DIRECTV today announced its DVR Scheduler is available on the Apple App Store. Now all customers need to do is tap the DIRECTV icon on their iPhone or iPod touch to begin remotely scheduling and recording DIRECTV programming on their home DVR - wherever they are.
The new app enhances and evolves the existing m.directv.com mobile scheduler with a rich graphical interface and ease of use. The application combines the innovative Multi-Touch user interface of the iPhone and iPod touch with an improved search function that enables users to quickly browse the entire programming guide by channel or date and time.
Nokia has released an experimental photo browser that makes your viewing experience quick and fun. See video to the right.
The Photo Browser features visual effects, intuitive touch UI, magnifying glass, and face browsing.
The Photo Browser works well on the S60 5th edition devices including Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and N97. The support for the S60 3rd edition is coming soon.
Nokia is still evaluating the app to determine what to do with it.
Cricket Communications, Inc, today announced the launch of Cricket MyPerks, a free, opt-in service that provides informational and entertaining content, along with valued offers, directly to the home screen of customers’ mobile devices.
Cricket MyPerks makes it easy for customers to find popular content and realize great savings using their mobile phone. Users receive free content, ranging from weather and gas prices, to trivia and celebrity gossip, along with occasional offers from recognized national and local brands including big-box retailers, restaurants, sporting events, concert venues, automotive services, and more.
The SAMSUNG Finesse is will soon be available at Metro PCS. The handset features advanced touchscreen, which gives you complete access to the internet, your email and social networking applications.
You’ll always be connected with the latest news, whether it’s about the world or your friends. Plus, the virtual QWERTY keyboard makes responding to texts and emails a snap. You can’t imagine anything better.
The advanced touchscreen on the Finesse has SAMSUNG’S TouchWiz user interface so your favorite applications and functions are only a widget away. And you can use TouchWiz with a stylus or your fingertip.
There’s a full 2.0 megapixel camera in the Finesse, complete with digital zoom, night shot and a flash. You’ll be able to take better pictures anytime, anywhere. And with the camcorder, you can take better moving pictures, too. Keeping tabs on your social scene is easy with metro 411 and mobile IM.
Sprint and Kyocera SANYO Telecom, Inc. today announced the upcoming arrival of SCP-2700 by SANYO, a stylish and easy-to-use messaging device featuring a full QWERTY keyboard with threaded text messaging, 1.3 megapixel camera, Sprint Navigation, Sprint Family Locator, Sprint Mobile Email Work, Social Zone application, and Bluetooth.
SCP-2700 will be available beginning May 10 in all Sprint retail channels including www.sprint.com and 1-800-Sprint1. SCP-2700 by SANYO will be available exclusively from Sprint for just $29.99 with a new two-year service agreement, after a $50 mail-in rebate.
Sprint offers an affordable Everything Messaging Plan that lets customers -- particularly the growing numbers who are new to texting -- take advantage of the SCP-2700 by SANYO’s messaging features at a great value. This plan includes 450 anytime minutes, unlimited night & weekend minutes starting at 7 p.m., unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes, plus unlimited text, picture and video messaging – all for just $49.99 per month (excluding taxes and surcharges). This plan provides a savings of more than $115 per year vs. comparable AT&T and Verizon plans.*
AT&T announced that customers can now make collect calls to mobile phones by dialing 1-800-CALL-ATT (1-800-225-5288), to access a new service called AT&T Collect to Wireless. AT&T is the first major telecommunications provider to expand its collect calling services to reach wireless customers in the U.S.
This opportunity is provided through a strategic relationship with 3Cinteractive's Text Collect service. AT&T Collect to Wireless is part of the 1-800-CALL-ATT product suite, which provides customers access to the AT&T network for all alternatively-billed calls, including calling card, credit card and collect calls.
Skype announced that its highly anticipated application, Skype for iPhone, will be available on the Apple App Store beginning today. The app also adds Skype calling and instant messaging to any second generation iPod touch with a compatible headset and microphone.
The application delivers core Skype capabilities including:
Free Skype-to-Skype calls from any Wi-Fi zone to other Skype users worldwide
Call landline or mobile phones at Skype’s great low rates from any Wi-Fi zone
Send/receive instant messages to/from individuals or groups via 3G, Wi-Fi, GPRS or EDGE (whichever is available)
Receive calls to a personal online number on Skype
See when Skype contacts are online/available to IM or talk
Nokia has announced a software update to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to further improve the performance and add new functionalities to the device. The software update is immediately available for download on Nokia Software Update website (http://www.nokia.com/softwareupdate) free of charge (data charges may apply).
Improvements in the new software version include faster data download from Internet, improved e-mail experience, better search experience with in-device search. Many additional features are also included in the software update:
Faster user interface and faster download times
New camcorder features: second camera support for still image capture in addition to video calls, burst mode that allows people to take multiple pictures one after another without needing to repress the picture taking button
Mobile Dictionary: built-in dictionary functionality with voice playback of words utilizing text-to-speech technology, support for 38 languages
AT&T today announced a fresh new lineup of smartphones and quick messaging phones that make it easier for customers to message with friends and family and manage their business and personal lives on-the-go.
In the smartphone category, AT&T debuted the Nokia E71x and the Samsung Prope Pro, two stylish smartphones that inspire fun, while delivering serious functionality.
In addition, the Samsung Impression and Samsung Magnet, and LG Xenon and Neon emerge to the lead AT&T's lineup of quick messaging phones and expands the number of full-keyboard mobile phones in AT&T's lineup to seven.
Motorola, Inc. today introduced Motorola Evoke QA4, a socially-inclined device with a 2.8” full touch-screen that keeps you constantly connected. Evoke supports different messaging styles with a full touch-screen QWERTY keyboard and slide out traditional keypad.
Customize the home screen content with integrated widgets and personalized RSS feeds1, and use the full HTML browser1 to share pictures, videos and more online.
Whether you stay connected through phone calls, messaging, Web feeds, social networks or all of the above1, Evoke meets your preferences. The device offers multiple ways to make a phone call with a physical slider keypad and intuitive dialing features on the touch-screen. Equipped with an accelerometer, turn Evoke on its side to reveal a full-touch QWERTY keyboard for easy texting. Home screen messaging icons, predictive text and IM-style messaging make it easy to follow the back-and-forth of multiple conversations.
According to ABI Research, 2009 will be a bad year for cellular handset sales worldwide. However ABI Research’s current forecasts for 2010 are cautiously optimistic; if by optimism you mean that we may see shipment numbers stabilize and maintain an essentially flat growth rate rather than falling further.
Even if global shipment numbers hold steady at essentially 2009 levels, there will be regional variations. Some regions such as the Middle East and Africa will fare comparatively better, but volumes there are quite low. The Asia-Pacific region will suffer most in 2009, primarily as a result of its huge volume of shipments, roughly triple the next largest region. And stabilization, if it comes, will arrive there a little later than in North America and Europe, resulting in a 2010 forecast that still shows a minimal decline in shipments, while other regions may enjoy a minimal positive growth.
Do you own an iPhone or iPod and wear gloves in the winter or you have long nails? This can be a problem using your iPhone or iPod. To get around this consider using a Pogo Stylus sold over at ThinkGeek.com for $14.99.
The stylus allows you to answer phone calls and surf the web all while keeping your hands toasty. The iPhone's glassy touch sensitive screen is only sensitive to your fingers. This is because it uses a technology called capacitive touch which measures the flow of electrons through your skin. Problem is, our fingers are rounded and not too precise at picking out tiny URLs in Safari.
Luckily the Pogo iPhone Stylus have solved this problem by making a stylus to trick the iPhone into thinking it's really a finger. The tip of the stylus is a soft felt like material that has the added benefit of keeping your screen clean while you tap away.
Opera Software and Skyhook Wireless today announced their partnership to bring geolocation to the Web. Users can now simply choose to share their location with any Web site and get a range of information about related products and services around them. Whether it is local searching, social networking, geotagging photos, local advertising or discovering nearby content, geolocation is a key factor in creating a relevant and meaningful experience on the Web.
Traditionally, geolocation was considered as being only a part of a downloadable mobile application, but, with Skyhook’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), any computer or mobile phone with a wireless adapter can take advantage of its advanced positioning technology and locate a user, making this service available to any Web site.
At next week’s CTIA Wireless Show, Opera Software will be announcing the new Opera Mobile 9.7 server-accelerated browser for smartphones and mobile devices. To learn more, check out the Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo demo video to the right.
Opera Mobile 9.7 features Opera Turbo, Opera’s breakthrough compression technology, along with the company’s latest Presto 2.2 rendering engine (also used in Opera 10 desktop) and full support for dynamic Web technologies such as Ajax and Flash (for accessing popular sites like Facebook and YouTube).
In today’s tough business climate where customer expectations are ever-increasing, Opera Mobile 9.7 with Opera Turbo can help carriers reduce network congestion while helping mobile device manufacturers bring increased speed and a more rich Web browsing experience to their customer and users.
Sony Ericsson today announced its latest mobile phone, the T707, with tennis star and style icon Maria Sharapova, who perfectly epitomises the phone’s sleek and elegant qualities.
The T707 truly interacts with the user – it lights up when you receive a call and you can personalise the light settings to each of your friends, so you always know who wants you. If you are too busy to answer, simply end the call with a wave of your hand over the screen – you can also do the same gesture to snooze the alarm – your very own magic wand! Perfect pixels for every pose Coordinate the T707 to any outfit, as it comes in a rainbow range of three clam shells to suit every mood. Whatever you wear will be perfectly captured by the 3.2 megapixel camera, making sure that you stand out on screen as much as you do in real life.
The photos can then be uploaded to your personal social networking site using the HTML web browser, so you and your friends can keep up to date wherever you are.
Starting tomorrow, Alltel is making “My Circle” an even more robust, more flexible and more cost-effective calling feature. In the 91 Cellular Market Areas (CMAs) that Verizon is required to divest, which will continue to operate as Alltel Wireless until they are sold, customers on "My Circle 10" and "My Circle 20" calling plans will automatically receive an additional five numbers for unlimited calling.
Alltel is once again demonstrating its steadfast commitment to providing its customers with value and unmatched control over their wireless experience with today’s announcement of a major expansion to “My Circle.”
With the addition of five numbers to “My Circle,” Alltel customers in these 91 CMAs in 22 states will now have unlimited calling to more of the people that matter most to them. The new “My Circle 15,” previously “My Circle 10,” and “My Circle 25,” previously “My Circle 20,” will maintain the same competitive rates. “My Circle 15” starts at $59.99 per month and includes 900 anytime minutes, and “My Circle 25” starts at $99.99 per month and includes 2,100 anytime minutes. The five additional numbers will be automatically available to existing "My Circle" customers on eligible plans.
Google has announced that Google Mobile App on your Blackberry will now let you search with your voice and with My Location. Try it by visiting http://m.google.com on your Blackberry.
As an example; let’s say you are visiting Manhattan, NY, and you have a craving for prime rib stake. With the My Location feature enabled, you can just enter "prime rib stake" into Google Mobile App, and it will return the restaurants selling prime rib stake closest to you. No need to type in "prime rib stake near 34th Street". Google Mobile App will also displays search suggestions as you type, you may only need to type part of the query before "Best Prime Rib in Manhattan" pops up as a suggestion.
Additionally, searching by voice can be used in with the My Location feature, and works well with standard Google searches, such as currency conversion and weather.
Sprint today announced the next markets in the national Sprint 4G roll out. Sprint, the first national carrier to test, launch and market 4G technology, is extending its 4G leadership by launching the next, generation service across the country. Sprint 4G offers turbo-charged mobile broadband, peak downlink speeds of up to 12 Mbps in Baltimore today and average downlink speeds of 2-4 Mbps – three to five times faster than today’s 3G service from any carrier.
Sprint plans to deploy Sprint 4G service in many markets in 2009, including: Atlanta, Honolulu, Charlotte, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Portland, Fort Worth, Seattle. Sprint also expects to launch service in multiple markets in 2010 including Boston, Houston, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
At this year’s International CTIA WIRELESS 2009 tradeshow and conference, attendees from more than 125 countries will learn about the latest wireless innovations—including health and energy applications, mobile storefronts and new content offerings.
During a time of economic uncertainty, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about innovations that increase efficiency and result in ubiquitous access across industries on the keynote stage, show floor and in conference sessions. International CTIA WIRELESS takes place April 1-3, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
More than 1,000 exhibitors will present innovative wireless products and services on the show floor at International CTIA WIRELESS 2009. Exhibitor booths and specialized industry and international pavilions will show a variety of technologies, applications and services that demonstrate continued growth and innovation in the global wireless industry.
The keynote stage will host a variety of industry leaders and provide attendees with new perspectives on the future of the wireless industry.
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