Today MetrocPCS announced the addition of the Samsung Messager to its lineup of phones. The Messager is a sideways slider with full QWERTY keyboard. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera, SMS, MMS, email and IM messaging capabilities, Bluetooth and speakerphone. It also has an external micro SD slot that supports cards up to 2GB. Pricing […]

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Last week Bandai introduced its SmartBerry Handset, a nifty device for young girls (6 to 9 years old). Our slider styled touch screen unit allows you to exchange personal information including business cards, blood type, and birthday via the “Wai-Wai communication” system, a Bluetooth system.
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Today Sony Ericsson added three handsets to its Walkman lineup of phones. All three feature quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, stereo Bluetooth and FM radios. They will be available in select markets in the fourth quarter.

W902: This high-end, bar-style music phone has many of Sony Ericsson’s signature music applications and services, such as SenseMe and Shake Control. […]

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Today Virgin Mobile USA announced a new unlimited calling plan. The Totally Unlimited plan, which will be available beginning July 1, will give customers unlimited nationwide calling with no roaming or other fees for $80 per month. Add $10 to also get unlimited text messaging, picture messaging, instant messaging, and email. Virgin does not require […]

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Today Nokia officially announced two new additions to its E series business-focused devices, the E66 slider and the E71 bar-phone with full QWERTY keyboard. They share a large number of features. Both have quad-band GSM/EDGE radios and several 3G profiles, with each coming in a 3.6Mbps WCDMA/HSDPA 850/1900 North American variant. Bluetooth 2.0+EDR with stereo […]

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Today Verizon Wireless announced a new, push-based email service for business users. Above and beyond its WirelessSync and POP3 email access services, this will allow users of Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync to have email pushed directly to non-PDA, standard mass market-grade handsets. It will allow for full syncing with Exchange servers, including all emails, contacts, and […]

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T-Mobile’s Sidekick Slide Scarlet, the new color variant of the messaging-friendly handset, has gone on sale today as expected. With a QWERTY keyboard, slide-up QVGA screen and GSM/GPRS/EDGE data connection, the Slide’s key skills lie in its preloaded AOL, MSN and Yahoo! IM clients, together with support for POP3 and IMAP FETCH email. […]

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Helio and its POP/IMAP email partners are offering push email to users of the Ultimate Inbox on the Ocean, Mysto and Fin devices. When checking your email accounts from those phones, you’ll be prompted to enable the push functionality. Once enabled, Gmail or any other POP/IMAP email account you have will automatically push new email […]

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Today Sony Ericsson announced two new phones. The Z780 and the G502 both have HSDPA for high-speed data and support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync email. They share a bevy of entertainment features, including 2 megapixel cameras with video record, FM radios, stereo Bluetooth, 3D games and other web 2.0 tools. The also have the Access […]

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Verizon announced new messaging plans meant for those who use the messaging/data features more than the voice features of their cell phones. All three plans provide unlimited text, picture, IM and video messaging, as well as unlimited mobile Web and data. None of the plans requires an accompanying voice plan. The consumer devices messaging plan […]

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