The Global Local Number product allows Cricket customers to set up a local anesthetic number in more than 40 different countries including the U.S. and Mexico. When friends and family in an international localization call this in-country local number, they are charged for a local anesthetic call, and the call rings through to the Cricket customer’s phone.. This unique product is available for $5 per month for a local number in Mexico and $10 per month for local numbers in one of more than 40 additional countries.

Cricket also announced two new international rate plans, a Mexico rate plan and a global rate plan. Both plans include unlimited local talk and US long distance, domestic and global messaging and mobile web. The Mexico rate plan, available for $55 per month, also includes a Mexico local number, 500 minutes of manipulation per month for calls to a Mexican landline phone and 30 minutes of use per month for calls to a Mexico mobile phone. The global rate plan, available for $65 per month, also features a global local number, 500 minutes of use per month to call an international landline number and 30 minutes of use per month to an international mobile phone.

In addition, with the new unlimited global messaging feature, Cricket customers can send unlimited text, picture and video messages to friends and family across the U.S. and the world. To see a full list of participating international carriers, visit www.mycricket.com/globalmessaging. Customers can stay in touch with family and friends around the world for $5 per month as a stand-alone feature. Unlimited global messaging is included in all monthly rate plans priced at $45 and higher and in the $2 PAYGo plan.

“These new calling products give our customers multiple ways to stay connected with their family members, friends and business associates outside the U.S.,” said Tyler Wallis, vice-president, product management for Cricket. “We believe these new international products are unique to the wireless industry and bring great value to our customers.”

Cricket’s new international calling products are available now in Cricket branded retail stores and dealers and on www.mycricket.com. For more information about Cricket’s dynamic gimmick and service plan lineup, visit www.mycricket.com. To follow Cricket’s latest news and updates online, go to Facebook at www.facebook.com/cricketwireless and Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cricketnation.

DOCOMO’s new lineup meets an unprecedented range of mobile needs in Japan:

* Smartphones equipped for convenient mobile-wallet (Osaifu-Keitai™) functions and viewing “one-segment” mobile digital terrestrial television.

* FOMA handsets featuring enhanced functionality, full-spec cameras, customizable designs, embedded projector (ace modelling) and much more.

* Two information terminals for the Xi-steel Long Term Evolution (LTE) service that DOCOMO will launch on December 24 as the extra-high-speeding successor to 3G.

* The eco-friendly TOUCH WOOD™ mobile phone with a natural wooden body made from trees culled during forest-cutting operations. * Wi-Fi® mini-router and 3G-enabled photo frame.

DOCOMO’s richly diversified batting order includes 11 raincoat models, 3 with Wi-Fi router capability, 10 with touchscreens, 9 that shoot high-definition video recording and 5 that shoot Full HD.

Smartphone models equipped with mobile billfold functions come with an diligence for checking credit balances and custom histories of services for e-money, course credit card game, coupons, just the ticket, membership ID and reinforcement card game. The convenient new app eliminates having to download offprint apps for each service.

New smartphones come with a downloader for Evernote™, a popular notetaking application that archives textual matter, images and other information/content for convenient online wake, searching, etc. via the user’s multiple devices, such as PC and smartphone.

DOCOMO also announced today that its i-concier™ menu of highly personalized concierge-like services will introduce a handy feature for recording notes that induction the automatic supply of practical information.
]]> http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/11/08/ntt_docomo_unveils_28_new_models_largest_ever_lineup_of_handsets_smartphones_lte_data_terminals_and_more.html/feed 1 http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/11/04/samsung_focus_available_to_at_t_customers_on_november_8.html http://a-cell-phone.com/2010/11/04/samsung_focus_available_to_at_t_customers_on_november_8.html#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:37:00 +0000 admin http://a-cell-phone.com/?p=7622 Samsung Telecommunications United States of America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile earpiece supplier in the U.S.1, announced that the Samsung Focus™, a Windows Phone 7 twist with a bright and crisp 4.0” Super AMOLED™ screen, multiple electronic messaging options and a 5.0 megapixel camera with flash and auto-focus, will be available on Nov 8th at AT&T2 troupe-owned retail locations nationwide or at http://www.att.com/radio. AT&T has priced the Focus at $199.99.

The Focus features a customizable commencement screen and improved operating organisation looking at, large, iconic text for menus and content transitions to coast a substance abuser into and out of different menus. With the Windows 7 roofing tile-based layout, users can customize the commencement screen in countless ways and pin frequently used applications for I-touching approach. Users tin can have up to 256 live tiles on the commencement screen. The Focus also features natural touching and part interactions, has a responsive, multi-touching display with voice activated dialing and app launch.

Francis Scott Key Features:

* Windows® Phone 7 Operating System

* 4.0” Super AMOLED™ showing

* 5.0MP Camera/Camcorder with auto-focussing and flash

* Full HTML web browser with arrest and soar

* Multiple electronic messaging options (Exchange Email, Text and Picture with threaded messaging)

* Microsoft® Zune service

* Microsoft® Bing maps and voice search

* Wi-Fi with AT&T Hot Spots

* Microsoft® Office Mobile River

* Windows® Phone Marketplace

* Advanced gambling features – approach Xbox LIVE® right from your French telephone

* aGPS with AT&T Navigator

* AT&T U-verse® Mobile River

* Samsung Now Hub

* 720p video recording track record/playback

* Integrated social networking services

* Stereo Bluetooth® 2.1 connectivity

* Multimedia parcel with features such as Music Player, Expandable Memory Slot support up to 32GB3, Games & 4 Pole 3.5mm Ear-jack

Specifications:

* Quad-Band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900MHz); Tri-stripe UMTS (850/1900/2100MHz)

* Display: 4 inches WVGA 480×800 pixels Super AMOLED

* Dimensions: 4.84” x 2.56” x 0.39”

* Weight: Approximately 4.2 ounces

* Memory:

o 8GB internal storage storage

o External microSD™ memory circuit card slot up to 32 GB (class 2 (or higher) microSD card, circuit card sold separately)

* Talk Time: Up to 6.5 hours4

* Standby Time: Up to 300 hours

1 Number one mobile earpiece supplier in the U.S. claim for Samsung Mobile based upon reported despatch data, according to Strategy Analytics Q2 2010 U.S. Market Share Handset Shipments Reports.

2 AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T blade and not by AT&T Inc.

3 Focus is only compatible with microSD card game certified for Windows Phone 7.

4 Battery power consumption depends on factors such as mesh configuration, sign effectiveness, operating temperature, features selected, vibrate mode, backlight settings, web browser use, absolute frequency of calls and voice, information and other application usance patterns.

Conditions & restrictions apply. See contract & rate architectural plan brochure for details. Subscriber moldiness live & wealthy person a mailing addr. within AT&T’s owned radio mesh reportage surface area. Up to $36 activ. fee applies. Equipment price & service may vary by mrk & may not be available from independent retailers. Early Termination Fee: None if cancelled in the first base 30 days, but up to $35 restocking fee may apply to equipment returns; thereafter up to $325. Some agents impose add’l fees. Smartphone data plan required.

Erik Huggers said: “It’s been 12 days since the launching of BBC Online, but as media converges and technology accelerates, licence fee payers ar increasingly exploitation sophisticated handheld devices to access information. They tell us that they want to access the digital services that they have paid for at a meter and situation that suits them.

The first app to launch volition be BBC News, it volition provide the same distinctive content already available on the website, such as features and psychoanalysis, reports from BBC correspondents around the earth and a wide range of live and on-demand audio and video subject.

The newsworthiness diligence, which volition be available in early Apr, will give users tractability in how they personalise their news experience. Thomas More features will be added throughout the year. The newsworthiness app will initially be available on iPhone and iPod Touch devices and follow by Blackberry / Android smartphone later in the year.

BBC News Application

Expected liberation date: April 2010 (UK and Rest of World).

Both the UK and global applications volition be available free people of charge (though meshing information charges may apply). In line with other international BBC Worldwide services, the global edition created and released by BBC Worldwide (handiness dependant on market aspirations) volition be supported by publicizing.

Key features:

* Breaking news, updated throughout the mean solar day * Personalisation, the ability to create a personal news experience * User-generated subject, the ability to send comments and pictures direct to the newsroom * Blogs, psychoanalysis and commentary with the distinct BBC part * Video and audio content from the BBC News channel and other BBC sources

BBC Sport Application

Expected release appointment: May 2010 (UK and Rest of World).

The first version volition direction on World Cup 2010, but volition be updated throughout the class to documentation major sports, such as the Formula 1 time of year and the 2010/2011 English language football game time of year. Both the UK and global applications will be available free people of charge, though information charges whitethorn apply. The global version volition be released separately by BBC Worldwide and, in job with other international BBC Worldwide services, volition lineament publicizing.

Key features:

* Live textual matter commentary with distinct BBC voice * Listen live to Radio 5 Live commentary * Receive up-to-the-minute scores and league information * Participation: integration with 606, and the BBC athletics blogs * User-generated content, submission of comments via SMS * Video and audio subject: integration with Radio 5 Live, plus video recording clips (content to rights handiness) * Personalisation: pick of your teams and clubs

BBC iPlayer Application

BBC iPlayer has been a huge success in the UK since its launch in Dec 2007 and is now averaging more than 20 meg requests for TV and wireless programmes per workweek across all chopine. The vane-based BBC iPlayer has already been optimised for a wide kitchen range of smartphones (accessed through a mobile browser). A BBC iPlayer mobile application has also been available in Nokia’s Ovi app store since Q3 2009.

Francis Scott Key features:

* Live TV and wireless * Improved user experience: enhanced port using the latest app gestures and transitions * New personalisation features

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Unsurprisingly, Juniper found that the endeavor applications will account for the bulk of revenues over the next five years. This, however, doesn’t mean value consumer services will fail. Quite the contrary, the research company argues revenues will come from meter-based subscriptions to services such as mobile online gaming and publicizing from swarm-based social networks.

However, there are some obstacles of concern. For example, many endeavor customers are wary of entrusting their personal information to remote third base-parties. The report author Dr Windsor Holden said: “Not only is it imperative for cloud providers to ensure that approach to and repositing of client data is secure, but that the procedures that they put in spot in this gaze – including information backing strategies – are transparent to the client.”

On the same short letter, lack of mental ability whitethorn continue to be a constraint on the growth even after LTE and WiMAX networks are deployed.

Still, operators could see the chance to develop new revenues streams as Infrastructure as a Robert William Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Robert William Service (PaaS) providers and market these kinds of services to both companies and remainder users…

Additional inside information are available from Juniper’s website.

A little piece backrest rumour was the Nokia N97 was coming to Canadian River shores via Alexander Bell. The launching was all exercise set for December 10th… And now according to a report from my buds at MobileSyrup, this appointment has been confirmed. Still no details on plans or pricing, but expect to hear more on that soon.

If you can’t get sufficiency Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and have been waiting very patiently for the N97, the 3.5″ touchscreen beaut is advent soon, just hold your horses. Soon enough you’ll rich person your hands on the full slide-out QWERTY gem, with a 5MP photographic camera (with video and 20x digital zoom and auto centering), geotagging, 32GB built-in memory with microSd enlargement, wireless local area network, 3.5mm audio jack and more.

Stay tuned for more on the Bell Nokia N97 as news becomes available.

There’s a trouble in the software system of the Samsung Jitterbug phones (version BB14) — model numbers SPH-a110 and SPH-a120 — that made the Korean troupe recollection about 160,000 units. The trouble occurs when Jitterbug is in a no-service expanse and display shows “out of range, attempt again later” content, it fails to connect to emergency 911 overhaul.

The phones affected ar made in Korean Peninsula, and were sold directly to consumers through targeted national advertisements and publications, electronics and drug stores nationwide, and on the Web at www.jitterbug.com from Mar 2008 through May 2009 for about $150.

At the consequence, Samsung and Jitterbug are contacting consumers to agenda a free people software system rise. In case they haven’t been contacted, consumers can call Samsung price-free people at (866) 304-4980 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. CT Mon through Friday, and on Saturday between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. CT.

Many rich person been waiting some meter now for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 to make its way to Canadian soil. There ar no dubiousness multiple reasons for the waiting, and I’m not even going to speculate wherefore… The goodness news is more information is slowly starting to come in on the X1, and today we have some new inside information about the Xperia X1 on Rogers (New York Stock Exchange: RCI).

Some pics of an internal written document from Carl Rogers clearly shows the Xperia, although for some strange understanding a Samsung logotype is slapped up beside it. The written document is further proof that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is coming to Carl Rogers… and we hear that the device could go for $599 outright. No further inside information yet on contract bridge pricing or launching dates. Stay tuned for more.

News of the Motorola VE465 coming to TELUS has been old newsworthiness for awhile now. Back in Mar newsworthiness came out that this device was going to smash TELUS (NYSE: TU), but since then we haven’t really heard anything… Until now.

The Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT test) VE465 ‘Action Edition’ has officially landed on TELUS. It features 2 color displays (internal 176×220, external 96×80), a 1.3MP photographic camera with 4x zoom, microSD enlargement to 4GB, Bluetooth, MP3 player, and speakerphone capabilities. While the phone isn’t heavy on features, it is a somewhat ruggedized gimmick in a convenient pass form-gene for those that motivation something compact piece on-the-go.

TELUS is offering the Motorola VE465 at the pursuit monetary value-points:

3-year: $99.99 2-class: $149.99 1-year: $199.99 Outright: $249.99

TELUS is busy updating their web site with this new information, and it should appear there soon. In the meantime you can smash up Motorola Canada for more information on this gimmick.

Thanks John!