Cell Phones

Verizon Wireless and Samsung Mobile today announced the availability of two new messaging phones – the Samsung Rogue and the Samsung Intensity.

The Samsung Rogue is a messaging phone with a full touch display. It has a horizontal slide-out, QWERTY keyboard, threaded messaging and one-touch access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Photobucket. The Samsung Rogue also features speech capabilities powered by Nuance that lets you control a variety of applications with voice commands as well as dictate text messages.

The Samsung Rogue is the flagship phone for Verizon's new data pricing option available beginning today. The new data pricing gives you a choice of either 25 MB for $9.99 monthly or 75 MB for $19.99 monthly (in addition to your Nationwide plan). Read more

Verizon Wireless just announced that the new Verizon Wireless Escapade is available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Stores today (Aug. 21, 2009). Great for international travelers, the Escapade features quad band network compatibility and gives you the ability to make calls in more than 220 destinations worldwide.

Features:

• Dual band CDMA 1X and quad band GSM/GPRS (900/1800, 850/1900)
• Pre-installed SIM card
• Built-in 2.0 megapixel camera
• Dual color displays – internal 2”, 262k color TFT and 1.1”, 65k color CSTN external
• Bluetooth-enabled with support for headset, hands-free, phonebook access, and Object Push for vCard profiles
• Bilingual interface supports English and Spanish languages
• Mobile Web capabilities
• Access to Mobile Email, Mobile Web Mail, Mobile IM, and chat
• VZ Navigator capable

The Escapade is available for just $29.99 after a $50.00 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement beginning today at www.verizonwireless.com or in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores.

Sprint just announced that on August 16 the Samsung Reclaim will be available at retail stores and online at www.sprint.com. The eco-friendly Reclaim is made from 80 percent recyclable materials and will sell for only $50 (with a two-year agreement and after a $30 instant rebate and a $50 mail-in rebate). $2 of the proceeds will benefit The Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre program, which supports land conservation across the United States.

The Reclaim features a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel camera with 3x digital zoom and camcorder, Sprint Navigation, stereo Bluetooth, integrated web browser, and expandable memory storage up to 32GB. It also includes One Click, a customizable user interface for access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube.

The Samsung Reclaim will be available August 16th in two colors – Earth Green and Ocean Blue.

Find out more information on Sprint's green initiative at www.sprint.com/green.

T-Mobile announced today that the myTouch 3G with Google is now available at retail stores and online at www.t-mobilemytouch.com for $199.99 with a two year agreement.

The new myTouch lets you personalize the device with widgets, icons and wallpapers, which can be added directly on the home screen. The Android Market has tons of applications to choose from. In fact, T-Mobile launched a new application in the Market called AppPack, which highlights a sampling of applications. Read more

The Samsung Comeback (SGH-t559) and Samsung Gravity 2 (SGH-t469) will come complete with full QWERTY keyboards, T9 predictive text and auto word completion and will be available exclusively through T-Mobile.

The Samsung Comeback is a stylish messaging phone with a unique side-flip that reveals a full QWERTY keyboard. Available in pearl white plum or frost silver cherry it also comes equipped with a built-in 2-megapixel camera with digital zoom and T-Mobile's 3G network. The Comeback also features a MP3 player and support for up to 16GB of expandable memory.Read more

The Cricket TXTM8 was built for text and picture messaging, and is ideal for keeping connected with friends and family through social networks, email and Mobile Web. Cricket MyHomeScreen provides access to news, sports, entertainment and weather at users' fingertips. A vertical slide opens to reveal a QWERTY keypad beneath the 2.2-inch TFT color display.

The phone also features a 1.3MP camera with zoom, an MP3 player, microSD memory card slot, voice recognition, and stereo Bluetooth, as well as, tri-band connectivity. Personalization is easy with an on-device storefront for ringtones, ringback tones, graphics and games & applications.

The Cricket TXTM8 is available now at Cricket retail stores and dealers for $159.99. For more information, check out www.mycricket.com.

Sprint today announced that the new Motorola Clutch i465 will be available this summer for $39.99 with a new two-year service agreement, $20 instant rebate and $50 mail-in rebate (excluding taxes).

The Motorola Clutch i465 is the first iDEN Nextel Direct Connect device with a full QWERTY keyboard. It also offers Group Messaging, which lets you create groups of up to 20 people to send messages to at the same time.

The Clutch i465 also meets Military Specification 810F for low pressure, high and low temperatures, dust, shock, vibration and solar radiation, and is Java-enabled, comes with a digital still and video camera, and supports GPS, Bluetooth and third-party apps.

More information about availability for Motorola Clutch i465 is available at www.sprint.com/clutch.

To find out information on Nextel Direct plans, visit www.sprint.com/nexteldirectconnect.