Samsung releases Features for SGH-a437, an ultra-slim wireless phone available to at&t wireless customers.

Key features of the SGH-a437 include:
• Thin and lightweight clamshell design
• Large vivid, 2” display
• Bluetooth® technology
• Integrated VGA camera
• Multiple messaging capabilities
o Mobile Email – Yahoo!®, AOL®, Windows Live
o SMS, MMS
o AOL®, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo!® Instant Messaging
• EDGE, GSM Quad Band Support – World Capable
• Speakerphone
• Multi-lingual Text Display – English, Spanish, French
• Personal organization features: Calendar, Alarm Clock, Tasks List, Calculator,
World Time
• Dimensions: 3.7” x 1.88” x .62”
• Display:
o Internal Display: 128x160 pixel 65K colors TFT
o External Display: 96x96 pixel 4 Gray
• Talk Time: Up to 5 hours

Sprint in an effort to I guess get rid of annoying customers, has sent out a letter to some customers telling them that effective the end of July, their accounts with Sprint will be terminated.

Sprint says that only a small minority of customers who call Sprint often to complain about billing and other issues are being terminated. The letters were sent out on the 29th of June, so if you are a Sprint Customer who complains a lot, check your mail box.

LaIndia a member and Administrator at this site has not recieved the letter, she does indeed complain a lot though, but her complaints were due to Sprint issues.

Source: C|Net

Sprint today Updated their website. It has a more stylish look than the previous design.

Only their main web-page has been updated, their my.sprint.com page still remains the same and that is the part of the site that needs to be updated.

Here is a screen shot of the Sprint website.

According t an article at Reuters, at&t says it will buy Dobson communications for 2.8 billion dollars USD. Dobson Communications is best known as Cellular One.

at&t says it wants to expand its service to more rural and suburban areas of the US.

Under the deal Dobson Communications share holders will receive 13 dollars per share.  AT&T said the deal will expand its geographic coverage. Dobson’s network covers rural and suburban areas in Alaska, Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
There are currently 1.7 million Dobson communications subscribers.

If you guys remember last month alltel accepted a 25 billion dollar USD takeover bid from Goldman Sachs. $71.50 per share.

Our very own Rosemary is in line at the Apple Store Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego California.

She and her dad are number 24 in the line, and she estimates a good 100 people are lined up with more and more showing up by the hour. Rosemary and her dad Steve are wearing matching T-Shirts that read “Daughter in line for iPhone” and “Dad in line for iPhone”. They also have an iPhone Cake, they will be iMunching on while waiting in line.

Here is a picture of Rosemary sitting in line.

More pictures to come soon.

One of our sister sites members had an iCake created to celebrate the launch of the iPhone.

Steve and his daugther wll be waiting in line at a San Diego at&t store tomorrow. They will be buying two new iPhones.

We have an update on two acquisitions that either happened in the past or were potentially being planned in the near future.

American CDMA carrier Sprint, which merged with iDen carrier Nextel in 2005, is no longer using the Nextel name as part of Sprint’s new advertising campaign that was released this week. This could potentially be the end of the Nextel name, which was expected at the beginning at the merger by many people two years ago when the merger occurred.

Canadian CDMA carrier Telus will no longer be attempting a merger with another Canadian CDMA carrier, Bell Canada, after rumours of a merger took place last week after Telus and Bell Canada signed a non-disclosure and standstill agreement last week. If the carriers had merged, the company would be the largest wireless and landline carrier in Canada.  Many groups are still interested in purchasing Bell Canada, including the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan along with an American acquisition firm.

Today Nokia announced the availabiliy of the E61i and Nokia E65 which are expected to retail for approximately $400, but actual price will vary by outlet.

Nokia is trying to address the market demand from business professionals who want both a phone and personal organizer.

Nokia understands that businesses buy IT solutions through their trusted IT channel source, and offering mobility solutions - including mobile devices - via this channel is an important step in making end-to-end mobility solutions available for business customers in this market,” said Yankee Group Vice President, Enterprise Applications and Mobile Solutions, Eugene Signorini. “Through the Nokia for Business Channel Program, Nokia is empowering resellers to prepare for the evolution and growth of the mobility market in North America.”

Nokia Eseries business devices offer advanced voice features with superior voice quality, business email with attachment handling, and manageability with business-class device security to the most demanding business users. Nokia Eseries business devices bridge the converging worlds of mobile telephony, corporate telephony, and Information Technology (IT). Dual-mode Nokia Eseries devices with wireless LAN, including Nokia E61i and Nokia E65, are ideal for integrating into fixed corporate telephony systems with voice solutions such as Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel, Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Cisco, and Avaya One-X Mobile Edition for Nokia.

Photo is of E61, click discuss on our forums for a picture of the E65.

I had the pleasure of reviewing the SoundID Bluetooth headset and I was rather pleased with the experience.

The SoundID is an in-ear Bluetooth headset. I know it doesn’t look like it’s an in-ear but the ear piece actually goes inside of your ear and there is no need for an ear hook to hold the headset in place. (However it does come with one for added security).

The makers of the SoundID say the product offers clearer sound with a feature they call NoiseNavigation. Basically NoiseNavigation automatically adjust the headset for the environment you are in, so I put it to the test.

I live in NYC and this place is noisy. You have the subway, construction everywhere and crazy cabbies honking at you to get out of their way.

My first test was on the subway (above ground, no signal underground) and I called Indi (LaIndia on this site). Normally she would complain that she cannot hear me, and normally I can’t hear her with the clink clank clunk of the train. However, due to the headset actually being in my ear I could hear her clearly, and she didn’t complain once.

My second test took place in lower Manhattan, around 11:30 in the morning. There was a lot of traffic and cars honking around me, I was actually on my way to meet someone for lunch (arrived 15 minutes late). Anyway, I again called Indi taking advantage of the noisy background to again test the headset, and again it passed with flying colors.

I used the headset in a car with the window open purposely to get wind in my face and again no problems hearing or being heard.

The SoundID Bluetooth headset can also be used as a walkie talkie system, if you and someone else (just 2 people) have two of these headsets you can link them and talk to each other, perfect for a security detail that doesn’t stray too far away from each other.

I do have one complaint, the manual sucked and because of that I had some problems setting the headset up. I brought that up to SoundIDs attention and I was told that the manuals are being updated to be more detailed.

Overall I loved the headset and we here at CellRants award it our KickAss award. However, we don’t have awards yet (our designer is a lazy punk), so we are going to borrow our sister site HardwareGeeks.com’s KickAss Award.

The SoundID headset is sold for $129.99 and can be bought at http://www.soundid.com . A car charger will be available in the future.

Canada’s two largest CDMA carriers Bell Canada and Telus are in talks to possibly merge to allow for Bell Canada to continue to be Canadian owned and operated. In the last few months, Bell Canada has received takeover offers by American investors, however Bell has refused all offers as of presently.

If Bell Canada and Telus were to merge, the company would have 60 percent of the wireless market share in Canada.  At the moment, the only two other national carriers in Canada are GSM carriers Rogers Wireless and Fido, which are both owned by Rogers Communications.

Bell Canada and Telus also have a huge market share in landline phone, television and internet services. Bell currently operates 13 million landlines in Canada, which is just under half of the Canadian population, while Telus has just over 1 million landline subscribers.  Bell Canada also operates one of the largest portfolios of TV stations in Canada with operating The Comedy Network (Canadian equivalent of Comedy Central), CTV (ABC/NBC), TSN (ESPN) and MuchMusic (VH1).

If the merger is approved by the Canadian government, the newly merged company will have a combined total wireless customer base of 10.6 million people on CDMA and iDEN in Canada.

This could possibly be good news for regional based CDMA carrier MTS-Allstream since they are possibly in the works to become the newest nation-wide wireless carrier. They are currently a regional carrier that is made up from a merger between western Canadian based carrier MTS and the former AT&T Canada (Allstream). The carrier currently has over 300,000 subscribers in the Canadian province of Manitoba alone.