AT&T Introduces New Social Networking and Mobile Media Applications

AT&T announced today the launch of two new mobile applications – JuiceCaster 6.0 and Buzzwire – that keep you connected to your online world. JuiceCaster 6.0 enables you to use your AT&T wireless device to instantly share and post your mobile videos and photos with your favorite online communities – including exclusive mobile video postings to YouTube and Flickr. With Buzzwire, you can access and customize an extensive streaming media library that spans popular video and audio content, as well as live Internet radio, directly from AT&T

AT&T customers can use JuiceCaster to:

• Post mobile pictures and video to popular social-networking Web sites and blogs, including Blogger, Facebook, LiveJournal, MySpace, Twitter and Xanga
• Set their status to update automatically on Facebook and Twitter, and receive friends’ status updates on their own phones
• Broadcast existing or new mobile videos and photos to global audiences using YouTube and Flickr, without requiring a computer or Internet connection
• Make content public or create custom groups by adding and connecting with friends directly from AOL, JuiceCaster, Gmail, Hotmail, MS Outlook and Yahoo!
• Meet new friends within the JuiceCaster community

 

JuiceCaster 6.0 is available for $2.99 a month on compatible 2G and 3G AT&T from-juice-wireless-and-buzzwire

My thoughts.

this looks pretty neat. if your the type that takes videos of everything  and post happy like me then this could be the application to die for.  now you just need to get an n series phone for good video. cause that Motorola razr just ain’t going to cut it.  o and by the way if your still rocking that razr its time for a new phone…

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LG KT610 s60 “powerhouse”

LG KT610

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With the LG KT610, LG has basically reinvented the VX9900 for business custom. . . wait a minute, is that Symbian S60? In an LG enV-style clamshell? What’s that doing in there? What a nice, um, surprise!? Perhaps there is an audience for this phone, but we’re pretty skeptical. The external screen seemed awfully small to us, even compared to Verizon’s enV, and ditto the internal display. The keyboard seemed cramped, and the strange form factor did nothing to really improve on either the candy bar or clamshell design. Come on, LG, it’s not like you haven’t improved on the enV already. Release: August 2008. Pros: Lots of people crave S60, we’re sure. Small for a bulky smartphone. Cons: Tiny external screen, small internal screen, poor keyboard, my thoughts. To bad this phone wont work in america. Im crying just thinking about it. why LG why? Well maybe if were lucky AT&T will bring this bad boy to compete with verizons messaging phones? you know since  verizon just bought alltel and is number one now maybe will see more messaging phones from big blue? you think?  See video on right side of page. via infosynce mobile

Nokia touch “Hotness”

My thoughts
I was going to get this one but i just cant seem to want a phone without buttons? anyone else feel me?

AT&T and Nokia

Today Nokia officially unveiled the E66 and the E71 smartphone that sports a full QWERTY keyboard. Although the E66 is a sleek slider, and the E71 comes candy-bar style, the devices both support Microsoft exchange and are set to be messaging devices at the core.

Blutetooth compatibility, GPS, expandable memory perfect for a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash come standard on both handsets.

Sadly, they won’t be available until next (the third) quarter of this year
that is sad.

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verizon and the decoy

LG Decoy Now Available from Verizon Wireless

General News
The recently announced LG Decoy is now available from Verizon Wireless.

The Decoy is the first phone to support a detachable Bluetooth headset. With a 2.2″ LCD screen, the phone also has a 2MP camera, a 5 way navigational joystick, a microSD card slot (upto 8GB), music player, Bluetooth and utilizes Verizon’s network for the high speeds of EV-DO.

The Decoy is priced at $179.99 after a &50 mail-in rebate and a 2 year service agreement.
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sony experia X1

Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1

The lucky chaps over at Boy Genius Report have managed to get their hands all over Sony Ericsson’s latest and greatest — the hotly anticipated Xperia X1. Early word is that the 800 x 480 screen, optical joystick, and speedy HSDPA data are all very welcome, but the keyboard (which looks like it would be a joy to type on) leaves a lot to be desired. Of course, the OS should come as no surprise, and they don’t seem to have any shots of Sony’s “panel interface,” so for now you’ll have to make do with some nice looks at the exteriors of the device. Hit the read link and check it out yourself.

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palm treo 800w

 

 

Possible Sprint Treo 800w Release Date

Posted By: Ryan Kairer on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:33:48 AM

Rumor: WMExperts claims to have obtained what is the likely release date for the next Palm Treo smartphone due on Sprint, presumably called the Treo 800w. The site claims Tuesday, July 22nd as the tentative date, which would largely be in line with the leaked Sprint roadmap and recent comments from Palm.

The Treo 800w (also code-named Zeppelin) is expected to debut running Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional (Pocket PC edition) with a 320×320 pixel touchscreen display. It is also expected to be Palm’s first smartphone that includes Wi-Fi as well at GPS functionality and its first EVDO Rev.A device of any kind.

 

 

WMExperts also says they have confirmed some additional details on the unit:

• EvDO Rev A
• 256/128 MB Memory
• Autonomous GPS
• Windows Mobile 6.1
• An official color designation of Charcoal Black

In late April Palm began sending out “Beta Test Invites” for am unnamed new device. The invitation specified the need for Sprint customers that are heavy smartphone/email users and that also have access to a WiFi Router. The first legitimate picture leaks of this supposed device first came during Bill Gate’s keynote presentation at CES 2008.

 

 

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Sprint news

news analysis If Wall Street pundits get their way, Sprint Nextel’s next CEO will put the brakes on plans for a new, high-speed wireless network.

But such a move, while no doubt cutting costs, could condemn the struggling company to also-ran status.

After months of declining subscriber numbers, Sprint Nextel announced Monday that CEO Gary Forsee had stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer. Forsee’s departure had been a long time coming, as investors, upset over the company’s poor performance, had been pressuring the company’s board of directors to make a change at the top.

Among investors’ biggest concerns is Sprint’s plan to build a next-generation wireless network using a technology called WiMax. The company has committed itself to spending $5 billion in the next three years to build the network, with about $2 billion of that money earmarked to be spent in the next year to get WiMax coverage to about 100 million people by the end of 2008.

Wall Street analysts and investors say Sprint’s WiMax dreams are an unnecessary and dangerous diversion for the company, which is still struggling two years after the $36 billion Nextel merger to realize any of the cost savings that had been promised when the merger was announced.

 

“They need to get back to the basics and learn how to run a wireless company. This means focusing more on the present rather than the future.”

–Patrick Comack, equities analyst, Zachary Research

 

“They should stop the WiMax rollout immediately,” said Patrick Comack, an equities analyst with Zachary Research. “They need to get back to the basics and learn how to run a wireless company. This means focusing more on the present rather than the future.”

But without an ambitious plan for the future, Sprint’s long-term prospects look even more bleak. The reason is simple. Cell phone penetration in the U.S. market is approaching saturation. For Sprint to grow, therefore, it will have to steal customers from competitors.

But Sprint, the third largest operator in the U.S., may face a tough sell trying to entice customers to abandon their existing service for something similar. Unless Sprint wants to launch an all-out price war on its services, the company will need to present new, compelling features that no one else is offering.

“Sprint needs to have something sexy in the marketplace,” said Colin Orviss, head of telecommunications strategic consulting for Patni Computer Systems, a global systems integrator. “A new 4G network using WiMax with truly new and differentiated services layered on top would help Sprint stand out from the competition. And that’s what is needed to make a service more interesting to customers.”

Since Sprint acquired Nextel in 2005, the company’s stock has declined roughly 27 percent. And as competitors such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless add revenue and subscribers, Sprint has steadily been losing customers. On Monday, the company said it plans to report that it’s lost about 337,000 “post paid” customers in the third quarter of 2007.

Last week, activist investor Ralph Whitworth, who owns about 2 percent of Sprint’s outstanding stock, told The Wall Street Journal that he had lost confidence in Forsee and expected the board to take action. Whitworth has been among the loudest critics of Sprint’s WiMax strategy.

Sprint’s board looks to be heeding this advice with Forsee, one of the fathers of the WiMax strategy. Once a new CEO takes charge, the company’s aggressive plans could be tabled indefinitely.

For now, Sprint says it is moving forward with its WiMax plans.

“I can’t speculate about what a new CEO will do,” said Leigh Horner, spokeswoman for the company. “But for now, we are continuing to build out the WiMax network. We expect a soft launch of the service by the end of this year and a commercial launch in April of next year.”

Sprint’s plans to build a 4G wireless network took shape about a year ago, only months after the company launched its 3G wireless network based on EV-DO cellular technology. Using a nationwide swath of vacant 2.5GHz spectrum, the company selected WiMax, an IP-based wireless technology, as the basis for the network. Mobile WiMax promises to offer data speeds faster than current 3G wireless networks and over much longer distances than comparably fast Wi-Fi technology, which today is used mostly indoors to provide wireless broadband hot spots.

Technology giants Intel and Motorola jumped onboard as partners. Motorola promised to provide infrastructure equipment and handsets for the network, while Intel promised to seed the market with millions of WiMax-enabled devices.

Sprint said it would spend $5 billion to reach some 185 million people within three years. But many critics have viewed Sprint’s decision to use WiMax, which has not been proven as an effective mobile access technology, as risky.

 

via cnet