Verizon Wireless, owner of the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced the immediate availability of the Palm® Treo™ 755p smartphone in exclusive deep blue-green. Beginning today, customers may purchase the Treo 755p online at www.verizonwireless.com
Compared to its Treo 700p predecessor, the Treo 755p has a sleeker design with an internal antenna and a soft-touch feel. Featuring a large, high-resolution, color touch-screen for quick stylus access to applications, the Treo 755p offers a full QWERTY keyboard for easy e-mail creation, Web browsing and text messaging. It also includes features such as a 1.3 megapixel camera and built-in support for Microsoft® Word®, Excel®, and PowerPoint® documents and PDF documents. Customers can view and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files, and view PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files. Running the Palm OS®, the new Palm Treo 755p from Verizon Wireless gives mobile professionals the tools they need to help maximize productivity.
Built-in Support for Direct Push Technology for E-mail
The Treo 755p offers VersaMail® 3.5.45 with built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® support for Microsoft Direct Push Technology that delivers e-mail and calendar updates from a home or office PC using Outlook®. Businesses connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server get fast, automatic wireless updates of e-mail, calendar and contact information with added IT security and remote manageability.
Treo 755p users also have the option of using Verizon Wireless’ Wireless Sync for quick and easy access to personal or corporate e-mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks from their home or office PC. Customers can sync up to 10 POP3 or IMAP e-mail accounts, including AOL®, Yahoo! ® Premium and more with their Treo 755p. Wireless Sync supports Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes® and IBM Lotus Domino®.
Fast Speeds with Verizon Wireless’ Broadband Network
Verizon Wireless customers using the Treo 755p have the benefit of Verizon Wireless’ EV-DO high-speed network to send and receive data. Verizon Wireless’ broadband network is the most reliable national wireless broadband network in the country and available from coast to coast.
For customers interested in using their Treo 755p smartphones as modems with a Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess Connect service plan to send and receive data from notebook PCs, the Treo 755p can easily take advantage of the 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps typical download speeds of the Verizon Wireless EV-DO network. The Treo 755p comes with built-in 60 MB of user-available memory and can be enhanced by using the miniSD™ slot to add separately purchased memory cards of up to 4 GB for storing data, photos, music, and video.
Integrated Google Maps for Mobile
With Google Maps™ installed right out of the box, Verizon Wireless customers using the Treo 755p can get directions; perform local searches; and view moveable/scalable maps, satellite imagery, and traffic updates while on-the-go. Customers can also map a contact’s address directly from the contact listing simply by selecting the “maps” button.
Pricing
The Palm Treo 755p from Verizon Wireless is available for $399.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and new two-year customer agreement. Customers who purchase a qualified voice plan along with a data plan may be eligible for an additional $100 credit making the Treo 755p $299.99 for those customers.
Verizon Wireless Nationwide E-mail plans for the Treo 755p begin at $79.99 for 450 anytime voice minutes and unlimited e-mail. For more information on any Verizon Wireless product or service, visit www.verizonwireless.com .
Verizon, that very same company that said no to Apple three years ago to its unknown iPhone, has changed course with Google’s open source operating system for mobile devices, Android. Maybe Verizon has learned from its Apple mistake and now will bring something unique to its strip-mall stores across the nation. Chief Executive Officer Lowell McAdam says it now makes sense to get behind Android. “We’re planning on using Android,” McAdam tells BusinessWeek. “Android is an enabler of what we do.”
Ya, I bet it does make sense, Lowell!
If you haven’t seen much on Android, take a look at Google’s Code site for videos and such about it. The visual global time (spin the globe with your finger ala iPhone!) and SkyPop (locate your other Android using friends in real-time) alone are worth considering dumping your iPhone! Oh ya, did I mention it’ll be 3G on the get-go? 
Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the availability of the MOTO™ Z6c world edition, an eye-catching slider sensation that holiday shoppers can now get exclusively from Verizon Wireless. The stunningly slim and sophisticated Z6c adds global connectivity, comes with advanced mobile phone technology and multimedia features, and is available today online at www.verizonwireless.com and through business sales. The MOTO Z6c will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on Dec. 12.
For customers traveling within the GSM network coverage area outside of the U.S. provided by Verizon Wireless’ global roaming partners, the Z6c gives customers on-the-go connectivity to the people that matter most to them. Verizon Wireless’ high-speed CDMA network supports the Z6c while it’s in the U.S. and in more than 22 other countries that use CDMA technology.
The Z6c features fast and intuitive multimedia capabilities, and its espresso casing with a high-gloss front and soft-touch back makes it stylish for all jet setters. For video and music enthusiasts, the Z6c is equipped with the ability to access V CAST Video, Verizon Wireless’ multimedia service with news, sports and entertainment video clips, 3D games and more; and V CAST Music, which offers access to more than 2.4 million songs that can be purchased and downloaded over-the-air, directly from the phone, while in the V CAST coverage area. In addition, to fully-enhance the music experience, the Z6c supports stereo Bluetooth® wireless technology and can be paired with a compatible Bluetooth-enabled headset like the MOTOROKR™ S9. The Z6c also features a 2.0 megapixel camera, 2-inch QVGA display, and supports up to 4 GB of optional removable memory – making the Z6c an essential carry-on for the budding photographer capturing and sharing photos and videos of international journeys.
Global Service
Staying in touch has never been so convenient or so affordable. To use the MOTO Z6c outside of the U.S., customers should dial *611 (800-922-0204) from their Verizon Wireless phones to add global service to their calling plans before they leave home. International charges are $1.29 or $2.49 per minute for calls in more than 180 countries, while international text messages are only 25 cents per message.
Having both the XV6600, and the XV6700, I probably would have upgraded to this phone if I were still on Verizon. But since I have the far superior iPhone, I won’t. But in all seriousness, if you had to buy a Windows Mobile phone, I’d say this is a good bet for you. Still mind you, the system will need soft-reseting at least twice a day, you’ll have to buy a big ‘ol fat battery since the standard one won’t get you past lunch. But again, when you can’t (or won’t) get an iPhone, I’d say this is a good way to slap a smartphone onto your hip. Get yours from Verizon Wireless for $400 without contract or $300 with a two year commitment.
Features:
* EV–DO, 1X RTT Capable
* Windows Mobile® 6 Professional
* Microsoft® Office Word Mobile, Excel® Mobile, and PowerPoint® Mobile; Adobe® Reader® LE PDF viewer
* View, edit, create Word; Excel files; view only PowerPoint, PDF files
* Internet Explorer® Mobile
* Windows Media® Player 10
* Memory: 64MB RAM/256MB ROM
* Wi–Fi Connectivity (802.11 b/g)
* Slide Out QWERTY Keyboard with Trackwheel Navigation
* 2.0 megapixel camera with flash, auto–focus and video capture
* 2.8″ Display: 240×320 pixel; 64K color TFT
o Touch–sensitive LCD display
o Portrait and landscape orientation
Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and AAA, North America’s foremost motoring and leisure travel organization, today announced AAA Mobile®. A tool for travelers, both AAA members and non-members, AAA Mobile enables Verizon Wireless customers to find AAA-rated points of interest and quickly access roadside assistance, right from their GPS-enabled Verizon Wireless phones.
AAA Mobile subscribers can use their Verizon Wireless phones to receive visual and audible directions to any travel destination in the U.S.; locate AAA Approved® points of interest (POIs), including Diamond Rated® hotels and restaurants; and search more than 100,000 locations that offer AAA member savings. Subscribers can review detailed AAA descriptions for POIs on their phone, receive a map showing a destination on the mobile phone screen, and bookmark locations as favorites for quick recall in future.
If AAA members experience vehicle difficulties, AAA Mobile streamlines access to AAA’s member roadside assistance service. The press of a single button on their Verizon Wireless phones sends the members’ GPS location to AAA and connects callers with AAA for quick and reliable roadside assistance services.
Verizon Wireless customers can purchase AAA Mobile in the Travel & Guides shopping aisle of the Tools On The Go section in the Get It Now virtual store for $9.99 monthly access. Customers can currently also find AAA Mobile in the Featured Application shopping aisle on select Get It Now-enabled phones. Download charges for Get It Now applications vary and airtime charges apply when browsing, downloading and using certain applications. Customers need a Get It Now-enabled handset and Verizon Wireless digital service to access the Get It Now virtual store.
AAA Mobile is powered by the Networks In Motion (NIM) location-based services platform, and is available for download directly from select GPS-enabled wireless phones. More information, including which phones are compatible with AAA Mobile, is available at www.AAA.com/AAAMobile. For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.
Verizon Wireless and Led Zeppelin today announced they have partnered to provide mobile customers with an entirely new way to access the legendary rock band’s music. Verizon Wireless will be the first mobile music service provider for ring tones, ringback tones, alert tones, and wallpapers, as well as full-song over-the-air downloads, offering customers infinite ways to personalize their phones and express themselves. Full-song downloads will be available on November 13, 2007. The band’s catalog includes such landmark songs as “Rock and Roll,” “Kashmir,” “Communication Breakdown,” and “Stairway to Heaven.”
“Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock band ever and their music transcends generations,” said David Dorn, senior vice president of e-commerce for Rhino Entertainment. “We are excited to be working with a forward thinking partner like Verizon Wireless to offer the group’s legendary catalog of recordings across the entire spectrum of mobile products to longtime fans, as well as new, young fans discovering the band for the first time.”
“Verizon Wireless is proud to be the exclusive over-the-air retailer of digital downloads from Led Zeppelin,” said Ed Ruth, director of digital music at Verizon Wireless. “We are thrilled to deliver this anxiously-awaited catalog to existing Led Zeppelin fans, while also helping a whole new generation to discover this classic rock for the very first time. All of this on the one device people never leave home without – their mobile phones.”
In 2004, Verizon Wireless became the first national wireless company to offer ringback tones; since then, the company has introduced unique artist relationships with classic rock legends and pop icons, highlighting cutting-edge music services that encourage music discovery, such as V CAST Song ID. Since 2006, Verizon Wireless has built a massive full-song mobile music store with more than 2.1 million songs from mainstream and independent artists that customers can download over-the-air with V CAST Music, or to a PC and sideload to their phones. Today the company delivers more than 30,000 ring tones and 30,000 ringback tones that customers use to personalize their phones.
Led Zeppelin was formed in London 1968 and was the highest grossing touring band of the seventies. Their concerts, often three hours in length, were legendary. With over 300 million albums sold worldwide, Led Zeppelin’s boundary-shattering music remains timeless and their enormous energy undiminished. More than two decades after their last concert together, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, will reunite for a one-off concert on November 26, 2007 in honor or Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun at London’s O2 Arena.
Announced earlier this year, on November 13, Atlantic Records/Rhino Entertainment will release Mothership, a two-CD collection that spans the band’s illustrious 12-year career. And, on November 20, a newly remixed and remastered The Song Remains The Same soundtrack of the concert film from the band’s three-night stint at Madison Square Garden in July 1973 will include six songs that were not on the original release.
For more information on how to download and rock Led Zeppelin on V CAST Music-enabled phones, fans can text ZEP to 8901. For more information on V CAST Music from Verizon Wireless, visit www.verizonwireless.com/music .
Verizon Wireless and CBS Mobile today announced full-length episodes of LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN and THE LATE LATE SHOW with CRAIG FERGUSON will be available tomorrow on V CAST Video. CBS becomes the first broadcast network to offer V CAST video subscribers access to full-length on-demand programming. Both late night programs will be commercial-free on V CAST video.
“While we continue to provide short clips of our shows, we’re seeing a growing demand for the availability of full length, network quality shows on video on demand mobile video,” said Cyriac Roeding, executive vice president, CBS Mobile, CBS Interactive. “The ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ and the ‘Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson’ have become some of the most demanded shows in mobile and on the internet so it only makes sense that we fulfill the consumer request and help grow the popularity of these franchises. We are committed to innovation and are happy to help launch Verizon Wireless’ first full-length video on demand programming on its V CAST service.”
Starting Tuesday, each night’s full program of LATE SHOW and LATE LATE SHOW will be presented in a series of video shorts so that customers can catch their favorite late night hosts – even if they are on-the-go with just a few minutes to spare. Broadcasts are available to V CAST subscribers following their nightly CBS broadcasts and will remain accessible until the following night’s broadcasts replace them.
“CBS continues to be a great, innovative partner and we’re looking forward to the success of these full-length programs on V CAST,” said Ryan Hughes, vice president of digital media programming for Verizon. “By offering hit programs in their entirety through a series of shorter segments, we’re meeting our customers’ expectations about staying entertained and informed while on-the-go.”
Customers will be able to find the full-length programs from LATE SHOW and LATE LATE SHOW in the CBS Mobile channel in the entertainment section on V CAST phones. In addition to the full-length broadcasts, LATE SHOW and LATE LATE SHOW content will continue to be available in the highlight short video format.
To get V CAST, customers can sign up for the $15.00 V CAST VPak monthly subscription, which also includes access to ESPN MVP and Mobile Web 2.0SM; V CAST VPak subscribers do not incur airtime charges when using V CAST Video or Music, Mobile Web 2.0 or Get It Now® applications. Alternatively, customers with select V CAST-enabled phones can check out V CAST whenever they want for just $3.00 for 24-hour use. With either subscription, customers get unlimited basic video – including full-length programming from CBS – but application download fees apply for 3D games and premium video. There are no airtime charges to download, stream or watch V CAST content.
Verizon Wireless and Motorola today introduced the next evolution in multifunctional media devices, the MOTO Q music 9m. Exclusively available through Verizon Wireless, the MOTO Q music 9m offers a sleek updated design, dedicated multimedia interface that offers V CAST Music capabilities, and the business sense of its predecessor – the Motorola Q – in one thin black and red package. Customers may purchase the MOTO Q music 9m today online at www.verizonwireless.com
Whether you are a consumer on-the-go or need to multi-task, this all-in-one device makes it simple to gain access and stay connected with what’s important to you. The MOTO Q music 9m boasts sleek styling and convenient features such as an ergonomically optimized keyboard for accurate and fast typing, a side-scroll thumbwheel for easy one-handed menu navigation, and dedicated keys for easy access to your favorite features like messaging, speakerphone and multimedia – all enhancing the user’s experience.
The MOTO Q music 9m also has a dedicated multimedia interface that offers V CAST Music capabilities and is one of the first smartphones to support over-the-air music downloads. With V CAST Music, customers can select from over two million songs to download over-the-air to their phones. And like the Motorola Q, the MOTO Q music 9m combines the reliability of a great phone, personal productivity capabilities and powerful enterprise connectivity.
The MOTO Q music 9m operates on Verizon Wireless’ wireless broadband network and features Windows Mobile® 6 software offering a rich and familiar experience that helps people manage their life by staying connected to their contacts, information and entertainment. The MOTO Q music 9m also combines advanced phone capabilities, such as voice-activated dialing, smart contacts dialing, speakerphone, and Bluetooth® wireless technology for certain profiles. Additional features of the MOTO Q music 9m include: Read the rest of this entry »
Mobile Web 2.0SM from Verizon Wireless just got even easier to use as the company unveiled its new, redesigned service that makes it easier to get the information you want when you want it with new features and functionalities. Verizon Wireless customers with Mobile Web 2.0-capable phones, including the pictured Samsung SCH-u740, will automatically view the new redesigned portal when they navigate to Mobile Web 2.0.
Verizon Wireless customers now have easier access to mobile banking services with the latest redesign of Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Web 2.0SM service. For example, Verizon Wireless customers with Mobile Web 2.0-capable handsets, including the Chocolate by LG, can access the Bank of America mobile site more quickly.
Verizon Wireless customers now have easier access to USA TODAY Mobile, thanks to the latest redesign of Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Web 2.0 SM service. Customers with Mobile Web 2.0-capable phones including the LG enV Orange, can still access popular content and signature features of USA TODAY through Mobile Web 2.0, but the new design and improved navigation of Mobile Web 2.0 makes it easier for customers to get the news and entertainment they want while on-the-go.
Verizon Wireless, the nation’s leading wireless company with the most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), today announced the sleek multimedia MOTORAZR2 V9m will be available to Verizon Wireless customers in September. Offering a combination of sophisticated style and Verizon Wireless’ first-class multimedia features, the MOTORAZR2 V9m is perfect for customers seeking a sleek, music-centric multimedia mobile phone.
Equipped with external touch-sensitive keys for quick access to music, camera and advanced speech recognition and wrapped in cool stainless steel, the MOTORAZR2 V9m is V CAST-capable and perfect for use with popular Get It Now® applications, such as VZ NavigatorSM. Customers can enjoy over-the-air full-track music downloads from V CAST Music, Verizon Wireless’ exclusive catalog of over two million songs. To enhance the true mobile music experience, the MOTORAZR2 V9m comes equipped with Bluetooth® stereo support for listening to music.
Adding to the list of impressive multimedia features, the MOTORAZR2 V9m also has a 2.0 megapixel camera with 4x zoom and picture, video, text, and instant messaging (IM) capabilities, which allow Verizon Wireless customers to capture priceless moments while staying in touch on-the-go.
Pricing and Availability
MOTORAZR2 V9m will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City, and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $299.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year customer agreement.