Cricket Wireless doesn’t have the largest network, fastest data network, or latest phones. What they do have, however, is a new $55/month unlimited voice/text/data plan that comes complete with music — music subscription service that is. Somehow, this little carrier that could wooed the big four American music labels (EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner) into giving Cricket Wireless users full access to millions of songs on the cheap. Debuting this new service...
Today, Verizon Wireless began sending out pamphlets to KIN users going over certain changes to their service, and most importantly highlighting that the KIN is really, really going to die on January 31st. That is the day in which the company will turn off support for KIN Studio, thereby rending most of the devices touted features useless. Specifically, the features that will no longer work once support is officially dropped include: Feed Reader Loop Search Near...
The sales figures for Microsoft’s failure of all failures, the KIN I and II, have fluctuated from as high as ~10,000 all the way down to an outright joke of 503 units. Sources claiming the lower figurers proposed the idea that Microsoft may have shipped 10,000+ KIN devices to manufacturers, but when it came to actual customers, the bottom basement figures were much closer to reality. A little digging (and not really all that deep actually) is all that was needed. ...
With all the talk over Apple’s App Store, BlackBerry’s App World, and Android’s App Market, sometimes the smaller guys get crowded out — Smaller guys such as LG and their newly redesigned App Store. Targeting feature phones and smartphones alike, LG’s store front will cater to handsets of all types and all platforms. Initially, there are a little over 3,000 apps to choose from at launch, with most of those being designed for Windows Mobile. ...
