Cell Phone TrendsCell Phone TrendsVerizon Wireless adds Prepaid Callling Palns
Verizon Wireless today launched INpulse, the company's new prepaid wireless service. Available today, the service offers unlimited calling to other Verizon Wireless customers, as well as unlimited domestic night calling (after 9 PM,) for a flat rate of 99 cents per day. Daytime calls to non-Verizon customers cost 10 cents per minute. Calls to Canada and Mexico cost an extra 20 cents per minute; other countries cost an extra 50 cents per minute. Prepaid airtime expires at varying intervals depending on the value purchased. The service is available with two phones: the Kyocera KX 414 for $99.99, and the LG VX 3200 for $129.99. Each comes with $50 worth of airtime.
VZW.comSearch Engines Go Mobile
Yahoo's latest offering follows its introduction in October of Yahoo Search for Mobile, a service for accessing Web, image and local search results from browser-enabled mobile devices. Now, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo is letting Web users send information from Yahoo Local results to their mobile devices as text messages. eweek.comKids rack up debt with text messagingYoung cellphone users caught on to text messaging way before most people but it looks like some kids didn’t realize the cost of their trailblazing. The New York Times talked to some that have racked up service charges in the hundreds of dollars, including one high-school student who got hit with a $150 bill — “I cried,” she said. “I felt like I lost a piece of me.” Wait a minute, we are talking about cellphone charges, right?
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After all, the ubiquitous gadget is meant to connect people
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XM Satellite Radio's CEO Hugh Panero is quoted in this Reuters article as expecting to see XM service in cellphones and mobile devices within the mythical 'next five years.' Beyond that bit, there's not a lot you'll not have heard before, as XM continues to push its XM2Go mobile player, which is just hitting stores this week.
Full Story palmOne Enhances Treo Smartphone but Challenges Remain
On 25 October 2004, palmOne introduced its next-generation smartphone, the Treo 650, which combines a compact mobile phone with e-mail, an organizer, messaging and Web access. The Treo 650 will be available in a CDMA (code division multiple access) model, as well as a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phone. Individual carriers will set pricing before they make the phone available in the United States later in 2004, and worldwide in 2005.
Full StoryVirgin Selling Music via Net
Virgin Chief Richard Branson is introducing a new online music store today, VirginDigital.com, selling music as streams of bits to be downloaded from the Internet. This makes Virgin the first major music retailer to enter the download market, which has been dominated by Apple and other technology companies.
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Treo and Blackberry compete for Phone/PDA crown
It was 10 years ago that IBM and BellSouth teamed up to create the first device that merged a cell phone with a digital organizer.
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