Cricket Communications announced that it will start offering its no-contract-requiring mobile phone and wireless internet services in Las Vegas beginning on May 13. The company offers monthly rate plans ranging from $30 to $60 per month, which include unlimited anytime minutes, U.S. long-distance, text and picture messaging, unlimited text to Mexico, unlimited Mobile Web, directory…
Archives for May 2008
AT&T to sell Garmin Nuvifone for $500?
Garmin is reportedly in the midst of surveying users whether they would buy their Nuviphone through AT&T for $499.99 with a two year contract. The deal would include unlimited Internet browsing and unlimited Navigation plan for $19.99 per month and one of the standard voice plans for a monthly fee. Sounds a lot to me.…
Nokia to offer “a lot” of new phones in the coming months for the US market
“In the next few months (U.S.) operators will carry a lot of new products from us.” said Alastair Curtis, Nokia chief designer, told Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper. Something to look forward to if you’re a Nokia fan in America tired of importing your mobile phone from another part of the globe. [Via: Reuters]
24-carat Gold iPhone Black Beauty edition by Goldstriker
Goldstriker has done it again. Just two days ago we posted about their gorgeous Solar Star edition iPhone and now they’re presenting us with yet another iPhone flavor. This time it’s the Black Beauty edition, which like many other of their products relies on gold to deliver the luxurious details, such as front bezel and…
GSmart’s new thumb-friendly Windows Mobile UI looks cool, kinda familiar
Giga-Byte recently announced a newly developed user interface for its GSmart Windows Mobile smartphones called “Smart Touch”. The thumb-friendly UI is quite intuitive and flexible, but few icons located at the bottom of the screen make us think they borrowed an idea or two from Apple. Smart Touch allows users to add up to 16…
BlackBerry Curve 8330 also coming to Verizon on May 9
Just few days ago we posted Verizon will release the Samsung’s touchy feely Glyde, aka U940, on May 9. Apparently, that won’t be the single device released on that day. Alongside the Samsung’s baby, Verizon will also make the BlackBerry Curve 8330 available. Announced during this year’s CTIA, the new Curve sports an EV-DO radio…
FCC reveals Samsung i770, global version of the i760?
Back in November of last year, we talked about Verizon’s plans to release the dual CDMA/GSM version of the Samsung i760. From then on, we haven’t heard anything more about it. Until now. Not that Verizon or Samsung are announcing anything, yet. It’s the FCC where we spotted the i770 smartphone, which looks familiar and…
Faked handsets cause content problems…
(FYI, the pic above is of a fake HTC TyTn II) Now we here at IntoMobile are often posting about faked versions of major manufacturer handsets that we’ve seen – only a few months back, barely a week used to go by without a new set of “fake vs real” pics (you can check…
Texting whilst driving – dangerous, but common…
According to a new survey of 1,200 people conducted by Nationwide Insurance (UK), one third of “Generation Y” admitted they “multitask” whilst driving – that it itself is one scary admission, but check this out – 37% of them said they are texting whilst driving… Now I don’t know if you have ever done this,…
Texting is for old people!
Research by Orange has shown that texting is on the way out – appraently when peopel start using Mobile-IM, they reduce their use of text messages: “Of every 100 messages – including texts, emails and picture messages – sent by users without mobile instant messaging from their mobile phone or computer, 38 are text messages.…