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Free mobile program launched by Clear Channel

Posted on May 21st, 2007 | Cingular, News, Services

Clear Channel Communications Inc. announced a new free mobile offering enabling listeners to make song requests, get real-time traffic reports, and access other information by sending a text-message to Clear Channel’s radio stations.
The new free mobile program follows the payed program ($2.99 per month) launched in September jointly with Cingular Wireless. The payed program [...]

Cingular Settles Mobile Advertisement Dispute

Posted on January 30th, 2007 | Cingular, News

According to media reports, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. agreed to pay $35K under the terms of the online advertisement settlement.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Cingular, along with Priceline.com Inc. and Travelocity.com L.P., reached settlements with the state for promoting products and services on the Internet through programs installed on users’ computers called adware.
According to [...]

Motorola KRZR at Cingular

Posted on January 15th, 2007 | Cingular, Motorola

Motorola KRZR was launched by Cingular. The KRZR, up to this point only available from CDMA carriers, is a Motorola’s replacement for the popular RAZR.
The new unit gained some thickness over its predecessor but it is shorter and narrower.
Motorola KRZR includes the following features:

176×220 pixel screen with 262k colors
2 megapixel camera with 8x zoom and [...]

Cingular and mobile ads

Posted on January 3rd, 2007 | AT&T, Cingular, Sprint, Verizon

Cingular has big plans to follow Verizon Wireless and Sprint in the new move to the mobile advertisement.
According to BigOM, Ed Whitacre, chief executive of AT&T, which also owns the largest wireless carrier told the WSJ that it too will look to incorporate mobile ads later this year.
Om is guessing that on-deck mobile ads are [...]

MySpace by Cingular Wireless

Posted on December 18th, 2006 | Cingular, News, Services

Cingular Wireless announced today that it would offer MySpace.com on its phones.
The new service will cost $2.99 per month and it will have the following features:

Read and respond to MySpace e-mail
Upload photos directly from the cell phone
View and search for friends from their handsets
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Cingular follows steps of Helio, a phone service carrier already [...]

Cingular is hiking text messaging fee

Posted on December 16th, 2006 | Cingular, News

Cingular Wireless will increase the cost for sending and receiving text messages by 50%. Staring January 21st, 2007 SMS users will pay a new price of 15 cents per message.
Cingular is following Sprint’s price increase earlier this year. The pricing change only affects customers who are not on a messaging plan and [...]

Two Types of Windows Mobile

Posted on December 9th, 2006 | Cingular, Mobile, Motorola, Verizon

According to Brighthand, there are two different types of Windows Mobile used in Smarthphones. There are differences between them, so the end user purchasing a smartphone should understand which operating system he/she is buying.
It is hard to tell by just looking at the phone which version comes with the unit, since most smartphones have [...]

BlackBerry Pearl from Cingular

Posted on November 30th, 2006 | BlackBerry, Cingular

BlackBerry Pearl was announced by Cingular. The Pearl is the first BlackBerry equipt with a camera and a trackball instead of scroll wheel. The device is popular at T-Mobile and I think it will be a pretty popular seller over at Cingular. The BlackBerry Pearl brings the business and consumer features in a [...]

LG CU400 at Cingular

Posted on November 28th, 2006 | Cingular, LG

Cingular has launched the LG CU400, 3G compatable camera and video phone. You can watch videos, TV, news, and more with Cingular Video service.
Features of the CU400 include:

176×220 pixel screen with 65k colors
Quad-band GSM plus UMTS 3G and EDGE
VGA camera with 4x zoom & video
Bluetooth
Instant messaging - AOL®, Yahoo!®, ICQ®, & MSN®
Quad-band world phone [...]

Cingular announced Samsung BlackJack

Posted on November 13th, 2006 | Cingular, Samsung

Cingular announced the Samsung BlackJack. The new thin QWERTY smartphone will join the market with the T-Mobile Dash and the Motorola Q all three smartphones competing with each other.
Features of the Samsung BlackJack include:

Quad EDGE/GPRS and dual HSDPA
2.3” 65K TFT color QVGA display (320×240 pixels)
Memory ROM 128MB, RAM 64MB (PDA) and ROM 64, RAM 64 [...]

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