at&t Wireless and Napster today announced the expanded availability of Napster Mobile. Now 13 million at&t wireless subscribers can now get the Napster Mobile Service.

Napster Mobile allows users to browse download and buy Music from Napsters collection of 6 million songs. Users who usethe service can pay a monthly subscription fee of $7.49 for unlimited music and or buy songs for $1.99. (A bit pricey if you as me) A digital copy of the song is delivered to their personal computer.

“Our goal is to connect people with the music they love, no matter where they are,” said Chris Gorog, chief executive officer of Napster. “Switching to our new format gives millions of AT&T customers the opportunity to enjoy the best mobile music experience available, in addition to the world’s largest catalog of music.”

Mark Collins, vice president of Consumer Products for AT&T’s wireless unit, said: “Music fans using our phones are hungry for this capability. As we’ve worked with Napster to make more phones ‘ready to rock,’ as we say, we’ve seen a strong corresponding rise in customers who are adopting Napster Mobile.”

I have multiple Windows Mobile 6.1 phones and each one at 2 am EST reverted back to 1 am EST as they should have. An hour later they reverted again, but when I went to edit the time on my three Windows Mobile Phones, I saw that it had placed me -6 (Central Time) instead of - 5 (Eastern Time).

So if you wake up this morning and your phone is behind, check the time zone you are in as Windows Mobile 6.1 seems to be changing your time zone along with the time.

MS has a patch available for this : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/microsoft/daylight-savings-update.mspx

Why this update isn’t included with brand new phones is beyond me. 

Yesterday Pantech Unvieled the worlds smallest phone with a Qwerty Keyboard. The Pantech Slate which is available from at&t wireless for $49.99 after a 50 dollar mail in rebate and 2 year service agreement, not only features a Qwerty Keyboard but a 1.3 Mega Pixel camera and bluetooth.

“We are proud to bring yet another design first to Pantech customers,” said Patrick Beattie, vice president of sales and marketing for Pantech Wireless, Inc.  “Experience shows that users want increasingly unique devices that are easy to use.  The Slate, debuting as the world’s thinnest phone with a full QWERTY keypad, ushers in a new level of style and convenience for customers who need to text and email.”

This weekend I had to call Sprint Customer Service to help a friend with a phone issue he was having, he wanted me to call because he has had a bad experience with Sprint Customer Service in the past (Few months ago) and I was able to get the problem corrected for him.

But even I had issues getting is problem fixed a few months ago, so I expected to have a lot of trouble with correcting the problem again. The problem he was having is he added a 3rd line to his account but for some reason the number port was taking longer than it should have. Turned out to be that he supplied the wrong pin code or the T-Mobile account he was pulling the number from.

Any who I called and as I said I expected trouble, I was even prepared for trouble. I had a notepad two pens and a huge bottle of water, I even had my phone on Speaker because I expected to be on hold for hours.

So I go through the prompts and I am placed on hold, so I start shaking to the movies when not even 10 seconds later I get a Sprint rep. A Sprint Rep who was friendly so friendly that for a moment I thought I had called T-Mobile because their CS Reps are super friendly. But no it was Sprint the dude said Sprint. I explained to the guy my problem an he escalated it placed me on hold for no longer than 2 minutes finally he came back transfered me and I in less than a 6 minute conversation with someone else who was way to friendly for being a Sprint CS Rep, I was told they would call me back.

Being told you will be called back typically means they are never going to call you back and I would have to call back, but what do you know not even an hour later I got a call from the same friendly Sprint Rep I talked to prior informing me the problem was a bad password for the T-Mobile account so they couldn’t port the number over. My friend gave the rep the right password and 30 minutes later the number was ported.

We even got a call to let us know it had been completed!

So Bravo Sprint! You are improving your Customer Service and changing your image. I hope this isn’t a short term change.

I have just been told that select Best Buy stores will be selling the unlocked version of the HTC Touch Pro in the US early next week. I was not told what price the phone will be sold at, but I will let you guys know as soon as I find out.

I will also try to find out what Best Buy Stores will have the phone. The HTC Touch Pro is also expected to be available from Sprint early November, my sources have told me the 4th or the 8th. My guess it will be the 4th.

For those of you who are not familiar with the HTC Touch Pro visit HTC.com for more info on the phone.

Mark your Calendar, the BlackBerry Bold will be available from at&t exclusively on the 4th of November. The phone will retail for $299.99 with a two year contract. The phone will be available online and at at&t owned stones along with some major retail stores on the 4th.

“The BlackBerry Bold is the best BlackBerry smartphone ever, backed by the nation’s fastest 3G network and the hands-down best international coverage of any carrier,” said Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility. “The BlackBerry Bold is the complete package, providing customers with an absolutely outstanding mobile experience whether doing e-mail, browsing the Web, viewing streaming video or simply making a phone call. And it is being introduced in the U.S. only from AT&T.”

Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO at Research In Motion, said: “The development of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone was an ambitious undertaking, and we focused intensely on the things that are most important to mobile customers when developing this best-in-class smartphone for HSDPA networks around the world. The BlackBerry Bold exudes quality in everything from its stunning display sharpness and incredible keyboard to its premium phone performance and sophisticated software applications. It provides an extraordinary mobile communications and multimedia experience, and we are very proud to introduce this breakthrough smartphone in the United States together with AT&T.”

The Blackberry Bold features a half-vga 65,000-color display which some have described as Bold and Beautiful. The Bold will be quad-band, offer wi-fi (a/b/g), bluetooth 2.0 and built in GPS. The device will also be powered by a 624MHz Intel PXA270, previous blackberry devices had processors at half that speed, it also will come with 128 MB of flash memory and a Gig of on board memory which is expandable with microSD/SDHC memory cards.

So I am a complete n00b for nearly 3 months I have been having issues with the GPS on the prototype of my iPaq 910. It would work sometimes.

I had people contact me about the GPS saying they were having trouble with it, some couldn’t get it to work at all.

Well it’s simple to get it to work. Simply go out side Launch Google Maps. Select Menu > Select Use GPS

That is it, it will center on your location and it should only take a minute to find the Satellites. Hit FN 0 to again center in on your location after it has acquired Satellites.

Google Maps by default unchecks USE GPS after you close it. So you must enable it again.

To use with Live Search you must set Live Search to use the GPS on com 8.

SONIM XP1 is taking a beating over at TestandDestroy.com, where a hammer is repeatedly banging the phone over and over again. SONIM claims the XP1 is the worlds most rugged mobile phone and are putting it to the test in this live overt he web broadcast.

You can even call into the phone and watch the screen light up as it rings, and you can leave a voice mail guess on how many hits it will take to destroy the phone, for a chance to win one.

Head over to TestandDestroy.com to check it out! 

Palringo my favorite mobile messaging program has added a new location feature that will allow your friends to view your location down to the street leve. You can opt out if you don’t want that feature enabled for you.

Palringo Local as it is called goes live today and is available for Windows Mobile Smartphones, those of you who already have Palringo, and those of you who don’t have it installed you can download it and the update at http://www.palringo.com.

The Palrigo feature will be available on all versions of the software by the end of 2008, so iPhone users you will see the feature for the Palringo iPhone app too.

Today at&t wireless and Samsung announced the availability of the Samsung Epix Windows Mobile Smartphone for at&t, a phone with a similar design and features as the popular Samsung Black Jack (I and II) but with one major difference the Samsung Epix has a touch screen.

Being that the Samsung Epix is a Touch Screen Smartphone running Windows Mobile 6.1 you won’t get the sexy UI Windows Mobile 6.1 for none touch screens has, but you will get fully functional Office Mobile programs. While the Epix has a Touch Screen I would suggest using a Stylus (It probably comes iwth one) to navigate the menus etc.

Another big difference between the Epix and the BlackJack (I and II) is the optical mouse technology built into the phone under the screen, so basically with the swipe of a finger you can navigate the phone easily, which kind of makes up for not really being able to use your fingers on the touch screen. I mean you can but Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro makes it hard.

I have requested one for review from Samsung so hopefully I can get you guys a review in the coming weeks.

The Samsung Epix for at&t is available now and with a 2 year contract you can get it for $199.99. For more info visit: http://www.att.com/samsungepix

In addition, the Epix boasts an impressive feature set, which includes:
• Wi-Fi® (802.11 b/g) — to connect with home or campus networks or access more than 17,000 AT&T hot spots nationwide, including at thousands of participating Starbucks locations.
• Built-in a — for use with AT&T Navigator, AT&T Navigator Global Edition and other GPS-based applications for personal and business use.
• AT&T Video ShareSM — the first-ever service in the U.S. that allows users to share live video over wireless devices while participating in a voice call, so they can share family moments, monitor progress on a job site or review the day’s work without having to leave the office.
• Global Capabilities — when abroad, AT&T customers can use the Epix to make or receive a phone call in more than 200 countries and check e-mail, browse the Web or perform other data functions in more than 150 countries, including in more than 60 — such as Japan and South Korea — that have deployed 3G networks.
• 2.0 Megapixel Camera — with video-capture capabilities.
• Slim, Light Form Factor – Equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard, the Samsung Epix measures 4.6 inches x 2.4 inches x 0.5 inches, weighs just 4.4 ounces and includes a large 2.5-inch TFT color display.