The famous singer and music icon Beyoncé has decided to join forces with Verizon Wireless, and will provide exclusive content of their new album called “I Am… Sasha Fierce”.

While the upcoming album will be officially launched on November 18, Verizon customers that use V CAST Music or VZW Tones can listen to some of the tracks startig tomorrow, November 14, and afterwards they can download + purchase the desired song.

On top of the exclusive content, there are a few Verizon subscribers that will receive a personalized MMS message from Beyoncé.

Ed Ruth of Verizon, comments:

Making music available on mobile phones lets consumers listen, sample and enjoy music from their favorite artists wherever and whenever they want.

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Verizon has finally made official the release date of the BlackBerry Storm. It’s November 21st and everyone will get it: corporate stores, telesales, online stores, you name it. It’s not the 16th and it’s not the 24th as we speculated before. Get your money ready and head over to a Verizon store on November 21st. The Storm will cost $199 with a $50 mail-in-rebate and with a two-year plan. But you already knew that right?

In order to provide a beter guest experience at Walt Disney Parks, there is a new venture related with mobile phones and made in cooperation with Verizon. Basically, the guests will have a “personal tour guide” on their cellphones.

This new service will become available on the beginning of 2009, and will let users do the following tasks:

- locate shows and places to eat a.k.a. restaurants
- locate Disney characters that are inside the park
- play mobile games
- and much more

Jay Rasulo of Walt Disney, comments:

Imagine receiving up to the minute tips on special Park activities with just the touch of a button or receiving a call from Buzz Lightyear welcoming you to the Magic Kingdom.

Well it’s finally official. The Network hasn’t released the BlackBerry Storm yet but according to leaked info it’s going to do it soon and November 24th is the day you’re going to get it if you’re not one of the high-end Verizon customers. November 20th is going to be the day when the Storm arrives at 123 corporate Verizon Store in a pre-launch sort-of-way.

The official price is going to be $199.99 after mail-in-rebate with a two year agreement. But since all of this is leaked info we need now the officially official announcements! Your ball Verizon!

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Although the i770 from Samsung is not quite the Storm you were waiting for on November 14, it’s still an important new smartphone. According to leaked news the phone is going to arrive in less than 3 days for B2B and online customers and it will land in Verizon stores on December 1st. The i770 will cost $199 after a $80 mail in-rebate.

Exactly on the same day Verizon will roll out their new minimum data plans, the $29.99 ones which you will need to get to connect to the internet from the i770.

We’ve been waiting for them and here they are. The Verizon Wireless prices for the BlackBerry Storm are all out displayed on Verizon’s website. So, without further ado, here are the official prices: $219 with a 2 year contract, $289 with a 1 year contract and $519 without a contract.

The prices aren’t near final yet. I am sure some rebates and discounts will emerge soon enough. We’ll be waiting for the official release date now!

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If Vodafone is not your local carrier then it must be Verizon the network that will bring your the Storm. Well The Network has a new BlackBerry Storm sometime this week and they have a new commercial for it. The haptic feedback is the central element of this commercial and it certainly looks great.

So Verizon subscribers what will you do? Will you get the new iPhone? I mean the Storm of course!

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No matter if you’re a Verizon Wireless subscriber or not, you should be interested in the BlackBerry Storm which is supposed to arrive the following week. And you probably would want an unlimited data plan to go with that Storm right? Unfortunately Verizon’s unlimited data plans are just a little pricier than you would like them to be.

But here comes the word on the street which says there’s a new data plan in town called “Connect”. You will get an unlimited mobile internet for just $10 month instead of the current V Cast plan.

If someone does not want the Vcast service, this is a step above the current premium plans. So if your premium plan is $79.99, you can add Vcast for $15, for a total of about $95. With Connect it will be only $10 more, for a total of about $89.00. Connect allows for unlimited mobile web so if you want to save five bucks, and have the premium plan with unlimited mobile web, but no Vcast, that’s the new plan.

And if you want to add it on a secondary line, it’s also $10 bucks. It will be available on November 16 mobile web phones only, not smartphones.

We’ll find out if this all comes true, and hopefully the new Connect plan will apply to smartphones too.

AT&T has purchased Centennial Communications Corp for just $944 million today in a move intended to improve AT&T’s coverage in the Midwest, Southeast and Puerto Rico. Centennial subscribers will slowly move to AT&T’s billing system soon. And we mean the whole 1.1 million subscribers which AT&T added to it’s already 74.9 million base. Just a few million subscribers to go for AT&T to reach the new number one U.S. carrier which is Verizon.

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With days to go to the official Vodafone/Verizon Storm release we grow more and more anxious to see hot RIM’s first touchscreen phone will do out there. The video above will show you some of the Stom’s most interesting features. Compared to its inspiration and main competitor, the iPhone, the Storm will have some advantages, like the copy paste function and the haptic feedback, and some disadvantages like the lack of WiFi and the lack of a wide selection of third-party applications.

Check the video above for a short and very virtual hands-on Storm experience. We’re going to bring you all the facts later on.

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People are definitely waiting for the BlackBerry Storm. The newest RIM smartphone has just become the number 1 handset searched online. It has surpassed the iPhone, the Nokia N94 and the G1. Just check out the graph above! That’s impressive for now, but it will be interesting to see if the Storm can keep its position up there. In the mean time we’re waiting for Verizon to unveil its pricing for the Storm. If it’s as cheap as some say, then maybe the Storm will hold the number 1 position for quite a while.

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Samsung is ready to launch various phones in the near future. The phone maker will work with most U.S. carriers. Here’s what’s Samsungs has planed:

• T-Mobile: Behold T919
• AT&T: SGH-A777 and Eternity A867
• Alltel: SCH-R600 Hue II
• Verizon Wireless: Saga I770, OMNIA I910 and Renown U810.

Like anything you see here? Which one would you pick out? All we need know are some arrival dates and prices.

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Vodafone has announced that the Storm will be released on November 14. We were expecting that, didn’t we? What we didn’t expect was the November 18 date showing up on Vodafone’s Storm pre-order page. Well then Vodafone, make up your mind! We should be waiting for the Storm to arrive in November, right?

Verizon is rumored to release the Storm during the same time although we don’t have any clear information on that either. Is everything ok with the Storm?

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Verizon announced its intention to purchase Alltel this summer and now they finally can. The Department of Justice has approved the transaction last week and the FCC has just approved it too. Verizon will pay $5.9 billion and it will assume Alltel’s debt of $22.2 billion. That’s a $28.1 billion deal, but who’s counting?

Besides the money, Verizon will comply with all the requests of the FCC. Verizon will have to maintain any roaming agreements between Alltel and other carriers for at least four years. And that’s about all that the FCC asked for.

The merger will transform Verizon into the number one carrier in the USA. Verizon will total 83.8 million subscribers, including the 13 million Alltel subscribers and thus it will surpass AT&T which currently has 74.8 million subscribers.

We were wondering what the price for the Storm is going to be, especially after we’ve seen those super cheap Storms Vodafone is going to offer. Thanks to Verizon’s Wireless scavenger hunt which is going to take place in New York soon we can tell you that the Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Storm Price is $499. That’s what the ARV is, at least according to the terms and conditions page:

Prizes: Daily Grand Prizes (50): A BlackBerry “Storm” 9500 Smartphone and a $50 Verizon Wireless gift card Approximate Retail Value (”ARV”): $549 each

So if $499 is the full price it means Verizon might just offer the same good prices Vodafone does.

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November 14th seems the day Verizon will unleash the Storm. We were thinking November 16 earlier but 14 is fine too. Next Friday is also the day Verizon is going to introduce the new data plans too. You know, the ones we were talking about earlier! The plans that will replace the PAYG data plans Verizon used to have.

Here’s what a Verizon worker said:

I work for Verizon wireless. Your post was correct: We are putting in forced data packs on the 14th. The reason is that this is the Storm’s release date from every memo that we have been given access to, it will be released that morning at all Verizon Corporate stores. Second tier resellers, like Wireless Zone, will get it at the end of the month.

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Well then, the FCC has approved the GSM-only BlackBerry Storm. The GSM version will have GSM and WCDMA 2100 while the whole version will support CDMA. Here’s what this version will bring you:

• 1GB of memory, 192MB RAM
• 1400 mAhr battery. Standby time: 528 hours
• MicroUSB port
• MicroSD and MicroSDHC expandable up to 8GB
• 3.2 megapixel camera, flash, 2.5x digital zoom, auto focus and image stabilization
• Video capture
• Assisted GPS
• Quad-band

We’ll be waiting for more Storm-good-news from the FCC soon.

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Besides the Verizon booth in San Francisco, Verizon has other Storm-related surprises for you. From November 6th to November 15th there’s a treasure hunt going on in Manhattan. Check out the map Verizon is going to release and text in location codes as fast as possible. Five lucky winners will end up with a free BlackBerry Storm while the runners-up will get some gift cards.

In the mean time take your time checking the updated Storm website page from Verizon and hope that November 16th will be the date you get to play with the Storm.

If you live or you happen to pass through San Francisco, make sure you go to the Justin Hermann Plaza. That’s where Verizon has setup a special station where you could actually win a BlackBerry Storm. What you have to do is to step inside of a giant plastic box where lots of Verizon business cards are flying through the air. The top 100 people will get a free Storm when it will be officially released. If you’re lucky your city might be next as Verizon is expected to pull off the same stunt in other cities too.

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In order to help victims of domestic violence, and to share profits from their business instead of giving it to the government in form of taxes, Verizon decided to donate $1.5 million to a couple of non-profit organizations.

The donation also matches the “Domestic Violence Awareness Month”, and according to Tim McCallion of Verizon, this is a “serious epidemic that affects people from every walk of life”.

Taking in consideration that Verizon likes organizations that support the victims via education, empowerment, and victim relief, this is the list of non-profit organizations from California that will receive a donation:

- DeafHope, Oakland - $50,000
- California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, Sacramento - $50,000
- Ocean Park Community Center, Santa Monica - $30,000

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