Virgin Mobile today launched “Headliner” an interactive magazine.

Headliner gives Virgin Mobile customers on demand access to a full range of music-related content including up-to-date artist news, charts, concert dates and interactive search and community features. Virgin Mobile customers can test drive the new service for 14 days before having to pay a subscription fee.

“Virgin Mobile’s ‘Headliner’ application is a unique, centralized way to give fans VIP access to their favorite artist’s music-based mobile content,” said Perry Bashkoff, Vice President, Digital Sales and Marketing, Warner Music Group.  “With ‘Headliner,’ Virgin Mobile is expanding the ways consumers can discover new artist content, tour information and more in a single application, personalizing their phones like they do when they purchase ringtones and screensavers.”

Customers can download Headliner to their handsets on the VirginXL Menu under Music.  Following a free 14-day trial, customers can continue to use Headliner for $2.49/month. Standard messaging rates apply.

More information is available at our website http://www.virginmobileusa.com/stuff/music/headliner.do

O2 mobile subscribers will have exclusive access to a range of Pirates of the Caribbean content from the entertainment portal on O2 Active and i-Mode®.

Content will include:
· Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage
· Movie wall papers and screen savers
· Downloadable film trailer and java game
· Voice tones from your favourite Pirates of the Caribbean characters
· Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage · Movie wall papers and screen savers
· Downloadable film trailer and java game
· Voice tones from your favourite Pirates of the Caribbean characters

O2 subscribers can customise there handset with Pirates of the Caribbean content by texting PIRATES to 2020. Extra special content will be made available for O2 customers that purchase or upgrade to the Samsung® U600.

O2 will also be offering the opportunity for its customers to see “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” before anyone else through a series of regional screenings which will take place on May 22nd and 23rd at ten locations across the UK. O2 customers wishing to attend these screenings or find out more information should text PIRATES to 2020.

O2 customers that purchase the new Samsung U600 will get the added bonus of two free tickets to see Pirates of the Caribbean at their local Odeon cinema.

Disney-ABC and Sprint today have announced a Multi-Year deal that will allow Sprint customers access Full-length episodes of hit series from ABC Entertainment, including “Desperate Housewives,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Lost” and “Ugly Betty,” beginning with this week’s season finales.

The content will be available on-demand or via three liner channels that stream pre-scheduled content.

Sprint is also the first mobile provider to provide access to ABC Mobile.

Sprint will also now offer full-length ABC News programs including “World News with Charles Gibson” and “Nightline,” as well as a variety of ABC News Specials
ABC News Now, a 24/7, and in the future full-length episodes of Disney programis such as “Hannah Montana,” “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” nd “Cory in the house” as well as “Kim Possible”. (My Favorite)

Hey everyone, I just wanted to introduce my self. I will sometimes drop in on everyone to see how everything is going.

I also from time to time will review phones for the site. I can’t wait to get started! 

In an effort to provide a reliable cellular network during the 2007 Hurricane system, Verizon Wireless has rolled out a team of “test-men” in special vehicles to fine tune its all-digital network and ensure reliable, comprehensive coverage and call quality across the state of Florida.

During the 2004 and 2005 Hurricane season Florida was hit hard and according to Verizon their networked was stable and reliable while others were not, they have sent out these teams to make sure their network remains stable during the 2007 Hurricane season.

Additional highlights of the Verizon Wireless 2007 hurricane preparation include:

The company has developed and practiced a comprehensive emergency response plan, including preparing emergency command centers around Florida in the case of a storm or other crisis.

More than 82 percent of the individual transmission sites operated by Verizon Wireless in Florida have their own on-site generators, many of which were retrofitted this year with expanded fuel tanks to extend their power-generating capacity. This capability is critical when power goes out and if roads are impassable in the wake of a storm.

The company has a fleet of dozens of Cells on Wheels (COWS) and Cells on Light Trucks (COLTS), that can be rolled into hard-hit locations or areas that need extra network capacity. Network teams also have more than 200 portable generators ready to go to further strengthen the network.

Pre-arranging fuel delivery to mobile units and generators to keep the network operating at full strength even if power is lost for an extended period of time.
Verizon Wireless is again fully prepared to quickly set up wireless emergency communication centers (WECCs) to serve residents and rescue agencies in the area(s) of greatest need.

The company has expanded its EV-DO wireless broadband network, including launching its highest-speed Rev. A network across the state. This allows the most advanced wireless services (downloads, location-based applications, video messaging, etc.) and makes the network more robust for usage by residents and emergency agencies. Rev. A technology features typical download speeds of 600 kilobits per second (kbps) and average upload speeds of 500-800 kbps.
The recent acquisition of two $150,000 disaster response units that can be used as temporary customer service locations in areas impacted by a disaster. Each 35-foot long trailer features advanced communications capabilities and an air-conditioned canopy area, and also provides access to phones, accessories and EV-DO services for residents.

A member on our forums Cody has pointed out to us that Rogers Mobile (Canadian Service Provider) is now offering a My5 plan.

The My5 plan is similar to the T-mobile MyFaves plan which allows unlimited calling to 5 people of your choice on any carrier, however unlike the MyFaves plan from T-Mobile, My5 from Rogers gives unlimited texting to those 5 people as well. The plan cost an extra 10 dollars a month.

For more information about My5 click here.

T-Mobile today announced that it has added over 980,000 new customers, to bring their total customer base to over 26 million.

The annoucement was made in their financil report for the first quarter of 2007, the report also stated that T-Mobiles average revenue per user went from 51 to 52 dollars, and posted an operating income of $1.22 billion up 11% from last year.

I am one of those new 980,000 customers as I switched from Cingular to T-Mobile a month and a half ago, I also know of a guy who switched to T-Mobile from Nextel, he got the Dash but couldn’t figure it out so he switched to the SideKick 3.

Nokia wants to help save energy and this beautiful world we live on, so they have added energy saving mobile alerts to their phones.

Owners of the new Nokia 1200, Nokia 1208 and the Nokia 1650 which were announced last week, will receive an alert to unplug their phone from the charger when the battery is fully charge. Nokia believes that if enough people follow the advice of the message, enough energy to power 85,000 homes will be saved each year.

Kirsi Sormunen, Vice-President of Environmental Affairs at Nokia said, “Around two-thirds of the energy used by a mobile phone is lost when it is unplugged after charging but the charger itself is left in a live socket. We want to reduce this waste and are working on reducing to an absolute minimum the amount of energy our chargers use. The new alerts also play an important role, encouraging people to help us in this goal by unplugging their chargers.”

Nokia and other cell phone makers have agreed to make various changes to their phones in order to make them more energy efficient. Nokia is the first to implement the mobile alerts.

Nokia plans to add the alerts to all future phones.

Palm Inc. today introduced the Treo 755p smart device runing Palm OS, for Sprint.

The Treo 755p is the first Palm device to offer built-in support for Microsoft’s Direct Push technology, Google Maps, micro-SD slot and the latest Treo design.

Sprint will be the first carrier to offer the device. It will sell for $279 with a 2 year contract.

The phone is available in two colors, midnight blue and burgundy. For more information visit: http://www.palm.com/treo755p

Other Treo 755p Features and Benefits:
• Ability to watch mobile video directly on the Treo 755p with Sprint TV, which features more than 50 channels of live and on-demand content, including CNN, FOX, ESPN, The Weather Channel, MTV, E! and The Cartoon Network;(3)
• Dial-up networking via USB or Bluetooth® wireless technology on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network for using the Treo 755p as a modem for a laptop computer (requires an appropriate service plan);
• Superior phone functionality, including one-touch speakerphone and conference calling, the ability to ignore a call with text messaging, and the option to use the touch-screen dial pad;
• Support for EvDO (Rev.0) speeds, which make streaming mobile content, such as live TV, movie clips and audio from radio stations, as well as training videos or company communications, enjoyable;
• 128MB memory (60MB user available) and support for Mini-SD memory cards up to 4GB;
• Voice-memo application, which can be used to create custom ring tones and add voice annotations to photos or simply record a quick memo;
• Threaded SMS/MMS messages in a single chat view and out-of-the-box support for Yahoo!, AOL, and Gmail;
• 1.3-megapixel digital camera and video recorder, and application to organize and share photos;
• Support for Sprint Picture Mail;
• Smart, fast web browsing using the award-winning Access browser;
• Full PDF support using DataViz® Documents To Go® Version 8.0, which also offers support for native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents;
• User-friendly and familiar Palm OS platform, including one-touch access to key applications;
• Color touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard for easier email, messaging and web use;
• On-device user’s guide, giving customers access to the full user’s guide right from the device; and
• Default data transfer mode, which allows users to be notified of incoming voice calls while using data services, rather than calls automatically going to voicemail.

Palm Inc. and Orange Mobile announced early Tuesday the availability of the Treo 680 in the Dominican Republic.

The Treo 680 GSM/GPRS/EDGE(1) quad-band world phone, will run Palm OS®. With the introduction of the Treo 680 smartphone, Palm and Orange Dominicana are targeting new users in the rapidly growing smartphone and feature-phone markets. The Treo 680 will offer a simple and fun way for Orange Dominicana customers to get started and stay connected.

To order visit: http://www.orange.com.do