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Cricket Posts Teaser Page for Kyocera Zio Android Handset |
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Cricket has posted a new web site touting the unreleased Kyocera / Sanyo Zio. The Zio M6000 was first announced in March of this year. It is a tri-band CDMA EVDO Rev. A handset with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. It has a 3.5-inch screen and 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture at 30 frames... - read more |
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Cricket Finds Its Way With New Navigator App |
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Today Cricket Wireless introduced Cricket Navigation, a new service offering for its customers. Cricket Navigation provides voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation as well as details on nearby gas stations, traffic, local points of interest, and local business search. The application is available... - read more |
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Cricket To Offer BlackBerry Curve 8530 |
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Cricket will offer a version of the newest Curve with AWS CDMA this "summer". It's otherwise identical to the Curve 8530 offered by other CDMA carriers.
Source: Phonescoop - read more |
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Cricket Makes Good On Smartphone Promise |
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Today Cricket Wireless told Phone Scoop that it is prepared to offer its customers smartphones with its pre-paid wireless services. One of the first will be the recently announced Kyocera Zio. Cricket also said that it will soon be offering a BlackBerry, though it didn't specify which... - read more |
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Cricket Debuts Nationwide Coverage In All 50 States |
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Today Cricket Wireless announced a new, nationwide expansion of its calling services. Cricket has struck a new roaming agreement with Sprint that dramatically improves the footprint of its network. Before today's expansion, Cricket covered 195 million pops. After today, it reaches 270... - read more |
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Cricket Offers Free Calls To Haiti |
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Following T-Mobile's footsteps, today Cricket announced that it, too, is offering its voice customers free, unlimited calling to Haiti between now and midnight Eastern Standard Time on Friday, January 22, 2010.
Source: Phonescoop - read more |
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Cricket MSGM8 Leaps Into Stores On November 27 |
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The MSGM8 (Message Mate) is a tri-band CDMA bar-style phone with QWERTY keyboard. It has dedicated keys for messaging applications as well as access to social networking applications. It also has a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and speech recognition for hands free calling. It has a toggle... - read more |
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Cricket Enters Lake Charles Market |
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Today Leap Wireless announced that its Cricket services are now available in the Lake Charles, Louisiana, market. The new footprint covers approximately 1,367 square miles and 241,000 new POPs. Cricket offers service to 91.3 million Americans across the country.
Source: Phonescoop - read more |
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New Invention Addresses Lithium Battery Fires |
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A new technology to prevent lithium-ion batteries from catching fire or exploding in laptops and mobile phones may be on the market as soon as the first quarter of 2010, its inventor said on Wednesday.
The invention, called Stoba, was developed at the Industrial Technology Research... - read more |
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Ten Great Uses For Your Camera Phone |
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A camera phone can be handier than you think. Here are some innovative ways in which you can put yours to use.
IN THE OFFICE
- Capture a whiteboard after a meeting.
How many times have you left a meeting wishing that you... - read more |
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Robocalls To Be Illegal Starting September 1 |
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Automated "robocalls" that come from companies will become illegal starting on September 1. Any company that places unsolicited or automated calls to consumers in an attempt to sell products will be violating the law and subject to a fine of up to $16,000 per call. Some exceptions apply.... - read more |
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Cricket Expands Service Footprint - Retools Calling Plans |
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Today Cricket Wireless announced two new large swaths of the U.S. that can access its services. The mid-Atlantic region spans from New York City to Richmond, Va. The southwest area now blankets parts of Arizona, Southern California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. Cricket also announced some... - read more |
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Cricket Offers Tri-Band Text Mate QWERTY Phone |
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Today Cricket announced the Personal Communications Devices TXTM8, a messaging phone with full QWERTY keyboard and tri-band CDMA radios. The TXTM8 has Cricket's customizable homescreen, which lets users access web content, such as the weather and news. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel... - read more |
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Cricket Offers Motorola Hint With Video - Bluetooth and 3G |
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Cricket is now offering the Motorola Hint QA30. Motorola Hint QA30 is a compact slider with a QWERTY keyboard, 3G connectivity and video capture, playback and video stream.
Motorola Hint QA30 also features a large 2.5" color display, a 2MP camera/camcorder, an MP3 music player plus... - read more |
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Recycling Old Phones A New Way To Give |
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Did you get a cell phone for Christmas? Why not recycle your old one?
Every year, Americans buy more than 100 million cell phones. Most of those replace older handsets, which wind up at the bottom of a desk drawer and, eventually, a landfill where toxins from their circuit boards,... - read more |
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New Car-Ignition Key Can Jam Mobile Phones |
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University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers (or anyone frankly) from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving.
The university has obtained provisional patents and licensed the invention – Key2SafeDriving... - read more |
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