Tag archive: V CAST

Verizon Wireless may not be able to put the iPhone on sale—not yet anyway—but the carrier continues to roll out a wide range of handsets intended to appeal to a broad range of mobile users. Among the latest offerings: the Casio Exilim, featuring a "professional" 5.1 megapixel camera and a 180° rotating display. The Exilim phone's camera sports a 3× optical zoom, and can snap images from 160 by 120… Read More

Verizon Wireless has introduced the Verizon Network Extender (enter ZIP code to view product details), designed to improve the performance of Verizon Wireless phones where they hurt the most (and where almost every customer uses them): in their homes. The Verizon Network Extender creates a small, single-cell mobile network for use in a home or building, then pushes users calls and data server back out to Verizon using an existing broadband… Read More

Communications operator Verizon and broadcast network CBS have expanded on their previous content deals with a new, long-term arrangement that will make a broad swath of CBS programming—including shows like CSI,Survivor, and NCIS— available to both subscribers of Verizon's FIOS home video service as well as Verizon Wireless's V Cast mobile media services. The deal also extends Verizon's reights for… Read More

LG updated its popular enV slider for Verizon on Monday with the introduction of the enV2. The newest iteration of the device features extra-large front keys for easier dialing and a slimmed-down form factor. Both changes were made to accommodate for the ever-growing crowd of chronic text messagers, according to Ehtisham Rabbani, LG’s vice president of product strategy and marketing for mobile phones. “We know the texting… Read More

Camera phones have been coming into their own lately. Last week, Nokia launched the N82 with its legitimate camera features, and this week, we finally get the long-leaked FlipShot from Samsung and Verizon. With a 3.0-megapixel CCD, the two companies are pushing the phone as yet another digital camera replacement. Besides its relatively high resolution, the phone has a rotating display that swivels 180 degrees for picture-taking,… Read More

Verizon Wireless has announced it will begin offering the Samsug SCH-i760 smartphone early next month. The i760 is designed to appeal to business and professional users who not only want a powerful phone, but also need mobile messaging and productivity functions…and a little entertainment on the side to make the expense all seem worthwhile. "The SCH-i760 is an exciting handset for Samsung because it features a full QWERTY… Read More

TiVo and RealNetworks have announced owners of broadband-connected TiVo set-top boxes can now tune into RealNetworks' Rhapsody music subscription service using their TiVo. The first 30 days of Rhapsody service are free, and after that the service will cost $12.99 a month. “By adding music to our portfolio of broadband offerings, TiVo is the only universal entertainment provider in the living room,” said TiVo president… Read More

Verizon Wireless has announced a series of four new phones which will serve as the anchor products for the company's 2007 end-of-year holiday buying season: the Samsung Juke, the LG Venus, the BlackBerry Pearl 8130, and the LG Voyager—the latter of which the company hopes will compete favorably with Apple's iPhone. Of course, the phones all tie in to Verizon's V Cast mobile music, video, and media offerings, although… Read More

Verizon and Motorola jointly took the wraps off the new MOTORIZR Z6tv, a slider phone designed to take advantage of Verizon’s content delivery systems. The newer incarnation of the previous-gen MOTORIZR Z3 will support V Cast Mobile TV, V Cast Music and Video, as well as applications like VZ Navigator. At its core, the newer MOTORIZR remains very similar to its older brother, with some minor tweaks. The 1.9-inch LCD now… Read More

Both Verizon Wireless and Sprint have announced they will begin offering the Motorazr V9m mobile phone to customer beginning in September. The V9m is the latest iteration in Motorola's line of sleek, popular RAZR-style clamshell phones, offering dedicated multimedia features and a shiny stainless steel case. Motorola is hoping the V9m rekindles interest in its Razr line, which has seen sales slump in favor of a few newer, sleeker… Read More

If you’ve ever heard a song you liked, only to miss the name and never hear it again, Verizon has a solution for you with its new V Cast Song ID feature. On certain phones, users can record a 10-second clip of a song, have it automatically identified, and optionally buy a copy of it for playback on a phone or computer. Print and television have been saturated with advertising for the novel new service, but ads have mostly been short… Read More

It's not every day a mobile operator can announce that it has doubled the number of phones which support its top-flight content offerings…but that's exactly what Verizon Wireless was able to do today by adding the LG VX9400 to its list of offerings which support its new V Cast Mobile TV service. The VX 9400 is a CDMA handset offering EV-DO high speed mobile data services and sports a 2.2-inch 320 by 240 pixel LCD display… Read More

Mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless has flipped the switch on what it surely hopes will be a major new revenue channel as it rolls out high-speed wireless technologies: V Cast Mobile TV, the first commercial mobile television service in the United States. Developed by Qualcom's MediaFlo gorup, the service is available only in a limited number of markets in 20 states and only works with the $199 Samsung SCH-U620 handset, but… Read More

If you are a big sports fan and in the market for a new mobile phone and service provider, Verizon may have the deal you have been looking for. Announced today, Verizon Wireless customers that sign up for the company's V CAST service will be able to receive various ESPN content including real-time sports news, scores and information, including scoring alerts and even video content. “ESPN has built the best wireless sports… Read More

Verizon Wirless announced today that it would begin offering videos from YouTube to its V CAST video subscribers beginning in early December. The deal is a limited-time exclusive: for a while, anyway, Verizon will be the only mobile service to offer YouTube selections to U.S. mobile phone users—and the company is clearly hoping the deal will create an upswing in subscriptions for its mobile video offerings. Financial terms of the deal… Read More