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Nokia 5230 Nuron
T-Mobile is scheduled to launch the Nokia 5230 Nuron on March 17, 2010. The Nokia 5230 Nuron is a stylish and affordable 3G touch screen phone that keeps customers connected and entertained with access to downloadable music, games, apps and more through the Nokia Ovi Store.
wireless carrier numbers for 2009
Last year the wireless industry posted some mixed numbers. AT&T the second largest wireless provider end the year with the most new additions and the number one provider in size Verizon wireless came in a close second in new subscribers in the last quarter of 2009.
Fourth quater numbers 2009
Blackberry Business Feature
On February 16, 2010, Research In Motion (RIM) announced a new service called BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express, or “BES Express,” which allows customers on personal BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) rate plans access to their corporate e-mail (behind the corporate firewall) provided their company enables the service by deploying the BES Express Server.
BES Express is scheduled for release March 1, 2010. RIM will distribute BES Express directly from www.blackberry.com. BES Express Server Software must be installed by the business for the service to work.Key Points:• BES Express does not offer all the features and functionality of a full BES.•
There is no charge to companies for BES Express Software, or for the Client Access Licenses (CALs) required to access it. • A customer must install and maintain the server, and provide IT support for the overall solution.
ported new number to Sprint
Yesterday I changed my Sprint wireless phone number. I had a Dade County Florida number with a 305975xxxx and wanted a Broward County cell number.
I could have called Sprint and ask them for a number change since I now reside in Broward County and opened my account years ago in Dade County. They would have done a number change with no cost because of the new location I live in but I wanted a cool number and decide to find the number first. Sprint would not have giving me a choice of numbers to pick from free and the choices would not be as good as I could find myself.
So I activated a at&t prepaid account. The new account allowed me to pick from a list of phone numbers. I found a few good phone numbers like 954xxx9999, 954xxx1234 and 954xx55555. The number with the 5s has 6 5s in the number so that is the one I picked to activate. It did not matter what prepaid plan to pick, I would never use this number on at&t. I did not even have to put money into the prepaid account.
I called Sprint after I got the number and told them what I wanted to do. I wanted to replace the existing 305 # with the new 954 # that I have on at&t. The representative at first said I could not do this because I would need to open a new Sprint account. I asked her to check and after being on hold she proceed to try and help me port the number but said she was having trouble so I got transferred to the department that does the porting of phone numbers for Sprint.
The new Sprint representative asked me the normal questions what number I am porting, account number and any password. The representative did the port and then told me the phone would work for voice calls in 10 minutes and for data in 30 minutes. I waited an hour and tried to make a call out from my Sprint phone with the new cool number but the call did not go through a message said that this call is not authorized. I then realized that the new number had to be programmed into the phone. The representative who help me port the number should have helped me do that. Now I had to call customer service again to program the number into the phone.
The second call to Sprint was different it seemed to have been routed to India or some overseas call center. The new representative was very polite more so than the previous reps. I explained what I did and that I needed programing of the number and he understood. It took him and I about 3 minutes to program the number into my Sprint phone which by the way is a LG Rumor. After the programing was done the rep asked me if I was happy with his service. I said “yes”. He then told me that I would receive a survey about our interaction. He said that he hopes and preys that I would give him high marks and asked me if I would give him high marks. I obsessively said “yes” to him, I was not going to say “your accent sucks and I could not understand you” but that’s a joke he was good and helpful, I just thought it was strange how he asked me.
This whole number changed could have been done on one call using less resources and time by Sprint and by me. The new number was worth the little hassle for me. 954-xx5-5555
My Sprint Plan is grandfathered $15 month 1500 minutes, first incoming minute free, unlimited text, unlimited data and voice dialing.
5 Gigabytes limit
I have customers always asking me what does 5 Gigabytes of data mean. This is the allotted amount of usage At&t, Verizon, Sprint and most of the major wireless providers have set as the limit on the amount of data allowed each month for the data cards.
The cost is $60 across the board with all the major wireless providers but At&t charges more tax and fees than Verizon or Sprint. My Verizon USB Data card cost me $60.07 with tax per month and at&t would cost $73 per month with tax.
The chart on this post will show you the amount of email, music downloads and web browsing that can be done on the different data packages.
The lowest package of $35 is for 200 Megabytes and the highest is $60 for 5 Gigabytes.
what is 5 Gigabytes of data
Verizon Wireless Novatel Ovation U727 USB Broadband Card Free
at&t demo line
On February 8th I got my ANR line from at&t. That’s the reduced rate cell phone service they offer employees and at&t authorized dealers. I gave up my old plan that was grandfather in with unlimited incoming calls.
My plan with at&t before the ANR line was a $39.99 plan with 600 rollover minutes, 5000 mobile to mobile and 5000 nights and weekends. I also had $14.99 for unlimited incoming calls, $30 for unlimited Blackberry Data, $15 for 1500 messages and $4.99 for insurance my total bill after tax is $109.
Now I pay $35 before tax for 2000 minutes with unlimited nights/ weekends, mobile to mobile, unlimited messaging, unlimited Blackberry, insurance and 100 minutes video share.
I avoided making this change for years because I did not want to lose my control over my line. Now that I am on a ANR line I have to ask permission for features and I can not use the Apple iPhone. Before I got the ANR line I would swap back and forth from the iPhone and Blackberry.
These days times are hard and anyway we can save money is a good thing.
blackberry BIS 3.0 update
The folks over at BBLeaks were once again tipped off to more BIS 3.0 information. After having looked at the files, some of what we had learned from the last leak was once again confirmed. Check out the run down.
WMA Support – Long awaited handling of WM Audio will be supported now in attachments.
GMail – The enhanced plugin will get an update which allows for read/unread status of email.
Open Office- Open Office documents will gain support for presentations, text, speadsheets.
Email Setup /Validation – An enhanced email set up application will be added. Increasing security for end user and methods of email validation/revalidation uponPIN changes.
Carrier Enhancements – Error messages will now be more indicative of who they should be related to. ie: “If you are having a problem please contact
Other -Carrier based tools such as BIS Admin which help with troubleshooting customers.
Nice updates
Wordpress Application for Blackberry
I got a tweet today saying the Wordpress app was upgraded for Blackberry. So I went to Blackberry App World and downloaded the Wordpress application.
This post is being done now from my Blackberry Bold 9700. I was able to put in the tags and pick the categories within the application.
This is a lot faster than doing the post in the Bolt browser like I was doing before. I even took a picture and placed it in this post. The video that I took was to large I think to upload from this application so I had to delete and repost.
This is a great application to do my post so far. I can write to multiple Blogs. I am now beginning to use this application and will keep everyone updated with what I like or dislike about this WordPress app. This is a free application on the Blackberry App World.
Data Pay Per Use At&t
AT&T charges $2 a megabyte for data on mobile phones that are set up pay per use. Not a bad deal for some customers but a great deal for AT&T.
Yesterday I was going over a customers bill and saw the were charges of $2 every month for data pay per use. The usage shown on the bill was 1 kilobyte of data per month.
I asked the customer what she was doing on the web and she told me that she hits the web button on the mobile phone by accident. This customer said she does not want that charge every month for an accidental push of a button. That button was place badly on this phone and many other AT&T mobile phones.
I could block the data on this customers mobile phone but this customer has an unlimited family messaging package that with the data blocked would not be able to send or receive picture or video messaging, which is unlimited with the messaging package.
This new billing procedure is unfair to customers. A lot of mobile phones have the web access button right in the middle and can be accidentally hit at anytime. A customer would have to call every month to get a credit for the $2 or block the data completely.
We need to tell AT&T to change the mobile phones so the web will not accidentally get accessed or change the way they are billing customers for data.
They could make it a 3 step process to log on the web and have a setting which can change the 3 step to a one step for advanced users. Its not like the have to invent a program or develop a new technology.
AT&T will increase their ARPU with deceptive billing practices once more. This new billing of data change should allow customers to break contract because of the contract being changed by AT&T.
Recently Sprint change something in their contract and allowed customer to cancel without penalty because of the change.
Nav4All Shut Down
Letter to 27,625,631 Nav4All navigation customers
Dear Customers,
It is with the deepest regret that we hereby notify you that the
global navigation of Nav4All and the Tracking & Tracing will go
offline in 3 days. The reason for the same is that the data licence
agreement with Navteq (a 100% Nokia subsidiary) was not extended, in
a totally unexpected manner. It is not possible to implement data
from another supplier in our Nav4All systems within the short term.
The Nav4All navigation system was developed for Navteq data. Nav4All
has therefore been constrained to stop.
We greatly regret the fact that we have to suspend the operation of
our service. With your help, we have developed Nav4All into a global
product with 27.5 million users in 56 languages, in 5 years. This has
made Nav4All the largest navigation supplier. This large number of
users also has to do with the fact that Nav4All works on hundreds of
different mobile telephones of many makes such as Blackberry, Sony
Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Android, HTC, Nokia, LG, Iphone, Ipod
etc.
After 5 years of testing and market development, we witnessed rapid -
in fact, exponential – growth during the last two years. That growth
was reported in the licence reports to Navteq. In mid-December 2009,
the global coverage was extended to include the Philippines, Morocco
and Kenya.
Please contact the Nav4All support desk in case you have any
questions: www.nav4all.com/support. If there is any further
information from Nav4All concerning the subject of this letter, the
same will be published on our website: www.nav4all.com. For reasons
of privacy, Nav4All does not have the email addresses of all its
customers, and we therefore request you to forward this email to the
maximum extent possible, in order to ensure that everyone is
informed.
Kind Regards,
Hennie J.M. Groot Koerkamp (CEO)
Nav4All BV
Keizersgracht 62-64
1015 CS Amsterdam NL
The text of this e-mail will be available on our website as soon as
possible in the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Indonesian.