AT&T has just announced their intentions to launch a whole slew of new features on November 8th. The first is an all new voicemail-to-text service which will, of course, change your voicemails into text messages making it easier for you to catch that number or name.

Second of all AT&T is planning to launch their Nation with Canada plans which will allow you customers to make calls between Canada and the US with no long distance charges.

And last but not least they will be launching 3 new channels for their Mobile TV service which we have little to no details about. Luckily, they will be dropping the base cost of the service from $15 to $9.99 and the unlimited service from $30 to $24.99.

via engadget

Tags: At&T, Canada, Mobile News, Mobile Software, mobile tv, service, voicemail

If you’re a T-Mobile UK customer packing a Nokia phone then you’ll probably be more than happy to find out that your carrier is going to offer you Nokia’s Comes With Music service. The offer is only available if you get a new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone with it too. The service will be available free of charge for a whole year once you chose a new 2-year plan of at least £30 per month. Besides unlimited music downloads you will also get unlimited mobile Internet and unlimited SMS messages so the bundle doesn’t sound bad at all, does it?

via pocket-lint

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Looking to get down on the Peek Pronto but aren’t looking to take on anymore monthly fees? Boy, does Amazon have a deal for you.

Recently listed on their website is a Peek Pronto for $299 that will includes a native email client, unlimited texting in addition to Facebook, Twitter, weather and news feeds. But that’s not what’s so good about this deal as paying the extra $70 will net you with a lifetime worth of service.

Yes, this means no monthly fees, ever.

Tags: Amazon, life subscription, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Peek Pronto, service

Vodafone has added yet another label to their music download service which is DRM-free, and this time we’re talking about Warner music. In case you don’t remember, Vodafone already has agreements with Sony Music, EMI, and Universal Music Group.

Thanks to this addition, the number of DRM-free tracks that can be downloaded via the Vodafone service passes the 1 million mark. On top of “normal” music tracks, Vodafone and Warner will work together to bring more material, like multimedia content and others.

Vodafone representative comments:

The response to the DRM-free offering in all the markets where it has launched has been incredibly enthusiastic. Our customers love music and they love the flexibility that DRM-free on mobile gives them.

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Sprint has come up with quite the incentive — It seems that the carrier will offer those who port their numbers from another carrier and purchase a Palm Pre with a 2-year contract $100 worth of service credit.

Before you get too excited, know that Sprint has already pulled this promotion saying it was “put into the system in error”. However, those who purchased a Palm Pre during the promotion will be rewarded with the $100 worth of service credit.

Perhaps we will see this promotion resurface at some point in the near future?

via allthingsdigital

Tags: Cell Phones, credit, error, Mobile News, Palm, Palm Pre, Promotion, service, Sprint

Sprint has recently come forth to announce that their 4G network, also known as WiMAX, has gone live in Las Vegas, NV, Portland, OR and Atlanta, GA.

While most handsets have yet to support 4G connectivity, Sprint ships various broadband mobile packages including plans that start at $69.99 for unlimited trasnfer.

Now common Sprint, let’s see some WiMAX enabled phones!

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Tired of your usual, ordinary, hard-to-manage, and boring voicemail? Pinger introduces its customizable service which makes it easy to handle voicemails.

“Voicemail is something everyone tolerates but no one loves,” said Greg Woock, Pinger CEO. “One of the big frustrations with traditional voicemail is users’ inability to immediately respond to messages without hanging up and having to make a call. Pinger solves this problem while also bringing personalization, simplicity and a great web interface to mobile phone voicemail.”

With Pinger voicemail service, you have the option to record personalized greetings to each and every one of your family and friends, receive a visual representation of your voice mail as an envelope showing the caller’s identity, manage your account and reply to the voicemail from the internet, reply and forward voice mails directly from the voicemail itself, and you can store these voicemails for good.

Pinger voicemail service is available in the US for Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T subscribers. It’s free, although your carriers might charge for forwarding and answering voicemails. For more info, visit the Pinger web site, or sign-up by calling 408-916-5008.

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Japanese mobile phone carrier, NTT Docomo, has promised to come up with a feature which can be used for office environments before. Now, Docomo has unveiled “Kaismato” (Kaismart) or Osaifu-Keitai phones or FeliCa RFID cards. The system is based on the RFID chips inside the employees’ cell phones. Using Docomo’s Kaismart, people can clock in and out of work, open doors, pay for meals in the cafeteria, access PCs and other network peripherals, etc. The service will become commercially available starting February 8, 2008.

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Touted as the first navigation system with two-way internet connectivity, the Dash Express GPS unit is now available for pre-order. The device lets you select your route based on real-time traffic data that is automatically exchanged via other Dash devices. The Dash Express collects traffic info from the driver network, combines it with other sources of traffic info and gives you near-accurate info on your routes. And if a faster route is available, you get an instant alert.

Thanks to internet connectivity, you can use Yahoo Local search, giving you tons of points of interest. Among other neat features is the Send2Car feature. Just about the fastest way to send an address from your computer to the Dash Express unit, simply highlight an address from your web browser or Microsoft Outlook and send it directly to the GPS. This means, you can also have someone send an address remotely. No hassle of pulling out to the side of the road to enter an address!

The Dash Express features a 4.3-inch (diagonal) widescreen display offering 480×272 pixel resolution WQVGA TFT LCD. Weighing in at 13.3 oz, it has a life of up to 2 hours on the Li-ion battery. It supports Wi-Fi and GPRS as well.

Priced at US $599.99, the Dash Express is now available for pre-order. The Dash Service, on the other hand, costs $9.99/month for a 2-year plan.

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Alltel has a new free mobile shopping service for RIM BlackBerry smartphone users. Digby Powered by Alltel allows Alltel customers to easily access products from various retailers including Barnes and Noble, Best Buy, Godiva among others. Visit alltel.com/smartphone from your BlackBerry to access Digby and shop till you drop.

Products available in the Digby catalog include books, music, electronics, gifts and other popular categories. The service offers a friendly interface for customers, allowing them to browse thousands of products with ease - and there’s also the all-important product search feature. The online catalog is updated daily and features things like best seller lists, the hottest music and exclusive promotions to Alltel customers.

Alltel is the first carrier to deploy the Digby service, but not the first mobile shopping application.

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In case you are a small/medium enterprise spending tons of money on international calls, you may have help at hand. Fonality, a maker of business phone systems, announced the trixbox Pro, a free business-grade phone system for making free VoIP calls. Targeted at SMEs with 5-500 employees, the system supports traditional PSTN dialing and PBX features. trixbox Pro also includes conf calling, unified messaging, embedded corporate chat server and the ability to integrate with MS Outlook.

Thanks to trixNet, a free in-network calling service, any trixbox Pro user can essentially call any other Pro user using their real phone numbers. Best part is, such calls are not subject to any local or long distance charges. There are also plans to extend free calling to include anyone using Google Talk.

The trixbox Pro is a hybrid-hosted phone system, connecting your local system to the Fonality network. The base edition of trixbox Pro is free. Head to http://www.trixbox.com/ for more info.

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