By Allen Tsai | Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:44 am |
Cingular Wireless today announced the availability of two enhanced services: Mobile Email and Mobile IM. Now, for the first time in the US market, Cingular customers can gain access to their existing email or IM accounts from AOL, MSN and Yahoo! through a set of simple, easy to use applications which can be accessed through a standard mass market phone.
Both the Mobile Email and Mobile IM applications are available for free on a download basis through the Cingular MEdia Mall to Cingular customers who have a compatible phone. These new applications will give Cingular customers easy-to-use, pre-configured access to their email and IM accounts without the need to be tethered to their desktop or having to purchase a high-end, PDA-like device.Mobile Email Cingular's Mobile Email service is breaking new ground by bringing the top email communities together in one application on mass market devices. Cingular customers can now view and interact with their existing personal email accounts on AOL and AIM Mail services, as well as MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and SBC Yahoo! Mail. Using a downloadable email client powered by OZ and following a simple two-step initial login process, Cingular customers can enjoy an intuitive, graphically rich, email experience with a PC look-and-feel directly from their Cingular phone. Additionally, Cingular is making email access affordable by making Mobile Email available on mass market devices. Currently, Mobile Email is available for many of the most popular Motorola devices-the V180, V220, V400, V551 and RAZR V3. More compatible handsets will be added soon. Mobile IM With Mobile IM, Cingular customers now have simultaneous access to all three major IM communities - AOL's AIM service, Yahoo! Messenger and, the newest addition, MSN Messenger. Mobile IM features a tabbed interface with one-click switching between all three IM communities. Developed with Comverse and Thumbspeed, Cingular's enhanced downloadable Mobile IM service delivers a full-color, graphical interface that allows customers to send and receive instant messages, as well as check the availability of friends and family online. Cingular is launching its Mobile IM service with a special promotion that will award a $10,000 grand prize to one lucky winner. Customers can enter the "IM Download & Win Promotion" simply by downloading the instant messenger application from the MEdia Net menu on compatible handsets. Upon completion of download, they will receive one entry into the promotion. Every instant message they send or receive during the promotion using their Cingular phone will give them another entry into the sweepstakes. The promotion, which began Oct. 17, will run though December 31, 2005. The Mobile IM service is currently available for a wide range of popular Nokia (6230, 6620), Motorola (V180, V220, V400, V551, RAZR V3) and Sony Ericsson (Z500a and S710a) handsets. Pricing There are no additional monthly fees required to use Cingular's new services. Customers just pay kilobyte usage charges for Mobile Email, or a per message charge for IMs. For the best value, Cingular recommends customers select one of two value-priced service bundles: MEdia Basic or MEdia Works.
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Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:58 pm | By
Apple today unveiled the iPhone, a device that combine three products - a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and an Internet communication device with email, web browsing, searching and maps - into one small and lightweight handheld.
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Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:30 am | By
Cingular Wireless today announced the Treo 750, the first Palm Treo smart device running on Cingular's 3G / UMTS network. The highly anticipated Treo 750 five-band world phone running Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push Technology offers Palm's exclusive usability improvements with powerful business features, including email, security, and web access on the go.
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:28 am | By
Cingular plans to make video service commercially available in 2007, allowing users to send a live video stream to a recipient during a standard voice call.
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Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:23 pm | By
MySpace.com and Cingular Wireless announced an exclusive partnership to offer enhanced MySpace functionality to all Cingular customers via their mobile phones. The deal marks MySpace's largest-scale mobile partnership and gives Cingular's customers exclusive access to MySpace Mobile's tool set including the ability to edit MySpace profiles, view and add friends, post photos and blogs, send and receive MySpace messages, and more from the mobile phone.
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Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:00 am | By
Cingular Wireless today introduced the LG CU400, Cingular's first 3G phone to offer Push-to-Talk (PTT) technology. Giving customers the ability to see whether their friends, family or co-workers are available to talk before they call and to connect instantly, PTT allows customers to talk to one person or a group of up to 30 people at the same time with just a push of a button. Customers also have the flexibility to easily convert a PTT call to a regular mobile call and to store up to 99 contacts.
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