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Cricket Communications has recently announced a $5 monthly service for unlimited mobile video downloads.

Customers can watch clips of 1 to 4 minutes in length, such as music videos, sports news, movie trailers and more, without being charged for data transferred.

As we’re living in the “social web world,” Cricket included the special feature to allow users to search and make video recommendations.

The service is available now with any Cricket plan and works on selected handsets through a WAP browser.

Commenting on the new service launch, Cricket’s Scott Edwards said: “This service provides customers a new opportunity to personalize their handsets. Whether they opt for Reggaeton videos or YU-GI-OH! clips, all customers can appreciate the value of unlimited downloads for one low flat rate.”

[Via: WirelessWeek]

I’m not sure many iPhone users will like the idea, but now they can make their shiny handset feel like the HTC Touch Diamond. Even if you’re a hard core Apple fanboy, you gotta admit — HTC Touch Diamond looks good. The TouchFLO 3D rocks and is certainly one of the best (if not the best) UI for Windows Mobile. And now you can at least try to see how it would work on the iPhone.

A jailbroken device is required and afterwards you just need to search for iPhoneFLO in Installer.app and take it from there. If you have something constructive to say about the theme, please use the comments bellow. Otherwise, please don’t use us for flame wars. Thanks.

[Via: MobilityToday]

The Wall Street Journal seems to think BlackBerry users are more important than those using other mobile phones. Hence, they’ve recently launched a dedicated mobile app to provide CrackBerry addicts with access to all the news from their network for free. The so called WSJ.com Mobile Reader allows users to read latest headlines, summaries and even full articles from WSJ website and from other sites of the WSJ Digital Network — including MarketWatch, Barrons and AllThingsD.

Best of all, when using WSJ.com Mobile Reader, you won’t be seeing any ads. The monetization part seems still “work in progress,” but somehow I’ve no doubts they [ads] will start appearing in no time. Something’s gotta give, after all…

To try out the WSJ.com Mobile Reader, hop over to this page on The Wall Street Journal’s website and take it from there.

[Via: Unwired View]

Rock The Vote, AT&T and FunMobility announced the launch of downloadable mobile content to “help encourage young people to leverage their voting power in the political process.” Rock The Vote’s mobile campaign brings together popular music, artists and mobile technologies.

On its end, FunMobility — which is known to have the largest inventory of free downloads including wallpapers and ringtones — created a robust catalog of Rock The Vote wallpapers and other mobile content and made it available for download from the FunMobility’s FunScreenz application within AT&T MEdia Mall or at rockthevote.funmo.com.

Additionally, new content will continue to be added to the storefront through the election on November 4th.

Again we’re talking about the Olympics and how companies are trying to take advantage of the summer games to grab some media attention. Today we bring you the story of two large companies, Lenovo and Intel, which have partnered to release a free mobile widget through Zumobi.

The cool widget showcases content from Lenovo’s “Voices” and “Olympic Podium” websites, to keep mobile users in touch with athletes and news coming in from Beijing.

Existing Zumobi fans will be delighted to know that the Olympics widget uses “Zumobi 4″ interface, an on-phone Tile gallery and has a smaller foot print for quicker movement. In addition, it’s the first Zumobi widget available for the iPhone.

Interested? You should be — it’s really cool. Hop over to lenovo.zumobi.com from a web browser on your mobile phone and take it from there…

Last year we saw Nokia releasing the N73 Ramadan Special Edition and people apparently dig the idea. Now the Finnish giant is going one step forward to extend its reach to Muslims who use other Nokia phones. That being said, they’ve launched the Nokia Ramadan Microsite to release an entire collection of free software and Ramadan-related services that will be downloadable globally as well as pre-loaded on a bunch of handsets in the Middle East — including the new N78 - throughout August the N70 Music Edition, E51, 3120 Classic, 6500 Slide, 6300 and 2630 will become available with the Ramadan apps pre-loaded. Plus the apps are available to download onto eight other devices including the N95 and N82.

Some of the apps you’ll be able to download include:

• Quran in Othmani font and with a multi-lingual interface and with an ability to search and bookmark any Ayah or Surah.
• Emsakya - alerts followers with times for the daily prayer, Suhour and Iftar during the Holy Month of Ramadan.
• Ramadaniat - features a large collection of useful information concerning fasting, Zakah Al-Fitr, the benefits of Laylat Al-Qadr and the I’tekaf.
• Hajj & Umrah - a mobile guide for both journeys with multimedia content in addition to the most famous places that you can visit on the way.
• Cards - allows creation of Mobile Greeting Cards and the ability to send them to family and friends via SMS or MMS.
• Mozzaker - a large collection of daily Azkar.

Finally, let’s not forget ringtones and wallpapers, which you could use to further customize your handset…

[Via: DarlaMack]

ESPN and MediaFLO USA have announced that they will bring NASCAR live to the users of AT&T’s and Verizon Wireless’ mobile TV services.

Under the agreement, MediaFLO USA and ESPN will air live race coverage of the NASCAR Nationwide Series, as well as six Sprint Cup Series races on ESPN Mobile TV.

Upcoming Sprint Cup races include (all times Eastern on ESPN Mobile TV):

• Centurion Boats at the Glen (Watkins Glen International) - 1 p.m., Sunday, August 10
• 3M Performance 400 (Michigan International Speedway) - 1 p.m., Sunday, August 17
• Sharpie 500 (Bristol Motor Speedway) - 7 p.m., Saturday, August 23
• Pepsi 500 (Auto Club Speedway) - 7 p.m., Sunday, August 31

Upcoming Nationwide Series races include (all times Eastern on ESPN Mobile TV):

• Carfax 250 (Michigan International Speedway) - 3 p.m., Saturday, August 16
• Food City 250 (Bristol Motor Speedway) - 7:30 p.m., Friday, August 22

Complete NASCAR programming schedules are available on flotv.com.

Interested? You’ll have to sign-up for either AT&T Mobile TV with FLO or for Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Mobile TV.

Everyone and their mama want a piece of the Olympic action. Mobile content marketplace voeveo.com is not an exception, hence they’ve announced that national anthem ringtones and flag wallpapers can be downloaded from their website. Their Olympics-ready mobile content can work with virtually any mobile phone, allowing anyone to “carry the Olympic spirit in their pocket.”

In order to have a really compelling offering, voeveo has partnered with Naxos, the largest classical label, for high quality national anthem ringtones. Plus their independent sellers have made flag wallpapers, screensavers and Olympic funnies for downloads.

Commenting on the announcement, voeveo’s Annabel Youens said: “There’s something special about hearing your national anthem when your phone rings. It’s an easy way to feel part of the Olympics and you don’t have to fly all the way to Beijing.”

RIM don’t want to miss with the BlackBerry Bold. They want to cover every single detail of the device, ringtones included. That being said they’ve commissioned former drummer for The Police, Stewart Copeland, to create an array of “smartphone soundtrack” for the BlackBerry Bold.

Copeland has creating a unique five-note melody “theme” for the just-launched smartphone, which was later expanded into a percussive minute-long track simply named “Bold” that’s preloaded into the device’s “Sample Songs” folder. In addition, a softer version with a fade-in is used as an “alarm tone”, while six variations (excerpts form various parts of the Bold theme) are available as ringtones.

Want to hear how this sounds? Hop over to APCmag.com where you can listen to The Bold theme, Bold alarm and Bold ringtones…

[Via: CrackBerry]

Here’s the theme for all the Mac fans out there using a BlackBerry smartphone. If your company can’t or don’t want to buy you an iPhone, you can still enjoy the “Apple experience” on your CrackBerry, while extending your push-email addiction at the same time.

The theme is called Flowberry and it features a pseudo Cover Flow, making a BlackBerry device look as Apple-ish as possible. The problem, though, is that the home screen icons are locked in. That may not be the issue in case you only need a fast access to the basic stuff. Unchangeable home screen icons are: Messages, Calendar, Address Book, Media, SMS/MMS, BlackBerry Messenger, MemoPad, and Keyboard Lock. If that’s good enough for you hop over to Bplay’s website (the folks behind the theme) and grab Flowberry for $6.99. All BlackBerry models are reportedly supported, though animation performance is optimal with software 4.3 or higher.

A short demo of the theme in action follows after the jump.

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