Blackjack - Cingular AT&T Video Cell Phone is Here

Blackjack - Cingular AT&T Video Cell Phone is Here
By Lance Winslow

The new MEdia Max Cell Phone is now available and it will let you watch episodes from HBO or your favorite TV Show, yes on your new Video Cell Phone. The cell phone is 3G wireless and does everything that a modern cell phone with all the bells and whistles will do only this one also have video features and TV. Never miss another program again.

HBO Mobile on the Cingular Blackjack Phone is a step above all others, it is the latest in technology and apparently the name seems to indicate that it is ready to knock on the door with Blackberry too? This phone is the latest and it shows that the iPod was just an interim technology, as now the new Blackjack is where it is at.

The MEdia Max program is also available on Samsung Sync and LG CU500v and LG CU400v with unlimited Internet and Video from AT&T Cingular. They say that the price is zero with rebate.

When looking at the various phones and packages it was our estimation that the Samsung was inferior due to battery time usage. Apparently to sell the phones cheap they put in an inferior battery and it uses itself up way too fast to be watching HBO on TV.

In fact we did not like any of the proposed models of phones yet and prefer to wait for the full Blackjack phone than to get any of the other video phones. The HBO Mobile MEdia sounds cool and they have been promising this in the industry trade journals for a long while, but we are waiting to see if it is actually any good.

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Blackjack - Cingular AT&T Video Cell Phone is Here

AT&T Cingular 8525 Smartphone Has HSDPA - What?

AT&T Cingular 8525 Smartphone Has HSDPA - What?
By Peter Boston

Behind all the hoopla about the long anticipated release of the Apple iPhone, and the reports of people standing in line all night just to spend $600 to buy one, there are still a whole lot of other (better) smartphone choices out there.

The AT&T Cingular 8525 smartphone is one of them. For my money the 8525 is the hands-down business productivity handset champion. The 8525 has some bulk and is a little clunky to carry around.

If your first consideration is a slim, easy-to-carry handset go with the Motoral RAZR V3xx, and KRZR K3. The latter are not productivity tools but they do share something in common with the AT&T 8525 - HSPDA.

HSDPA is the acronym for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access. Without getting geeky, HSPDA is 3.5G (G is for generation) protocol for mobile telephone data transmission. This new protocol provides download speeds on your mobile phone handset equivalent to the speed of the DSL line in your home.

That means that with a HSPDA handset, like the 8525 or the RAZR V3xx, that you can surf the internet and download email attachments as fast as you can at home on your desktop computer.

For many people that also means that smooth video and streaming music will be doable on your mobile handset. AT&T is offering an array of new video and music services to take advantage of HSDPA broadband speeds. The 8525's 400Mhz processor keeps the entertainment moving.

HSDPA is available in 134 markets with populations of 100,000 or more. AT&T is the country's largest cell phone service provider so when they say that they plan on expanding their broadband network we can believe them. Sprint and Verizon currently provide CDMA (an alternative broadband protocol) in more markets than AT&T. CDMA is not available overseas, however. GSM and HSDPA are.

Which brings us back to the 8525 smartphone. The 8525 comes equipped with WiFi which can connect to any of the thousands of WiFi hotspots across the country. If the WiFi connection drops out the 8525 will immediately connect with AT&T's EDGE data network, which is available everywhere in the US you can get GSM service.

You can use your 8525 as a broadband modem that connects to PC and Mac laptops. Bluetooth 2.0 is a given. The point is that for connectivity the 8525 has you covered every which way. The iPhone, by the way, is not broadband (HSDPA) capable. Not yet anyway.

The 8525 has lots of other productivity features. The slide out keyboard is a real tactile keyboard. It lights up in the dark, which is very useful. You probably will not write a novel on your handset, but you could, or maybe you will just want to edit Word documents, and you can do that too.

The 8525 is a little more expensive than other AT&T smartphones, but AT&T runs promotions and sometimes offers refurbished 8525 handsets, which make this smartphone very attractive. Broadband connectivity, big screen, real keyboard, fast processor, the entire Pocket PC software library. There's more but you can see why the 8525 is my productivity champion.

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AT&T Cingular 8525 Smartphone Has HSDPA - What?

AT&T Wireless and Cingular Secrets Exposed

AT&T Wireless and Cingular Secrets Exposed
By Christopher Luck

In cars, offices, restaurants, shopping malls and everywhere else in the country, cellular phone ownership is becoming the rule, not the exception. Everybody has one, it seems -- and many of them are using ATT Wireless.

ATT Wireless had a steady, successful business on its own, and then joined with Cingular in 2004 to become even more powerful. Customers with AT&T Wireless phones found that their plans got even better: Cingular offers “rollover” minutes, meaning if you don’t use all your AT&T Wireless phone minutes one month, they carry over into the next month.

Also, when Cingular and AT and T Wireless combined, it combined ATTtheir coverage areas, too. Between them, nearly the entire country is covered by Cingular or AT&T Wireless mobile service. (AT&T Wireless plans ought to be good: The company has been in the telephone business for more than 120 years!)

What kind of plans does ATT Wireless offer? There are individual plans and family plans, each designed to match your particular AT and T Wireless phone needs. One popular option is FamilyTalk, where all the members on the plan can talk to each other for free.

Say you, your spouse, and your child all have AT T Wireless phones. Now you can call each other as often as you like without using up your minutes. (And those leftover minutes roll over into the next month, too!)

Text messaging has become very common, too, particularly among teenagers. AT&T Wireless offers many plans that include text messaging, often with rates as low as 1 cent per message. Text messaging is especially useful when you want privacy, or when talking on your ATT Wireless mobile phone is not feasible.

What if you already have a cell phone through another provider and want to switch, but don’t want to change your phone number? Luckily, it’s now possible in most cases to bring your old cell phone number with you when you join ATT Wireless.

For years, cell phone providers “owned” certain numbers, but no more. The courts put an end to that practice in 2003, and now customers can usually switch from one service to another without having to get a new phone number. This keeps competition high, because companies no longer “own” their customers’ phone numbers and thus could lose them to other providers.

ATT Wireless and Cingular work hard to ensure their customers’ satisfaction so they won’t move to a different company. And when people are fed up with other plans, they can come to AT&T and Cingular to see what they have to offer.

Don’t have a cell phone yet? You’re not alone, though the number is decreasing. AT&T Wireless and Cingular can walk you through the process if you’re unsure what kind of plan and phone you need. There’s no time like the present to become part of the future!

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AT&T Wireless and Cingular Secrets Exposed