailers.
The bright OLED screen on the Nokia N85 is an ideal backdrop to view those holiday pictures. Get snap-happy with the Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 - both have 5 megapixel cameras with Carl Zeiss optics, so you can enjoy high quality images in richly defined colors, taken with a bright dual LED flash, or video clips at 30 frames per second.
AT&T Inc. and Research In Motion has announced the availability of the BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone with built-in Wi-Fi, which gives AT&T customers with unlimited corporate or personal BlackBerry service plans free and seamless access to thousands of AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots in the U.S.
Available in sapphire blue, the BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone makes it easy to connect to home or campus Wi-Fi networks and to automatically connect to any of the more than 17,000 AT&T Hot Spots nationwide. These include Starbucks, Barnes & Noble and thousands more restaurants, airports, hotels and other convenient locations across the U.S. Those customers who subscribe to unlimited corporate or personal BlackBerry service plans can access these AT&T Hot Spots at no charge.
The BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone — with 802.11 b/g — provides broader data coverage, and customers also can carry on a telephone conversation on the cellular network while simultaneously accessing data via Wi-Fi.
Sprint today announced that it is enhancing its industry-leading open approach by partnering with location aggregation platforms Veriplace by WaveMarket and WHERE by uLocate Communications to help developers create new location-based services for Sprint customers.
These platforms protect the privacy and security of Sprint customers while offering third-party mobile, Web, WAP, SMS and widget developers a consistent way to create applications that use the customer's location information to provide customized information and services, as long as permission has been provided. Both platforms provide developers with simple, powerful tools to create and launch location-enabled applications, reducing the difficulty of certifying and on-boarding applications that use GPS, triangulation and other location services while protecting customer privacy.
Veriplace, WaveMarket's Location Aggregation Platform, was built using the same privacy and security model that for years has protected Sprint phones using the Sprint Family Locator service.
Sprint announced it will make the first 3G/4G dual-mode device, which operates on both the Sprint 3G and 4G networks, available in retail stores Dec. 21.
The Sprint 3G/4G USB Modem U300 delivers the power of the Now Network(TM), the nation's largest and most dependable mobile broadband 3G network*, while also harnessing the turbocharged speeds of WiMAX on the new Sprint 4G network.
Sprint launched 4G in Baltimore in September and plans to launch in other markets across the country throughout 2009. This versatile device will enable customers to experience blazing fast Internet access, greater productivity and enhanced multimedia quality throughout 4G markets, and offer access to the dependable Sprint 3G network virtually everywhere else. The 3G/4G USB modem represents another major development in truly un-tethered broadband access.
Microsoft recently launched its first application for the Apple iPhone, called Seadragon Mobile (see video to the right). The application is free for users who want to browse very large pages on their iPhone's 3.5-inch touch screen.
The application is pretty slick which changes the way users use screens; from wall-sized displays to cell phones screens, so that graphics and photos are smoothly browsed, regardless of the amount of data or bandwidth on the network.
With Seadragon the speed of navigation is independent of the size or number of objects and that transitions are smooth. It also promises that performance depends only on the ratio of bandwidth to pixels on the screen and that scaling is nearly perfect and rapid for screens of any resolution.
Pandora Radio is now offering its free personalized radio on Windows Mobile powered handsets. It's pretty easy to use. Enter with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a "station" that plays their music and more music like it.
If you are already a Pandora user all you need to do is sign in and Pandora on Windows Mobile is already fully integrated with Pandora on the web.
Pandora is a free Internet-based radio service that lets people create stations based on their favorite artists and other songs it finds that match in style.
Pandora has attracted 6.9 million users since launching in November 2005 and was recently banned, along with a dozen other popular media Web sites, such as YouTube and MySpace, from the Defense Department's computer system because of network bandwidth concerns.
Alltel Wireless today announced that it is making e-mail easily accessible and more convenient with Alltel Mobile E-mail.
The Alltel Mobile E-mail application gives Alltel customers the ability to access their Web-based personal and work e-mail, contacts and calendar events from their Windows Mobile smartphones and other select Alltel handsets. The application can be downloaded directly to the handsets without additional software or support.
Customers who choose to check their personal e-mail from their smartphones can use Alltel Mobile E-mail to automatically connect to popular e-mail services such as AOL, Hotmail®, Yahoo!® Mail and more by simply entering their username and password one-time to establish the connection to their phone.
Dual-mode 3G UMA handsets allow customers to seamlessly roam and handover between UMTS cellular networks, GSM/EDGE networks, and home or enterprise WiFi access points. In addition to significant improvements in connectivity and voice quality, the Cellular System Solution 7210 UMA will deliver data speeds at more than 1 Mbits/sec over UMA.
This new development means customers can use one device for fast Internet browsing, streaming video services or access to social networks over the fastest available 3G or WiFi network. When in range, users can take advantage of WiFi to download content and make more affordable voice calls than they can over cellular networks.
There is strong demand for WiFi enabled 3G handsets from both handset makers and operators. With the 7210 UMA now commercially available, ST-NXP Wireless is ready to help handset manufacturers satisfy the market-demand with handsets that combine the best capabilities of fixed and mobile broadband access.
Responding to the requests of Nextel Direct Connect customers, Sprint today launched the BlackBerry Curve 8350i smartphone. Developed by Research In Motion, the new BlackBerry Curve 8350i is the most advanced push-to-talk BlackBerry smartphone ever.
The BlackBerry Curve 8350i smartphone utilizes iDEN technology on the Nextel National Network. It offers Nextel Direct Connect, the only national push-to-talk service in the industry to offer sub-second call set up to the world's largest push-to-talk community with millions of users.
The BlackBerry Curve 8350i is the first push-to-talk BlackBerry smartphone to offer: Built-in Wi-Fi support, allowing customers to browse the Internet and download email attachments quickly and easily wherever they have Wi-Fi access, and they can also send and receive emails or browse the Internet while talking on the phone. Group Connect, enabling customers to instantly set up group conversations with up to 20 participants.
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