AT&T Welcomes Spring with New Smartphone Prices
AT&T* is putting an extra spring into the steps of customers this season with limited time pricing on five premier smartphones from its industry-leading portfolio. AT&T customers can now get the Samsung Captivateâ„¢ for $99.99, BlackBerry® Torch, Samsung Focus, LG Quantum for $49.99 and the BlackBerry® Curveâ„¢ 3G for$29.99 after a two-year commitment (no rebate required.) These offers are available in AT&T company-owned retail stores nationwide and online.
Samsung Captivateâ„¢ – $99.99
The Androidâ„¢ 2.2 powered Samsung Captivate with 4″ Super AMOLED display brings users a fully integrated entertainment, messaging and social networking experience packaged in a sleek, streamlined design.
BlackBerry® Torchâ„¢ 9800 smartphone – $49.99
This smartphone includes the BlackBerry® 6 OS with fast, rich browsing, integrated social feeds, universal search and BlackBerry App Worldâ„¢ with carrier billing support. Its all-in-one design combines the benefits of a hi-resolution touch screen, slide out QWERTY keyboard and an optical trackpad.
Samsung Focus – $49.99
The Focusâ„¢ debuted as AT&T’s thinnest Windows Phone and offers a visually stunning experience with a Super AMOLEDâ„¢ screen on a sleek 9.9 mm-thin touch screen phone. With the Focus’â„¢ amazingly crisp, brilliant display, photos, games and videos come alive.
LG Quantum – $49.99
A Windows Phone with a slide-out keyboard for quick use of Office Mobile®, users can stay active and up to date with work. The LG Quantum also features DLNA technology through a preloaded application called Play To, which allows users to wirelessly stream videos, music, and pictures from the phone to a DLNA-enabled TV, stereo, Windows 7 PC and other consumer electronics devices.
BlackBerry® Curveâ„¢ 3G smartphone – $29.99
This classic BlackBerry® smartphone features a full QWERTY keyboard, the signature BlackBerry messaging experience, powerful personal information management capabilities, BlackBerry App Worldâ„¢ with carrier billing support and much more. BlackBerry Curve 3G smartphone is BlackBerry® 6 OS ready.
For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit http://www.att.com/.
New 2-year wireless service agreement with minimum $15/mo data plan required. Other charges, restrictions and conditions apply. See store for details.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
RIM bans Kik messaging app
RIM has banned the fast-growing messaging app Kik in a move that has established considering it may have been a threat to RIM’s own offering.
Kik revealed that RIM had blocked future sales of the Kik client from the BlackBerry App World, and has shut down push messages for the service, meaning messages sent to and from BlackBerry devices are delayed by up to an hour. RIM has also annulled the startup’s access to the BlackBerry Software Development Kit (SDK), freezing all future development on the BlackBerry version of the app.
According to Chief Ted Livington, he was confused by the decision. They think it’s fair to say that, until very recently, their relationship has been nothing less than friendly.
As per reports, RIM had decided to shut the service due to concerns over the application and service, adding that the SDK was pulled because Kik breached contractual agreements.
According to the company, BlackBerry users account for around a million of the 2.5 million users Kik has signed up since re-launching its service a fortnight ago. Services for iOS and Android devices are unaffected by RIM’s move.
As per Livington, Kik had worked cooperatively with RIM at every step of the re-launch, and that RIM had not raised any concerns. Indeed, the device maker placed Kik in its featured apps list for the upcoming BlackBerry Messenger platform just six weeks ago. Some people have suggested that they’re ‘too similar to RIM’s instant messaging product, and that somehow this is behind their decision.
Twitter moves to BlackBerry
Blackberry maker RIM has launched the Twitter for BlackBerry application in BlackBerry App World.
This is a free app and aims to enable users to access direct messages as soon as they arrive, reply to tweets, re-tweet and send direct messages; post a link from their BlackBerry browser; take pictures and upload them to Twitter direct from the camera application; and find and follow friends, or search for popular topics.
According to RIM, it has taken onboard user feedback to enhance the funncrionality of the app, ahead of the launch.
LinkedIn unveils Blackberry App
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network with over 60 million members globally has launched the LinkedIn application for BlackBerry. The app can be downloaded via the LinkedIn website, and on BlackBerry App World. It complements LinkedIn’s existing mobile offerings for the iPhone and Palm Pre.
The specialty of the app is its native integration with the Blackberry. Users can use it within their Blackberry’s existing email, calendar and contacts applications. They can stay connected to the professional conversation, build professional network and also prepare for a meeting by quickly accessing LinkedIN profiles even while traveling.
According to LinkedIn Vice President of Search and Platform Products, Adam Nash, with the addition of the application for BlackBerry to their broader suite of mobile applications, LinkedIn is available to more business people than any other professional network in the world. He opines that this is an important step in their strategy to deliver business productivity tools to their members wherever their work takes them.
The app is available in six languages globally including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese language.
Xobni for blackberry is now available
The Much awaited Xobni Mobile for BlackBerry has been launched and made available for blackberry users by Xobni.
According to the company, the app reinvents the address bookâ€, which automatically creates rich profiles for every contact, a person can ever communicate with, regardless of whether they’ve been manually added to the native address book.
Xobni Mobile for Blackberry can be downloaded via the Xobni website and very soon it will also be available on Blackberry App World. Xobni is also launching Xobni One, a service that links information between Microsoft Outlook and mobile versions of Xobni for a more comprehensive and up-to-date address book.
According to Xobni CEO Jeff Bonforte, Xobni Mobile automatically builds and maintains the fastest, most complete and smartest address book a person would have ever used.
The launch is expected to be an important milestone for the company, and the company has made it even more compelling by powering it with Xobni One. This new service will prove out to be the foundation for all their future products.
Xobni Mobile is compatible with the Blackberry Tour, Curve 8900, Bold and Storm handsets. The cost of standalone app is $9.99, however Xobni Mobile with Xobni One costs $6.99 plus $3.99 per month or $39.90 per year.
Cellular South introduces BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 in USA
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Cellular South, the USA mobile operator, has introduced the RIM’s BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 smartphone. It features a SureType Qwerty keyboard, trackball navigation, built-in GPS with BlackBerry Maps preloaded and a 2 megapixel camera. It also features full HTML browsing, a rich media player with the ability to sync music from iTunes or Windows Media Player, an expandable memory card slot (microSD/SDHC up to 16GB) and stereo Bluetooth support. The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 supports BlackBerry App World, which provides access to applications such as entertainment, games, social networking and sharing, music and video, productivity and utilities, and travel. It also supports Cellular South’s high-speed wireless broadband data network.
The handset will be available in black and pink colours for a price tag of USD 99.99 after a USD 100 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year customer agreement and two-year data contract. The handset is presently available at Cellular South retail stores or online. The smartphone also comes with full support from Cellular South’s online and in-store discover centre. Cellular South’s smartphone plan is available for a USD 49.99 monthly access fee.
