AT&T has recently announced that they have a new plan in the works for those who go the GoPhone route. Basically, pay $60 a month and you will be given unlimited voice and messaging to all of North America including 100 other countries.

If you’re looking to get down on this plan head to your local AT&T store on October 12th as that is when it goes live.

via phonescoop

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New Apple patents reveal new and interesting applications are ready for the iPhone. The patents reveal features like object identification, face recognition and a couple of messaging tweaks. Anxious to see any of these on your future iPhone? Well let’s check them out now!

The iPhone will be capable of recognizing certain objects and scan various bar codes or RFID tags and then offer you more information about said objects.

Facial recognition is one more important feature. How will the iPhone use it? Well it looks like the handset will know what person is using the phone and thus you can actually control who can access certain applications and functions on the phone.

The message filtering patent application shows you how you will be able to control and filter various messaging systems. That will be especially useful for controlling your children that convinced you to buy them an iPhone. Here’s how it would work:

Control application includes an instructional tool or study aid where the administrator sets one or more modes, such as language, vocabulary, grammar, spelling, punctuation and/or other content of a text-based communication based on, for example, a user’s age or grade level. This can be especially useful, for example, such as when a child’s grades go down. A parent can then institute a condition to improve a child’s grades. For example, the control application may require a user during specified time periods to send messages in a designated foreign language, to include certain designated vocabulary words, or to use proper designated spelling, designated grammar and designated punctuation and like designated language forms based on the user’s defined skill level and/or designated language skill rating. If the text-based communication fails to include the required language or format, the control application may alert the user and/or the administrator/parent of the absence of such text.

Status reports are also coming to the iPhone and a new feature will show you any missed messages, emails or voicemails from one of your contacts before you send a new message to a said contact. And since we did mention voicemail, a new voice-related feature will let you change voice output. That means you can actually hear yourself narrate stuff for you!

When will Apple roll all these features out? Nothing official just yet! We have only got the patents!

via uspto

Tags: Apple, Apple, barcodes, face recognition, iPhone, messaging, Mobile News, Mobile Software, object identification, patent, RFID, voice

Google Voice is not available just yet but according to recent rumors the service is coming and it will be available tomorrow for everyone interested in it. We’d love to know more about all the features of Google Voice sooner especially since we have just heard that Google Voice will support number porting sometime soon. We’ll be waiting anxiously tomorrow to see if that’s really happening and bring you back all the details.

via cnet

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Zer01 Mobile announced that it has signed an agreement with Buzzirk Mobile, Inc. to supply unlimited voice and data mobile wireless services for Buzzirk Mobile subscribers beginning in July 2009. This mobile service will also be marketed via Global Verge, a mobile virtual network operator for Buzzirk Mobile.

Producing interconnect agreements throughout North America and the globe, Zer01 Mobile is the first mobile service to offer an actual unlimited voice, data and Internet plan that is priced affordably with fees and taxes included. Also priced reasonably, Zer01 Mobile’s international plan extends to the most popular calling countries around the world.

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Sprint had a bad 2008 but the carrier might just get back on its feet. The WiMAX network has been launched and the Palm Pre will arrive soon. In fact, Palm will be also resuscitated by the Pre. Is this why Sprint decided to boldly go where no one is going anymore?

Sprint has launched an unlimited wireless plan which costs only $50. Boost Mobile is a Sprint brand that will offer the new service. Boost Mobile has been offering prepaid wireless service so far and it’s pretty good at it. With 3.9 million customers at the end of September 2008, Boost Mobile seems like the best choice for the new unlimited wireless plan. Besides unlimited data traffic you also get unlimited minutes and voice messages. All you need is a great phone to take advantage of this amazing offer. Will everyone else follow Sprint’s unlimited initiative?

via tgdaily

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We’ve just heard how Delta is ready to launch it’s WiFi service across its fleet and it looks like they aren’t the only ones to launch communications services for their passengers.

British bmi has decided to play with in-flight communication. It will go through a six month trial of OnAir voice service without voice. Passengers flying in that A320 from London to Moscow and back will be able to text messages while in the air. Will bmi offer full voice support in the future? WiFi? We’ll be there to report it!

via Engadget

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If reading news on a tiny mobile phone screen does not appeal to you, you might want to check out Rocketron, a news service that you listen to on your phone. Launching today at DEMOfall 08, Rocketron allows you to navigate the news by voice command, and do things like skip a story that you don’t want. News sources include Reuters and The Washington Post.

All you need to do is dial (408) 907-2323 while in the USA and you get access to news from various categories including business, technology, sports and politics. The Rocketron mobile service allows you to further fine-tune the categories by supplying additional keywords on their website or simply speaking into the phone. It is a free service, but will be ad-supported.

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I’d like to be in any of the brain-storming meetings Apple’s employees go to. How else would they come up with all sorts of interesting ideas. We hear now that Apple wants to add voice and camera to multi-touch in an attempt to improve our gadgets experience.
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The BlueAnt V1 Voice-Controlled Bluetooth Headset has won an award at the recently concluded CTIA Wireless 2008. Boasting of the “Best Cell Phone Accessory”, the headset lets users easily control most functions of their headset through the BlueGenie Voice Interface. You can forget about pushing buttons on the device, except for a single activation button that lets the user control the V1’s menu system through a voice interface.

The BlueAnt V1 also incorporates dual microphones and advanced techniques to extract the user’s voice signal from ambient sounds for clear speech. The Bluetooth headset also features echo cancellation and wind noise protection. With support for Bluetooth 2.1, the manufacturers claim a battery life of 6 hours talk-time or 200 hours standby.

Priced at US $129.95, it is available from BlueAnt.

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