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Cingular 8525 Review

Summary

The award-winning Cingular 8525 3G Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0-based Pocket PC phone, with its compact size and ultimate connectivity, is truly the complete mobile office solution. Roam anywhere in the world and use the phone’s high speed Internet access, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi capabilities. The 8525 gives you more control than ever over the way you work. The Cingular 8525 lets you do things you’d typically need a PC to do, like email, text messaging, instant messaging and Web browsing–all from one integrated device. What’s more, the phone’s software is designed to sync seamlessly with email, contacts, and calendar information on your PC. The 8525 also offers great mobile music and video options, thanks to Windows Media Player. Other design features include a unique slide-out QWERTY keyboard that makes messaging, note-taking, and other writing tasks a breeze.

AT&T Shows Off Remodeled Cingular Store

AT&T Shows Off Remodeled Cingular Store

AT&T Wireless, err we mean Cingular, err, we mean AT&T, has unveiled what your neighborhood AT&T cellular products store will look like after they rip out all of the Cingular logos and dress their employees in new AT&T garb. The first AT&T Experience Store is open in Houston and coming soon to a strip mall near you.

Buh-bye Cingular!

Soon we won’t have Cingular to kick around anymore. Beginning Monday, a new advertising campaign will get underway in which Cingular—the largest wireless phone network in the U.S.—will see its identity taken away and replaced with that of the newly reconstituted AT&T. For a short time, the shift will be marked by a transitional graphic that contains both the AT&T and Cingular logos, but eventually the AT&T logo will take center stage on all customer communications and advertising, as well as on company buildings, vehicles, and retail outlets.

Cingular Bringing MySpace to Mobile Phones

Cingular Wireless today announced the immediate availability of MySpace Mobile, a Java application which enables MySpace fanatics to edit profiles, view and add friends, post photos, add to blots, send and receive MySpace messages, and more—so long as they own a compatible handset.

"Not only are we excited about the ability for customers to stay connected to their MySpace community while they’re on the go, we think this will open up a new world of interaction and content for them to share via MySpace," said Marc Lefar, Cingular Wireless’s chief marketing officer, in a release. "The photo upload feature of MySpace Mobile means Cingular customers will now have the ability to capture, record, and share their world as it happens via their MySpace profile, creating a more enriching experience for our customers as well as their MySpace friends."

HP, Asus Bring On HSDPA

HP, Asus Bring On HSDPA

Mobile broadband technology is the latest rage amongst business travelers and even computing enthusiasts who need the latest and greatest, and HPDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), a data service component of the WCDMA standard which offers downstream transmission bandwidth of up to 8 to 10 Mbps (or up to 20 Mbps for MIMO systems), although real-world data rates are lower. Now computer makers Asus and Hewlett-Packard want users to be able to take advantage of high speed wireless wherever in the world compatible networks may be available, via the Asus V2 or the HP nc6400 notebook computers.

Cingular Dives In with BlackBerry Pearl

Cingular Dives In with BlackBerry Pearl

As of today, Cingular Wireless is making the BlackBerry Pearl available to customers in select retail locations, with availability in most Cingular Stores scheduled to happen by December 4, 2006. And Cingular isn’t offering just a generic Pearl: they’ve integrated Cingular Push To Talk features and GPS navigation into the consumer-friendly smartphone.

“The BlackBerry Pearl from Cingular provides a winning combination of business and entertainment-related applications that make it a great device both for work-time and leisure-time use,” said Jeff Bradley, Cngular’s VP of business data services. “The iconic yet highly functional design, popular BlackBerry service, and rich music and video features coupled with our Cingular-exclusive capabilities make this a powerful offering that will play well equally in the enterprise and consumer spaces.”

Cingular Launches Mobile Music Service

Cingular Wireless today announced Cingular Music a new wireless service set to launch November 6 which will make music offerings from Napster, Yahoo Music, eMusic, and XM Satellite Radio available to Cingular mobile phone users with compatible handsets. Each service will be available on a subscription basis for a monthly fee, and together comprise the largest collection of mobile music services currently offered by any wireless carrier.

Cingular 3125


Ever watched an episode of Star Trek and loved all those cool-looking gadgets they had? Even if you didn’t, the Cingular 3125 is one slick phone that has a lot of powerful options in a thin, attractive package. The phone is actually made by Taiwanese-based manufacturer HTC, who have a history of making great Windows-based Smartphones. This week we got a little closer with the 3125 and learned more about it while drooling over its design.

Melodeo Brings Podcasts to Cingular

If you can’t live without your podcasts—and podcasters assure us there must be one or two of you out there, at least!—and they’re the only reason you’re still lugging around a big bulky personal media player in addition to you cellphone everywhere you go…then Cingular Wireless has a deal which might let you ditch that iPod.

Cingular announced today it has teamed up with Seattle’s Melodeo to bring podcasts to Cingular mobile phone users via Melodeo’s Mobilcast service. Users will be able to listen to (and search through) thousands of podcasts covering a wide variety of topics and genres from virtually any location where they can get cellular data services. The service is compatible with most Cingular handsets, and is priced at $4.99 a month (plus data charges).

Cleveland Gets Cingular 3G Service

Earlier this week we wrote about Cingular rolling out 3G service in Little Rock, and they seem to be standing behind their word of rolling our 3G into more U.S. cities with today’s announcement.

Cingular’s BroadbandConnect service using HSPDA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology is available to nearly 35 million people in 52 "communities" throughout the U.S.. HSPDA is Cingular’s own version of 3G EDGE/GSM and will allow their customers to access video and multimedia content at blazing fast speeds. 3G phones like the LG CU 500 (reviewed here) are now available in Cleveland for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate card and a two-year service agreement.

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